07 MKX

Look Abrannan, when you first posted pictures of your Edge. I thought your original wheels would look good if they were just painted black. Since your about to spend a lot of money on new tires and wheels, why not first just paint the wheels you have and see how that looks. Guaranteed you'd be the only one with wheels like that. /edit: PS. Try not to use a roller or brush, spring for at least 1 spray can per wheel, or if you have the big bucks, maybe see if someone can spray paint them a Black Opal for you.

even tire rack will show you wheels on any car you want.

Mine makes a whine noise too, it only happens when the wife is in it. It seems to be coming from the passenger side seat area. When she gets out, it goes away.

That's why i asked, the way you write, you implied it cost you 2000 for parts labor and gas.

Well, looks like you've had nothing but trouble in every post your made now, but anyways, I want to congratulate you on getting married between Oct 12, and Oct 15, from what you've written. How's that lemon lawsuit coming along? You know, every lawyer just loves filling suit unless it's pro bono. You end up paying. And since you stated that you've dealt with corporate but didn't like the lady assigned to you, you've now left it in the dealership's hands. when you do make a post and try to gain sympathy on here, it's best to tell the whole story. Yours would have to be a FWD and since the trouble was found back in March and a TSB issued, there ARE steps a dealership has to go thru. One is to realign the toe, and as the final fix, is to install a kit that has special plates. This is to settle the customer's nerve's. But unless you allow them to correct your problem the you have no recourse as I'm sure your lawyer has already mentioned that to you. Akirby was correct. You were not correct

To have activated the ABS you have to really slam on the breaks to the point of locking up the wheel rotation. Then the ABS limit's that and activate's. Yes it might make some noise, it's doing it's job of trying to make an emergency stop for you in the shortest length possible. By your comments do you do this all the time, to be annoyed by it. The 3 valve ABS unit is located under the battery tray in the engine compartment. You should be glad you hear it, and know that it just did it's job for you and you got your money's worth out of it.

That is a dealer installed option isn't it? They are not shipped from the assembly plant with one.

Their not even chrome on a Lincoln.

To keep this honest and truthfull, YOU are just out, the gas and your time, to return the vehicle to the dealership for problem's to be fixed. Very very few vehicle's are completely troublefree. 3000+ parts in your Edge to work troublefree for the warranty period.

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The film isn't really that bad.. gives it quite a different look. and it will peal off when you don't want it anymore. Just be careful of an automatic car wash, or hand wash.

I think the grill is a black chrome , you can get the chrome for the windows at places like Bright Trim.. it does look like chrome in the picture.

Good Gawd, that looks like someone let their kid have a box of crayon's to play with. Glad I now saw that grill. Most pictures that have alluded to it, show the main horizontal and vertical bars as still being chrome. I was thinking of ordering just the grill, but not now. And Even thou the Styling department, might think it's a Lincoln and people should keep it clean, that is NOT real world experience. That white leather on the seats will discolor in a heartbeat. I liked the looks of the Camel interior in pictures til I saw one in person, and that was the first thoughts I had, how hard it would be to keep clean, and then once it starts to show dirt, you have reached a "I give up point". No offense to your vehicle, But the change to dark button's on the center console, the blacked out grill and the 2 tone seats. MAN, they pimped this one good. The two-tone gray/red seats in the Edge..... It works in a Mustang, but I don't see it in the Edge/MKX platform. /edit OH MAN, you even got that chrome running up the windows and the chrome door handles. NOT on Black. They have copied Harley. The aftermarket people are supplying all this stuff, and now they say "Well if they can sell it, we'd better get into it." I personally like to get most thing's from the factory, BUT I went and looked at the Buick Enclave CUV and when I priced their Nav/Radio combo, that was over 5K for just that. That's when I'd have to say NO and start looking at aftermarket.

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Yea, Robert, you had some good colors going when the scheme was a light tan or light gray, but this dark gray isn't doing it...

I once had a Plymouth Duster, myself

Sure $250 and I'll pay the shipping.

Yes I just did. Now the next time you like to make a mention about something not working properly or it's not like that in your vehicle, please check to see if it really is before you post. Matter of fact: RUN, don't walk 007, out right now to your Edge and take a look at your seat belts and see where that loop is where you like to tuck the metal part in. You find it, walk slowly back in, grab a camera and take a picture of it, for the rest of us dumb ass's. You know what, you tend to piss off everyone, everywhere you post, even those of us that use to accept you for your transgressions. WHY is that? How many account's you had banned here now? This one gonna make 3? How many pm's have I sent you just saying Cool it!? Take a hike pal, your opinion's mean squat to me.

your wrong

I thought you gave up drinking long ago?

If your just talking about the bezel around the shifter, place your fingernails under it and pull up. I have a thread on here about those kit's and others do too. Think mine is called oh no, another wood dash kit thread, use the search function. I don't think I'd go with the molded kit thou, but to each his/her own

That is automatic once it aquires the GPS signal. If you can't get a signal, your cable has become unpluged from the back of the radio.

