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If you install an XD card nothing will work, since an XD card is different from an SD card. But to answer your real questions: 1. Yes, the card you took out of your totaled Edge is still a perfectly good and usable card. However it's not going to help you much, because any car you buy must have factory navigation installed at the factory and it will come with a new card anyway. Putting the card you have into a car that doesn't have navigation won't make navigation work. 2. As omar302 pointed out, you can remove the SD card and put another one in to listen to music, but navigation will not work when the navigation SD card is not installed.

Nope, VIN numbers hundreds apart will roll down the line one after another.

Job 1 and the shipping date are usually planned to be at least 6 weeks apart, so it's still going to be a little while.

You have to push and hold the button.

They did, as of 2015 most Ford models have DRLs configurable by the customer from the cluster menus. Doesn't help anyone with a 2014 or earlier though.

Ford doesn't allow the dealer's to turn on fleet cars either. Fleet DRLs are enabled at the factory, not at dealers. This also allows Ford to charge for them so that they get the money, not the dealers.

Back on your 2007 Edge it was simple, DRLs are either on or off. The BCM module that had the software for the DRL was configured specifically for the 2007 Edge, so when DRLs were turned on, the power went to the proper DRLs. With the new modules, the same module is used for all Fords. The parameters are not simply a 0 for off and a 1 for on. The BCM parameter for DRL can be set to 0 (off), 1 (fog lights), 2, (PWM modulated headlights), 3 (accent lights), 4 (turn signals), 5 (a combination of 1 and 3 maybe) and so on (I don't know that those numbers and configs are true, just showing for an example). Even if the Edge doesn't ever have all of those lights available, the parameters are still there in the BCM. When Ford activates DRLs at the factory, they know an Edge with X and Y options needs to have the parameter set to 1 but an Edge with options Y and Z needs to have the parameter set to 2. But a dealer does not know whether a car brought to them should be a 1 or a 2 or any other number. This is different than in the past, cars like my 07 Mariner did just have a simple 0 or 1 DRL setting and for those it was simple for the dealer to change. The DRL setting was essentially hard-wired into the BCM so that it could only turn on the correct DRL lights, But Ford realized that as the cars got more complicated with more lighting options, they had to build cars with different BCM part numbers when they had different DRL options. So they added the multiple parameter method and since then it's been much more difficult for dealers to activate DRLs correctly. Here are the FMVSS requirements: If your DRLs don't meet these requirements, they are ILLEGAL in EVERY state. S5.5.11(a) Any pair of lamps on the front of a passenger car, multipurpose passenger vehicle, truck, or bus, whether or not required by this standard, other than parking lamps or fog lamps, may be wired to be automatically activated, as determined by the manufacturer of the vehicle, in a steady burning state as daytime running lamps (DRLs) and to be automatically deactivated when the headlamp control is in any “on” position, and as otherwise determined by the manufacturer of the vehicle, provided that each such lamp:(1) Has a luminous intensity not less than 500 candela at test point H-V, nor more than 3,000 candela at any location in the beam, when tested in accordance with Section S11 of this standard, unless it is:(i) A lower beam headlamp intended to operate as a DRL at full voltage, or at a voltage lower than used to operate it as a lower beam headlamp; or(ii) An upper beam headlamp intended to operate as a DRL, whose luminous intensity at test point H-V is not more than 7,000 candela, and which is mounted not higher than 864 mm above the road surface as measured from the center of the lamp with the vehicle at curb weight;(2) Is permanently marked “DRL” on its lens in letters not less than 3 mm high, unless it is optically combined with a headlamp;(3) Is designed to provide the same color as the other lamp in the pair, and that is one of the following colors as defined in SAE Standard J578 MAY88: White, white to yellow, white to selective yellow, selective yellow, or yellow;(4) If not optically combined with a turn signal lamp, is located so that the distance from its lighted edge to the optical center of the nearest turn signal lamp is not less than 100 mm, unless:(i) The luminous intensity of the DRL is not more than 2,600 candela at any location in the beam and the turn signal meets the requirements of S5.3.1.7; or(ii) (For a passenger car, multipurpose passenger vehicle, truck, or bus that is manufactured before October 1, 1995, and which uses an upper beam headlamp as a DRL as specified in paragraph S5.5.11(a)(1)(ii)) the luminous intensity of the DRL is greater than 2,600 candela at any location in the beam and the turn signal lamp meets the requirements of S5.3.1.7; or(iii) The DRL is optically combined with a lower beam headlamp and the turn signal lamp meets the requirements of S5.3.1.7; or(iv) The DRL is deactivated when the turn signal or hazard warning signal lamp is activated.(5) If optically combined with a turn signal lamp, is automatically deactivated as a DRL when the turn signal lamp or hazard warning lamp is activated, and automatically reactivated as a DRL when the turn signal lamp or hazard warning lamp is deactivated.( Any pair of lamps that are not required by this standard and are not optically combined with any lamps that are required by this standard, and which are used as DRLs to fulfill the specifications of S5.5.11(a), shall be mounted at the same height, which shall be not more than 1.067 m above the road surface measured from the center of the lamp on the vehicle at curb weight, and shall be symmetrically disposed about the vertical centerline of the vehicle.

