Tell me about it... I think some of the issue is the Hybrid certified tech is covered up and behind. Either way it's irritating.

Hello again everyone.... My car has been at the dealer now for over a month waiting to get the transmission repaired/replaced. I had the same grinding noise start and get progressively worse. I hope they replace it and don't "repair" it.... I have 71,000 miles on my 2013....

Long time no post lol... 2 years 1 month and almost 55,000 miles. Love my Fusion!!! Here is a couple updated pics...

acdii exactly.... I've had a terrible ride for sometime now and I can say that these Pirelli P7's are way smoother than the Goodyear's even when they were new. The car rides awesome!

That's actually longer than any OEM tire I've ever had lol.... The Pirelli P7 is rated a 70k mile tire.

Hey hybridbear.... Nothing happened they all had even wear and were just about down on the indicator. My ride is much smoother now!! Here is what it looks like now - https://plus.google.com/photos/113334680236721862429/albums/6038643149491282001?authkey=CLTYl6emucGECA

Hey everyone! Long time no post... 14 months and 38,000 miles and still love my Fusion! Just put my first set of tires on and decided to replace my wheels... Made a post in Wheels and tires about that... My lifetime is sitting right around 40 but I have had lots of long drives at 75-80 mph. I love getting 39-40 mpg at that speed!

Hey everyone... Been a long time since I've posted here but I do follow several threads. After 1 year, 3 months and 38,000 miles I had to replace my tires. I decided to replace my stock Titanium wheels with some Drag DR-33's and it looks awesome! I chose the Pirelli P7 All Season Plus LRR tires and it is smooth and quiet! I am selling my stock wheels if anyone is interested let me know. One wheel has a small ding but has no bearing on balance or its integrity and the other 3 are perfect. I've been rolling on it since it happened at around 10k miles. Here is a link to a G+ posts showing the wheels and what tread is left. https://plus.google.com/photos/113334680236721862429/albums/6035263723843701281?authkey=CJ6Ni4H_mebDHA

Here is my winning post - https://plus.google.com/114502076256372004721/posts/FSXWWEcRRxM Nothing special really lol....

I could not be happier with my FFH! I know my Fuelly sig doesn't look like I would be happy (I have missed a couple fill-ups) but I have done a lot of long interstate driving at 75-80 because I need to get there in a hurry lol.... On normal around town/short highway drives I easily can obtain 50+ mpg. I love my car!

Thank for joining! It has been really quiet since I created it. Not many joined but maybe we can change that! Glad you guys joined up!

I won the #ifihadglass contest that Google ran last February. I flew to NYC in Juky and picked them up. It has been a lot of fun!!

That's freaking awesome! I see you are still getting some phenomenonal mpg's!

Totally agree!

Ok so another happy :yahoo: post from me today!! Had to fill up today and I had my best tank average ever and it included lots of highway miles. You know I have been rolling since it has only been 5 days today since my last fill-up and I have gone 504 miles. If I didn't have to drive so much interstate I would easily be getting numbers like the hybrid gurus we have on here (you know who you are hahaha) but either way I am very pleased with how the update has improved my mpg! My around town drives range anywhere from 50 to 60 mpg :worship: :shift: . Here is the trip 1 reading. Here is the trip 2 reading which was reset after the update when I picked the car up on 9/8. As you can tell I am a driver :peelout: lol.... Maybe I should apply to VW they always say "Drivers Wanted" hahaha... Now here is the Fuelly for this fill-up which I did 3 clicks before stopping. My overall Fuelly average would be much better had I not had that bad 31.9 mpg tank but that's ok! I love :wub: this car hahaha!!!

This is some great news and will hopefully dramatically improve smartphone integration for hands-free operation. Something to pay attention to! http://techaeris.com/2013/09/26/ford-buys-software-development-startup-livio/

Ok so I have another happy :headspin: post.... Went to our Cookeville campus yesterday which takes me over a ridge and got some pretty good (definitely better than pre-update) highway numbers. Both ways I had the ECO cruise set to 70 mph. I forgot to take a pic when I got there but I was right at 41 mpg and below you see the number when I got back!!! :shift: Here is another pic from another drive I made where approx 75 percent was 65-70... I have well over 300 miles on this tank and the tank average is right at 45 mpg :happy feet: (highest I have ever had for a tank average!) with a good portion of that running interstate speeds. I definitely believe that 70 is the sweet spot for good mpg on the highway. I can go 75 and it will drop about 4-5 mpg. The update has most definitely helped me gain approx 5 mpg highway and even more than that city. The drive to our Cookeville campus would never yield me better than 38-39 before I had the update done regardless of my speed. No more popping/clicking and way better mileage, this car is awesome!!!! :worship:

Ok so I had to do an unexpected trip to our location in Daphne, AL today which is an 8 hour drive. I left the house with approx 3/4 of a tank and it was around 45-46 for mpg so far and I decided to just run it until I needed gas instead of topping off. Well after driving :shift: on the interstate up through the ridge with ECO cruise set to 70 mph and hilly terrain this is what I ended up at!! :drool: :yahoo: I actually only pumped 10.38 gallons after 2 clicks so it came out to 43. something on fuelly. I have also added a new fuelly badge to my sig for post update tracking. I have been extremely pleased with the PCM update and it has helped my mpg by a 3-5 mpg increase. My first fill up that shows on fuelly is not entirely accurate because there was a lot of idling (which still kills the mpg average) on that tank one day when I was stuck in traffic and shopping with the wife. I'm not going to sweat my tail off just so I can have a good average mpg reading lol... I have found that 70 on the highway yields a very decent mpg but you try inching up and around 73 hit takes a big hit lol.... After I filled up I had right at 41 mpg average for approx 1/2 when I arrived at my destination. :happy feet: Very, very happy!!!

I totally agree with everything you just said! Huge loss from 70 to 75....

I left my car with my dealer last week while we were away on vacation to have all of the TSB's dealt with. My observation after I picked it up yesterday, I have only driven a very short amount of time. Just FYI my car has 13,500 miles on it. 1. No more popping/clicking! 2. So far no more doors not unlocking by grabbing the door handle and "Key Not Detected" messages when I start the car. It was occurring fairly often and there is a TSB for a software update related to the module that controls those functions. 3. EV mode comes in over 62 and seems to go into EV mode much easier and sooner than before at all speeds! I will have plenty of opportunities (and looking forward to it) to test the highway mileage next week as I will have to do a lot of travel for work. 4. I have no definitive proof of this but it seems that the Regen during braking is more efficient and provides a better recharge. 5. They applied the updated MFT patch after the PCM update and everything seems the same as before 6. The creaking (not a TSB issue} that was a constant and torturing noise from the driver side B piller is fixed!! Thank goodness because that was driving me and my OCD crazy lol.... I have reset everything incl. lifetime numbers and I am going to create a new Fuelly car to track after update numbers. I will add the Fuelly badge as soon as I have my first fill up. I feel like (and hope) that my highway mpg will improve!

I actually thought about doing the same thing once I get the update installed.

Hummm... That's interesting... Glad i have not had mine done yet. Waiting until i go out of town the first week in September so I can just leave it with the dealer.