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Just looked once more to make sure I'm not crazy. Nope. It's just plain fugly and it won't sell. Personally, I don't believe that most people really want EVs. I also don't believe that in 5 years Ford will be selling 5 different EVs in any quantities that move the needle, ie 100K plus units per year. Maybe one, an EV F150, more than likely. We'll see.

I swear Powerstop brakes are the most shilled product on the entire internet.

We'll see in time. I don't see it appealing to anyone simply via the Mustang name. The problem is- the cheap ones aren't fast, and the fast ones aren't cool. I think we'll see them majorly cutting production numbers within 2 years after a decent first year of sales, and it being completely gone within 5 years. My sales predictions: Year 1: 50K Year 2: 45K Year 3: 20K Year 4: 15K Year 5: 15K Let's hear your numbers for the first five years and we'll see how it shakes out. 2025 will be here before you know it. Mustangs have averaged around 90K per year over the last 5 years for comparison.

After the dust has settled on the launch- I don't like it, at all. I've bought a Mustang Cobra new off a dealers's lot, and I now have kids to haul around, I like Fords, I'd like to have a dual motor Tesla but don't want to drop 100K on one, and I can afford to buy a brand new Mach E- so I *am* the target market, but there's no way I'd buy that. I feel that Ford foolishly stole the Mustang moniker for this coupe-ish EV thing. This is not a Mustang. Can't get a stick shift, you can't do a burnout, it makes no sounds that are satisfying, and worst of all, it's generally ugly. I don't see any angle that is particularly good looking. This a nothing but a new Ford EV crossover that they ripped the Mustang's heritage to promote. My predictions is it won't sell well at all, and it'll be gone in less than a decade. This will not make Mustang owner more likely to buy one- probably 100% the other way and it'll keep people form buying one out of disdain. I also predict that Ford and GM are going to find out the hard way that the lefty types that buy EVs/Teslas look down their nose at anyone who drives a Ford or a Chevy.

Plent yof room for special editions/hipo variants. GT###s.

What a moronic commercial that was. "Who says EV can't drive on snow?" Uhh- nobody? I thought they were going to address how sub-zero weather kicks the crap out of a battery, but they have solved that. Nope, we'll just ignore that elephant in the room and show that we can rotate tires in a circular manner just like a gas vehicle.

I had to do ball joints on my last F150 at 90K miles. 50K is early, but sometimes you get the out of spec parts. Edit: My SHO had 3 of it's 4 wheel bearings replaced at less than 40K miles. Never had other vehicles with bearing issues like that. At least the bearings were done under warranty. Been good for the last 15K since they were replaced though.

Yeah, RTFM is totally appropriate here- I just never expected a special process to change wiper blades I guess. Only done wiper blades around 100 times over the years on dozens of vehicles with no such special instructions necessary, but I've never owned anything with the whack ass center-out style wipers either.

So what are the part numbers? Motorcraft, which to me are OEM "style", list the same wiper for both sides. AFAIK, you CANNOT buy the actual OEM wipers unless you buy them from a factory worker in Canada who assembles Ford Edges and smuggled them out the back door. The original wipers were noticeably different than the Motorcraft replacement parts, as they always have been on every Ford I've owned.

Good to hear positive feedback on the new PCM flash. We'll get ours scheduled for the update.

We are going to try the 192313 update as soon as we can get it in. Still getting harsh shifts after the last re-flash- mainly from park to drive.

Wife said it's done the slam into drive from park shift twice again in the last couple days. WTF Ford? It's not like high optioned crossovers are poor sellers/moneymakers and only deserve the new guy writing the transmission software.

The louder, the better. When someone starts backing up towards you in a lot, and keeps coming closer and closer instead of stopping where they typically would - you are going to wish your horn was louder with every inch closer they get. Not advocating for everyone to get train horns, but with how quiet new cars are, older drivers with poor hearing, and younger drivers with the stereo cranked- having a loud horn is a good thing.

You need Forscan and a OBD II adapter. I bought this one. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F0GVBWY/ Forscan is free to download.

I cleared it on ours- no more issues shifting from Park to drive so far. It's been at least a week. Wife said she'd tell me if it did it again and no reports as of yet.