Thanks for the link, appropriate, yes, I had also read it and noted it was a little dated, but at least it was some info worth reading. I wish their was something newer. I'm in a mild winter climate, we just don't get snow like 20 years ago, anymore. But I keep thinking we will LOL. It's also garaged andwill never see a temp below 50F. I think everyone knows, the Jiffy-Lubes are in business to make money. I even read a thread where a guy, bought his own AMS oil, but found a place to put it in for him, for just $10. Oil's... we learn about them, by word of mouth, advertising, and info past on to us from others. Then we take a chance when we stand in an aisle and look at the different brands, I know I do. Then I decide "Oh Hell, I'll just go with the damn MotorCraft, now what was the weight of that oil I was suppose to use?" I believe it's the start-up cycles, and the cycling of the gears in a transmission that dictate the 'wearing' of oil. IE, driving all day in a big city, vs. 600 miles a day on the Interstate. Pure Interstate driving you could go 10K+ miles on petrol-lube (Group 2 & 3 oil) before an oil change would be needed. The oil will not mildew sitting unused in a crankcase for years. But since the engines are not vacuum-sealed, condensation 'might' be likely to form. Causing oxidation and that will end up in the oil. Filters come into play. Right now, I don't see putting 2K miles on this, so I'm likely to just be throwing away good money, yes. Maybe 5 years from now I might be up to 8K+/yr driving. Go to the oil-drop server and start reading some of those oil reports people are getting on their mileage of synthetic oil's. It will impress you, but mind you, most of those vehicles are out of their warranty periods also. I didn't look at the threads on the diesel oils. You learn something everyday. Here in the Midwest, I don't think I've heard of RedLine, quite like a lot of people haven't heard of AMSoil. Picking the 'best' oil's then I would try to gather others opinions as this thread is doing and go with feeling's of other people's. Buying oil is a pocketbook decision. If your happy to go with what the manufacturer recommends, that is all you have to do. That in and of itself, will be fine. Engines now will get you to 150K miles with no problem provided you do the recommended oil changes. If your Like Jeffery and I and don't mind paying a lot more for better engineered oil. you have an added piece of assurance your oil is capable of meeting grueling demands out there in that cold harsh world. Grey, good question, I feel the same way. I can use it in my Explorer, or I could mix it with the 0W-20, say 4 qts 0-20 + 1 qt 5-30. I could use it in my lawn tractor and tiller, where it will really make me feel I'm doing the best I can on those piece's of machinery. The Warranty paperwork from AMS and on their web site still wants you to go by the recommended manufacturers change intervals. But to be denied a claim based upon using a different oil, would not hold up. No Manufacturer says to ONLY use 'this' oil, it's use an API rated SM oil meeting.........spec's. I do know that newer ring pressures are in use and it's actually better to have a thinner oil on the cylinder walls than a thicker oil, for wipe-down. Gas mileage would also go down slightly. What I don't know at this point is how the oil change interval in the vehicles is computed, if it's just mile based or if their is some type of sensor that can detect how badly the oil is contaminated. ------------- Since we all have the same identical engine, what everyone of us is left with: is our choice of oil. Again, today's oil's are not like your father's oil's. That is the major reason this 3.5L change interval has been raised to 7.5K miles. There is now a Group IV oil that can do a 25K or 35K mile cycle. Taking a 25K oil and changing at 15K is cost wise the same as any dino oil @7K miles. And soon every other oil producer will be re-engineering and claiming high mileage for their oil also. Ford has a 10K on the hybrid, Honda has 10K on their engines. Exciting times we live in eh? I have goosebumpen's just thinking about all of this. I got carried away

When AMS made their first oil, I was learning about Gas Turbines and knew the advantage's of synthetic right away. I've used the Mobil One, was looking this time at Royal Purple, and guess the Oil Drop site reading, made me decide to go with AMS on this car. Yes, yes, I even tried the Slick 50 in an '88 jeep, and still have a bottle of it, if someone wants it, LOL, what a marketing scam. I always wondered about it at that time. If my first filter, had removed it from the oil, the minute I poured it in. Per the oil drop site... It is a personal preference thing.. AMSoil posts numbers about their oil, they formulate different ones quickly for the market, we're the first to market with a synthetic. Now have a 35K oil. That alone took some engineering to achieve that. These are Group IV oil's. As you see both oil's are actually out of spec. a 0W-20 and a 5W-30. I feel that the oil's are better than what's required to meet the factory spec's/API, due to there TBN's or base numbers. and will outlast the 7K mile limit easily. I am just looking for quality oil to last that long AND longer. Abrannan hit it on the head. He understands. The oil filter is also rated to 25K miles. I can look at it this way, I am actually pouring money away using this oil, but in the long run. the price of the oil means nothing percentage wise to the price of the car. I will be doing the oil change just because I like to, and yes, I'm using Blackstone for the reports. The Lincoln is a toy, it's just to play with, shine up and see what I can do next to it. I get bored easily. I could mix the oil's, but that would screw up judging the reports. If I do a change at 7K, that would be like changing the MotorCraft @ <2K. With an average round trip of 30 miles and garaged and driven 'maybe' once a week. Right now that equals 1500-1700 miles a year. Theoretically a one oil lifetime fill for me possibly. But times will change and I know I will never reach the life of the oil. The 'oil' itself doesn't break down. it's the additive package's that get depleted, and oil contamination that shortens the life of it. I'm still in a learning phase on it, have been for 40 years. As for warranty work at Ford. no one will question it, unless when the pan is dropped it's like molasses inside it. And we should give a little credit to the Edge owners here, we all take good care of our cars, neither I nor you would expect each other to abuse something like the lifeblood of those engines. I just bought a high quality oil and can go an extended time, I wasn't worried about the money on this. If I change the oil at 7K, when it could have gone to 25 or 35K, all I've done was throw away good oil. I will send in a report to see what the oil is like and then decide if it stays or goes. I'll use cheap gas, but expensive oil's. Same as cheap women and expensive liquor.