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Sounds like a plausible explanation for my intermittent issues with intelligent access. I am hesitant to say it is fixed, because it was intermittent to begin with, but it has now been 6 days since i replaced the batteries and have not had this problem since. Various locations. Garage at home. Work parking lot. Girl friend's apartment building parking lot.

I will try putting new batteries in both and use the other one for a while. It's worth a shot though i would think a weak battery would affect all door handles similarly.

It not knowing there is a problem is exactly why you cannot just depend on these error codes. Obviously if it doesn't know there is a problem there is no error code. I know it's difficult but what am i supposed to do? If the once a week these things act up never coincides with the vehicle already being at a dealership what i am supposed to do? Just accept it doesn't work right and move on? Accept i paid $800 for a navigation system that doesn't work as well as the free one on my android phone? I think you and ford know what that would mean for my future vehicle purchases. These components are tested within a system. Through the system's operating system. A very similar situation, if both systems are designed with thorough enough checks and balances. I will give that a try.

I've been having a few intermittent electronic issues for a few months. The vehicle has been into 2 different dealerships 4 times. The longest a dealership has kept the vehicle to try to replicate these issues is just under 24 hours. The 2nd dealership has actually been talking to a ford corp hotline and has asked for more time with the vehicle. The first dealership, it felt like I was wasting their time. I have had to convince about 4, maybe more, different ford employees that the intelligent access issue is not simply weather. The issue is this: sometimes, intermittently, the intelligent access with not unlock or lock a door from a certain door handle. Sometimes the driver's door handle. Sometimes a passenger door handle. I am fairly certain is not just simply weather because when one door handle doesn't work after multiple tries (Glove on/off. Running my finger all over the handle/lock hatch marks.) another door handle works, 5 seconds later, on the first try. This has repeatedly happened. It has worked flawlessly in worse weather and not worked in better weather. Obviously there are certain weather conditions, such as a layer of ice from freezing rain, when I do not expect it to work. Both dealerships and the ford.ca rep I have spoken to after a rep from this forum relayed my issues say a ford tech needs to personally see and experience any issue before anything can be done. It struck me today that if companies that produce parts for computers, such as CPUs, HDDs, RAM, GPUs, had a similar stance they would quickly go out of business as people shifted to companies that have the proper software to subject these components to stress or more thorough tests to make intermittent issues that would appear very infrequently under normal operating conditions appear within a given time frame. CPUs and RAM can be subject to stress tests to have a crash that may only occur once a month under normal operation occur within a few hours. Overclocker's use software such as this to prove their overclock is stable to the rest of an overclocking community. HDD's have TRIM software that can identify bad sectors that would otherwise take months of normal use, possibly until the drive were near full, to appear. Or be unknown to the user until the drive was completely dead. Or they could not read a certain piece of data. Does Ford really not have anything similar to test a car electronics? The obvious answer is yes they do. The car generates error codes from errors it detects that can be pulled by techs at a later date. I say this is insufficient for diagnosing a problem that potentially originates in the same CPU, RAM, etc used to control and generate these error code reports. Relying on these error codes, generated under normal operating conditions, would be similar to relying on windows alone to prove an overclock stable. With only windows and normal operating conditions it could take months. With the proper stress testing diagnostic software it takes less than 8 hours.

There are multiple other ppl experiencing the same auto locked mode both in this thread and Larryh's linked thread. In the thread Larryh linked he quotes a ford rep saying this is intended behavior. Are you saying it is not??

$550 for a used level 1 cord??? Can get a band new turbo cord dual for only $100 more. That is both a 110v (level 1) and a 240v (level 2) portable cord much like the ford oem one. Good luck finding a buyer for that very niche price!

Can you clarify... If the quote from the warranty states upholstery is not covered, what is there to send up to the CSM?

Tomorrow, Saturday, at 1 pm at Mount Bridges Ford. I left a voice mail detailing this with Mathew (i believe that's who you mean by CSM?) last night and he returned my call this morning. I should add that this morning, after having the hood open for probably the second or third time since courtesy replaced the latch, the hood ajar light and message have returned. The hood is now correctly latched on the passenger side but apears slightly unflush, unlike the other edges where the hood and body meet, at the drivers front quarter of the hood. It does not want to latch any further down. Edit: after looking for any ice and trying to close the hood two more times I gave up. But part way into my drive an on coming transport truck lifted the hood a bit so a tried again. This time it closed first try and has since. Idk if the wind from the transport blew out some ice obstructing the hood or it's somehow another intermittent issue.

Do Ford Service techs have the ability to drive a vehicle brought in for service without this trip being reported on the MFM trip log? Do they have some kind of universal intelligent access key fob that would allow them to start and drive the vehicle without this trip being reported to my MFM account?

