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Hello For the past month or so I've been getting a yellow wrench light "check manual" warning within a few minutes of driving. The car seems to be driving fine, the only thing I've noticed is lowish battery capacity-- in this weather last year I'd get a full range prediction of 100+ miles, now...

So about a year ago I took my focus to Sears to plug a nail hole in a tire. The guys did the complimentary multipoint inspection and noted at least one rotor (the one on the nailed wheel) had grooving outside of acceptable specs, and they wanted to replace them. I checked it out and sure enough...

Just wondering if any IL/bordering state residents here have installed a home solar PV system? We are thinking about it, but since grid electric is relatively cheap while the sun isn't quite as generous here, the long payback time makes it less attractive than, say, in CA or HI. IL has had a...

Anyone else get a freebie Powerstick from Ford? Had a Fedex package at my door yesterday, containing this combination 8GB memory stick/mobile phone back-up power source. The enclosed letter says "please accept the enclosed Powerstick USB recharger as a gift with our thanks for your purchase"...

Just read about a new portable/plugin EVSE called Turbocord. Smallest level 2 cord I've seen. Neat thing is it has an adapter so it can switch between 120v (12A) and 240v (16A). That level 2 is a bit wimpy, but should charge the FFE from empty in about 6 hours. At $649, it costs $100 more than...

Weather turned particularly cold here in Chicago this week. Today with temps starting at 20 and ending at 10, with a light snow fallng in the morning, my commute measured 20.9 miles round trip, during which my FFE used 8.3 kWh, with an efficiency of 397 wh/mi. It was in heavy morning traffic...

Does anyone have their L2 separately metered or with another way to see how much is being drawn? Particularly anyone in the Midwest or Northeast? I'd like to know how much energy is used by the TMS on a typical cold night. So like if your car is set with a value charge, how much does it draw to...

I took a 70 mile drive today. I left the energy screen on display to track the percent battery charge remaining, and used a fresh enhanced trip recorder to track kWh used. At 90% remaining, I used 1.5 kWh. (Blue bar looked about 1/10 below full) At 75% remaining, I used 4.1 kWh. At 50%...

With MFT 3.5, the clock settings options are different than they were in version 3.1.3, with respect to GPS autocorrections. It looks like the updated MFT has made gps time zone update more standard, as it is with most mobile phones. Unfortunately I'm having problems. When I cross from CDT to...

I found the answer to my question. SYNC 3.5.1 is apparently ready and available for FFE and PHEVs running 3.1.3. A user (cmax driver) on a Sync support community board posted a successful update yesterday. I confirmed that an update is available for my VIN, and then my dealer's service dept...

So it's June now, no way to possibly consider it "early 2013" anymore. And yet still there is no public word from Ford as to when SD cards to update FFE/PHEVs sold with Sync version 3.1.3 to the current 3.5 or possibly the subsequent version. Do I understand correctly that those few of you...

Hi! 2150 miles into FFE driving, hit my first snag. This morning my wife was going to take the car on an errand. I used my keyfob to remote start the car to warm it up for her, since it's about 30 degrees outside. She disconnected the 120V charger correctly and upon pushing the start button...

Reading about the Tesla road trip article in New York Times got me thinking about Ford's decision to limit a driver's access to the full 23kWh of the FFE battery pack. While I still don't see any documentation of this on Ford's websites, my experience concurs with other users here, in that my...