fiftysix, are you the only one on this forum? Or does everyone else just not participate much?
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.