Picked up the vehicle Thursday night. The person who did the "leg work" was not there. No one else could tell me what was done or found out. Finally got to speak to him today. They applied a software update for the navigation. They poked each intermittent issue and they worked fine for them. They listened for the noises i had complained about "while coming to stop" during "acceleration." Asked him to confirm "acceleration" twice. They did nothing else. Driving away from the dealership the front end made the whining noise 3 times before the first stop light. The driver's floor vent was blasting cold air with front defrost on (another new issue) and the driver's wiper was again getting stuck (i now believe this is actually the wiper blade and the same reason it makes a noise every time it swipes). Saturday the navigation was again off location. They told me before i should hang out for two hours after my service visit to get a charge. I asked them to plug in my car when i dropped it off. I dropped off a letter with the vehicle detailing all my issues and noting my name, number, the fact it was a plugin hybrid and to please plug it in when able. They gave this letter to the mechanic. I picked it up with a 25% charge. They charged it for exactly one hour in the ~27 hours it was there. I should hang out for two hours after they've had the vehicle overnight for a charge? I have now made an appointment for a 2nd opinion with a different dealership.

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No I don't think I would. Especially if apple carries over their approach with computers to their cars. Ie: it'll only run on gas or electricity bought from apple authorized location. Wipers, spark plugs, tires and wheels and all that other good stuff will also have to be apple products or you risk voiding your warranty. Oh and don't forget, you can only sync iPhone and ipods. No android, black berry or MS phones supported!

Anyone sometimes experience a strong draft of cold air, seemingly coming from the drivers floor vents while defrosting the front wind shield?

Most of the few we do have here in Ontario are free and I use them when I can. You're right though that it isn't worth paying $2 and never use them. The pricing for these is based around what most BEV's would draw.

The 2014 Focus rental with 4 times the km of my fusion does not make the same noise.

Yep, I stand corrected. The kWh trip counts backwards for both regenerative breaking and charge gained from the ice turning. Maybe like some logs on mfm the example I gave above isn't very accurate.

I have not. I could be wrong. I'll try that omw into work tomorrow. But I don't recall ever seeing this and trip data on MFM doesn't seem to support it. Just this past sunday I have a trip with 5.7kwh and 1.5 regen km. If the trip were counting backwards during that 1.5 regen km I actually pulled closer to 6kwh. Which shouldn't be possible.

While that may be true of the 2013 i do not think it is true of the 2014. Possibly changed along with some of the other changes made to the trip meters between 2013 and 2014.

The trip meter in my 2014 fusion energi and on my ford mobile only reports net draw from the battery. It does not include any regen or any generated by the ICE turning. This is evident under certain driving conditions. For example an all ev later trip. Since the (monthly) totals are most likely calculated from the same trip data they also likely only include draw to charge the battery.. Obviously does not including any charging inefficiency loss.

Day after leaving Kal Tire the a TPMS fault came up 30km into a 75km trip. Kal Tire had tried to program them but couldn't and eventually said they were factory preprogrammed and didn't actually need programming. Ford said they did, Kal Tire just lacked the tool. Yep, 2 sets. No, the weather has been quite bad and I have little choice but to make long drives in the weather sometimes. The dealership needs to look at other issues as well. If they still can find the problem I'll see if Kal Tire will swap them a few times. I'm fairly certain it did not make this grinding noise 6 weeks ago, before the winter tires. I know it never made the whine before the winter tires.

Kal tire. I have not. I would hope the ford dealership checked their work the same day they fixed kal tires inability to program the tpms. Each time I've complained to ford of the whine or grind I've mentioned the new winter tires and wheels. I bought the oem ford wheels and tpms from this ford dealership. I've suggested the wheels were the problem.

I never said it was leaving the parking break on. I said it was lack or improper use of the parking break. If you use the parking break as I described than there is something else going on. If you engage the parking after letting go of the break pedal than this could be why.

Do you use the parking break? Is the vehicle on a bit of a hill when this occurs? Most vehicles give a thump shifting out of park if there is pressure on the park pin from even a small incline. To prevent this, engage the parking break before letting go of the break pedal after shifting into park.

This morning the grinding noise reverted to the high pitch noise twice. Once it continued as I accelerated. Maybe this is actually a slightly different version of the transmission issue some have experienced. I also read more into "break grabs." Breaks grabbing usually refers to the breaks slowing the vehicle in an unusual way. To an actual change in the behavior of the breaks and the way the vehicle drives when breaking. Not simply a sound. If what hybridbear says about only friction breaks in N is true... the noise is not the friction breaks. It only began around the same ~5km/h and slower as in D. There is also a similar, but even higher pitch noise while breaking with the wheels turned at a significant angle.

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1096637_electric-car-owners-watch-out-for-those-dealer-service-bills The link talks about examples of BEV owners who have recieved bills for oil and filter changes or hassled by a Nissan dealership to have their Leaf's oil changed. While our PHEV will eventually need these services the frequency of the service and the increased risk of confusion with non PHEV versions of the Fusion make this relevant to Energi's as well.