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Put the $$$ into a one of your 401K or even a 2% CD and use it for any repairs. Warranty from a dealer is PROFIT.

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Disregard!!

Had a Dent expert that I found on Craigslist (with refs) come out to the house and look at it.

$50 and a half hour later, dent is gone, Minor scratch is hardly noticeable and will buff out.

Check out Paintless Dent Repair on YouTube.

Over the weekend, I noticed that I have a nice ding/dent on the crease line on the front of my hood. Spouse claims she never noticed it.

Dent Wizard says it is on a crease and they do not believe it can be massaged out. Various body shops want $500 - $650 to repair!!

CarPart.com has no hoods available.

Anyone have any leads on a RED Edge Hood??

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Just picked one of these up for my daughters car-

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...&CatId=3422

originally sold for $220.

Cannot tell from new.

FYI-

This may not apply, but I use this link for a filter cross ref-

http://www.trasko-usa.com/

I originally used it because GM went to smaller capacity filters on some of their cars, and I wanted the larger filter for my old Riviera.

I find that if you leave all the windows open near a construction site for several days, the glare is less noticeable.

I have Illinois plates and never put the front ones on for the past two autos I have owned.

I put the extra plate under the rear carpet if I get stopped. I was NEVER stopped for the plate on my cars.

I had a 1998 Aurora with that nice shovel nose front end and a plate would ruin the look. My Riviera has a built in notch for the front one, so a plate goes there.

My wife was stopped at a seat belt inspection location and was asked about the plate. She said the dealer never installed the bracket and the plate was in the trunk. The officer nodded and said okay. (!!)

For the past half hour I have been trying to find the switch to lower the tailgate glass and, for the life of me, I cannot locate it!

BAMRers and ski racks don't mix, though I may try a couple of rounds from my .38 special if it would help!

Nope,

I tried cracking the windows, fronts, backs, partially down partially up, halfway down, quarter up, still have the resonance no matter.

It appears to be a design problem (at least for me).

AND- with the radio cranked up, which is how I usually listen to it, the resonance is even more of a nusance!!

Since Mother Nature has decided to delay summer this year, I have enjoyed low humidity, 70 degree days around here and have tried driving around with the drivers window down and hanging my elbow out the window. However, I cannot do this for long because of the terrible sympathetic resonance which you cannot stand for long. Matter of fact, when you roll down any or all of the windows, you get the womp, womp, womp!

Is it the design of the body or the design of the interior? Either way, you HAVE to drive windows up and air on.

Frustration.

I agree COMPLETELY!!!

I use Total Cycle Cleaner on my bike and on my other cars.

It WILL remove tuff stains and not harm the orignal finish.

I don't believe there are any harsh chemicals, but I always try it on an inconspicuous space first.

It is a great product!!

I have an 07 with leather but no heated seats. is there any way to buy a pair of heated seats and install them with the buttons and every thing in the factory location. if so does any one know of any problems i might run into? thanks

I didn't get the seat heaters either. I also didn't like the way the drivers seat felt. I am 6'2" 230lbs, with long legs. The seat seemed way back, down and too low for me.

I had the leather drivers seat reworked by an upholstery shop who added a denser foam and reworked the bolsters. He also added custom brackets to the power seat which moves the seat farther back, but -unlike the OEM- does not put you down lower and reclined. I sit upright with good thigh support and enuff headroom.

While I was getting this done, I noticed the trim shop had seat warmers. For $200, I had a nice custom 2 stage bun warmers installed with the switches placed on the front lip of the bottom cushion. Really nice pro job. Check with a local auto trim shop and explain the problem.

I opted for the FWD drive this time because of all the problems I had with our late lamented Explorer.

Chicagoland has had it's share of snow, and the FWD has handled it with no troubles. I can break the rear end in deep snow or ice, but with the OD off, it plows right through.

I drove through 30 below in Wisconsin last week, and 20 below Friday night in Dekalb trying to start my son's Escape.

The Edge heater was frying my feet right throught the Thinsulate boots!!

Sounds like a local problem.

Found out the problem the hard way. Apparently on the EDGE the sliders on the calipers where the pads attach have to be lubed every 5000 miles. If they are not they begin to stick and it puts added wear on the pads and the rotors. Mine was doing this and this maintenance was never brought up to me or is it on the maintenance schedule. At 19/K I got a grinding sound. I took it in and the backside pads were worn off and messed up the rotors. No warning the pads were bad, drove it one day it was fine. The next day got the grinding sound and took it in the following day. This is when I learned about the lube on the sliders. Thye also do not stock rotors for this, so it took 2 days to locate them along with the pads. Repair cost: $525.00. My other vehicle gets 25K - 30K or more off a set of pads. 20K or less is what they say for the Edge. Anyone else have any brake issues witht his vehicle. Mine is a 2007, had it 1 year now.

