Recent content by Gary

Both sides of each tire? From a website I found: "Over time, solvent-based products will turn the tires brown. They can also dry the rubber leading to premature cracking. In contrast, water-based tire dressing contains naturally occurring oils that will nourish the rubber."

I think that Ford tells us to rotate the tires every 10,000 miles...what was the odometer when you purchased yours?

Ordered on April 19 and it arrived at my Livonia, Michigan dealership (Bill Brown) seventeen weeks later. Elsewhere here I read that the Michigan assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan only assembles Focus Electrics on one or two days near the beginning of each month. BEV sales have been climbing...

Everyone determined to get a plug-in vehicle must perform due diligence. If whatever you drive now has an internal combustion engine but achieves less than the EPA city and highway fuel economy numbers, your driving technique will extract fewer miles of range from a BEV than published. If...

Well, good! I came here to suggest a fine mist or spritz of distilled water into the ports, followed immediately by an extended application of a wet/dry vacuum to remove moisture and residue. Does no one make USB or SD port absorbent 'plugs?' Perhaps one could trim an absorbent coaster into...

I'm retired from Ford and ordered a 2017 FFE six weeks ago (Apr 19) through their "Z" plan (retiree discount) here in Livonia, Michigan. We'd purchased a 2016 ICE Focus hatchback from that dealer's inventory for my wife last November and I was impressed with how quiet the hatchback had become...