Over on the Fusion forum there is a long thread where one of the Ford reps made a statement that Ford's policy is to not allow the dealers to enable DRLs. There are probably a couple reasons, but I suspect the main one is a liability risk. There are many different types of DRLs (headlamps at reduced power, fog lamps, turn signals and so on) and there are DRL requirements such as intensity, height off the ground, distance from other lamps and so on. Since Ford's modules are now common across all vehicles, it is possible to turn on combinations of DRLs that do not meet the legal requirements. For example maybe you could turn on the turn signal bulb in an Edge as a DRL in the software, but in the Edge that bulb is too close to the headlight to meet the requirement, so essentially the dealer could create an illegal situation. Ford's apparently decided they'd rather just tell the dealers "don't do it" rather than create a system that would ensure that the DRLs were turned on correctly.

It's pretty simple really, Ford builds 4 phases of pre-production vehicles at the plant. The first phase are the first ones, they are always test or marketing vehicles and they must always be destroyed and never resold. The second batch are still always test or marketing, but depending on the program, sometimes they might find themselves available for sale at auction later, however you would never want one of these, trust me! The third batch are mostly management lease vehicles and some test/marketing vehicles, but all are internal Ford customers. Only the fourth batch (officially Job1) are available to dealers. Every car in the first 3 batches will have a tag number and a name, and no you don't have to be very high up, you just have to have the job of ordering test/marketing cars.

There's a lot of configuration that has to go on to get the GPS correct. Did they actually replace the touch screen or the APIM or something else?

Whenever those lights are on, they are storing codes. Those codes will tell the dealer exactly what is wrong. Without knowing what those codes are, it's impossible for us to know what the problem is over the internet.

When I pull out to pass someone on a two-lane road I like to know I have a few hundred yards before I'm going to hit somebody. But to answer the question, the 2015 Edge will have user-configurable DRLs as standard equipment. The 942 option is for fleets only and is the same thing Canadians get, DRLs always with no option to turn them off.

If it's happening when braking slowly, it's not ABS at all. More likely it's just time to replace your rotors and pads. In general Nigerian driving conditions include a lot more exposure to dust and sand than in North America, so that's going to eventually get into the brakes and cause vibration issues like you describe.

Well chances are if there's really something wrong, it's not going to be the ABS itself, it's going to be something else that is making contact with something in the ABS system. The ABS really only has so much "power", it's not suddenly going to be capable of generating forces that pass that much more energy into the vehicle.

There is one guy on here who has a build date, but his is a Ford management lease car which is part of the pre-Job 1 build. Those are usually not available to the dealers to order.

Sounds like you just got into "ice mode" where it detects extremely low friction and pumps the circuit very significantly. This can sometimes happen if you go over a pothole at the same time you're braking and one of the wheels is in the air for a short time. It's not easy to do, but the best thing is to release the brake for a split second and then try again. Certainly in the next snow go out and find a safe place and give it a try.

The 2015 model is still in the launch mode. Any of hundreds of issues could be preventing anything.

Driving a quarter mile on the brake rotor wouldn't cause the AWD system to fail. There is no need to put a matching size spare tire on an AWD system, your problem was either already there or is something else. The intelligent and "correct" thing to do is to properly diagnose your problem before jumping to conclusions.

The thing is apple and android don't have to conform to FMVSS standards and the tablets aren't designed to withstand the heating/cooling/vibration and long life requirements of automotive components. There is a lot more to designing automotive systems than it appears on the surface.

Every Ford has stated that for several years now. Ford considers the "life" to be 150K. As for the EPA numbers, it's been pretty standard timing to not publish the numbers until just about Job 1. The testing is done on the first batch of vehicles built at the plant, and that's always only about 3 months before the Job 1.

Ford would tell you that there is no headroom on the 6F55 with the 3.5EB. That's why the EBs with the 6F55 never got the upgrade to TiVCT that the F150 has. Or to say the exact same thing in a different way, the mfr will generally not require all customers to pay for something that the vast majority will never use.

Huh? The Explorer and Flex both come with the 6F50 when you don't get the EB (Explorer gets the 6F55 on the NA 3.5 if you get the tow package). And what kind of customer would ever care that their transmission was "better" than the one in a different Ford model. Ford chooses which transmission to use based on torque limit and durability requirements. They've obviously determined that the 6F50 is good enough with the 2.7, so that's what you get. Perhaps they've beefed it up a little vs the older model though.

Doesn't make sense. The SSM says specifically the problem causes oil to be in the coolant, not oil to leak out of the engine. Sounds like you have a different problem, unrelated to the SSM. The fact that you've gone 112,000 miles without having any leak already also would eliminate the SSM as the solution, an engine isn't going to suddenly become more porous after that many miles! There are no oil "vents", so I don't understand where your oil is actually coming from.

Not always. Do you have the "Sync, powered by Microsoft" badge down by the shifter?

Nope, it's the Explorer.