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Everything posted by Waldo

  1. Waldo
    The answer is that the LEDs are not serviceable. But it's not fair to compare a $5 home LED bulb with a $1000 automotive headlamp assembly. They are built to very different standards.
  2. Waldo
    The issue is related to the software counting the age of the vehicle, so unless your 2010 Fusion was built in 2015, you'll have the issue.
  3. Waldo
    Crumple zones are not between the wheels. If the vehicle crumpled between the wheels people would die. Reinforcing things in the crumple zone is not a good idea. The basic Fusion does well in rear crashes despite having a spare tire, not because of it. But the base Fusion doesn't have a battery to get in the way like the hybrid does, and thus things are DIFFERENT!! You clearly don't understand the physics of vehicle crashes, so please stop posting potentially dangerous advice on public forums. Recommending that somebody modify their vehicle from factory configuration to make it SAFER without any actual knowledge or testing of the idea is irresponsible and could even land you as the subject of a lawsuit.
  4. Waldo
    There is software logic in the system. If you put it in R while driving down the highway it will just go into neutral. This has been true on many cars for quite some time (my 2010 MKT with a traditional gear level will do the same thing). With a traditional "stick" like the one in my 2014 FFH, you can easily slide it into P instead of stopping at R, it really just comes down to your muscle memory. IIRC it's designed to still go into Park up to 6mph, from 6-11 it will just grind, and then above 11mph it will not attempt to go into Park. The engineers have done the calculations and figured out those are the speeds at which no damage will occur, so that's what they allow. But you're not alone in your thoughts, in fact the Police Interceptors specifically don't use the rotary shifter that the Explorer has mainly for exactly this concern. But the Police have a lot of scenarios where they are very quickly throwing the car from D to R and timing is critical. Personally I'd say 95% of the time I go to R, it's coming from P, so this isn't really an issue for me.
  5. Waldo
    So are you suggesting that Ford intentionally withheld putting a spare tire in the car knowing that it would be more dangerous? Do you really think Ford would do that? Really??? Ford has supercomputers that runs 1000's of simulations for all kinds of different crash scenarios on every model. They don't just rely on "seeing" crashes or surfing the internet for data. The Fusion platform was designed to accommodate a spare tire, it wasn't designed for a huge hybrid battery. It's the installation of the battery that changes the way the crash structure works and Ford determined that it was safer without the spare. Not sure why you can't accept at least that possibility?
  6. Waldo
    My goodness, please stop this posting of nonsense. You are not a crash engineer, you don't seem to understand much about physics and you are posting "statements" based on nothing. If somebody actually took your advice and then got killed, are you ready to go to court to defend yourself if you were sued? Increasing rigidity is the last thing you want in the rear of a car during a crash. You want that area to crush and absorb the energy. A tire might absorb some energy true, but the steel wheel does not. If that steel wheel pushed the floor forward and causes the battery to become disconnected from the floor, now you have a big heavy battery that wants to travel forwards and the rear seats will not be strong enough to hold it back. The battery can then crush anyone sitting in that back seat. This of course is just a theory and may or may not be true, but as I said above, people need to understand the risk and be comfortable with that.
  7. Waldo
    The entertainment systems are just one of 50+ modules in a vehicle that are affected by the chip shortage. ABS/brake control modules being one of the key ones, can't sell a vehicle without that. GM is selling it's pickups without the auto-stop engine feature due to the chip shortage. It's way, way bigger than just entertainment systems.
  8. Waldo
    Huh? Do what exactly? You want me to post online confidential secret information?
  9. Waldo
    That was true 20 years ago, not very common any more. Your Fusion's pads do not have the "squeaker".
  10. Waldo
    Ford designs every part of the car for a lifetime of 150K miles, not 100K miles. That includes the recommended 10K oil change intervals. Engine failure due to oil issues is pretty rare in the industry, most vehicles have other problems that send them to the scrap heap long before the engine has any oil-related troubles. What data are you using to determine that 6.5K is "recommended? Are you having oil sample testing done at every change?
  11. Waldo
    Actually, that is exactly how physics works.
