Hi all,
I thought I would tell my story on my system. I know theres alot out there, but I thought I would do my own thread so some of you can keep up on it.
I bought a 2011 Ford Edge Sport loaded with every option on 5/10/11. We drove 4 hours to get it since there was limited availability on the Sports in my area.
After signing and loading up, we took the long trip back home which gave us plenty of time to familiarize ourselves with the nav, touch and sync. This thing was amazing! Fast response, great sound, and nice nav. We couldnt be happier!
We had no issues at all until the first week of Nov. The system was operating real slow, nav was telling us it had problems, Sirius would show different info than what was playing, screen went black a few times, and maintenence was continuously coming up.
I called the dealer and told him of the problems. He told me that there was a update out to fix all these issues and it would be faster if I did it from home. I went to WalGreens and purchased a USB card and did the update (took 45 minutes!).
After the update, the system seemed to work good again, at least for a week. The same stuff was happening all over again, so I called the dealer back. He then instructed me to bring the car in for a check. I brought the car in last Friday morning, The dealer called me that afternoon to tell me that it was ready. Upon pickup, the service advisor told me that they had to do a update to the hard drive. The update I did from home was a software update and installed correctly he said.
After leaving the dealership with the car, I noticed everything worked great from there back to work. After work, on my way home, the Nav came up with a SD card fault and wouldnt work at all. I called the service guy and told him. He knew I needed the nav for the next day (Sat) for our family trip. He had me do a bunch of different things, but nothing worked. He apologized and told me he cant get the car back in till Monday. So I had to go out and buy a Garmin Nav unit to use for our trip which upset me a bit. Also, while we were on our trip, the system completely malfunctioned and we had nothing for the remainder of the trip. Not even radio. Heres a pic of the screen after it went out:
Monday, I took the car in first thing in the morning. They got it in immediately and I went to work. I got a call that afternoon from the service guy telling me that they needed to keep it overnight. I let them keep it.
Tuesday I get a call from the service guy telling me that the service tech couldnt figure the problem out and had called Fords engineers. The engineers told him that some box that controlled the system was bad. He ordered the part and it came in today. He told me today that they will be installing the part tomorrow and checking it.
Hopefully this will fix it, but reguardless, Ill let you guys know what happens tomorrow.....
-Jon