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Is the tan-colored center armrest in your FFE looking a bit gray, dingy, and grimy after a couple of years of your filthy arms, and the arms of your filthy passengers, resting on it? Well, don't use any harsh chemicals or cleaners. Just spend a few seconds scrubbing back and forth with a...

Today, driving on the freeway in San Jose, I saw a Spark EV cruising along in the HOV lane. It had green HOV snickers (not white ones). All four of them. (I got up close and checked... it was a regular old Spark EV, not some kind of weird new PHEV.) Green stickers? How did that happen? :?

Just got an email from Ford asking me to participate in a survey about my Ford Focus ownership. So, I took the survey. At one point, it asked me what MPG I get with the Focus. The allowable range for answering was 1-99. So, I could not answer 0 (to be "correct", since the FFE does not use...

Recently, my FFE has starting sending me a notification (inside the MyFordMobile app, or shown on the website) that says nothing other than "messages.W_MSG_LOCKOK" whenever I use the remote door lock function. Anybody else noticed this? Curiously, delivery preferences for this notification...

I have an iPhone 6. I used to have an iPhone 4. Both "work" with my FFE. However, I have recently noticed that sometimes (not always, but pretty regularly) using the "voice" features on the iPhone sometimes leaves my FFE radio set to the Bluetooth audio source. For example, if I use the...

So, I made the mistake of updating my iPhone 6 from iOS 8.4 to 9.1. Aside from being apparently a flakey iOS update (it erased all the music on my phone without warning; no big deal, I can restore it), text messages no longer ring through SYNC. I've checked all the obvious things (made sure my...

I recently got a wifi OBDII dongle and FORScan working using my iPhone. I've begun monitoring a few things in my FFE. I found various battery temperature PIDs in the BECM module, one of which is named "H_BATT_TEMP" (which I believe is short for "Hybrid/EV Battery Temperature". Over the last...

Check this out... http://teslaclubsweden.se/test-drive-of-a-petrol-car/ Ingenious and hilarious! :D I love the part of "being forced to buy the gasoline car from a repair shop". Hahaha.

This evening, while charging, I started receiving numerous copies of the following notification: "Matt's EV has severely limited performance due to cold temperatures. If the vehicle is not plugged-in, please plug the vehicle in." I had to disable the text option for this notification (it was...

If you go the the NHTSA site and read about this recall... http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchResults?searchType=ID&targetCategory=R&searchCriteria.nhtsa_ids=13V475000 ...it clearly seems to described that the problem is that there is no warning chime when the car is turned ON and then...

Every now and then, including last evening from at least 8PM to midnight PST (maybe longer) myfocuselectric.com took super long to respond with the forum content. Sometimes, it would eventually just respond with 502 Bad Gateway. I used http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com to check the site...

I have owned my FFE for over two years and never had an issue with charging. I do a fair amount of both Level 1 and Level 2 charging at various locations. Over the last week, my FFE has started having charge fault (seemingly) towards the end of charging (when reaching around 80-90% SOC). A...

I've had strange occurrences such as endless errors trying to login in, then a success or two, the back to endless errors. I've also had (what seems to have been) phoney "charge fault" status displayed in the app (but never received a corresponding text). The app has also told me that my car...

On page 285 of the 2013 owner's manual, fuse 60 is noted as being associated with "glove box illumination". There is a similar note in the 2014 manual. Is this a typo? The glove box in my FFE does not seem to have any illumination, nor can I find where a lamp would be located. Does your...

I couldn't access the forums for most of Sunday, it seemed. Any idea what's going on? This type of thing seems to rarely occur in the last two years that I have been frequenting these forums, but over the last weeks, it seems to have happened several times. That is, the forums go offline for...

I've noticed the MyFord Mobile "Activity Log" view is always empty. The view is supposed to contain the recent notifications for your FFE. The view can be found on both the MFM website and app (at least the iPhone app, I presume the Android app as well). There is a "View More" link in the...

Today, looking at the Leaf settings screen (where the % SOC is shown) right after completing a full charge, I noticed three things that seemed different than I remembered. (And it's not like I haven't looked at that screen recently; I have.) 1) First, the % SOC read-out had a little battery...

I just received the following text from my FFE: Matt's EV has severely limited performance due to COLD temperatures. If the vehicle is not plugged-in, please plug the vehicle in. It's 65 degrees right now, headed towards a high of 70 degrees today. That's "cold"? :shock: This will be my...

For the longest time, comparing my average energy usage (the blue bars) on the MFM website with a regional average (the green bars) , pulls up regional averages that appear to be about half of what they probably actually are (since I know my energy usage is probably pretty average): I refuse...

Tonight, my FFE is safely in my garage charging, but the Vehicle Locator and Station Finder on the MFM website shows my car sailing off the coast of California: At least it is cruising somewhat near the Bay Area! :D It actually looks like just the longitude is messed up (skewed miles west...