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Yes, it was very annoying. No heat and the Ev now and Ev later modes became disabled and would force you to drive on the battery only. After they replaced it the first time there was an intermittent manure smell coming from the new heater. They refused to do anything about the smell as it "was too intermittent to diagnosis." Only once the new heater also died and began throwing the same trouble code was it replace again. This time by a different dealership and the smell has not returned.

 

Plus countless trips to dealers in the hopes that this time they would find a trouble code or to ensure the orange wrench was not coming on for a different reason.

This is very concerning. Did either dealer tell you that this is normal "wear and tear" or something else. Wondering if it's an underlying issue with these cars. What year is yours?

The orange wrench can come on for many many reasons. It is a power train fault warning lamp. You'll need a dealer or someone with an odb2 reader for any more information.

 

My orange wrench came on weather relatedly for many months and did not store the trouble code. I had to wait for the weather and light to coincide with a dealer being open and have a hybrid tech who wasn't all booked up that day. It turned out, that in my case, the electric heater was defective and has been replaced twice since.

Oh wow. Has it had any effect on the car for day to day stuff? Just left a message with my guy at the dealer and waiting to hear back. It's only been two months which is why it is a little concerning

Hey all,

 

Have had my '17 FFE for a little over two months now and this morning when I started up the orange wrench lie up. Can anyone shed some light? Thanks

I like them. I'm trying to picture what it would look like if you blacked out some the chrome trim like the windows, door handles, and fog lights. I don't know...

https://imgur.com/gallery/rMhcW

 

Wasn't able to do the chrome window trim it was really hard to tape off. Black grille is the way to go

Maybe plasti dip the chrome part on it but I like em

 

Personally I don't see a lot of energi's with black rims so maybe that's why I like. I plasti dipped my stock ones and I love how they look.

Love the lowered look! Do you find any issues with dips in the street and hitting the bumper?

Here's my baby

Yea I have everything else blacked out. Love the look of the grille with black. The strip on the back will look SO much better once it's done. It's just bugging me now lol

Well I tried plasti dipping the chrome trim on my 17 FFE and no success. The weather stripping on the top makes it really difficult. I'm super bummed

Will post pics when I get er done

I'd be interested to see how it is done. I would like to replace my door handles with color matched ones from the lower trim models to get rid of the chrome inlay but I don't want to dork with the sensors on all the doors.

You talking about the small chrome slits on the door handles? Had mine vinyl wrapped

 

I'm gonna attempt to plasti dip my window trim on my own. Watched a few videos and it doesn't seem hard. I had someone else do the wheels, grille and emblems so this will be my first go at it

Hey everyone,

 

Noob to the forum but not new to fusions. Replaced my 2013 S with a 2017 Energi SE and I've plasti dipped nearly all of the chrome on the car except for the chrome window trim. Has anyone ever replaced their chrome with black and how did you go about doing so? Thanks guys