Wishful thinking unfortunately not more. Besides the electrical differences the physical shape is also different.

Sounds pretty normal to me and I'm just a few miles south of you. Even with the heat on the engine will eventually shut off but the heat that's in the engine is being used to heat the cabin "cooling" down the engine. That's one of the programming updates they made way back to lower the temp threshold in order to allow the car to go into EV (like waiting @ a red light) much sooner especially in cold weather than before. There is at least on thread on this topic were hybridbear made some nice test.

Excellent question and the answer that will be telling. While driving around town the temps definitely stay around that first threshold mark only if you go faster for longer stretches it will get higher. That being said back in slower traffic the temp will drop down again. All that I can see on my drive to work and that is with my grill blocked and calling for heat at 68 F on fan low.

You are right about members coming here for ideas to improve on FE and while some of your advice is valuable I personally think you are overachieving for the majority of people reading it.

Welcome and congrats on your new ride. This forum has a wealth of knowledge in all different categories so take your time and read up as much as you can.

That little sticker is always the first thing I remove after an oil change at the Ford dealer. I recently had a puncture fixed on my wife's Explorer at an independent shop and had them do an oil change. I was presently surprised that they did not put the typical 5000 mile sticker in the upper left windshield corner.

+1 P.S. It's most likely for a distant future that will never come ;)

Almost 3 years and still enjoying every second of it whenever I'm driving my 13' FFH. Lifetime MPG 44 displayed and 41.4 at the pump I couldn't be happier.

That I would like to understand not to start any arguments but just for curiosity. The hybrid is built to generate power / energy and has a powerful electric generator while a regular car only has an alternator that I would be more worried about. The 12V part is supplied by a DC/DC which doesn't have moving parts like the alternator. Maybe I totally off in my thinking but that's my logical explanation please correct me if I'm wrong.

Not a problem!! After your FFH is running the 12V battery as no more job to do everything else runs of the engine/HVB. Just make sure you use the charge point under the hood as described in the manual. Just for reference I gave my wife's Explorer a jump start a couple years ago without issues. Good luck

A lot of people with serious taste / style issues ;)

Has anyone else noticed that you can only have heated OR cooled seats?

Auto show duty .... maybe? But good advice to get Ford Service involved.

Interesting how opinions differ :) We have to wait and see how the different trims will finally look like and be different from one another but I'm personally not a big fan of the chrome spoke across and into the rear lights. I'm pretty sure the new Sport trim will get a lot of attention and even more so if the gas prices keep falling.

Agreed only that odd looking edge over / around the fog light doesn't quite fit. Also the grill looks a little more round along the front edge than the current front end.

Sounds it was pretty easy taken care of. That they replaced the whole stick shift doesn't surprise me. Right after I took delivery almost 3 years ago the plastic knobs for the battery door in the trunk fell off and they had to order the entire trunk liner just to get the two knobs replaced.

No way they did. I'm not even sure if they didn't just use the engineering test mode to look at the batteries current status. I'm not if there's a status but they left screen was changed when I picked it up. I was in a slight time crunch so I didn't start a discussion about TSB or load testing it. On a side note apparently all recalls can be performed including the restrain control module.

Well add my '13 FFH to the list of 12V battery failures. Went outside this to drive to the office for the first time in two weeks and nothing... didn't even unlock. I didn't feel like messing with it @ 6 AM so I telecommuted like I have been doing more often lately. Got back to it later this morning and hooked it up to the battery charger and left it for a good 5 hrs or so. Checked back and the charger showed the "battery is dead light". Called my dealer for a new battery but they wanted me to drive over so I jump started mine. They "tested" (within less the 5min) the battery and said it's good and charging. I said no no that battery is no good anymore and they happily replaced it with me paying $120 for a new one. At least I now no longer have the fear to be stranded somewhere with a dead battery (until this one dies I guess). Hopefully I don't have to see that damn BS message anymore.

We have two Ruby Red cars (FFH & Explorer) and they both have that color differences between the plastic and metal parts. My FFH was also brand new and I have seen other cars not just Ford that appear to have slightly different paint shade between different surfaces.

Hi GrySql aka Dave thanks for being a moderator for the FFH forum your moderating along with the guys sure make this forum a pleasant place to hang around. Good luck with any treatment to get healthy. See you around!

Maybe smr2112's dealer removed and replaced all bolts at once and not one by one like the work instructions might call for. On the other hand being in another car for some time can certainly trick your senses and the FFH front alignment was off.

+1

I just received 4 reminder postcards from Ford covering my 4 outstanding recalls including the door latch one so thanks for sharing that info!

I think there is some truth to the "close to an ABS event" comment the Ford engineer. Here is why. So far everything we have heard is at low speed <20 MPH but I had the sensation at least twice on a freeway exit ramp. Even though it only lasts for a fraction of a second at 45 - 50 MPH it's no joke. Reason I think there is some truth to the ABS event comment is that is all instances the ramp was slightly wet and I could definitely feel the car being on the edge of having grip at that speed. Yes I should have taken the exit slower and it wouldn't have happened but the FFH handles so well and predictable (except for the sudden lack of regen braking) it's part of the fun driving this car.

I wondered the same thing but doesn't the gas Fusion have a different dash layout without the two screen left and right?