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Nope, I have used the tire once for 30+ miles when I had a flat tire at work. I was glad I had it.

Ah, I was playing around with it today on my car with my note 4 (android) and if I turned if off it would not auto play my spotify when I got back in the car. When I switch to BT audio I have to use my phone to play something otherwise I have silence, regardless of the auto play settings UNLESS I have an app that has been loaded in the background of my phone such as spotify/amazon/pandora it will auto play one of those. If nothing is running in the background on my phone, nothing plays until I load an app on the phone manually. So cant you just double click your home button swipe up on the audiobook app and fix your problem every time you leave your car? When you come back it should be silence unless you have some other app that plays music running in the background on your phone loaded?

Decker12, Have you tried going into settings>media player and click auto play to off? Media player I am assuming is blue tooth media player.

You don't need to turn the radio off. You just need to set the volume using your phone when are streaming through BT. If you set the volume on the radio and you switch to AM/FM it will be crazy loud. When I enter/exit my car I leave my BT audio connected and it will also attempt to try auto play my spotify app, if I close the app from running in the background of my phone it wont work. I can confirm when I click the AV in/out my screen does not show the same behavior as yours. I have all 4 corners available.

I have a 2013 and that's how mine works. Go into EV Now get a pop up "Enable Engine" everytime If I am driving in ev now and click the OK button the engine will turn on if I am parked and clicked the button nothing happens besides it saying "engine enabled".

I don't have a service manual. You will probably need to go to the dealership and see what they say the error is. You can hold down the left "OK" button on the steering wheel and then start the car and go into the engineering mode and see what error codes it lists.

I currently use BT audio streaming via phone's spotify app 100% of the time. When I come back to the car it will attempt to auto play the spotify app and most of the times it will start playing. If it cannot auto play anything, MFT will auto switch to the radio station after about 10-20 secs of silence. If I close the spotify app from running in the background I have to relaunch the app in order for the BT audio to play again. It would be to much of a pain in the butt to close all your apps every time you get out of your car if you wanted to prevent auto playing. But if you have an android you could setup some sort of tasks using "TASKER" to close apps/start apps in the background. I will check the AVI input settings and see if I get any different results then your video.

I think all of them you still have to pull the memory card out and plug it into the computer to view the files. There are wifi enabled sd cards that you can use. I have mine setup using a wifi sd card and just use my phone to download the files and send it to dropbox for viewing later on the computer.

Wheel looks nice, those Michelin energy saver tires are bad.

Russael, When you go to https://www.etis.ford.com/vehicleRegSelector.doand look up your car does it actually show all the modules updated? See picture. Wasn't sure if that website is updated accordingly. I did the recall for 15E03 - POWERTRAIN CONTROL MODULE REPROGRAMMING but the date checked is the same as the others/build date time frame.

I wasn't planning on it, but good to know.

I tested it today and didn't have any problems and looks fine when I put the tire on. I tried to take some pictures while it was on to show the distance to the brake caliper, it is slightly closer compared to the OEM tire.

I measured it tonight I have been busy sorry for the delay. Whatever that black plastic part that goes across towards the top of the trunk area on that shelf is 17inches wide and about 4.5-5inches tall. I have tried taking all the air out of the tire to make it fit up there but no luck, rim measures about 18inches from side to side but height is no problem. It also looks like that black plastic part is held on by 4 screws when you let the rear seats go down, not sure what is in it. I attached more pictures. When we go to Vegas we put the tire in and have some room to the right for a small bag or two. I also was thinking about it the other day what would happen in a rear end collision with that tire in there. Not sure about the safety aspect of it. Yea it sucks, I have heard they try and just give people the regular fusion spare tires but they don't work on the Energi. I am using a 17x4.5 that's what it says on the rim.

I will check tonight.

It is a 17inch rim so it matches with what is on the car now. I put it on the front driver side and it looked like it cleared the brake caliper and took it slow around the neighbor, I didn't notice or hear any problems/scraping. I'll double check the rim tonight for any wear marks and may test it some more this weekend. I'll try and get some more pictures once I get it on the car again. I tried but it would only go in about a quarter of the way, there was some stuff that is towards the top of the trunk that blocks it. That top shelf area would be perfect for storing it.

I finally got a 2013 Escape spare tire and can confirm it will work for the Energi. No problems driving around on it besides the TPMS warning. *Has to be a 2013 or higher ford Escape, 2012 and below Escape spare tires have different bolt patterns. It will fit in the trunk but we only take it when we drive to Arizona or Vegas. I would rather not wait for a tow truck being in the middle of no where.

Question 1: Looking at the 2013's, I see there are a few with like 13k miles on them and selling for 21K, this one even had adaptive cruise control. Question 2: Yea I would probably buy the extended warranty, I don't know if it will be the same as bumper to bumper though? Check out flood ford for pricing on there website so you know if you got a good deal or buy from them directly.

Will the new volt have memory seats yet or adaptive cruise control options? I would rather have those options then a 5th seat.

From my research FMC normally wont negotiate on the lease buyout amount. But since this is not like a traditional gas power vehicle ford normally sells, maybe they will negotiate on these 2013's. I am interested as well in buying mine out but I have until 10/2016. Let us know what FMC says if you ask or attempt to.

I don't know the cost. I am at about 17,000 miles now so I am coming up to the 20K service change as well, may do it myself if they charge a lot for the labor. Here is the video for the cabin filter change ( ).

As murphy already pointed out the spare compact item # CV6Z-1015-B does not work for the Energi since it will hit the brake caliper. I saw this post from Steve Smith (http://www.fordfusionenergiforum.com/topic/2049-temporary-donut-spare-tire-search/?p=13352) that pointed out the tire works using a T155/70R17 with 5 x 4.25 bolt pattern. It appeared it required some customizing to make work, which most of us won’t want to do. It appears the 2013 Escape spare uses a T155/70R17 5x4.25 bolt pattern I am going to try and find one and will let everyone know how it goes if I am able to get it to work. Part # (CJ5Z1015B). Even if it works storing it in trunk may be a problem.

6 figures in California specifically in the Bay area/orange county/San Diego would not nearly be as nice as 6 figures in other states. I would guess a 400-500K mortgage would be close to 2k in interest per month. We only had a $900 tax liability so tax credit wouldn't of worked for us either, ended up leasing the vehicle.

Also being in California add a 400-500K mortgage/property taxes/family/kids and I can see how some don't have tax liabilities.

It has already been determined the Hybrid spare tire does not work for the Energi per the sticky on this forum. My guess, you would need a full size tire, jack & lug nut wrench.

Has anyone tired to fit a full size OEM 17" tire in the trunk?