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I seriously doubt Ford is picking up the data tab. I'm sure it's on the smartphone owner, and I'd gladly pick up that tab myself, if AppLink could be added to my vehicles with Sync with MyFord Touch...

Would Grade Assist enable the transmission fluid pump when the ICE is "on" for compression braking?

Congrats to you! Just got home from a day trip in our 14 SE... Yes, this vehicle is quite remarkable. :) Hope it warms up! ;)

It's always better to use consistent terminology - what you're referring to is called "Sync with MyFord Touch." AppLink is a feature that's currently available on many Ford cars without MyFord Touch, and will presumably be available on cars equipped with the new Sync 3. What's unclear to me in this article, is if it only applies to AppLink with Sync 3, or if it's backwards compatible to cars with the current AppLink feature.

You know there's a setting to change the delay, right?

I found a cheaper solution. I've trained myself to only touch the screen with my fingernail. My nails aren't long or anything, but it's effective.

Thanks, hybridbear, for confirming what I initially thought - that the difference is due to whether or not the car is equipped with ACC. I began to be concerned when others indicated surprise about the performance of my wife's car, but I guess it's normal.

I still don't have a feel for what others with standard CC experience in similar situations. I guess those who travel mostly on flat terrain aren't ever going to notice one way or the other.

Based on his later post, I don't believe he was referring to regenerative braking, but rather that the battery was just being charged.

Just tonight, we were out in my wife's car, and I drove through a neighborhood, so I set the CC right at the speed limit of 30. There's a long stretch in the middle where there are no houses, and a steep downhill to a railroad crossing at the bottom. Going down, the speed increased rapidly, and would have easily hit 50+ MPH, had I not applied the brakes for the stop sign before the tracks. While the battery was charging on the downhill, no regenerative braking was indicated until I manually applied the brakes. I've experimented with ECO on and off, and it doesn't seem to have any effect on this behavior.

Yes, for single presses, they function essentially the same. It's when pressing and holding the button that there's a noticeable difference.

There's the charging that occurs when moving that's indicated by the upward arrow above the battery icon, when enabled. Then there's regenerative braking, which is indicated by the spinning circle overlaying the battery icon. I get regen braking when going downhill with CC in my car, but not hers. The circle does not appear when GA engages on either car, I assume because engine braking is not the same as the regenerative braking mode. The GA rarely engages on my car, since the automatic regen braking that occurs when using CC seems to be enough to control vehicle speed on most of the downhills I encounter

Thanks, Kim! The site does seem to work better now. I got excited when I logged in and saw the attached... Then, I realized that I had the "better" system - SYNC with MyFord Touch. You know, the one without available app integration. Thanks, Ford, for reminding me! :ohsnap:

There is also a difference between these cars in how the system changes the vehicle speed when pressing the SET+ button. Car #1 - 2013 FFH SE w/ ACC (mine) Assuming you've had the speed set at 30 MPH, and you want to increase speed to 40 MPH, pressing and holding the SET+ button causes the displayed set speed to rapidly increase until releasing the button at 40 (if you're good). The car then seems to gradually accelerate to the higher speed. In other words, the new speed is set, and the car catches up. Car #2 - 2014 FFH SE w/ standard CC (my wife's) Assuming you've had the speed set at 30 MPH, and you want to increase speed to 40 MPH, pressing and holding the SET+ button causes vehicle to begin accelerating immediately, as if the SET+ button has a more direct connection to the accelerator pedal, if that makes sense. The displayed speed increases, but it seems to equal the actual vehicle speed. You must hold the SET+ button until the car reaches the desired higher speed. So, in my car, pressing SET+ feels like changing a computer setting, while in my wife's car, pressing the same button feels like pressing the accelerator pedal. I hope I've described this adequately, as I've struggled to find the right words to describe this difference. All I can say, is that this difference is quite noticeable, when switching from one car to the other. Btw, I'm a frequent CC driver, using this feature on most every road - particularly when driving my car with the ACC.

In this thread, I noted some differences in the way the cruise control (CC) functions in our two cars: I ran a little experiment with the cars on a short, but fairly steep hill near my house. Both cars have ECO Cruise set to ON. Initially, I believed the difference in performance was due to one car being equipped with Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), and the other car standard CC. Now, I'm unsure if that's a reasonable explanation. Both cars have 17" wheels with tires inflated to 38 PSI. Except for the ACC feature and model year, the two cars are virtually identical. For each run down this hill, I set the CC to 40 MPH, and made sure that I was at that speed as I crested the top of the hill from the far side to the downhill test area. I touched neither the accelerator pedal, nor the brake, until reaching the bottom. Car #1 - 2013 FFH SE w/ ACC (mine) ACC ON - Actual vehicle speed increased to 42-43 MPH while descending, and regenerative braking automatically kicked in until the road began to level off at the bottom of the hill, which obviously helped the vehicle maintain a speed close to the set speed. ACC OFF - Performance was exactly the same as with ACC ON. Subsequent runs with Grade Assist (GA) turned ON did not have different results, as this feature did not seem to actually engage. I'm assuming that this is because the automatic regen braking kept the vehicle speed below the threshold at which the GA feature engages. Car #2 - 2014 FFH SE w/ standard CC (my wife's) Actual vehicle speed increased to 54 MPH while descending, and regenerative braking did NOT kick in at all. A subsequent run with the GA turned ON at the top limited the vehicle speed to 45 MPH. I first noticed this difference just after purchasing my wife's car, as I was driving it home. While heading down a different hill on a highway, I suddenly realized that I was traveling much faster than planned. My 2013 had kept me out of trouble on this hill, but the 2014 was moving a good 20 MPH over the speed limit before I realized what was happening. Every once in a while, when driving my wife's car, this difference in functionality still catches me by surprise.

OneSpeed, have you tried engaging the grade assist on downhills?

I have noticed that the cruise control works very differently between the standard CC in my wife's 2014 and the adaptive CC in my 2013. Going downhill in the car with ACC, the set speed is essentially maintained, however, with standard CC, the car tends to run away, picking up a significant amount over the speed limit on some downhills.

If you're ever in an accident - and I hope you aren't - just blame it on NK hackers... Honest, officer, Kim Jong what's-his-name is behind this!

It's hard to determine where Sync begins and ends... this page seems to indicate it extends to the instrument cluster displays, at which point, one might refer to it as the entire dashboard.

Amusing that when I select my car, it displays as 2013 Fusion Hybrid SE Hybrid, while my wife's is shown as 2014 Fusion SE. Evidently, mine is twice the hybrid that her's is...

Logged into http://support.ford.comjust now to check the latest Sync version for both my Fusions. It's slow to load (but it's been slow every time I've logged in), however, the most irritating part is the frequency and number of broken links/errors. I just got sent to http://www.ford.com/help/sitemap/?error=true for the third time out of four links I've clicked. Hard to imagine such a website FAIL from such a major corporation.

Wondered that, too. I suppose it's this: http://www.gaspods.com

Let me give this a try. Wow, that's interesting. Do you have any insight as to how this unlockupability was achieved? What's different this time around? I'm also curious as to why it's not available for 2013s, if you know. This seems to point to a difference in hardware configuration after that MY.

You managed to run out of gas with enough battery to run 2 miles on EV alone? Sounds quite lucky to me.

Be sure to read beyond the first post in the thread. ;)