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Well if i hadn't already written off Ford Canada for providing am much lower quality of service here in Canada then Ford does in the states this recall sure would have. Multiple people in here saying they've already had this done (more then a month ago). I got the letter two weeks ago. I called a dealership. We'll call you back when we actually have parts. No call back yet. Good to know they proritize American parts over Canadian and we're second class.

I have the same issue my EVI branded Dousida charger. I discovered that, in my case anyway, it is actually related to the charger software not properly handling the pausing and resuming of charging related to value charging setup within the vehicle. I have disabled value charging, now manually plug it in when value charging would have started and have not had another instance of finding it not charged the next morning. EVI offered to exchange mine, at my shipping expense, but since you're also having this issue I'm glad i didn't bother.

The 12v battery warnings are useless. I have various weird issues such as the clock repeatedly slow, the vehicle using tomorrow's go times instead of today's and poor fuel economy that were resolved by replacing the 12v battery while there were no warnings and the 12v passed a cold cranking test. My 12v was once replaced under warranty without a 12v low warning from the vehicle.

Mine does this too. In my 2014 anyway, it is switching to show that the green efficiency bar is outside the target area and prompting to push ok to enable the ICE. It even does this while the vehicle is at a complete stop where it is impossible for the green efficiency bar to be inside the target area as any kw or gallons divided into 0 miles is 0 mpge. It is pour and short sighted programming with lack of proper testing and follow through from ford. The fact that even when you push ok it often does not actually even run the ICE combined with prompting the user this after the user JUST told it to go ev power is pure ridiculous. It causes the user to take their eyes of the road and push more buttons just to get back to where the user was.

Many around suggest that pushing the EV power beyond 2 bars (of 4) on the empower display causes degradtion of the battery. Certainly, in my own experience, pushing EV power beyond 2.5 bars for even a few minutes, in virtually any weather above freezing, causes the threshold to drop as though the battery were overheating. I would not recommend daily use of EV power to accelerate to highway speeds. The ICE (EV later) is best used for accelerating to highway speeds. You will need to engage ev later and accelerate hard enough (briefly) to get the ICE running BEFORE getting to the ramp. This is to allow time for it to warm up at least a little so the software will provide a majority of the power to accelerate from the ICE and not the HVB in first phase warm up behavior. Once you've accelerated to speed can go back to auto or EV now. In strictly emergency situations just floor it in any mode but Ev now. In actual emergencies it's not worth the added risk of reaching for the button.

100% of the time doesn't say much. If it came on 100% of the time of 5 km of all city driving that is meaningless. The oil maintence mode is to remove moisture built up in the oil. You need to drive the vehicle in EV later at highway speeds for 15+ minutes to get the engine warm enough to boil all the moisture out if you're seeing the low use message.

I don't even need my wife. I am both too hot and too cold at the same time.

Has dual zone climate controls where you can set one temp for driver and another for passenger. Yet in the winter it cannot maintain one temperature vertically as there seems to only be one temperature sensor on each side at about chest height. This means that defrosting the front window warms up the upper half of the vehicle enough that when the window is good and I turn on the floor vents they blow cold air trying to cool the temperature near the sensor because it has no sensor to tell it the foot well is still significantly colder. Aka the dual zone climate controls in these vehicles are done so poorly they become a sales gimmick and the overall performance is worse then a non dual system where the same two sensors are placed properly (vertically, heat rises).

My 2014 fusion energi has been making a vibration noise the past two+ winters during below freezing temperatures. Always at highway speeds. Often when climbing a hill or accelerating with the ice producing greater than 2 bars. It can be difficult to reproduce on demand as variable assist from the electric motor varies the demand on the ice. When it does occur: switching to auto, so majority of the power comes from the hvb instead of the ice, causes the noise to instantly disappear. Letting up on the accelerator or pressing it harder will also cause the noise to gradually fall off. These symptoms suggest it is either a problem with the engine, transmission or maybe the noise cancelling. It only occurs in the morning when the vehicle has sat overnight in the cold. Never omw home from work. There are no dtcs. The vehicle has had numerous inspections in this time. Including their most detailed inspection last month with no results. I'm likely going to have to take at least one morning off work to demonstrate the issue. Anyone else experience similar?

The 60kw version is rumoured to have a thermal management system. 160km round trip commute means nothing short of 60kw will make the trip reliably in the winter. The bolt's seats are too narrow. The lack of instruments in front of the driver, long waiting list and no local stores push the model 3 down the list. A local Nissan dealership will be holding onto a Leaf for test drives so I hope to drive my commute with the tester to see exactly how much the battery heats up and whether some self control will be adequate or if the rumoured thermal management system would be required. Also the leaf with all its buttons and instruments is a stark contrast to the model 3 that fits my personality better.

After driving an F150 for almost 10 years my experiences with this vehicle for the past 3 years has killed ford for me. Has also killed any gas vehicle built in the past 5 years or any PHEV. They're so complicated to squeeze every last MPG they can get that when they no longer get that fuel economy or something intermittent occurs they have no idea where to even start. My next vehicle will be a BEV of some sort. Possibly a 60kw 2019 Leaf so i voted Leaf (twice, as its on the list twice ;)).

I finally let a local Ev certified dealership complete the telematics recall a few months back. I had waited a long time after it became available as my old modem still worked for awhile longer here in Canada then those in the states. However even after waiting months to get this done the interior trim that was removed for the recall was not replaced at that time. They claimed to have broken the clips and had no spares. Being busy with overtime it was as about a month before I got back in to have them replace it. It came lose again about 1.5 months ago and I just picked up the vehicle after taking it in for some general maintenance and asked them to fix this again. The paperwork states that any trim removed for the recall is "tight and secure." The pics below show that it is visibly hanging with a large gap between this panel and the next. It was not like this before the recall. Anyone interested in buying the vehicle is going to be turned off by the ugliness. A recall that only partially restored functionality of MFM and reduced the appearance and resale value is exactly what I've come to expect from Ford and they don't disappoint!

Yes. Not just for 2018. Hybrid soon to follow as well. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1113728_ford-c-max-energi-plug-in-production-over-hybrid-has-only-months-left

Looks to me like the 3d icon used for the ev range. The hybrid mode icon doesn't have the same edges. The number was removed from this icon in later model years.

I agree Ford should be able to do something more then nothing without a dtc however there is likely far more involved then the one variable you assume here. In my case, with the same Ev now later not available with white x's, I had a dtc for coolant heater performance and the heater was not performing as intended. Ev later and now may be locked out like this for many reasons as a safety. And even though I had a orange wrench for a powertrain fault it took about 9 months dozens of trips to multiple dealers all within 3 days of an orange wrench appearing for anything from Ford other then "No dtc so nothing." Eventually managed to get into a dealer with the orange wrench still present and finally there was a dtc. The second time the heater was replaced there was a dtc without the orange wrench present. So either it was a case of a unknown and unhandled error or the dealers did not want to perform a repair they had no experience with and would take longer for them to learn then they would be reimbursed and didn't want to try. Remember we're talking about the same Ford who needed a class action lawsuit against them so they would do more then throw 3+ of the same defective clutch at a focus.