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Just bought my 2021 Titanium a few days ago. It didn’t have an owners Manual in the gove box like every other vehicle I have bought over the last 54 years. I did find it has a digital version on the touch screen and also available online. Was it supposed to have a print version in the glove box or am I a Luddite just living in the past? Thanks. PS I love this car very much but it’s only been mine for a few days. A previous car I owned and loved was my 2013 Lincoln MKX.

I just bought a very slightly used 2021 Edge. This thing is really loaded and some features are smarter than me. I have dogs that we often leave in the car when weather conditions are right. From reading the online manual there is a perimeter alarm and a motion sensing alarm. The instruction to deactivate the interior motion alarm aren’t working for me. They say go to the vehicle drawer but I have no idea what that is. If they meant on the big screen to press the vehicle icon, I did that. Then they say to go to alarms but I have no alarm icon on my screen. Does that mean my car doesn’t have the passive alarm? Or am I just in the wrong place? The smaller screen on the left side of the cluster also doesn’t have an alarm icon. Help!

I just had this problem with my CPO 2013 MKX. The dealer said there was a service bulletin on this and replaced the shifter under warranty. No hassle at all.

My first car was a '65 Buick Skylark convertible. I purchased it in 1969. It was metallic Blue with a Blue interior and a white top. I loved that car, especially the taillights that went all the way across the back end. It had the 300 V8 with a 4 barrel carb. For a kid it had plenty of git. The love affair ended when I planted it 6 feet up the exhaust pipe on a Camaro on the freeway due to faulty brakes. I managed to repair the damage but the thrill was gone and a couple of years later I sold it and bought a 1971 Gremlin brand new. That was a horrid little car. Over the years I tried to recreate the thrill of my first car with a couple of convertibles and ending up with my current ride, a 1990 Buick Reatta convertible, which I love. I have restored several '64-'65 Skylarks and came closest to reliving my experience with a 1965 Skylark 2 door hardtop which I restored from the frame up by my own hand. It was a light Yellow (Buick called it Bamboo Cream) with a black interior. I kept it for 12 years and entered it in numerous shows around the western US almost always coming home with some trophy. Its name was Ol' Yeller. In 2010 I had some serious health issues and could no longer support the big house and garage that a 45 year old car required, so we sold it all and now live a smaller but still satisfying life in a retirement community. Our new to us MKX is for my wife and there is no comparison to my old Buicks. The power, the comfort, and the luxury complementing the safety are night and day better than 50 year old technology. In fact, we were amazed at how much of a leap auto technology had made in the 10 years since we bought her 2005 Escape Limited. Old cars, even when new required a lot of regular maintenance, annual tune-ups, tires every 20,000, oil changes every 3,000, and constant adding of oil which was burned in the combustion process. My first car only had 2 seatbelts in the front seat. The only smog equipment was a PCV valve, and first rode on bias ply tires. If I got 18 MPG I was lucky and more often got 13-14. Of course gas was cheap and that didn't matter then. Now, our MKX goes 7,500 between oil changes, won't need a tune up until it hits 100K and the tires are probably good for 75,000. Add in the airbags, traction control, and all the smog stuff and the fact that it still gets 20 MPG and could smoke my old 300 with 2 fewer cylinders is just amazing.