As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
We have a Saab 97x which is a Envoy/trailblazer underneath. This makes it very easy to get parts for and has a great in line 6. It is full time AWD, sits lower, is tuned more for comfort, is really nice inside. Has been a great rig. It does not got good mileage though and we average about 16.5 but my wife sits in traffic for hours a week. They can be found very reasonably and are very nice. Real truck underneath so you can actually take it off road and pull stuff with it. These also have very nice leather interior and loaded with goodies. This was the most expensive version of these platforms and are very nice. As "saab" does not have a stellar rep or following makes them very reasonable. You get a solid chevy design and top of the class goodies and features. Motor is very easy to work on and is award winning. Its a very good rig but milage is the painful part.
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Wife's 2013 VW TDI Passat = 50mpg & a darn quick 0-60! No issues with it and 40,000 on the clock.troy deck said:misses K b stylingmy sister Juggs didn't like her Trailblazer but she doesn't like anything she wants 50mpg 0-60 instantly and NO NHV yea good luck with that
an suv or crossover nothing to new or real fancy f/awd seating for 5-7 decent mileage affordable parts an i can work on or never have to touch open to all ideas and suggestions letter rip this is her thread no more mini vans![]()
Mine bought an '07 Mitsubishi Outlander new. That suv got 25-28 mpg, was AWD, and it was fairly quick. We traded it off with over 150,000 miles, with never a major repair needed.
Now she has a '12 GMC Terrain. It gets 20 mpg (on a good day) and feels like you're dragging a brick behind you, always. The GMC is quieter and the interior is nicer though...
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i hear you about the block bill. my dad has a 99 four winns 26' boat he uses on erie. its equipped with the gm 5.7 small block and volvopenta outdrive. the block cracked on it in the middle of the summer! as it really cracked, i couldnt believe how thin it was. ive been around enough blocks in my life to know it was weird looking
that being said, we ordered a jasper replacement and had the balance/blueprint option. i was hoping that wasnt a hoax option. i also had him order some performance manifolds. the second that smallblock fired up i knew that option was wise. it was so smooth! you can really tell on a boat as the motor mounts solid with aluminum plate, no rubber and he trolls alot. so it all turned out ok, but that block failure still sits at the back of his mind.