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Are they rivets, or allen-key bolts that have been rounded out? If they are rivets, you might have to drill them out.

The bumper protectorfor the Scion fits pretty well...

I use RAM mounts in my Edge and on the bike. To give you an idea of how well it hold the phone, I rode from Ft. Rucker, AL to Panama City Beach, FL with my phone in a RAM mount on the handlebar and had no issues.

I really don't see why dvd-based (or SD card based) nav systems are still a thing. With cell based, you get real time traffic and road closure updates. Even when using Here+ on my Windows phone I can download current maps for use when I have no signal.

Had a strange issue this morning as I was getting ready to go to PT. My wife had driven my 2008 Edge Limited to work the night before, so the seat was all the way forward. When I unlocked the door with my key, the seat did not move. When I hit the #1 settings button (which have my settings saved), the seat would not move.

I tried to move the seat by using the adjustment switch on the seat itself, but it still would not move. I had to give up and take my son's car to PT. When I got back home, about an hour and 45 minutes later, I was going to pull the fuse and check, but on a whim I hit the setting button again, and the seat worked! I hit the #2 button, and the seat moved back to my wife's settings. I hit my keyfob button and the seat moved back to my settings.

Does anyone have an idea what would cause an intermittent issue like this?

Out of all the auto repairs that I have done over the course of my life, and all the troubleshooting and repair/replace work I have done on the AH64D Apache...I hate replacing heater cores the most!

I'm sure you'll be good to go for the next 50,000 miles

Yeah, but I only have another 20,000 or so on my warranty, lol!

So sorry! However I think it is hard for an insurance company to total an almost new car (which means they appraise the repair cost is over 25 k), unless the suspension is damaged.

Considering that the Edge is a unibody frame, if the frame was bent or twisted in the wreck, it could easily total the car.

Well, it overheated the other night. 11pm on Broadway in Nashville, so bumper-to-bumper, stop-and-go, pedestrians and taxicabs everywhere.

Pulled into a parking lot and popped the hood, lo and behold the fans aren't running.

Took it to the dealer this morning. New fan assy has been ordered under warranty, and I am also getting a new battery. It was slow to start this morning, and when they tested the battery it was found to be bad. While it is there, they are doing the 105,00 mile service, minus a few things I did myself about 1000 miles ago.

$600 and change.

I swear, my next car purchase is going to be brand-new with a warranty that lets me drop the car off for any reason at all and it gets fixed!

This might sound a little strange, but the radio station data on my Sync radio is stuck, but it is only on one station. If I change to any other station, the song data shows the current song that is playing, or the station info, whatever the station is broadcasting. However, 94.3 is still showing the same song from 3 days ago. I cant figure out if it is the station's broadcast info or something in the stereo. Anyone else seen this before?

Wow! That sucks!

2008 Ford Edge Limited /w towing package. I noticed this morning that the cooling fan on the driver's side comes on within 10 seconds of starting the engine, and immediately spins up to a high rate of speed. While driving, the engine temp stays in the normal range. I checked the fans again after stopping, and the passenger side fan is running. It has 101000-ish miles on the car, with about 40000 less on the engine due to warranty replacement last year.

Is my control module on the way out or is this normal operation?

While I was deployed, my wife managed to back into the open garage door with the liftgate open. She hit it hard enough to break one of the garage door hinges in half, which I fixed today.

She also broke the trim panel that houses the rear Ford emblem, license plate lights, and wiper arm. Is it possible to replace this piece, and where can I find one other than at the dealer?

I am interested in this as well...I just recieved an e-mail from my wife; apparently, she backed into the corner of a uhaul truck last week and put a fairly deep gouge in the rear bumper...so now I have something to fix when I get home from Bagram.

The ones I have say "Edge" on them, so I guess they are the Ford version...they came with the Edge (bought used), and are a lifesaver when it comes to spills and dirt and whatnot.

That would be pretty sweet...but in black and chrome...

Unscrew the screws holding the plate on, remove screws and plate. You should then see the head of the two rivets that hold the plate holder on. You would have to drill the rivets out.

On my 2008 Edge, the outside temp matches pretty close to what it actually is. I park it in the garage, so it is usually reading around 40 degrees, with the outside temp being around 25 degrees, due to it being warmer in the garage. Once I back out of the garage, the outside temp display adjusts down to the correct temp inside of 5 minutes or so. By that time, the engine has started warming up enough to start blowing hot air, and it usually kicks on with a high fan and blows out of the floor vents and defroster vents.

