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My 2010 MKT also stops short and you have to hold the switch to close it. There are rules that say you must have "pinch protection" on any auto-closing glass in North America. There are really only two ways to do this. One is to use load detection circuitry where the extra load on the motor when something is in the way can be detected and used to stop the movement. That's how all the auto-up windows and normal sized moonroofs work. But with the BAMR the mass of the glass is so much that the load change from a kids hand isn't really detectable so it's not reliable enough. The other way is to use a pinch strip which is basically a physical switch that catches when something is in the way. These things are expensive and take a lot of space, so Ford obviously decided that the inconvenience wasn't worth the cost to the average customer.

It was supposed to be on the 2016 Explorer, but when they went to do a test to be sure it was ready, the system wouldn't even boot up.

Yes, imagine if you were driving around with a passenger, then dropped off that passenger. They open the passenger door (which unlocks it), but you want to sit and wait and want the door relocked so you hit the lock button. How would the car know the difference between this scenario and yours?

That's funny. It will cost you way more to install MFT in your Edge than to trade in your Edge and buy one that already has it.

Read that note again, it doesn't say anywhere in it that anything is shipping.

Looks like it's being built today, like literally right now.

The 1993 Ford Probe brochure showed a really nice picture of a yellow one and even listed the paint code. They never made a yellow one.

Job 2 is usually 90 days after Job 1. Most people don't realize that the model year designation plays a big part in CAFE calculations. OEMs will often juggle the timing of model years to help balance CAFE, for example if Ford expects to sell a lot of 2015 V8 Mustangs, they might consider extending the 2015 model year of the Focus. The CAFE calculation averages the total volume of the model year, not the calendar year.

I disagree completely, the keyless entry is the best feature on my Fusion. I can walk up, grab the door handle and get in. No need to fumble through my pocket to find the right remote (I always carry two, one for each of my cars). I don't have to take off my gloves to hit the button and best of all, if I'm carrying my 1 year old son I don't have to risk dropping him, banging his head on something or whatever as I try to hold him with one hand while I fumble for the key.

It's a speaker soldered onto the circuit board in the instrument cluster. As I noted above, duct taping over it will mean you won't hear your turn signals anymore either.

I think you're getting confused between the regular seat belt chime and the belt minder chime. What you can turn off is the belt-minder, that's the chime that will only come on after you've started moving. The one on initial startup cannot be disabled, I think it's actually regulated by law. The chime itself is a speaker in the cluster. It's the same speaker that gives you the turn signal, parking brake warning, door open warning and all that.

Who said there is any issue? Ford plans to hold new vehicles from 3-6 weeks, so we're still inside Ford's normal launch plan.

The Ford keyless start system is a very complicated system that uses multiple antennas, different door handles and basically a completely different wiring setup. You will never be able to add it fully for any kind of reasonable cost, so you're better off exploring aftermarket options.

That's not the same problem at all. There's no way a bad throttle body could ever keep the vehicle running after you pulled the key out. It has to be a bad PCM or BCM. Those are the only two modules that can bypass the ignition switch.

The emissions control system is working properly. The emissions control system told you that you had a problem with your fuel system. The emissions warranty covers the control system, it doesn't cover the things that cause emissions.

The airbags are carefully calibrated, you wouldn't want to mix them up.

Yes, an update was published on January 31st. Also keep in mind that Canadian order guides and US order guides are not the same.

No the clarification clearly states that the Active Steering is deleted from the package and the package is renamed and the price is dropped by $500.

There is a notice out clarifying that it is Active Steering that is not available, not Active Cruise Control. Also looking at the latest US Order Guide I don't see any way to get heated steering wheel on a Sport. I don't have access to see Canadian order guides, but it could be possible in Canada.

The guts of the MFT in the 2015 Edge are exactly the same as the guts in every other MFT vehicle made. The guts of Sync 3 will be exactly the same in every Ford vehicle they put it in. Sync 3 was designed from the beginning to be a straight drop-in to any vehicle designed for the current MFT, so whenever Sync 3 is ready, the Edge will get it.

If you look closely at your stabar link, you'll see the metal sticking out from the rubber boot on the opposite side of the nut has a little flat on it. You should be able to get a wrench on that and hold it to turn the nut off. And yeah, it's called a "ball joint" because it's a ball. There's nothing to stop it from spinning except for the friction between it and the grease. But usually once you get it threaded down it starts to pull itself into the knuckle which makes the friction go up enough that you can torque it fully (35lb-ft).

Not really, the original Edge came straight from a Mazda platform, all the early prototypes were built of of Mazda MPVs. The Mazda CX-9 and the Edge are very similar underneath.

There won't be much market for a used A4 SD card since anyone who has a Ford with Navigation could have had one from Ford for free. The only people who could use it would be someone who lost the card that came with their car. And that could be you in the future, so why not just keep it!

What delay? Building and holding the vehicles is part of the standard launch procedure. In addition to the 5 days of "clean build", Ford is also putting miles on a few Job1 vehicles that came off the line. They won't get ok to buy until they've run up at least 50,000 miles and haven't found any problems. Back in the original 07 launch this process found a problem at something like 45,000 miles and caused Ford to hold everything for about 7 weeks and rebuild the rear suspensions on about 10,000 vehicles.

Nice try, but not quite! VIN numbers are assigned somewhere early in the ordering process. Orders get cancelled and re-configured so even before scheduling there is a non-sequence of VINs. The plant will schedule production based on a number of factors like availability of parts, colors (they like to build the same color in batches of 10-20 vehicles so they don't lose too much paint in the changeover process) and other constraints (like one particular option may overload a particular operator, so they have to have the next 3-4 vehicles without that option so he/she can catch up). There may be other priority factors that prioritize certain orders based on dealer allocation and other such things as well, I'm not sure how all that works. Also Lincolns and Fords have separate VIN sequences, but the Edge and Flex share a sequence since they are built at the same plant.