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Troy Aikman Ford 75231 is the zip and the VIN is 1FTSW21R58EA10733
Thanks for your help!!!!
<<note....this isn't the exact truck I'm looking at....can't find a VIN on the one at the local dealer and I'm stuck here in the office and can't go get the VIN off that truck......but the one listed above is exactly the same>>
Sorry, FordDirect doesn't show any F350s at Aikman Ford or any of the other nearby dealers. Did you see it in person or on FordDirect.com?
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Look up the dealer invoice price on edmunds or kbb - that will be very close. If you can find one on forddirect.com at a dealer I can give you the MSRP and X plan price but I need the dealer name, zip code and VIN number.
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My dealership's owner let's the employees keep the spiff check from Ford so they actually get their vehicles for less than A plan when it's all said and done. Pretty sweet!
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WTF? so the dealer could chase away the buyers and FoMoCo can't do nothing about it?
What kind of a legal system does America have.. sheesh.
Basically - yes. The dealers got their state politicians to pass laws back in the 50's/60's that protect the dealerships from the manufacturers to the point that the mfrs have virtually no recourse against bad dealerships.
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I heard the 08s would have Michelins.
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In the 2007 Edge Genuine Ford Accessories Catalog, page five item 11 they offer an Eletrochomic Homelink Mirror; Base Part No. 17700.
Yep, and it's around $330 IIRC.
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It sounds like they already had the market research about both names which showed that the Taurus name had much more brand equity and loyalty than the Five Hundred name. Seems to me they just needed Alan to pull the trigger which he did.
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Yes Hourly, this the UAW comment, what the heck is OSD?
OverSeas Delivery
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Thanks. Coming up on 11,000 now. Just wish more of them were Edges.
The awful ad campaign won't help. The song is wrong--clearly written by someone trying to mimic being with it rather than actually being with it--the visuals is wrong--why would an SUV be driving with just one set of wheels touching?--and I just don't get it.
Driving on the Edge.......
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The point I was making is that X plan is the only "plan" that Ford employee can use on a Volvo. Only if you work at AAI, can you get S-plan (A plan equivalent) pricing on a Mazda product, due to UAW regs....I'm sure you can find a dealer that might do it for you but good luck
Now I got it. Thanks.
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Ok I hope some one in the Ford Division will get this feedback to the power to be.
My wife had the chance to demo a fully loaded Edge for a day. Her review was.
This is one nice car. She fell in love with it and will be ordering one in July. The only thing that she sais was to add HID Lights and a Home Link. So sat down with my fleet guy and She was sad to hear that no option for Home Link or HID's.
I can add the HID's after market but the Home Link is a no go.
PLEASE forward this onto engineering.
PS. She drove it 123miles in to and some highway and got 17.9mpg that was great better than we thought it would get.
Thanks
I added Homelink to my Fusion. I just bought a homelink sun visor off ebay for $35 (this one was from a Maxima but they're all the same) and cut out the homelink transmitter and added it to my sun visor. Not easy and you have to be careful not to screw up the fabric but it just wires right into the lighted vanity mirror. Or you can mount it anywhere else - you just need 12V power and a ground. Or you can get a Zephyr/MKZ visor if the fabrics match (expect to spend about $300).
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The Explorer should be almost identical to the new GM CUVs (Acadia, Enclave, Outlook) which look very good. I think it would replace the Taurus X although they could switch the Taurus X back to a more traditional station wagon.
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You can only get X plan pricing on Volvo's when your a ford employee...
He was talking about A plan, not X. But I can get X plan discounts on Volvos through the FordPartner program. It's 4% off MSRP. I assume the Friends and Family X plan is the same but you'd have to check with an employee to be sure.
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Contact Bill Jenkins at Team Ford in Las Vegas. Great prices, awesome service and a heckuva nice guy to boot.
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Well, it seems nobody wants to do the experiment. Let me ask it a simpler way--what does the Edge Owners Manual say about the use of the "L" selector position in terms of engine braking or descending hills. Is there at least an overdrive lockout button that helps in this regard?
I have a Fusion with the same shifter and I'm sure it works the same. The computer won't allow a downshift that would cause damage so no worries there. What L will do is downshift and keep the RPM around 4K with engine braking. It will still shift up and down as necessary. In my limited testing it seems to be sufficient for a moderate downgrade but a steep descent may require some braking. I have one long hill near my house - I'll try it there.
The mazda manu-matic would definitely work better if that's something you do a lot. For occasional use I don't think it would matter much.
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The Hybrid Nav radio has a 6 disc changer under the passenger seat and has NO option for either MP3 or SAT despite advertising and dealer info to the contrary. Ford was nice enough to fix the owners manual, and the tool to order a NEW one, but nothing else, no effort was made to correct the dealer info (dealers are STILL telling folks that it does have those features!), the window sticker or even the website that shows the "wrong" radio with the wrong description, and wrong features. Despite the fact that all of the other Escapes and Mercury Mariner's have that option, show it the same on their sticker, I am supposed to just "get over it" because a) its in the owners manual (didnt you read yours before buying your vehicle?) B) if you build it online it clearly shows the conflict (Didnt you try to build the exact model that the dealer had in stock before buying?)
