buckwheat1977

The Ford dealer was more than willing to work with me to find the problem. I was documenting every time the lights came in. Almost every day. Then since about March they have not come on at all. It is the craziest thing. I have a 1 year warrantey on that instrument cluster. It will be winter again before the warrenty is up. Maybe that has something to do with it. Who knows. I am not sure I will be buying an Edge again if so many people are having trouble like this and it keeps acting up and they cant fix it. Its rediculous. Why should we have to pay for a bad design?

The CD player wont eject my CDs unless I pound on the dash then scratches them. It is a single CD deck. I am going to just replace it. I can find all kinds of 6 disc player on e-bay and at our local salvage yard. Question--will that fit and work properly? DO I need the exact part number which is 7T4T-18C869-BC. Does anyone have one for sale that I can buy? I also have another forum talking about the dash warning light problem. I get an "eject error" when trying to eject the CD. If I pound on the dash just after I hit the eject button then I can get the cd to come out. COULD THIS BE CAUSING THE DASH LIGHT PROBLEM?????? Jim

Well those ##%$^#@@# light keep comming on even with the new instrument cluster. My Ford deal is working with me and trying to help. basically I have kept track each day when they come one. About 75% of the days I drive it they come on. Usually only for about a minute then off. My old instrument cluster did this then eventually stayed on all the time even when the key was off the dash lights would stay on. One individual in this forum said it could be the smart junction box. Could that still be it? Does anyone have any input on this? I have a bad CD player. it gives an eject error. Could this be causing the problem in any way? Jim

I took it to the Ford dealer and they found it was the instrument cluster. They replaced it for $670. Somehting like this is almost impossible for the average person to replace because it requires programming. I certainly dont know how to do that. Hopefull it is fixed now. Thanks Jim

Well now today I noticed that the blue high beam light is on all the time as is the dash lights. I cannot shut them off no matter what I do. When I start the engine the headlights do not go off when switching the headlight switch to off. Any advice is welcome. Thanks Jim

Well the battery was not the fix for the dash lights. We went for a 100 mile drive today and the lights came on again. Intermittantly at first then eventually stayed on. If anyone out there knows what it could be I would really appreciate the advice because I am at a loss.

I think I have it fixed. You wont believe it. It was the battery. My wife went out this morning to start it and it was dead. I put a charger on it for 15 minutes and it started right up. I left the charger on it for several hours and it never charged up. I think a cell went bad in the battery. I installed a new battery and drove it 10 miles and the warning lights do not come on. It never gave any warning that the battery was going out. It always turned over and started very easily. My recommendation to anyone who has dash lights comming on like I did is get a load test done on the battery at your local auto store or just go out and spend $60 for a new battery. Jim

I bought a 2007 Edge in October. After a month 5 dash warning lights started comming on periodically. Door open light, traction control light, high beam light, low tire pressure light, parking brake light. They would come on all at the same time and flash and sometime stay on for a while then go out then back on again. We drove the vehicle for a couple weeks and no problem. Today all the lights came on and stayed on all day. What the heck is going on? Local Ford dealer said they never heard this before. I had a diagnostic tester put on it and there were no error codes. This is very irritating to say the least. Anybody know what is going on? Thanks Jim

I just bought a 2007 Edge and want to put a hitch on. I think I will buy the Curt as recommended on other forums. They are $140 from my local Fleet Farm store. How about the wiring? I see underneath in back there is a rectangular plug mounted straight up from where the hitch would be. Is that a factory trailer wiring plug and all I have to do is buy the right harness and plug it in? I see other wire splicing trailer harnesses available that I used before and are not much fun to install. Thanks in advance.