ug.mac

I guess NO ONE gets worse millage than mine in city is about 20~23L/100KM (40L at pump, 178KM odo), so 10~11 MPG here.

Any thoughts?

So far I've found and fixed rattle from three different area in my 07' SEL with BAMR. I hope these information can be helpful to anyone who bothering by those noise.

1. Rattling around rear sunroof area, caused by loosed hook&loop tape that holding rear sunroof ring/frame (whatever you call it). Fixed by CA glue or other thin but strong adhesives. TSB has this one listed too.

2. BAMR rattling, not very loud but you can tell it's there. Mine caused by dried sunroof aluminum/rubber rails, can be fixed by lube aluminum with white lithium grease and silicone spray the rubber rails.

3. Door ratting, can happen to all four doors, sometime you think the noise was from B pillar area or roof. Caused by dried door strike, any grease works but again white lithium grease works very well.

We all love Edge especially when its noise free. :shades:

ug.

Just want to report back, the noise JUST GONE!!! I silicone sprayed the all door strikes fixed the problem. I'll apply some white silicone grease tomorrow. :yahoo:

Lol, nice try

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4077490.html

Title:

Total power fluid system vehicle with steering control

 

Document Type and Number:

United States Patent 4077490

 

A vehicle with a total power fluid system includes a pair of drive wheels, variable displacement, fluid motors driven by an engine driven, variable displacement, fluid pump. The motor displacements are controlled by operator speed input and speed sensing controls, and the pump displacement is controlled by a pressure sensing pressure control. A vehicle steering control includes an operator steering input control connected to a steerable wheel control for actuating a valve for holding, turning, or castering fluidly steerable wheels which are capable of turning the vehicle. The operator steering input control is further connected to the operator speed input controls to slow the turn-side drive wheel motor during either a steerable wheel controlled or an emergency, drive wheel controlled turn. During either an electrical failure or a hydraulic failure sensed by the inability of the steerable wheels to follow the operator steering input control, the valve will be actuated to caster the steerable wheels. The operator steering input control further includes provisions for greater steering sensitivity near the centered steerable wheel position and for limiting the degree of steerable wheel turn with increasing vehicle speed.

I think turn signal fluid is a joke, otherwise post a link from Wikipedia. And now, :backtotopic: :backtotopic:

ug.

Maybe your fan belt needs a new buckle.

Do you still have summer air in your tires?

Is the muffler coming unraveled?

Your turn signal fluid could be hardening.

Muffler is secure, tire air pressure were adjusted by dealer at service. What is turn signal fluid? Never heard of it.

ug.

So after 2 hours in the garage, noise is still there (somewhere). I lubed the all the seals around the windows, tight up the screws, nothing seems helps. Too bad I don't have someone can help to identify the source of noise, but at least I know the noise is NOT coming from the BAMR in my case. :do what:

ug.

Nice to know I'm not alone. I've check the rear seatbelts but turned them around or locked into buckle didn't make any difference. My car was totally silent until it reached 8000KM. BAMR did made the noise sometime due to the loosed black plastic frame of rear moonroof, I fixed that by CA glued them.

I'll check the screw of B pillar cover see if they were loosed.

ug.

My Edge is about 12000 KM now, but I've found some rattle like noise around front roof/B pillar (aka central pillar) area at both sides (driver side is little worse) when I brake/turn or over speed bumps. I can't tell the exactly where the noise coming from and it's not like metal to metal kind rattle. Very annoying, very Korean-made-alike...... :banghead:

Anyone else has same problem?

ug.

Oops,, can admin please move this thread to 'Interior' please. :-P

Glued it. That's how I fixed mine, just few drops of CA glue you will never have it come off again. :P

city around 14-15 KM/L, i do not know it is that how much for miles per gallon.

I think you mean 14~15L/100KM. IF you got 14-~15KM/L that's about 6~7L/100KM. :shades:

Mine is 15~17L/100KM in city w/o A/C.

I don't have any problem driving AWD Edge in 1Ft deep snow in Banff, AB with stock tire early this year in our honeymoon trip. Wheel just never stuck at all. :D :D

SALEENS7,

Have you seen anything like these at the wheel dealership?

This shoot just looks like Porsche Cayenne. :P

Wheel cleaner spray, you can get it from any auto part store/wal-mart. Never use anything contents polishing compounds on chrome wheel, they'll cause the damage.

I use Orange Blast All-Wheel Cleaner, cheap but works like a charm. :D

I think those are cool, much better than having a car driving on a building. :D

Our chrome bars I believe is zinc coated ABS plastic which is softer than the rock piece/sand (density 1.0g/mL vs 2~5g/mL, same materiel used on 18" chrome wheel cover), especially when you hit them at high speed. Steel or Aluminum alloy certainly better(harder) than ABS in most case but they will be heavier and pricey, and you have to deal with the oxidization.

I have the same thing on mine, I will try some waxing at next wash.

It looks cool but will also reduce your car's rear visibility. Taillights just as important as headlights, you need to mark yourself clearly in the dark or/and bad weather so others can see you. I think the LED taillights will probably be the 'Best Looking' resolution but you have to wait until something actually hits the market. :D

ug.mac! congrats on the marriage!!!!! I knew I had not seen you posting for a while...

Congrats on the better gas mileage also...

:happy feet:

Thank you npggirl :happy feet: :happy feet:

K&N has HP-2009 for Edge, I'm getting this one for my next oil change. ^_^

CONGRATULATIONS (For the Honeymoon)

 

That's great to hear.

Did your MPG got better by time or was it this good from the begining?

Mine was 18l/100 and now it's 15l/100 (Mostly city)

Thank you. :hyper:

Mine is SEL+ AWD, and I got some really bad MPG before I hit this trip, 100% city was 12.1MPG and never go over 13, I guess you can't get any lower than this. 50/50 was about 16MPG. I don't know if that bad MPG has anything to do with the 'break-in period' (dealer says 5000KM), since mine is about 6000KM now I hope I could see some gain (in Vancouver gas price is 1.20/L!!!). :happy feet:

I'm here with some highway MPG I recently got from my honeymoon trip(Vancouver -> Lake Louise/Bannf/Calgary -> Vancouver -> Tofino -> Nanaimo -> Vancouver). Drove 2874.2 KM with 290 Liter of gas purchased, so 10L/100KM or 23.5MPG (EPA:24MPG). I'm really impressed with the result since mostly I was coursing around 120~130KM/h, 150~170KM/h at passing. :hyper:

In Canada I got 2.9% for 36 months leasing on SEL+.

I believe that they are in the valve cover under the rubber grommets.

Thanks, Are these what you talking about?

But I can't remove the wire off them, weird. :wacko:

Just called Ford and they want me to drop my Edge at dealer let them check again, so obviously whining is NOT normal. I'll keep you guys update on this.

What are you getting?

Mine is AWD SEL+, in city I'm getting 13MPG (I know, this number sux) and 21.5MPG on highway.