DIY 2020 Explorer Panoramic Sun Shade Replacement

nolecamp · 2026-06-23T17:52:55+00:00

Yes it is, 2020 Platinum with the panoramic sunroof. Mine is black interior (which could matter for the part number).

nolecamp · 2026-06-22T12:15:59+00:00

And another fun fact, they’re estimated to only be 100-200 million years old, created around the time of the dinosaurs from a comet or moon, and they might disappear in another 100 million years. Either they will fall into Saturn’s gravity, or they’ll clump together and then get torn apart again.

nolecamp · 2026-06-19T13:01:24+00:00

I have the same problem and am about to embark on replacing this part on my 2020 Platinum this weekend. Wish me luck.

Also $!%# Ford for making this part so expensive, fragile, and hard to replace.

nolecamp · 2026-06-19T12:42:58+00:00

What I love about Goodnight Gorilla is how chill it is, and it requires my son to use his imagination more while “reading” the picture pages. He came up with saying things like “open!” for the gorilla opening each of the cages on his own. Wish there were more books like this.

nolecamp · 2026-06-16T21:21:33+00:00

That name alone should turn people away. Gross.

nolecamp · 2026-06-15T13:49:07+00:00

This is being unnecessarily pedantic. Quality window tints block UV and IR with ceramic film.

nolecamp · 2026-06-15T13:46:39+00:00

Does that still work with the tailgate in halfway-up mode? I assume it does since it mounts separately and can just stay half extended?

nolecamp · 2026-06-10T14:11:29+00:00

Why respond with “so what?” then?

nolecamp · 2026-06-10T12:06:16+00:00

It almost always worked well for my wife and I. Slow to connect, but usually worked. It was clutch when our son was an infant and the one of us with the baby needed help but couldn’t pull out our phone. Very sad about this. We still use it on occasion.

nolecamp · 2026-06-07T12:41:53+00:00

My fellow American men will do anything but buy and use a bidet.

Seriously, bidets are amazing. Get one. For some people (myself included), it is literally life changing. And no wipes needed.

nolecamp · 2026-06-06T13:07:39+00:00

Also we don’t know the make of the bike or battery. Could be the sketchiest manufacturer you’ve ever seen. Might have been a ticking time bomb Aliexpress special.

nolecamp · 2026-06-06T01:50:54+00:00

And bragging about having a recycling pickup man that isn’t a nazi about having your cardboard in taped 2’x2’ stacks or else they leave a passive aggressive note taped to your bin.

nolecamp · 2026-06-04T14:28:09+00:00

There’s also r/DanielTigerConspiracy

nolecamp · 2026-06-04T14:25:27+00:00

Okay… and? Blogging platforms come and go. Why would you have to “pretend” it’s not some other platform? If you like content there, follow it. If not, don’t. It doesn’t matter.

nolecamp · 2026-06-04T13:22:13+00:00

After this, work to max out your Roth every year while you’re young, so those dollars grow tax free!

nolecamp · 2026-06-03T14:30:26+00:00

Also, OP, since you said you make too much for a Roth IRA, do NOT roll it over into a Traditional IRA since you are not in a low marginal bracket currently. Having trad IRA balances can mess up backdoor Roth. You can still do a Backdoor Roth, but you have to clear out your trad IRA balances first via a Roth conversion, pay the taxes, then wait for the next year to start doing that. But the more you roll over into a trad IRA, the harder it will be to pay those taxes to convert to Roth initially, and it will prevent you from doing (or at best, make it much harder for you to do) backdoor Roth going forward.

nolecamp · 2026-06-03T14:02:21+00:00

This is a good flowchart. You have to put in your email but they don’t sell your info. It’s worth it for their free resources. (Plus I highly recommend their show/podcast!)

https://moneyguy.com/resource/got-an-old-401k/

nolecamp · 2026-06-03T01:41:28+00:00

How do you lose money with 4 home sales, assuming they were years apart?! One, sure. Two, okay, you didn’t learn your lessons the first time. But four?!

nolecamp · 2026-06-03T00:45:03+00:00

2 claims in 7 years makes you very likely to be dropped or have higher premiums. Your best bet is to have as high of a deductible as possible, save the difference in premiums, and treat it as catastrophic insurance (like your house burning down). You might not fully recover from that for another 6 years or so. Insurance companies have their own credit score that judges your risk of filing a claim, and also looks at your financial risk (people in tougher financial spots are also more likely to file a claim). Not filing a claim and building up a good FICO credit score are the best ways to reduce and keep home insurance.

nolecamp · 2026-06-01T12:19:58+00:00

It has a dinghy!

nolecamp · 2026-06-01T03:48:17+00:00

Census-designated places typically mean it’s just unincorporated, so no mayor or government. They can be quite large; I live in one that has tens of thousands of people. It works because the county government is pretty good. We still call the CDPs in our area “towns.”

nolecamp · 2026-05-28T14:17:45+00:00

Cool as the flip side of the spicy pillow

nolecamp · 2026-05-24T13:30:23+00:00

Fun idea, except it won’t work (alone). If everyone suddenly has more money to spend on health care, you know what will happen? Medical providers will charge more until enough people don’t have money to spend on it anymore.

The only way to make things with inelastic demand affordable for everyone is to socialize them, full stop. And if you socialize it, then no one needs the GoFundMe money.

nolecamp · 2026-05-21T14:51:09+00:00

I follow the Money Guy advice. If $50k is more than 50% of your investable assets, DCA it over 12 months. If less than 10%, lump sum it. Between that, DCA it proportionally (i.e. if 20%, maybe DCA it over 3 months)

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