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But this is exactly what they have done for the Fusion and Escape. Obviously there is something different about the 3.5 that has stopped them from doing it, whether it's technically different or much lower occurrence rates. Ford must have a reason for not doing this, since they have shown that they will do it in other cases.

But it didn't actually cause an accident in 100% of your failure instances. How close it came to causing an accident is really just a matter of opinion. Your idea of a "close call" may be totally different from mine or anyone else's. Bottom line is that stalls that don't result in loss of control generally are not considered high enough risk in the legal world to be worthy of recalls. This isn't my opinion or even Ford's opinion, it's the opinion of the OEMs collectively and the government . The fact that it happened to you 8 times is inexcusable, it should be fixed correctly the first time, but that doesn't justify a corporate-wide recall over millions of vehicles unless the occurrence rate (number of vehicles that have the issue) gets to a high enough threshold.

The vista roof is just a big piece of glass, just like the one that you look out every time you drive. It doesn't need any more care/attention than the rest of the glass in the car. Why would you even close the sunshade when you get home? Leave it open and let the sun warm up the vehicle for you before you get in. The only reason to ever close the sunshade is if the sun is too bright and is causing glare or bothering you, and I've lived through enough Ontario winters to know that won't be a problem very often! Besides the sunshade is pretty porous anyway, it does not create an air barrier between the roof glass and the rest of the car.

The 2011 Edge didn't have true "factory" DVDs, they were all installed at the dealer as ls973800 mentioned, so any dealer (or anyone with a bit of experience) can get them out and ready to be re-used in another vehicle. So I second the opinion to take the vehicle with them and work on a plan to resell them for a profit later on. If you could negotiate in a set of free base headrests from the dealer as part of the deal, you'd be even better off.

The dealer is mixing up software with maps. If you have the A3 map card, then you can download all the latest versions of software. Some of the older map cards will not work with the current software. However as akirby stated, the maps are contained only on the SD card, you must purchase (or otherwise acquire) a new card to get updated maps. The A4 card has the same map data as the A3 card, but the A5 is the latest.

Usually these kinds of recalls are actually paid for by suppliers, so it's likely that January 5th or shortly thereafter is the date when Ford will send the final bill to the supplier. Once a recall is issued (or at least once notifications are sent), Ford will only cover repairs made at a Ford dealer.

I don't think that applies to the Edge, or any of the 3.5 family of engines.

Interesting, using a few other resources I have, it certainly seems that your car was spec'd with Navigation. So it's far more likely that the window sticker is correct, but somehow the wrong software was isntalled. I would recommend your dealer try reprogramming your system, once they connect with the Ford network it should recognize that your car should have navigation thus when it updates, it should reset the configurations. Note that if a dealer tried to do this on a car that doesn't have Nav, it wouldn't work, but only because your VIN does register as having Nav, they should be able to get it to work.

Why would you expect Ford to provide support? Your vehicle is long, long, long past the warranty period. We don't know your maintenance history, we don't know if you just weren't paying attention to subtle signs like noises, leaks, performance changes, fluid levels and so on. My guess is the overheating warning isn't really the cause of the problem, but rather a symptom, you may have had a blown head gasket or something like that happen first, which then caused a loss of coolant, which then caused the overheat warning. Besides if you really have a "blown engine", there is very little warning from any car. When my old Ford Probe blew up, it shot a connecting rod out the bottom. It had been ticking loudly before that, but only for a few miles, there were no signs of any problems even a few hours before.

Ford sells products all over the world. In a lot of places, they sell products that are based in English, even though English isn't the native language in the market. But there are no laws that prevent them from doing so and the locals are happy to have the products. If the people of Quebec want the same access to products that the rest of North America has, they should get rid of the ridiculous laws that require French content. Let the free market dictate what needs to be in French and what isn't. If the market for French products is truly large enough, the market will prove it. As for the exchange rate thing, Canadians often fail to see the big picture. The fact that the Edge is built in Canada doesn't really matter. Ford can't price the Edge cheaper in Canada relative to other models, because then the price of all the others would have to go up and they would be less competitive. Ford, like any other company, deals with it's currency exchange at a corporate level, not an individual transaction level. And surely you don't expect Ford of Canada to constantly adjust prices based on the exchange rate? The exchange is about 20% different than where it was less than 2 years ago, would you really want to see vehicle prices rise and fall by 20% year over year? I remember back about 10 years ago when a buying a new car in Canada was about 10% cheaper than buying the same car in the US, even after all the extra taxes. Besides, you really have to pay close attention to the incentives, they are often higher in Canada as they try to bring temporary adjustments to the currency swings.

You would be wrong. The odds of being injured/killed because the airbag doesn't go off is far higher than the odds that you will be injured/killed by the airbag defect. Just because 8 million cars are being recalled doesn't mean that 8 million cars have airbags that will kill you if they go off.

You have to change the settings to French, then you can talk French to it all day long. It does Spanish too.

So that's not how engines actually work. The computer will adjust the throttle to whatever it needs to get the amount of HP required to travel at 65mph. The amount of air needed to travel 65mph is always the same, no matter what is in your intake. The total restriction (filter + throttle opening) is what determines the amount of air coming in. So less restriction in the filter means the throttle will close, more restriction in the filter means the throttle will open. But that doesn't matter because the amount of fuel injected will be exactly the same, since throttle position and fuel injection are controlled totally separately on today's cars.

If it shifted to 1st gear at 65mph your engine would probably turn close to 20,000rpm and the pistons would be behind you on the pavement within seconds. The oil slick left behind certainly could cause an accident though.

If it says "Information" in the green bar on the top right of the screen, you do not have Nav and can never get Nav. But I'll take your A5 card...

Losing power to the engine will never slow a car faster than the brakes. Therefore the brakes of the car behind you will prevent any accident.

My advice - take a spoon and scoop out the extra fluid. Grab a rag and wipe stuff off. Not worth your time to worry about it.

If the green bar on the top right says "Information", you do not have Nav and will never be able to get Nav, no matter what software updates you do.

Don't knwo about the other stuff (as my update hasn't been working and now the download option is gone), but those two items are not part of MFT and thus no update would ever change them.

That's the compass.

I don't know exactly how the system on the new Mustang or F150 work, but if you want to display individual tire pressures, you will then have to reset the sensors every time you rotate tires. Or you need a system with multiple receiving antennas, which costs more money. Ford may have decided Mustang and F150 customers are willing to pay more for a sophisticated system or they may be required to reset when rotating tires. Ford may have decided that Edge customers do not want to pay extra for this or do not want the extra hassle when rotating. Different systems for different customers.

The pressure printed on the door sticker is intended for air. The engineers perform all their testing and evaluation at cold inflation pressures that match the door sticker. If you fill your tires with nitrogen to the door sticker pressure, you will be running under inflated once the tires are up to temperature. If you do have leak and top up with air in just one tire, now you have unbalanced pressures in your tires. This is why I don't bother with Nitrogen-fill, in fact I even "flushed" my tires with air when I took delivery of my new Fusion that the dealer supposedly filled with Nitrogen.

From what I've heard, 3.7 is only available for 2014 and newer vehicles. Not sure why exactly. There isn't much update on 3.7 to make it that exciting anyway.

If you're creative enough with a mirror, you can get in there without the wheel off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navteq NAVTEQ was an American Chicago-based provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data and a major provider of base electronic navigable maps. The company was acquired by Nokia in 2007/2008, and fully merged into Nokia in 2011 to form part of the HERE business unit.