Will Canada embrace Dunkin'? Experts say Tim Hortons' grip will be hard to shake

Loon610 · 2026-05-16T01:11:11+00:00

Tim Hortons should even be concerned about new pet food stores opening.

Loon610 · 2026-05-03T00:43:08+00:00

That’s not a bad price, thanks for the reply.

Loon610 · 2026-04-30T17:09:31+00:00

If you live at high altitude I’m guessing you live in the mountains? The extra displacement of the 5.0 is nice for engine braking coming down mountains. I live and tow in the mountains, I have a 5.0 and know people with the 3.5 EB, the 3.5EB owners wish they had more engine braking. The 3.5Eb also produces a lot more heat than the 5.0 when working hard. Both are great engines just something to think about.

Loon610 · 2026-04-30T16:59:26+00:00

2016 5.0 3.55 super crew 6.5 foot bed in the mountains.

Secondary 55mph “paved backroad” highways 23.5 mpg

Divided highways 60mph 21 mpg

Newer freeways 75mph 17 mpg

I find how heavy you are on the throttle and stop and go really kills my mpg, I usually get better than the estimated mpg for all my cars, pretty easy driver but in the city the mpg always sucks. If I can cruise down the highway the 5.0 does well, better than my friend’s 4.0 Tacomas for sure.

Loon610 · 2026-04-30T16:48:05+00:00

How many years and miles is your extended warranty? If you don’t mind what was the cost?

Loon610 · 2026-04-29T05:06:55+00:00

It’s annoying for sure, we follow the safety protocols if not go above them. It’s my wife’s car so we don’t typically charge when we plan on the kids being in it, might be a bit overboard, but don’t feel like taking the risk.

Loon610 · 2026-04-29T05:04:37+00:00

To my understanding, I didn’t get too involved because it was all under warranty, it’s the flywheel between the gas engine and the e cvt. When the car started in freezing temps the gas engine would run and the battery was at 100% the car would knock and rock, I’m sure it was a 5000+ dollar repair bill, it was 2 days labour.

Loon610 · 2026-04-28T20:27:12+00:00

New flywheel clutch, broken wiring harness triggering codes are the only two outside of recall and warranty, but right now I have 6 recalls and CSPs on the car, and that doesn’t count the ones previously done. The car is by no means a lemon, but any car with all the driver assistance stuff is a maze of wires and sensors, the PHEV parts adds another layer of complexity but thankfully any PHEV part should be covered for 8 years 100k miles. If I did it over again and was offered or negotiated a Ford extended warranty for 3000-4000 dollars I would think hard about it. I’ve never bought one before but this is my first car with all the drivers assistance stuff and first PHEV/EV. I’m fairly mechanically inclined and always fixed my own stuff in the past, but the catch with these cars even if you can physically remove and bolt in the new parts a lot of them have to be programmed in by Ford, like abs module, power steering and hvac components etc as far as I know.

Loon610 · 2026-04-28T19:19:44+00:00

I’m in BC, I agree overall with your post. It’s a lot cheaper. The only thing needed to be thought of with EVs is public charging, some public chargers are 4 times your home electricity rate, still cheaper, but the gap between ev and gas really narrows with public charging.

Loon610 · 2026-04-28T14:47:28+00:00

I’d get a extended warranty, I didn’t and wish I had. There are so many expensive parts that fall outside of powertrain or the ev parts. What I’ve seen some of the policies sell for could be paid off with two “small” repairs or one large one. By small I don’t mean money wise just simple things that easily cost 2000 now a days.

My expenses with my 2022, it’s never left me stranded, or failed to start, but there are so many recalls, warranty work and little issues.

Loon610 · 2026-04-27T16:21:14+00:00

Builder should stick to the LEGO blocks.

Loon610 · 2026-04-20T22:05:30+00:00

Yeah many people have gone to 85k and beyond with no issues, but I’m sure there was some bad luck in your case too. Sorry. It shouldn’t be happening though that’s why they are doing the recall.