Nevermind that the dealers can't figure it out ( read Dean's posts), according to some here, (more than likely Ford shills) we are supposed to just realize that everyone makes mistakes and over a year for them to correct the misleading info is not quite enough time and we should be overjoyed that we are driving fords despite whatever misleading info was given.
Take a deep breath and try to comprehend. I agree with you that it's confusing and should be changed on the website. I also agree that a reasonable person would have assumed the energy/nav/audiophile unit would play mp3s.
The only thing I disagree with is that it's false advertising and that it was done on purpose to mislead people.
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Obviously you are a Ford employee... I can tell by the attitude.
Wrong. Look, we understand why you might EXPECT that the energy/nav/audiophile unit would be mp3 capable. But that's not what it says. Yes, it's confusing the way it's displayed, but it's not false advertising nor was it done on purpose to trick people. Get over it.
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I though the Super Duty ads were great personally. And there were several ads for the Edge during the pre-game.
Why would they advertise the '08 Focus and Five Hundred when they aren't going to be at dealers for another 8 months? It would have been nice to see a Fusion ad though. Or even something interesting for the Mustang.
I do agree - Ford's marketing is horrible.
As for GM, the only one that stands out at me is the "suicidal robot" ad which I thought was utterly retarded.
Not sure about the Focus, but the 08 Five Hundred is due out in April. I heard Ford sponsored the pre-game show which i didn't watch - did they not have any Fusion ads at all?
FWIW I liked the robot ad. You do realize it was all a daydream?
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The picture of the energy/nav/audiophile unit doesn't match the description of the audiophile only unit below it. It's an oversight. Nothing more. Get over it.
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For over a year now, the Ford Escape Hybrid, and the Mercury Mariner Hybrid have been advertised, on the web and even on their window stickers that the Nav radio is MP3 capable AND the radio is Sirius ready. Both claims are PATENTLY false! Once you buy the vehicle, you find in the owners manual that the sticker and website are wrong, the NAV radio (the MOST expensive radio!) can not support MP3's or Sat!
http://www.mercuryvehicles.com/marinerhybr...e=sound_systems
As you can see in the picture, this is the NAV radio and it clearly states that it supports both sat and mp3. The window sticker says the same. When contacting the dealer you are met with, "We dont know, call Ford" Call Ford and you are met with, "Call the dealer"
I understand that specs change, but when you (Ford) have been notified that its wrong and you do NOTHING to correct the bad information, you are guilty of false advertising.
Clearly this is FALSE advertising! Does the FTC need to get involved to straighten it out?
I want a Nav system that plays MP3's as advertised!
Sorry, but the Mariner website does not say that the Nav radio plays MP3s or is satellite capable. If you read the text (instead of just looking at the picture) it says the Audiophile unit does that and the note at the bottom says the Hybrid Energy/Nav/Audiophile combo radio is available but doesn't say anything about mp3s or satellite. A little misleading maybe but certainly not false advertising.
What does the window sticker say? The one on forddirect.com doesn't say anything about mp3s or satellite.
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My 07 SEL has a "Slate" interior. It's kind of a light gray almost tan.
That's not "Slate", it's Medium Light Stone.
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What the heck interior color is that? (I don't remember a gray - I remember a tan and a black offered for '06) Or is it just a really bright image with a black interior?
It's the black interior - the picture is washed out.
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you on that "not reading again" kick? Go read the post again. I said "non car" as that is the context of the original post I was responding to.
So if you weren't talking about ADM again, what were you talking about? Consumer protection laws don't prevent business from selling anything above MSRP. Period.
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aKirbey, Thanks for the report. If downshifting the "L" brings rpm up to 4000, that's a pretty drastic downshift, maybe 2000-2500 rpm would be enough drag, say a downshift to third but not second. That's kind of my point, it would be nice to have the choice of a less drastic ratio change. I had a Dodge Caravan with a similar N-D-L limitation, and downshifting at, say 35 mph seemed to drop it into second, and if the car slowed to under 25 mph, the tranny would go into first with quite a thunk. I really want to avoid that in a future car. I won't go back to a full manual, but I wish Ford would make available more manual control in it's American cars (if you go to the corporate website, then to world-wide sites, you'll see that the European Focus has such a good auto selector. It seems that Ford thinks American drivers are to lazy or incompetent to have such control.
Dick
I think the D-L shifter was started due to the CVT trans in the 500 and which was planned (but cancelled) for the Fusion. After that I think they ran with it as a cost saving/simplification idea. But now that the bean counters are no longer in control I think they'll add manumatic control - best of both worlds.
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Nope. Town Car and Lincoln LS intermixed on the same line.