  12. Waldo
    I had the rear brakes fail a safety inspection when I bought out the lease on my FFH. It was only 4 years old and about 30K miles at the time. I was quite surprised, and they probably would have been good for a bit longer, but I had them replaced to get through the inspection process. The rotors were certainly grooved and the pads were thin. At the same time, the mechanic commented that he'd assumed I'd recently replaced the fronts, because they seemed brand new. It may also be a result of of driving style. My theory is the more conservatively you brake (ie the more regen, the better your brake "scores", the worse your rear pad wear will actually be). A little counterintuitive but a result of the regen and Electronic Brake Balance calibration. I think Ford likely tuned it to be optimized around the "average" driver, and not the "hypermiler".
  13. Waldo
    Could be when they flushed the fluid, they just didn't bleed the system out properly (requires hooking up the computer and cycling the ABS system). But it could also be that the reason your fluid was low in the first place was because there's a leak somewhere. It is highly unlikely though that all three of those major components would fail at the same time. Seems like they are just guessing and want to throw the book at it. For that high a repair bill, it certainly wouldn't hurt to get a second opinion, or at least try a proper bleed again first.
  14. Waldo
    So if I've found the right article, the exact quote is "But there's just no way anyone subject to the laws of physics and automobile engineering can get a 5,000-pound pickup, or any mass-produced, reasonably priced sport utility near that weight, up to 35mpg. " https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0128/048/?sh=2de3e8247ff9 The difference between claiming "any car" and "a 5,000-pound pickup" is pretty substantial. If fact 13 years later, the article is spot-on, even the new F150 hybrid doesn't get close to 30mpg, let alone 35. The automakers have come to the same conclusion, they just can't get to an affordable 35mpg fleet average using combustion powered vehicles and thus have pivoted and are going all-in on BEVs. Sure you could make an F150 out of carbon fiber and with all kinds of other fancy technology you could likely physically get it to 35mpg, but it really isn't practical or a sustainable business.
  15. Waldo
    Like what? You can disable the DRLs in US market regular Fusions (and basically every other Ford), it's not a hybrid unique thing. If you're trying to make the argument that installing a spare in your hybrid Fusion does not change the crash structure, then you really need to support that with some sort of data.
  16. Waldo
    Correct, the Fusion never came with run flat tires. The FFH came with low rolling resistance tires, which are something totally different. And even if it did, it would have been because the spare couldn't be used (because of the crash issue), not the other way around. And I can't disable the DRL on my 2014 Fusion Hybrid (Canadian car), so not sure what you're talking about.
  17. Waldo
    The same spare and jack/tools was used on the 2012+ Focus, so that increases the sources. But we shouldn't have a thread on adding the spare without the disclaimer that the likely reason Ford didn't put in the spare is because it may not meet crash requirements. Imagine getting rear-ended and having that spare submarine under the battery, breaking the connection between the battery and the floor. Now you have a loose battery that could end up in your back seat. Just need to be aware of the risk so everyone can make their own informed decision.
  18. Waldo
    No, the powertrain and hybrid control modules are not capable of being updated through the Sync system or even any of the over-the-air updates. Only the new platforms with a new electrical architecture (like the Mach-E) are capable of this.
  19. Waldo
    I'm not an SUV fan myself, but the writing is on the wall. The rest of the world is catching up with "irrational" decisions, not the other way around. https://europe.autonews.com/sales-segment/suvs-crossovers-continue-grow-market-share-europe-anes-segment-segment-analysis-shows https://www.statista.com/statistics/245486/suvs-share-in-chinas-passenger-car-market/
  20. Waldo
    Searching through the shop manual and wiring diagrams doesn't give a clear answer, but basically one is the AM/FM and the other is the Sat. So you could always pull one, and if your FM signal is gone, then plug it back and pull the other one.
  21. Waldo
    You already have a Lithium battery in your FFH, why would you want to replace it?
  22. Waldo
    This is fake news. Please stop the spread.
  23. Waldo
    That's a weird one, certainly seems like something is telling the controller to turn the system off in those conditions for some reason. Have you tried a battery disconnect, just to see if resetting the module might give it a fresh start?
  24. Waldo
    Sounds like maybe your radiator fan isn't turning, so you're not getting any airflow over the condenser when you're stopped. When you are parked with the car and A/C on, can you hear the fan running under the hood?
  25. Waldo
    You mean the same Germany where the environmentalists have leveraged the government to push down big industry and force diesels out of the marketplace. You mean the same Germany that had to use cheats and corruption to get their diesel cars to pass emisssions standards? For the record, I am neither an American citizen nor do I live in the United States, so no need to preach to me about "seeing the world".
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