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Few things: Assuming you didn't hit the MFT power button after turning off the car, it is not normal for it to be on 30 minutes later, but not really a huge concern, it will eventually powerdown, and there is a separate system that forces it off before it can really drain the battery anyways. The system will reboot itself (and display the 'system maintenance' screen once every few days, so you don't really need to reset it, it will do it anyways within about a week. If you really want to though, one of the fuses in the passenger footwell will do it. Yes, it is normal that you can hit the power button and turn the stereo on even with no keys. This is largely a side-effect of the cars with push-button start, as they do no have Accessory mode (they only have off/on/start), so they made it where the stereo will function for 1 hour by pressing the power button.

Ah, I thought that was just for different model lines - I thought all the Foci used the squeeze to open - I knew some Ford lines used the slide off. Thanks

If your car or transmitter battery dies, it allows you to get in the car. Your dealer should have gone over this with you. If you squeeze the two 'buttons' on the sides of the key fob right now at the key ring, the ford emblem pops off, and there is a cut key in there.

To my knowlage there is no itemized list, but it has significant improvements.

Cars started rolling off the line with a new version in the last week or 2. It should be available to dealers sometime in the not to distant future.

Thats pretty standard on cars. It indicates that the engine code lock is enabled. It's meant to deter theft.

I would be careful here. If you have a Titanium (pushbutton start), then most aftermarket starters won't work - and I'm not sure if there are any that will. I guess they could theoretically work if you leave one of your IAKs in the car, but then anybody could get in it and press the start button.

Your dealer messed something up - the remote start is supposed to talk to the computer directly and allow the start. I'm getting around the extra fob because I'm making a cell phone adapter - the remote start fob will stay in the car, with some electronics I'm putting together, and when you call/text it, it will start it.

Honestly I can't really say. You would only be talking 1-3% improvement at best, which is too little for me to feel any different, it would be complete placebo effect. Somebody would need to dyno it before and after to really know.

I had ordered Gorilla Acorn Guard locks. Note I have the 17" painted wheels.

Has anybody found wheel locks that fit the wheels on the 2012? I have a titanium with 17" wheels, and the lugs are short, really short. I haven't had a chance to measure them yet, so I don't know exactly how short. The wheel locks the dealer tried to sell me, and ones that I ordered online, would stick out almost an inch from the face of the wheel and the rest of the lugs.

For those who might be interested, K&N does have one of their washable air filters for the 2012 Focus, part E-2993, and it runs about $50 on Amazon. You can see it below, K&N on the left, stock filter on the right. They generally have less restriction then stock paper filters, but the real benefit to me, is it will last the life of the vehicle, you just take it out to wash it periodically.

For reference, the shipping version is 4.23.11081 To check yours: Have MFT on, but the 'stereo' Off. Press and hold the eject and next track buttons on the center stack (below the CD slot). After a few seconds the screen will change. It may dump you into a stereo test, if you, just hit the button to leave the test. Now hit the button for APIM, then Software versions. Listed unter CCPU.

Sorry if you already know this, but just in case you don't (or for others out there): There are 2 transmission modes with the shifter in 'S'. If you just shift into 'S', you are in Sport mode, it still does all the shifting, but somewhat more aggressively, down shifting more readily, and holding longer on the up shift. Once you press the gear select toggle, you enter SelectShift mode and your current gear is displayed on your cluster display. In this mode, it will hold your gear 'as long as feasible'. It won't let you over rev, and it won't let you stall, otherwise it doesn't do any other shifting. Now I would say that it's high end limit is still a bit low, considering how high the power band is, but otherwise it works quite well. This is one of the things that they re-wrote in the updated users manual. The first printing didn't explain it at all, and had a decent amount of incorrect information.

There is only one version - I don't know the number off hand - They have been installing it on the line since late April, and every car made before that was updated before shipping. Your dealer won't have anything newer then is on it.