Wait a Sec.....

If lubing the calipers is not in the Ford Maintenance Schedule, why do YOU have to cough up $525 for the repair. At 19K, pads SHOULD NOT require replacement -unless you are a hard driver and it can be proven to Ford that YOU are at fault.

Sound like a warranty issue.

Want improved braking? Why just cross drill those rotors? Introducing KaleCoAuto cross drilled brake lines!

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=...p;products_id=1

Can you elaborate on how strong these rails are? How much weight can they support?

As a owner of several vehicles with 'roof rails', I never have found them to be able to support much and find them to be more decorative than functional. I always had to 'jerry' a support under the rails to support bikes or a ski carrier so the rails would not bend or flex.

So- are these just plastic or are they re-enforced enough to provide real time support for two mountain bile carriers??

What did you use to splice the wiring harness into your Edge??

I still want one...but I don't want to die of a heat stroke.

Ya know, I noticed this on my Edge also, but being in the Midwest, it's only a problem on the hot humid days-

WHICH ARE HERE!

So, I notice that the AC doesn't bring down the temp and the blower isn't as powerful as my other rides (the AC in my 71 Riviera will ice the chrome vents, but that's maybe the freon!).

I find that if the outside temp is above the 80s and the sun is hot, the AC in the Edge is to be found wanting.

However, I have rented a new Taurus Fusion, and a MKZ and have not had this problem (even in TX). I don;t have another Edge owner to compare to, except this forum.

Anyone else???

yeah, I use FF (and Opera, Safari, IE, Navigator, Mozilla, all as well).. but for certain browser testing I do, as the population is split right now for users using older IE 6 and newer IE 7, I want to run them both which MS made nearly impossible. But, there are methods to make it happen... but they date back to 2006-2007 and are pretty hacked in methodology and leave certain IE 7 features stripped out..

 

so wondered if there was a newer method easier to deploy and keep IE 7 features in tact.

 

as for FF 3 just released... I will wait as I need to stick with the browser used by most and, at this time, that is not FF 3.

I have been experimenting with IE8 BETA. MS HAS cleaned up thier browser and it is a big improvement. It does have a couple of bugs, so read the bug report.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...e8/default.mspx

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better look no doubt... same reception? you tell us. I suspect you would be just fine. post a photo what you install.

 

You know.. the more and more I look around at antennas I notice more and more newer models with a stubby or shark setup (Acura, Mercedes, BMW, even some VW) and wonder... if a stubby antenna really limits reception to a noticeable degree, how are they getting away with them as stock now? I can only come up with 3 reasons: (1) because a stubby works just fine and a 12" antenna is just plain overkill or (2) they have some kind of factory signal booster in place or (3) they have some sort of system where a wire portion of the antenna is also in the roof and the stubby antenna we see is just an extension of what is in the roof doing most of the work. I find #3 harder to believe and #1,2 more likely.

The long whip antenna of the past 50 years was "field expedient" from a corp $$ standpoint.

The stubbie antenna works the same way as the "rolled copper wire tube" in your old home AM/FM tabletop.

Pressure to be aerodynamic and 'cool' led to the European mfgs utilizing this design. Then the US mfgs just copied the design.

Unfortunately, it does not work as well as the whip. an AM signal needs a 30 to 40 inch wavelength and the FM is somewhere near 30 inches. The stubbies try to max both and exceed not to well with a compromise. There is some gain in the receivers but not much.

This is the reason aftermarket radios are so mutch better than OEM.

Yeah, filled up the Edge this morning with regular unleaded $4.05.9 per GAL.

When I first got my license, (1961) I filled up Dad's 1955 Bel Aire (265 CID-Powerglide). I can remember it was 19.9 cents per gallon.

I can remember pulling into the Purple Martin Station and asking the attendant(!) for a quarters worth of regular because that is all I had left from my allowance and the needle was pegged beyond E.

...and he did. Oh yeah, throw in a quart of that 25 cent glass-bottle-with-a-spout reclaimed oil while your at it...

During the 'gas price wars' of the late 60s, I pumped Sunoco 260 into my Camaro SS 396 (!) for 25.9 and regular (leaded) was 16.9!!

The only thing pumped out of the Persian Gulf was Sand.

Ask your 'dealer' to show you by driving another Edge (similarly equipped) which is on his lot to see if it is 'normal'

My guess is they will make some excuse, but call their bluff and expect them to define what is 'normal' on the Edge.