Hey man, I've been busy for days and haven't actually been to the lounge since early last week.
BTW, welcome. If I had caught this thread b4 you left, I could have told you how mechanically uneventful the drive would be. What breaks on these cars is plastic-bodied electronic bits. Oh, and motor mounts. Replace all 3 motor mounts at the first sign of shimmy. I drove on failing mount after failing mount for almost 40K miles. Each one shifts the engine a little bit differently and the passenger mount seems to have multiple different symptoms and no 2 cars have the same symptom. I thought I had a bad bearing & ended up doing far too much to the front suspension only to still have the howling up there. I finally went to the dealer last time only to find out it was the rear mount and before I realized which mount it was (they were very vague in the problem description leading me to believe that there was a mount I didn't know about) I had them change it although I was set on getting the e-Focus mount when that one failed.
So anyway, yeah, when 1 mount goes, do all 3. Plan on doing this every 50K. Think of it as wear items haha.
