My Sequoia shows FULL oil PSI on cold starts, and seems to track 1:1 with actual?

 

IDK about Tundra or Sequoyah with 5.7 but LX and Land Cruiser are both like this with the oil pressure gauges. People ask all the time on FB groups, etc. if it's low or. something because 90% of the time it's right at 1/4 give or take.

TFL.com towed LX570 at just about max weight up that Gauntlet which is supposed to be one of the toughest grades, etc.... They had the gas pinned, LX 5.7 was at or near redline towing 6k lbs, and the oil pressure gauge was less than 1/4. Hah. Right.

Unless I'm totally wrong about a pretty basic thing in cars....

 

Yeah. Remarkable shape. I really like the front end design.

 

My dad had a 1990 Lincoln Continental, which was basically the Lincoln version of that and he loved it. Not the most reliable car in the world but not bad for the time, he put about 150,000 miles on it in 5 years.

 

Yes, it was a stretched version of the Taurus/Sable platform of the time. I'm glad your Dad was (apparantly) satisfied with his....a number of reviewers and members of the auto press (including Pat Goss, as I recall) were not.

 

I liked that car

 

Actually an old MotorWeek is out there on YouTube and they speak highly of the Continental.

It was a classy, comfortable car but like all domestic cars of the era, pretty unreliable. His had an air suspension failure among a bunch of other problems. I was a kid but I remember it left him and me stranded in Ocean City one time and he was stuck there while it was repaired and couldn’t go back home to work. Luckily my parents had both cars with them. I can remember watching it being towed out of the Sunsations parking lot lol

 

As I recall, Goss (who also owned a repair shop) didn't care for it....John Davis was more forgiving. Anyhow, that probably doesn't matter. What matters was if your Dad was satisfied with it....after all, it was his money.

 

He’d have been more satisfied if it was more reliable lol, he liked how it rode and drove. One of the rare cars he bought out of the lease and kept a while. That and his LS400.

It was light blue exterior dark blue interior. Very 90s.

 

Yes, I remember dark blue interiors were quite popular on Ford products of that era....that was before the Great Black and Tan Craze took over interior designs.

 

Yes, the Sable from my childhood was 1980s blue on blue. It looked nice at the time.

It was Grandparents’ car, so obviously clean as a whistle. They didn’t stack too many miles on it but I don’t remember them having any trouble with it.

 

Big issue was the air suspension which the Sable didn't have. There were also head gasket issues which were common with that 3.8, alternator and starter problems, and at the end some kind of weird electrical issue which caused all the system alarms to go off, and it had those 90s digital gauges so that was quite the show. It would happen about 15 minutes after you started the car, but at startup and for that 15 minutes it was normal. Long enough that for a trade in they didn't notice lol

 

Yeah, theirs was the 3.0L. It was a top line Sable LS but didn’t have leather or digital gauges, etc. Like I said they didn’t have any trouble like I remember but it wasn’t exactly a car with tons of miles.

Really sad Ford’s 3.8 was a mess compared to GM 3800 of the time.

 

I remember the windshield turned orange/pink when it rained or when it got foggy on those Sables.

 

Yeah it was the heated windshield