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Plugs should never be used in the sidewall of a tire, ever, no matter whether plugs are legal or not.

Hub size should be the same (the Edge changed to the Flex size hub in 2011). But the TPMS in the 2010 Flex is the older band style, so she will not be able to program the sensors in your wheels to her car.

Pretty much any electronic module that's replaced on the cars now requires a dealer configuration.

There will be a version to update older models, but who knows if it will actually be any better.

First of all, the shop manual very specifically states that you should NEVER clean the throttle body, since it has some kind of special "coating". I'm not saying it's not still a good idea, just that there is the potential that you can make things worse. At some point there is probably more benefit to removing gunk vs protecting the coating, but who knows just how much gunk that needs to be? As for your perception of improved performance, I think as WWWPerfA stated, it's just the PCM suddenly seeing different settings and it will compensate over time to bring it back to where it was before.

Why would it be dangerous? The people behind you can stop faster using their brakes than you will as you decelerate. Not to say that it's not a serious problem, but I don't see how it's going to create an unavoidable collision in any kind of traffic.

As I mentioned above, it comes down to liability and tire rotations. Say Discount Tire forgets to reset the TPMS. As you're driving along, it tells you the LF tire is low. You get out to check and find the LF tire is fine (because it's actually the LR that's low). So you keep on driving, your LR blows and and you crash and die. Your estate then sues because the warning system failed and didn't give you any warning that it wasn't working correctly. Obviously Jeep is willing to take this risk, but Ford is not.

The Flex only has the turning backup lines when you pay the extra for the active park system. There are two different types of steering wheel sensors. One is "relative angle" and the more expensive one is the "absolute angle" type. The active park and the turning lines require the absolute angle sensor, so it's not just a case of programming. How does the Jeep TPMS deal with tire rotations? Do you have to reprogram them every time you rotate? With Ford's system, you would have to do this, so Ford chooses not to display the individual tire pressures so that customers don't have to reset the sensors every time they rotate the tires. I think there are systems out there that use multiple antennas such that they can triangulate where the sensors are, but those systems would cost more. As for the MFT, I don't think anyone in Ford would say anything other than it was a total screw-up, but hopefully the all new system will be out in a year or two with significant improvement.

All Flex wheels have always used the same hub bore as the 2011+ Edge, so shouldn't be a problem. Lincoln MKS, MKT and 2010+ Taurus wheels would be candidates as well.

Navteq and Ford certainly have a contractual agreement over the price and distribution of updates. Though Navteq owns the data, the formatting and protocol of the data is owned by Ford, so neither can sell an update without consent from the other. Navteq actually wanted to lower the price in order to generate more business for themselves, but Ford did not allow it and kept the price high. Might be different going forward with the SD cards though.

It also has electronic brake force distribution which means the actual bias front to rear is always changing, depending on how hard you press the pedal. It starts off fairly rear biased on light braking, then builds up more pressure in the fronts as you brake harder. Of course once you're into ABS, the actual bias can be anything depending on the traction available.

You've got it all backwards. The constant demand for perfection from customers is what leads companies to shy away from introducing innovative technology. If customers expect perfection in everything, companies can't take risks. Without risks, there is no innovation. Without innovation, we find the country in the mess it's in right now. Both the Zune and MFT are innovative, risky products created by American companies. You should be praising the attempt, rather then attacking the minor flaws.

Anything in a car could theoretically catch fire, but if a spark plug breaks you're going to get some warning lights long before anything catches fire. A broken spark plug could be an expensive fix, but I've never heard of broken spark plugs in the millions of V6 engines Ford's made in the last few years.

I've taken many of them out, usually they come out by hand. Pliers should do the trick, must just be a little stuck.

Smart, take a $5000 dollar loss trading in your vehicle instead of buying a $10 USB drive....

The 07 won't have the GPS antenna, so you'll have to add that at least.

Looks pretty clean, only claim is a TPMS module replaced last month.

Wrong, the button only turns off the traction control, not the stability control. ABS and stability control use the same sensors and solenoids, but ABS is releasing brake pressure while stability control is applying brake pressure. That's why they sound a bit different.

That's stability control. It's telling you to slow down.

I think both answers are correct. Ford uses multiple wiring harnesses, but they bundle features in ways that are slightly different then the way you can order things because there are fewer harnesses than orderable combinations. So for example if you have a really base model with no options, you probably would get wire harness "A" which does not have the power seat connector. But if you have an SE with options x and y, then you get wiring harness "B" which does include the power seat connector because harness "B" is also used on an SEL that has options x and y and power seats as standard. So my guess, based on the info provided by 12Edge above, is that you won't have the power seat connector, but you could get a full power seat, plug in the OCSM connector and then create your own wiring to provide power and ground to the power seat switch. With that, everything should work just the way you want. You could also probably swap the foam and cloth trim from your original seat on to the new one if it doesn't already match.

I second the throttle body diagnosis. Unless you saw the low oil pressure warning while the engine was still running, then that is not your problem. Your problem is that the engine stalled, and the most common cause is the throttle body, though the 2012s shouldn't really have that problem.

Seems interesting, but it still doesn't look fully integrated. Looks like it just "takes-over" the touch screen. So it almost certainly won't be able to display the nav section in the cluster, it probably won't be able to turn the radio volume down when giving directions, it probably doesn't use the dead reconing to keep you on the map when you lose GPS signal, it probably has a long, complicated switch between the Garmin screen and the base Ford system and holding the voice button for 3 seconds, c-mon, that's ridiculous! Someday soon I hope we'll see some real apps that are built on the Ford software rather than hacked into the hardware, but at least this is a start.

You're still missing the point. A Ford tech cannot do anything to enable your navigation. You have to have the software "unlocker", which is only available from the supplier and is very closely guarded. There are only 3 possibilites for the $1400 job. 1. They have contact with an insider who is illegally providing the legitimate unlocker. 2. They have somehow illegally hacked the unlocking software. 3. They use the method that reprograms the nav from an alternate VIN number and will look like the nav is working just long enough for the customer to be happy, but after a short time it will stop working again.

Every Ford that has Sync since 2010 has a GPS module. That's how the 911 assist works, it needs to know where you are.

They don't close plants to retool anymore. Even the original Edge was added to the Oakville plant while they were still building Freestars. They just mixed them together down the same line. Only when they completely gut and rebuild the plant do they close it down - like they did at Louisville for the Escape and at Michigan Assembly for the Focus. But in both of those cases they were converting fro a large body-on-frame truck assembly line to a FWD unibody line.