It's a generational thing. There is no way you are younger than 50 years old. Old people just like chrome for some reason. Some random old guy told me how much he liked our 08 Taurus Limited we had. It was absolutely slathered in chrome. You really don't pay extra for chrome- unless you get the very base econobox model- that's just what you get as standard. The titanium/limited models always get even more chrome, but that's just part of a package with other crap. Nobody is paying extra just for more chrome. However people ARE paying more to get black trim instead. The "appearance package" on the last Gen Explorers, the "sport" trim on the F150s etc. You pay extra to not get chrome, and nothing else. That's how much people dislike chrome drenched all over their vehicles. I think the Titanium models look ridiculous with all the chromed plastic parts every where. The mirror caps are simply over the top and chrome wheels were out of style 10 years ago. But hey, that's why Ford has options and why they call it "taste". As for the ST looking like a base model- not really. Base models have bare plastic everywhere. It's all grey looking with a flat or matte finish, and generally very cheap looking. The ST grille is a gloss black finish. The bare plastic along the bottom on the base models is painted on the STs. They really look nothing alike and nobody will ever confuse the two. Black wheels are optional as well, and our does not have them. Maybe I dislike chrome on cars because I refused to use the word "bling" to describe anything. Bright, shiny, reflective- plenty of other non-made up words we can use.

Asked my wife if she wanted it disabled an she said no, so I left it. I did disable the auto stop/start though- she did not like that feature at all.

Wife got home tonight- I moved them up by hand then went in a hit the ignition button- they came down and parked normally. No issues now. Thanks guys.

So you move the arms by hand, do the blade swap, then just put them back on the glass, and then turn on the ignition? I'll try that and see if it works itself out. I assume you can move each one individually and they are not hard linked together like mos vehicles?

Did you not see me refer to miles and gallons as freedom units?

It might be something to do with the learning- ours never shifted harshly from P to D until recently. It was fine for at least a few weeks after they did the TSB flash update, and it's slowly has been happening more and more often. I wonder if the guy who wrote the adaptive learning portion of the code just FUBARed it completely. I have Forscan as well- I'll try to reset ours and see if it improves. I don't think it does anything too odd otherwise while driving, but we did get some odd shifts when we first bought it, which is why we had them do the TSB flash update on it a month or so back. Edit: I don't think you can turn off the adaptive learning without a custom PCM calibration. Might just be one of those thing you get to do every few weeks unit Ford gets their shit together. I gotta think after 3 or 4 years of producing tens of thousands of these things- they will probably, maybe, finally get the programming right. Then again, they are still recalling 6 year old F150s for trans reprogramming, and have had multiple updates due to the initial reprogramming not doing what it should have. WTF Ford? You putting the new guy in charge of programming your automatic transmissions?

Does anyone have issues with the sunroof shade making noise over bumps? Our does it a lot. It sound like the fabric is smacking the center cross piece between the two pieces of glass. It's not very taut and being one long piece, it's plenty flappy enough to move up and down and hit the cross piece. Open it up and there is no noise. The shade on our 2010 was made of more substantial material and didn't move around at all. It was also split into two parts which totally prevented it from hitting the middle cross beam as well. It also blocked the heat better. Seems like the 2019 shade is vastly inferior to the 2010 IMO. It's neat in that it's all one piece as it rolls back, and there is no fat headliner material over the crossbar so it seems more open- but man, everything else about it seems so cheap and flimsy.

I don't even see how that's possible on ours- there is no way to lift the arms/wipers up when they are in the down/off position. You can lift them very slightly, but any more than like an inch and the arms hit the back edge of the hood. Maybe that's a change in the hood on the 2019 vs earlier models? They only way to do it is to turn off the ignition with them at the top of the swipe, in a vertical orientation on the glass. It's a really crappy design IMO. I've had cars that have to go down in a particular order like you said, but never that you couldn't lift them when they are in the off position.

Yes. My wife has been complaining of this. We have the latest software on there from the original TSB.

So I changed out the wiper blades on my wife's 2019 ST yesterday. It sat on the lot for months and the blades were not in great shape. I turned on the ignition and wipers, then turned it off with them "up" since you cannot raise the wiper arms with them down without the arms hitting the hood. Nice design BTW Ford. I then replaced the wiper blades without issue. Both came right off and the new ones snapped right in. I didn't rotate the arms or put any undue stress on them. So I then go back in and hit the ignition button and turn off the wipers. They go down, then the driver's side does some weird, jerky two-step park maneuver. It actually lifts the center portion of the blade completely off the glass for a half second then goes back down. It's really weird and never did that before. Not only that, they do it every time you turn on the ignition now, even with the wipers off. Has anyone ran into this before? I assume it's an issue with the wiper motor itself and will need to go to the dealer for replacement- but I figured I'd ask here before we go through all of that. I have Forscan, so if there's some type of re-calibration in one of the modules, I'd rather try that first than have the dealer tear into it. It just seems weird it happened right after the blades were changed. I did swap the blades from side to side a month or so ago without any issues though. It's one of the few vehicles I've ever seen with the same sized wiper blades on both sides. That's nice and all, but the whole "center out" swipe thing- meh. Do not like.