It sounds like you may have an issue with your sensor not reading correctly.

I'm still not buying this whole story...... from a simple check engine light on and still running (seemingly) fine, to a cracked block. Something seems veeeerrrry fishy here. I'd be in there asking to see the old engine.... if they actually changed it. A cracked block is a pretty serious issue, and would likely cause way more than a simple check engine light..... and I don't see any connection with the cam phaser code

It started idling rough the night before we took it in, and there was no coolant in the resivour when we stopped to check. It may have been trowing the code due to the lack of adequate lubrication from the water and oil mixing causing the camshaft to not run properly.

In any case, what would be the upside for the service department to run a scam, aside from getting the warrantly company to pay for the repair instead of me? Last time I had a cracked block, the car ran almost fine, with a little rough idle and rough acceleration. Keep in mind that they also gave me a 12 month/12K mile warranty on the replacement engine on top of the current warranty.

Well, got the call today that my Edge was ready for pickup. Took all of 20 minutes to transfer my stuff from the rental to my Edge, pay my $100 deductable, and go over the paperwork. The service manager told me that the block was cracked on my original engine.

So, my 94,000 mile Edge has a 61,000 mile engine with a 12M/12K warranty ON TOP OF my existing warranty!

It is an aftermarket warranty, offered by the dealer. The only thing I was really worried about was that I did the 90,000 mile service myself, but by law that does not void a warranty...although I have heard stories...

Now that I think about it, I have owned four Ford/Mercury vehicles, and three of them blew the head gasket. The first was an '84 Mercury Marquis. That gasket blew because some idiot put stop-leak in the radiator at some point, and it collected around the gasket, blocked the water channel, and blew the gasket. The second time it blew the gasket was the bypass hose split...all the collant leaked out, and it melted the thermostat and blew the gasket so badly that all 6 cylinders had water in them.

The second was my second Ford Escort, a 1998. The fan warped, causing voltage fluctuations which blew the fuze for the fan motor. Lack of fan caused the car to overheat, which blew the gasket and either warped the head or cracked the block. My dad and wound up replacing the engine.

The third one is the Edge, and when I go pick it up I plan to ask if they could determine what caused the gasket to blow.

The dealer is Jenkins and Wynne in Clarksville, TN. They win the top dealer award from the local citizenry just about every year.

Yeah, that's the same song-and-dance I get when taking the Edge in for work. Diagnostics are out-of-pocket to owner unless a fault covered under warranty is found. You can only hope you are dealing with a competent mechanic/diagnostician. At least you have the DTC in hand to back you up. Might want to call Ford Customer Service about this first, unless you have a great relationship with the dealer.

The dealer here is pretty good in regards to customer service. They win the top award from the local residents every year.

Anyway, they called me back a few minutes after I posted. Blown head gasket which grenaded the internals...warranty authorized a "Like/Type" replacement, which means I get a certified used engine with around 60,000 miles on it, and all I have to pay is my deductable.

Well, my wife called me yesterday and tells me that the fuel light is on on the dash. I had just filled up the tank, so I tell her to take a pic and text it to me...turned out to be the "check engine" light. I told her to take it to Autozone and have them read the codes. The machine spit out the code for camshaft sensor/crankshaft sensor/mechanical.

So, we took it to the dealer this morning since I paid for the extended warranty when I bought the car.

The service manager called me on the way to work and told me that it was most likely the cam phasers, but they had to dissassemble the engine to check to be sure...to the tune of $900....with a ballpark figure of $2500-ish to replace.

The kicker is that they are not sure if the warranty covers it until they get a look at the phasers.

If you have the stock full-screen Navigation stereo system, on the "Media" page there should be, across the top of the screen, user device, FM1, FM2, AM, CD, and SM.

Press the SM button on the screen to tune to the Sirius.

I have noticed that, when I unlock the Edge with my keyfob, code, and/or put my key in the ignition after my wife has driven it with her keyfob, my mirrors do not go all the way back to where I set them. When I press the #1 memory button, the mirrors move, but not all the way. I typically have to press the button two or three times to get the mirrors back to where the preset is.