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Yeah. After 15 years it was time for a change. I thought the Mercedes might be a good replacement for the Reatta but I soon discovered it wasn't the car for me. Only time will tell if the Mustang is. Sad to see your Reatta go, but I hope it is in the hands of someone who will care for it as you have over the years. I've had my Reatta since February of 1996. Had a little over 66K on it when purchased. Attached is photo taken on February 23, 2024 showing current odometer reading at 133,333 taken at 2:22 in the afternoon. Lots of work done to it in the meantime, but still running strong.

There have been numerous posts on this, you may want to look at the search area for answers. If there is a ratcheting noise as you close the window it's probably the motor. If it seems to move slowly up and down you can try lubricating it. However if you take the inner door off (please see the How to section on the top of the page for help) you will see a small bar that is removable. There is a roller on that bar that binds. You can remove that roller and clean it up with I think a 3/8 drill bit and put it back on. It doesn't have a bearing in it and gunk and age causes it to bind up

I got the starter changed and it started without hesitation after sitting for two weeks in -30 / -10 degree weather. Pretty cool. I had to drop the vented plastic panel to reach the bolts for the positive and negative connections and the short bolt on the starter. The job wasn’t too bad, I only needed a few different sockets, and two socket extensions to reach the two bolts holding in the starter. They were pretty locked in place though. I ended up putting my biggest socket on the 18 inch extension and putting it over the handle of my ratchet to make an on the spot breaker bar. The only other thing that gave me trouble was reaching the 10mm bolt on the dust cover more toward the front of the car. The bolt holds down the cover and a little wire clamp. The wire guard housed inside the clamp is right in front of the bolt and hard to move. In total, in the snow, it took two hours to get the old starter out, a cup of hot chocolate, two old ladies asking me what I was doing outside, and about fifteen minutes to put the new one in and get everything back together.

People riding with me have mentioned the low fuel light being on. I have a piece of black tape over the light so I can't see it, but it can be seen from the passenger seat. I just tell them I will stop at the next service station and then I drive by all the stations like I've forgotten about it. 🙂

So I let the crappy organic stuff out and replaced with the good stuff it took more cans from empty then I thought. It took 5 cans to get the pump to stop kicking in and out and put one more in to put me at 35 psi man what a difference ice ice baby! Way cold now.

Yeah. After 15 years it was time for a change. I thought the Mercedes might be a good replacement for the Reatta but I soon discovered it wasn't the car for me. Only time will tell if the Mustang is.