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My first update after a couple years of ownership! Soooooo anyhoo......... we're trading the car in on an MDX tomorrow. The Edge was great for the first year but it's been a lemon (unfortunately just outside the "lemon law" window). Over the past 15 months it's been in the shop 6-7 times, I lost count. Currently it's in the shop due to stalling issues, and to fix the navigation which was wiped out on the last visit to the shop 2 weeks ago which was also to fix a master cylinder leak which occurred after a brake booster replacement two months prior to that (TSB related to the brake booster failure... happens a lot apparently). Also had a persistent rough idle issue previously (after replacing a few other fuel system components on various other visits), but recently began stalling at stoplights. This is evidently related to TSB 13-09-08 and a problem with engine wiring on the ecoboost models. Supposedly fixed now.... ? Anyway, the multiple issues with engine and brakes are enough to make me not trust this car with my family. SYNC and navigation have been hugely problematic as well, but that's not exactly news... sometimes the NAV would only show half-screen and display a blank white area on the other half, some black screens of death, and currently there's no NAV at all because of an issue that the techs "have never seen before" after the last SYNC upgrade that wiped out navigation completely. The other SYNC features work fine, but navigation just shows a yellow exclamation mark with no error messages or anything. That's the last remaining issue for now, so I'm planning on picking up the car later today whether it's got working NAV or not because I need it to trade in. What a shame, because I really liked the car and the way it drove, when it was working.

We've had 2012 Limited for just over a week now; still loving it. The only quirks so far have been a flaky rear hatch which doesn't always close, and a couple of random MFT reboots. I guess that's expected since it's based on Microsoft WinCE. Compared to touchscreens like Apple and Android phones and tablets, MFT is a piece of crap. Slow to respond, not intuitive. But it's still better than what you can get in much more expensive cars-- for example Mercedes touchscreen computer system is a huge steaming pile of ___. I love the overall look of the instrument panel and console though-- very sleek! I don't mind the touch controls but I haven't tried them with gloves on. Anyway, I like that Ford allows users to upgrade their own software, and once you learn your way around it's not that bad; though I'm really looking forward to the version 2.0 upgrade in a couple months. As far as the rest of the car, it's smooth, very quiet, rides great, and much better for hauling the baby without sacrificing legroom anywhere in the car.

This has happened a few times with my new 2012 also. Approximately 1 out of 4 times, the gate will re-open after it comes down. No obstructions. Then it works on the 2nd try. I haven't really looked into it that much yet (aside from just looking on this forum) but I'm hoping it's just a matter of adjusting some sort of bumper.

newb here. We needed a bigger baby hauler so after 3 months worth of test driving, my wife and I ended up with a sweet silver Edge Limited (with NAV, driver entry pkg, other goodies). What a great car, Ford has done some amazing things in the past few years; my last ford was a 1995 Ranger (which I eventually gave to my parents, and they still use it). The Ford won out after we narrowed it down to 3 cars: Ford Edge, Acura MDX, VW Touareg TDI. Ford was the clear value winner here, a lot of car for not as much money as the other 2. One test drive and we were pretty much sold! And now we all have plenty of legroom up front even with the baby seat installed in the rear. I no longer have my knees hitting the dashboard! Love the turbo 4 also. Very quiet and refined, with great low-end punch. My other car is a diesel so I appreciate torque!

Great info, I've got the 3M samples on the way now. My wife and I just bought our Edge last weekend; the wood trim was the only thing she didn't like about the car. I convinced her that wasn't a good reason to pass up the rest of the vehicle.