ben senise

so are you saying that our edges have large nuts and we need to twist them harder?

I was driving by my usual dealer today so i thought i'd stop by and see my service rep who is a really nice guy. i started out by mentioning that i was curious about the lug-nut torque on my edge and right away he says "100 lb-ft." when i said it was 162 in the manual, his jaw dropped and he said "what??" a couple of other guys at the service desk got involved and they too were basically saying WTF?!?! One guy looked it up on the service manual online and it did say 162 lb-ft/220 nm. but just as he was looking it up, one of the mechanics came in and heard the conversation and said 100 lb-ft is what they torque to. all of the "hands on" people, the guys that actually wield the tools, said 100 lb-ft but the manuals say 162. they even looked up some big truck with big lug nuts (F150 super duty?) and it was something around 140. I still suspect that something is wrong here and this is such a massive fluster-cluck because it's a big huge company and nobody's in charge. in the end, i'm going to loosen my lug nuts. maybe i'll go to 110 or even 120 but 162 is just insane and that's what all the mechanics felt as well. do any of you think that the lug-nuts could have been damaged, weakened by torquing them so high? this is crazy. i'm going to pursue it via more publicity somehow.

hah, interesting. amazon.ca doesn't!!! i should have looked at the .com site. so here is my report. i was anxious to get new blades so i went to one of the big chains (canadian tire for anyone who's interested) and i bought a 28AOE. they don't carry the BOE though because they are idiots. it fit! since the "spoiler" part is meant for the driver's side, i couldn't buy two AOE models. so i went to another store where they carried both AOE and BOE but their price is nearly double. $28 at CT (remember, canadian pesos) vs $53 at the other place. so i just bought the BOE there. i complained to the person helping me and they brought the price down to $44. so my average price was $36. As an additional note to any other potential buyers who can only find one side or the other, i have a sneaking suspicion that one could pull the clip off of the blade and turn it around to make it work for the opposite side. I didn't try it but when it comes time to replace these ones, i'll try to take them apart, that way if i break them then it won't matter. i didn't want to risk breaking a brand new one. So there you have it, the Bosch Icon windshield wipers that fit my 2016 Edge are 28AOE (driver's side) and 28BOE (passenger's side.) BTW, the blades are great. they are smooth and quiet and they leave the glass absolutely clean and streak free. let's see how long they last.

I have used bosch icons for years and had them on many vehicles including my last edge, an '09. now it seems like it's impossible to find the right blades of any brand. i bought a set of Bosch Icon 28A and B, supposedly A for the driver's side and B for the passenger's side. The clips weren't the same as on the car. The wiper arms are basically like a stick. no U-shaped hook at the end like the old ones. I took them back no problem but now i'm wondering if the 28AOE and BOE will work. i'm not sure. and on top of that, the store only carries the AOE and no BOE. they are asymetric so i can't (shouldn't) put the same one on both sides. here's the funny business: the bosch website states only the 28BOE is for the 2016 edge but they're asymetric the packaging clearly shows A for driver's side and B for passenger side. a local car part chain's website states: A type blades for U - hook style arms and B type blades are for pin arms and flat blades which is totally BS I don't want to order from amazon in case i get the wrong blades and they don't fit. has anyone here bought bosch icons? if so, what part number fit on your 2nd gen edge?

i dunno but she looks like she would lick you to death. she looks really sweet to me. gorgeous dog, Chipster.

changing the temp is siri?

I press on the steering wheel button instead of saying "OK Google" when my phone is plugged into the car and running Android Auto. I was just wondering if there is anyway to direct my speaking to Sync instead. For example, if I want to issue a command like changing the climate control temperature or similar. It's a hassle to press the screen to return to sync and do something and then go back to AA.

excellent suggestion. i'm going to throw my breaker bar and a socket in back. could very well save the day at some point. thanks.

i recently removed the rear seat bottom in search of one of dozens of annoying rattle. I got rid of the rattles by putting a couple of pieces of very dense foam in key spots and putting a couple of zip ties nice and tight on some connectors. to remove the seat, there are two small levers on the front of the seat where it meets the structure of the car. they are about center of the two outside seats. press those and lift the seat a little bit. this will disengage the hooks. now push the seat to the rear of the car and pull up at the rear. this will disengage the hooks at the rear of the seat, also approximately centered under the two outer seats and approx. as far back as the seat back. once the rear hooks are out, lift the rear part of the seat and it will be free.

i share the same thoughts with you. i'd love to know why. that would be great. i called my local dealer today and talked to a service rep but not my usual one. he said that it was correct but i think he was just blowing me off and couldn't be bothered to look for the correct answer. i'll try again when my rep is back from vacation.

