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Well maybe the two weeks between the time when you took delivery and the time you got the paperwork was when Ford published the information. A dealer can't fix a problem if Ford hasn't published the fix.

I'm not sure how you consider issuing a multi-page repair procedure and setting up a buy-back program is "denial". Ford discovered a problem, they took steps to correct it and it shouldn't happen again. A formal stop-sale is only required when the parts or procedures to repair defective vehicles are not available. This was not the case here, since the dealers could easily repair vehicles and test for leaks. Once that procedure was complete, there was no reason that the vehicles should not be available for sale.

This is nothing new. It's been common knowledge that turning off traction control is the way to get unstuck in snow ever since traction control became common like 15 years ago.

Were you hoping for squares?

The most important "computer" in your Edge when it comes to safety is your own brain. Is this some kind of self-confidence problem. I'm not a psychologist, so I can't help with that. As for your Edge, it has over 30 different computers, we're going to need to know far more detail if you expect any real advice.

There is a different sound between the front and rear sensors, chances are it's the front sensors that are picking something up. I don't believe the Edge has ever been available with front sensors, so I doubt you'll get many responses here either. Have the dealer check it out, there might be some alignment they can do, but I have had false sensors triggers on several different Ford vehicles once in a while. Oddly there's even one particular intersection I drive through every day that trips them, even in several different vehicles, but always at the same intersection.

Cars have had computers in them for over 30 years. Today's cars have more of them, in fact the MFT "computer" is really only 1 of about 20-30 computers in a Ford Edge. All of those computers have undergone very detailed testing that consider all the heating/venting requirements (the MFT computer is far from the hottest of the computers in the car and many of the others are placed in far worse environments). If failing computers at 125K was really a phenomenon, you wouldn't see any older cars on the road today. The fact is that in the electronics industry, component failure rates follow a very steep curve, the vast majority of failures are within the first few months/1000 miles of new, once they make it that far, they will usually last forever. Electrical failures at high mileage are far more often a result of bad connectors or corrosion in the wiring. When you hear about people "replacing the computer" to fix a problem, what they've really done is jiggled/reset the electrical connectors, chances are they could have put the same module back in and the problem would have been fixed. When I worked in the auto electronics industry, we'd get back the warranty returns and find that about 60-70% of them would test just fine and didn't have any problem at all.

You need to understand that the "limit" is a calculation of your recent fuel economy multiplied by the amount of fuel in the tank. When you reset the computer, that limit resets to a default but over time it will adjust to your actual driving conditions to be more accurate. Sounds like yours is working exactly as it's supposed to The number of km to empty is just a projection, it has no influence at all on the actual fuel economy or the amount of fuel in your tank. The only way to correctly determine if you have a fuel economy problem is to note the number of liters you put in to fill it up and how many km you drove since you last filled it up.

The only way to exit the menu is with the remote, which should have been included along with two sets of headphones. The only way to output the sound to the speakers is tuning the Edge's radio to the correct FM station.

Yea, you're obviously misunderstanding something, the Navigation and voice commands have nothing to do with Sirius. Only the traffic/fuel prices and stuff comes from Sirius. Everything will always be better next year, you can always look back and say "if I'd have known, I'd have waited", but then you'd just be waiting for ever.

I'm not sure what your complaint is. You took your car to the dealer, they are fixing it for you and it's just taking a little longer than you'd like. My MKT spent 7 weeks in the dealer after I had just bought it two weeks earlier. Stuff happens, sometimes things take a while, I'm not sure how writing to Mark Fields is going to do anything about it.

None of this makes any sense. 1. Your salesman was incorrect, you do have to purchase map updates for all Ford products and have had to since the first navigation units came out. (Ford did provide new map cards when they were doing all the early MFT updates, but that was only because the old cards wouldn't work with the new software, not because they had updated maps) 2. If the car thinks it's in Michigan, it's likely a fault of the GPSM module - the part that receives and interprets the GPS signals. If would have nothing to do with the navigation software or maps. 3. If the dealer "put the latest maps in it", then did they actually sell you a new card? What does your card say now (A6)? That card would cost $150, which means they charged you $100 for the reset, which would be a normal diagnostic charge. Did you authorize them to sell you a map card? If the map card itself went bad, it would never show you were in Michigan. 4. Is your extended warranty a genuine Ford ESP or is it something else that the dealer sold you? If it's not a Ford warranty, then it's not up to Ford to determine what's covered. If it is a genuine Ford warranty, then it's probably you're dealer that's not applying it correctly. 5. What "fix" did Ford devise exactly?

The DVDs are really just aftermarket Invision units, you can easily find Invision remotes on ebay.

Often times things like that will vary by engine or some other package. It's all in the way you can game the EPA testing process. If you've got a model that's getting 24.4mpg on the test, you can add those kinds of things to get it up to 24.5mpg, then it rounds up to 25mpg. But if you've got a different model that's getting 24.6mpg, you won't bother to put them on.

But the company that wrote the Navigation software that Ford uses didn't get any of your money. That's the point.

Yep, my parent's 1990 Aerostar with the old Vulcan 3.0L used to do it all the time, made for some pretty warm family vacations and we didn't even tow anything.

Fair enough, I don't mean to be judgmental, just want to make sure you understand the risks.

Despite the fact that you're spending a lot of money for PImods to get your navigation, you're still not buying the software license which means it is illegal. Not much chance anything would ever come of it, but you should be aware. I'm also very curious how he gets the cluster to change to "directions" since the cluster software is completely independent of the APIM. I've actually had navigation added the "official" way and the cluster always needs to be programmed separately.

What sensors are failing? Cars have had wiper stalks for decades, sometimes they go bad, nothing really new about that.

Page 342 in your Owner's Guide will tell you everything you need to know. Page 341 will tell you that you should never put in any fuel additives anyway.

Sounds great, but it won't last. My understanding is that doing it this way will fool the system for a little while, but eventually the system will catch up and the Nav will stop working. Please keep us updated over time to see if it's still working.

The only reason for the filter at all would only be to protect the fan, there's no "purification" of air going on since the air coming in ends up in the same place as the air going out anyway. So my guess would be Ford decided that the new filter is "good enough" to protect the fan and it is probably cheaper, doesn't need to be changed and probably even provides better airflow meaning faster heat up/cool down times. In fact it make me want to go out and get a couple of the new ones for my MKT since it always takes forever for the seats to heat up in the winter.

If you're in Texas it's probably pretty hot, if you're running the A/C in hot conditions the engine won't turn off.

The difference is just data. If nothing has changed in the area where you use Navigation, the update won't make any difference.

Wow, you had two problems. in 30,000 miles. The industry average is just over one, so I guess you're right, it's junk. Chances are the second PTU failure was caused by poor installation of the first repair. Statistically speaking, you're just as likely to have two problems on any Toyota or Honda that you buy as you are to have none.