jgilles

Does anyone know if this will fit the 2011 Edges? Also is there a certain model year or are all three of them the same?

Limited Built 9/10/10 Black Leather Sienna stiching, Cleveland Ohio USA

I am curious about the engravings what do they actually engrave? I went for the 6 year 75000 mile maintenance plan that was 1600.00 because the way my dealer described it was "it basically covers everything you have to do on a regular basis other than putting gas in the car". More or less it covers all of the factory recommended maintenance ie. Oil changes and tire rotations every 5000 miles, brakes whenever they wear out, any and all filters, all the factory recommended system flushes, and wiper blades which living in an area where we get a lot of snow and ice I go through at lease 2 or 3 sets a year. The way I looked at it an oil change with semi synthetic runs me 25-30 plus the time to do itself and around 50 to go somewhere and have them do it. So that will be 15 oil changes or a savings of $450 if I do it myself $750 if I were to take it somewhere each time. That was roughly half of the cost so by the time I take into account a brake job maybe 2 the 60,000 mile vehicle maintenance checkup and random filters, fluids, flushes, and wiper blades it would probably even out. Also the fact that the dealer is only half a mile from my office means that it will be convenient to use. My dealer also threw in life time car washes which is minor but something at lease. Jgilles

No the way the auto unlcok works it unlocks when you grab the door handle. This way it only unlocks when you are actually trying to get into the car and not just walking by.

Tom, I did use the remote start yesterday since it was around 90 degrees when I was leaving my office. I started it about 5 minutes before I was leaving and when I got in it was nice and cool with the AC on full blast to cool down the car to my auto setting. I was stuck at a lot of red light on my way home so I decided to explore some of the functions on the screen left of the odometer and found all of the settings for remote start. You can change the interval that it stays on for, Heating or AC depending on inside temp of the car, heating the seats there is an on/off for each seat so you can choose which one if any you want heated. I forget what all else but I was very impressed with how many options you have and that you can literally set it to do exactly what you want. One thing I have noticed with the auto locking/unlocking is I would like to see an auto lock setting for once the car is turned off in case you were to forget to lock it or leave the keys in the car. The only reason I noticed this is I went into somewhere for lunch forgot to hit lock and when I came out 20 minutes later the car was still unlocked. Does anyone know if there is anywhere you can set it to auto lock after a period of time with the car sitting? Jgilles

Congrats Wilson, I got the call from my dealer yesterday at noon that it was getting offloaded and he made sure that it was ready for me to pick-up by 6pm last night. I am not sure how long this usually takes but I think it was in part due the dealership only being about 2 blocks from my office so I stopped everyday on my way home this week to check and see if it was in. So I think he may have just wanted to get me out of his hair :yup: Anyway I was cruising on home by 8pm Hope you get yours today and all is well. Jgilles