I'd like to revive this thread. I put on my winter wheels a few weeks ago and I too find the torque value printed in the owner's manual to be extremely high. while i appreciate people's opinions, i'd like to know if there is a ford published value somewhere that contradicts the one in my 2016 owner's manual of 162 lb ft as the OP stated.

what kind of tires do you have on the edge?

interestingly enough, when i go to the ford.ca website, there is no option for roof rails on the sport model. the titanium gives you the option but not the sport. are rails not available on the sport model?

my personal experience, and of course YMMV, is that when i turn off the car with the radio on, it goes to FM when i turn it back on again. if i turn the radio/sync off before turning off the car, it starts on the right source. i never, ever list to the radio or sirius. i always listen to music on a USB stick or spotify on my phone. this is the behavior i observe on my '16 and was the same on my '09.

don't forget that the prices quoted by us canadians is in canadian pesos. that's about $1.28 canadian to a US greenback today.

i got the michelin alpine sports latitude x-ice which i've always had on every car. grip is awesome and stopping power is too, wet or dry. [edit to add: i thought i had the alpin but i just noticed that i'm mistaken. i've always had the alpin in the past so went with the latitude x-ice this time since that's what was avilable.]

Those look great! I wish i had found something like that when i was looking for winter wheels and tires. i just went with the ford package of wheels that are the standard SE (or SEL?) 18" ones. Oh well. maybe next time.

thanks. i have formatted the usb stick to fat32 and the three items are at root level but still no joy. i'll try a different usb drive on tuesday when i have a 40 min drive coming.

I have a 2016 Ti AWD non-Nav. Currently running Sync v2.2. I downloaded the v2.3 update from the Ford website onto my Windows desktop. I unzipped it to my hard drive and then copied it to a newly formated Kingston 32GB USB stick. I get the "Updating System Software" message but then after about another five minutes or so, I get an error stating that the installation failed and the error code is MEM_ERR03. I called the number on the screen and the agent that helped me said that they've been having quite a few calls about this. He suggested that I wait for the OTA update to happen but patience is not one of my greater virtues. The main reason is that I'm hoping that the update will alleviate the android auto crashing that occurs constantly. just wondering if anyone here is having the same issue and if you managed to work around it. i'm open to any and all suggestions. thanks

i have just disabled the double honk and set the turn signal to flash seven times when tapping the stalk. you just need a ScanTool 426101 OBDLink MX Bluetooth and forscan software. there are many posts, including one i started called comprehensive list of forscan mods.

since your location is texas, i would venture to guess that you use your AC fairly often. i think that some cars get condensation in the ducts and that moisture becomes moldy/midewy or just plain stinky when the car is sitting with no air circulating through the ducts. i even get that a bit here up north of the 49th from time to time and it's usually after i've been using the AC. what i try to do is turn off the AC and turn up the fan a minute or two before i get where i'm going to give the system a chance to dry out. if i can, i crank the heater and the fan and i have found that this often solves the odor problem. give it a shot, it's free, and let us know how it goes.

i really hope this release fixes the crashing problem i have with sync and android auto. it is a royal pita. thanks for the info, i'll keep my eye out for it.

congrats, that's a beautiful color. i moved from an '09 ltd to a '16 ti and the difference was night and day. so many more useful features on the new one. i think i had to have two or three goes at programming the homelink garage door button on the car but it worked. and now i can open my garage door from a block away! (not that i do, but just interesting to see.) i also find this AWD system to be better than the old one. good luck!

wow, that's a steal! i wish i could have found a deal like that. what tires did you get? one thing to remember with the cost of tires is that the larger the wheel, the larger the price of the tire. i would have gone with aftermarket wheels if i had been able to find some that i liked but nothing that cost less than what i got appealed to me.

i got these ones as well for my 2016 Ti. I looked for other solutions but I didn't want to spend much more than what these cost. they were a bit over CAD2000 with mIchelin alpine sport, taxes, etc. included. that would be around USD1600 or so.