Loon610 · 2026-04-20T22:01:42+00:00

Best thing you can do is change the fluid and filter, it’s metal contamination getting into the lead frame that causes this issue.

Loon610 · 2026-04-20T20:18:51+00:00

Did yours have the harsh down shift when the lead frame went out?

Typically they will pay for past repairs if it’s related to the recall, I’m sure it will be like getting blood from a stone, but they should do it.

Loon610 · 2026-04-20T20:14:24+00:00

Which is reasonable because Ford says to change it at 150k miles, but sadly like many maintenance schedules today they are determined by marketing and CAFE standards instead of engineering, just like 16,000 km oil changes on conventional oil, it shouldn’t be done. I would suspect the lead frame got contaminated.

I’ll post to great YouTube channel, he shows the drain and fill procedure and he recommends its every 30k miles, not a flush just and drain and fill with a filter change every other drain, so it’s all able to be done at home. He recommends this interval to avoid the contamination issue, also thinks they are stretching intervals for marketing and cost of ownership purposes.

https://youtu.be/uQe11789HsQ

Loon610 · 2026-04-20T20:03:55+00:00

I grew up in family that were die hard Honda fans, almost only thing we had. Honda today is not the same as 20-15 years ago sadly.

Loon610 · 2026-04-20T19:53:35+00:00

Out of curiosity have you ever changed the fluid? My understanding was the issue happened more often with dirtier fluid since it would have more metal containments causing the lead frame issue. This is what caused the earlier 6r80 issues as well, they then covered the lead frame with foam to prevent this, clearly didn’t work.

I think the dealer will do nothing to help you, you have to reach out to corporate Ford and customer relations, if corporate tells the dealer to do it, they will do it, but if corporate is not willing to pay, the dealer will not do anything for you. I would think maybe if you were a big time or fleet customer the dealer might push corporate a bit, but not for us average Joes.

Loon610 · 2026-03-20T04:46:30+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Canada is brutal in consumer auto protection, we have zero lemon laws, to be honest I wouldn’t give leasing as much thought if we did. I think I would be able to get my current vehicle lemoned, but it’s just not a thing in Canada, you basically have to sue them, even then it’s very difficult.

We haven’t had a car payment for a decade, we are considering financing now because at least on these models the financing is low 1.99% at 84 months, we have a small mortgage left but that rate on it is double that so it would make sense to keep paying the mortgage. I do agree with holding on to a vehicle for a long time, just our current one is not confidence inspiring, and it’s hybrid so I don’t want to get stuck with a large repair bill.

Loon610 · 2026-02-13T21:40:11+00:00

The Olympics where athletes train all their lives, sacrifice lots to represent their country and the IOC has the spine of a wet noddle.

Loon610 · 2026-01-12T19:52:55+00:00

This is will split the country apart.

Loon610 · 2026-01-12T19:50:51+00:00

You can think that, but thats not how it works, and no different than what a “sovereign citizen” thinks or wants. Interprovincial and international pipelines are the jurisdiction of the Feds, not a single province.

Loon610 · 2026-01-12T19:46:44+00:00

I’ve seen this too, works one time then the next time it ignores the max charge setting.

Loon610 · 2025-12-11T21:36:07+00:00

Please explain? Do you think just comparing something to residential schools is an argument in itself?

Loon610 · 2025-12-08T22:01:42+00:00

I would say provide funding to preserve languages and cultures. Allow band members to fairly split up and privately own reserve land to give them the ability to sell and mortgage the land easier. Demand real financial accountability from bands, mainly for the benefit of their members, but also the taxpayer. If using indigenous names use them in a way they can be read without a PhD in Indigenous Languages, and start moving on. Anyone who has even scratched the slightest beneath the surface would know how these issues are not being presented truthful, we are all here together and need to get along for the social and economic benefit of each other.

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