So I was driving to Buffalo New York yesterday from Cleveland and kept seeing Car carriers with a few new edges on them, I know that mine would be on an Allied Systems truck so I kept trying to see if I saw any Kona Blue Edges as their trucks went by. I saw one with an Edge that looked like the one I ordered at about 9am headed west right as we got to Buffalo and said to my co-worker wouldn’t it be funny if that truck was headed to my dealer. Well at about noon I got a call from my dealer that the truck had just pulled in with my Edge. I don’t know for sure if I did actually see mine but the timing worked out perfect so I like to think now that the one I thought could be mine actually was. Any how my dealer said that he had told the guys in the shop that it was there top priority to have it ready for me to pick up no later than 6pm. Just in case anyone is wondering about a timeline, June 16th: order placed with dealer priority of 10 August 5th: VIN assigned August 16th: Assigned to week of August 30th August 18th: Assigned to week of September 6th August 20th: Status updated to "Order Processing" scheduled to September 9th August 31st: Scheduled to Ramp 60 for September 13th September 11th: Complete sitting at ramp 60 "awaiting shipment" September 13th: Origin Received awaiting shipment September 14th: Released to Allied Systems awaiting shipment September 15th: "In Transit" as of 7:12am September 22nd: 12:00pm Arrived at dealer September 22nd: 6:00pm "Sign on the dotted line" and accept vehicle. Just in case anyone is trying to get some sort of comparison to the time that they have already waited or what to plan for, this will at least give you some sort of idea of what I waited. Initial impressions: Overall appearance of the car: Love it! In my opinion the new grill looks way better than the old one and really stands out against the dark car color. I opted for the black leather interior which is really well put together and very comfortable. Driver Entry package: Awesome! I love that I can walk up to the door with the key fob in my pocket and touch the handle and the doors all unlock. Push button start is also pretty nice and I think with come in handy this winter when I have my key in my pocket and don’t want to try and fiddle with them. Cargo Area: One thing I would have liked to see is a little compartment build into the side of the cargo space for jumper cables and such so that they don’t have to be just laying on the floor. But I did notice that if you lift the piece that covers the area where the spare is you do have a little room on either side of the spare that you could potentially put some things like jumper cables, but space is limited. All Weather floor mats: These are worth the $75.00 for sure. They are custom molded for the car, the driver side ones clip to the floor with 2 buttons to make sure they don’t slide around and the rear one is one continuous piece to cover the whole back seat floor. And of course they say Edge on them in the tread. The car handles great and so far is getting great gas mileage. I reset the MPGs as I left the dealer and was getting around 31MPGs when I got off the highway by my house. This is way better than I was expecting but we will see what it averages out to be. Adaptive cruise control: I love this, it works way better than I thought it would and it actually seems like it applies the breaks if someone merges in front of you and is to close. One thing that I did notice though is be careful if you are on a ramp merging onto another highway as this morning on my way to work it didn’t register that they was a car closer that the distance I had set due to the curve of the ramp and it started to try and speed up for a second until it sensed the other car again. The BLIS system that I think is packaged with the adaptive cruise is also great. I noticed as I was driving down the highway that when I would pass someone or if someone passed me the little light in the mirrors comes on the entire time that they are to close for you to merge regardless of whether you turn your signal on or not. Speaking of signals I like the "merging signal" which when you don’t click the signal all the way in the direction you are turning it will activate for 4 blinks then shut off on its own. Now on to what most people care about, My Ford: So far so good, I haven’t really explored everything that it can do yet but so far it works great. The touch is pretty sensitive and is easy to navigate. The steering wheel controls are pretty easy to use and get to exactly what you want to do which is awesome. I like that in Nav mode you can pull up the forecast and weather maps for the area you are driving in too. One thing I don’t like and I may just have not figured out the shortcut yet but when you are in nav mode there is no easy way to get to the traffic screen to see if there is traffic any ware. Now I also may have just not been driving in enough traffic for it to alert me on its own. I haven’t played with the phone features to much yet but it did download my phone book in seconds. I don’t have and voice calling saved in my phone so as of right now I am not able to use the call _______ feature but the dial by number works great, you don’t even have to speak unbelievable slow like some other systems. Entertainment I haven’t really played with a whole lot yet but I did try and put my Cameras SD card in and I couldn’t figure out how to get the pictures. Climate control I didn’t really play with the touch screen too much. So far I have used the steering wheel buttons the most for the climate control or I found myself just hitting the buttons that are around the sound control. So what is everyone else experiencing with their new Edge? Anyone having any problems with the My touch? Jgilles

I just heard for the CRC that as of 7:12am this morning my Edge is "In Transit" for OAK to Cleveland Ohio. Now they said it is shipping VIA Convoy so does anyone know if there is a way to track Convoy Shipments like there is for Rail ones? The anticipation is killing me I can’t wait till Monday when I will finally be able to drive my New 2011 Kona Blue Limited Edge!!!!

Does anyone know how long they typically sit on the ramp before thay get shipped out? Mine has been there since Friday and I am just curious about how long I should plan on it being there.

I just got an update that as of Saturday the 11th my Edge is sitting at Ramp 60 awaiting shipment! Does anyone know approximately how long they typically sit there before they ship? My sticker says shipment method Convoy so I am not sure if that will make a difference or not? Thanks for any insight as the anticipation is really starting to overwhelm me!

Freddie, As of this morning mine shows all that information also. It says that it was installed yesterday. I was told mine is scheduled to a ramp for monday and according to my sticker it will be traveling by truck also. I am a 5-6 hour drive to so if you happen to be in the Cleveland Ohio area it sounds like our edges might be traveling to Cleveland together.

Well mine has had 5 of the moxes filled in since the day that I was able to see my sticker so I am not sure if that is the best judge of what is going on with it. Mine was not in the production phase till the 1st and wasnt released to the plant till the 7th and they have been filled in the entire time. Does anyone happen to know what each of the different boxes and codes mean? Sticker.bmp

Well my Edge is "In production" and "released to plant" It has a scheduled production date of today. It also says that it is scheduled to a ramp for 9/13/10. What does it mean when it is scheduled to a ramp? Does it usually sit there for a while before it ships? Also it is being shipped by Convoy so my hope is that it will ship from the plant faster since it will only have to wait for 1 truck load rather than 1 train load to be finished and loaded. Does anyone happen to know how everything works when it is at this point?

Does anyone know how long after the sync software is installed that it will show up as a valid VIN on the Sync owner site? I am kind of hopeing that it is almost instant so that when it pops up as being valid I will know that mine is pretty much driving off the line at that point,

I got an update on 8/31/10 that my 2011 Edge Limited was "in Production". I just called today and they said that it IS BUILT as of today and is scheduled to a ramp for 9/13/10. Does anyone know how long it takes to ship once it is scheduled to a Ramp? I am in Cleveland Ohio, in case that makes a difference. Also I think that someone had said on here that they were able to get the tracking information for the rail company and were able to track it much like when you use UPS or FedEx. Is this something that my dealer should be able to provide me?