oldschool1962 Report post Posted February 21, 2010 (edited) I don't even know where to begin explaining what happened tonight.......I guess first thing would be to say that there is no way in the world I am making this stuff up. Plus I showed our sales person one of the things that was happening just after things went crazy and the DW and DD were in the car the whole time watching it happen. Okay! First thing that happened was the drivers side BLIS light in the mirror turned on and then an error message appeared saying that BLIS unavailable. Sensor blocked. See owners manual. The light stayed lit for 10 minutes. At the same time the dash (left side) glitched and the cruise control went off. Not the light in the dash but the cruise just stopped functioning. It would not reengage either. Plus....if that was not enough at that point the whole dash reset.....mpg.........screens........graph bar while we were moving at 45mph to boot. I pulled over to check and see if maybe something was blocking the rear bumper.........nothing. But then it wasn't like I was dragging a small animal, cyclist, jogger or something of the sort behind the car to block the sensor in the first place. Please note the sarcasm here and understand I WAS NOT serious about what I was dragging....... Anyhow I got back in the car and drove. The BILS light in the mirror finally went off and the message now said sensor blocked and cross-traffic unavailable. See owners manual. The mpg then jumped 10 mpg in the blink of an eye. Went from 37 to 47.........while maintaining 60mph!!!!!!! The dash glitched again 2 more times and I asked the DW to please watch things so I could keep my eyes on the road. Oh wait the best is yet to come and we will be providing video in a follow-up post tomorrow. Anyhow I stopped at the dealer showed the issue to our sales person.....service was already gone for the night......... At this point the DW was still watching the dash and mentioned that she noticed as I opened the door of the car the Electric power bar located in the power screen of the third dash setting spiked as if there was a huge load draw. This bar is supposed to show all power usage of the vehicle but is different in display than the empower setting where it specifically shows ACC and not just a battery icon. I got out to see if it would do it again but nothing. Then I was going to go get the sales person and as I got out the cross traffic message disappeared and everything seemed normal. I didn't get the sales person because I'd bothered him enough and it wasn't like it was going to happen again. Anyhow we got on the road again and headed off to a function. On the way there......is when all hell broke loose. The Avg MPG kept resetting itself to zero. about every 020-30 seconds until it stuck in the zero mark. It's also stuck in the zero mark on the Info screen of the Sync system. Next the MPG meter in the cluster started to fluctuate radically. O-60+ and back again and everything in between regardless of the pedal, brake or stopped. The MPG meter of the screen was working fine. Next the power bars disappeared an began to fade in and our. They would each spike no matter what I was doing even stopped. The Regen icon lit up under full acceleration and even stopped. The the blue battery charge and discharge arrows lit simultaneously, at different times regardless of what action was actually happeneing.......wait there's more. The brakes tended to go from mushy to overly sensitive and acceleration was less than responsive. The car seemed to drag or lagged in relation between pedal position and acceleration. The mileage graph faded to grey and just stuck at the level it was and would not report new data. The MPG was stuck at zero still and when we stopped the car all of the regen, charge, power....both battery and gas as well as the mpg meter would operate. In bold normal appearance or faded overlay or back ground and simultaneously also. It was like a friggen three ring circus in the cluster. Then the dash would return to normal only to begin the same malfunction all over again 20-30 seconds later. When I turned the car off the dash was still operating. Fully lit in all it's glory reporting telemetry just as if the car was moving down the road......but all at the same time!!!!!!! It wouldn't turn off. 3 minutes I sat there and finally.....it turned off. Then I couldn't get the car to lock or the Head light to turn off with the remote. Went in to our party for an hour and a half and the car was really no different than when we went in. Only this time the info screen in the HEV setting started to malfunction. The drive-train picture started to turn off and on while the car was moving.....not just the motor and wheels section but the whole thing. The battery would also disappear and re appear sporadicly. The car is now parked until tomorrow when we can shoot video of this. We took some pics and video with the camera in the DW's phone but they're hard to make out. Gonna use the digital tomorrow for clarity sake. I certainly hope some folks at Ford are trawling or participate here......... Maybe now someone will take me seriously when I say there are problems with my car and the Dealership also says it.Monday will be the key for the new stuff. I'm not sure...........with all this new stuff and what has been going on with the Ford Engineers......what I want to happen. 3 Days ago I would'a said replace the vehicle but now??????????? Getting a full refund is starting to sound like the best thing. I know the Lemon Lawyers are gonna love this one. Well gotta send emails to the rest of the gang. Thanks to anyone .....if anyone at all...........that held back a reply without using a quote until I had a chance to edit and finish the post. Edited February 21, 2010 by oldschool1962 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites