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I had windshield fluid heater installed on my Escape. The same heater as some Cadillacs used to have. It had two modes - fast defrost and heating. With fast defrost you press the button, the heater warms up a portion of fluid to 60 degree Celsius and pump it to the windshield. It repeats it several times. This mode really helps in cold winter mornings. The second mode that just heats the fluid a little bit doesn't make much difference, at least in Toronto weather. This is a video of fast defrost:

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MFT is designed by the same company that makes Windows. I guess it explains everything

Same story here. My old Escape never had this issue. Looks like a design problem with 20'' rims.

I had to add the diodes once. Attached is a diagram. The new diodes are in red.

airball187, this happen when LED bulb manufacturer "forgets" to install diodes in the bulb. Low intensity light gets connected to the stop light via resistor, so stop light back feeds the markers and running lights when no other regular bulbs installed as a markers. The solutions are: - Open the LED bulbs and install 2 diodes in each - Return the LED bulbs, buy another pair and hope that manufacturer has better memory. - Keep at least one regular bulb in the side market circuit.

My vehicle is not new, so I don't choose any specific place. Just try to avoid parking close to the ones that are "parking like an idiot". So far so good, didn't get any scratches on my 11 years old Escape. Hope for the same with MKX.

Danke! Definitely much dimmer than stock, but acceptable. I used to make turn signal bulbs with three OSRAM Golden Dragon LEDs on aluminum heatsink, 80 lumens each LED. The brightness was pretty close to stock bulbs.

30 yellow LEDs at 2 lumens each... It's 3 times less then stock turm signals, that produce approximately 180 lumens. Are you sure your turn signals are visible at daytime?

1) There is a circuit in the stock flasher that monitors load, and blinks faster if load drops. Normally it means burned out bulb. LED also consumes much less power than stock bulb, so it is detected as burned out bulb. There are two solutions: - The right one: replace flasher with LED-compatible one. Something like that: http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=%2Fspecs%2FEP27L.html Not sure if it fits our vehicles, didn't do the research yet. - The simple one: use load resistor 6 Ohm 50 watts. Here is the installation instructions: http://www.superbrightleds.com/pdfs/load_resistor_info.pdf 2) You cannot fix the brightness. Most of cheap LED bulbs are not bright at all. The problem is that their size is limited to the size of stock bulb. To produce a reasonable amount of light, LED bulb need to dissipate 5-7 watts of heat while keeping it's temperature below approximately 80C (176F). This is hard to achieve even with metal heatsink.

Hello everyone! I've just traded in my old 2002 Ford Escape for 2008 Lincoln MKX, AWD with 96,000 km on odometer. Thanks everybody for the useful posts on this forum!