Since the moderator has abandonded this group, I guess I'll just have to be a dick until you idiots complain to Yahoo and get me kicked out. No offense people, but these are  just vehicles, tools to get a job done.  Stop slobbering over a hunk of metal that, according to your posts, produce nothing but gnashing of teeth and the pulling of hair.  For crying out loud stop pouring money into your black hole, park it in the nearest junk yard, and walk home.  No gas, no insurance, no repairs, no headaches!!!!!  You'll have a life again and you can stop posting and reading emails that demonstrate the complete idiocy of your infatuation.  Honestly, I think some of you find ways to copulate with your van (I shudder to think what the offspring will be like).  I especially fail to grasp the importance you guys place on shocks and tires.  Here's the answer, shocks stop the vehicle from bouncing down the road and tires are the black things that occasionally go flat.  Any more information than
 that is inane blabbering just to see your words in print!!!!  Had enough yet, please say uncle and get me the heck out of this twilight zone.
  Later losers