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I remember the long wait and issues you had getting your car. If you are having troubles - have you sold it yet? I have a early Job 1 car and other than the bad 12v battery issues and the "devil" drivers mirror, I really had much to complain about the car.
Rattles won't make me sell a car... 13 trips to the dealer later week after week month after month would.
The car I want isn't out just yet and I'm never doing a first model year again. So 2016 here I come Acrua RLX Hybrid.
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And how many of those have we seen? ONE. You can get lemons on any vehicle. Outside of the early builds last year there haven't been many build quality issues.
Tonnnsssss we've seen tons of them. You're probably on these forums more often than I am and you've seen the number of complains about these cars. Headliners to batteries, windows to wheels...
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Yep...........and winner, winner Google's OS has more holes than swiss cheese. Take some work to make it car safe.
And how many hundreds of thousands of security updates has windows 7 had? LOL KB9808828283903303090....
Also OS X runs Unix under the hood, not Linux.
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LOL HERE AND THERE? Oh look at poor JSCullin from this thread http://www.blueovalforums.com/forums/index.php?/topic/56279-dealership-is-inept-ford-customer-care-is-useless/
These cars really do have a crap build quality. The poor guys car is leaking water into the buttons and controls, I'm surprised the thing hasn't shorted and caught on fire.
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I gave up... The build on these cars is complete crap. Thinking of buying the service manual and doing it my self.
The whole freaking car rattles like crap. Now I know why everyone buys the Japanese auto makers... Ford - been there done that, waste of my eff*ing life. I've personally been do the dealership 13 times for problems with the car.
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With the reduction in value of buying a Ford anyways, I would have just ignored this... You can buy the paint your self online. Its on the underside of the car and no one will really notice. Residual value on these cars is going to be pretty bad with all the problems everyone has encountered.
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Hi,
I'm having difficulty with the install of the Retrofit Source Morimoto kit in my 2013 Fusion Hybrid. It may be where I'm trying t draw power from. I've got the car all torn down and the bumper loose (THAT was a bear!) and have hooked everything up correctly, as best I can tell (I've done this twice before). Nothing. Not even the LED's on the relays are lit! This is a hybrid, so I had to get power off the power points for jumping up front. There's really no way to run wires all the way to the trunk for power. Could this be the problem?
You will need a relay harness as I did. This is how mine is connected:
- There is a positive terminal under the hood under a red rubber bobble. Anywhere else will give you negative.
- Those two are connected to the relay.
- The relay is also connected to the wire coming out from the driver side bulb fixture. The existing bulb connection is sent through the rubber stopper to the relay.
*** Be careful, the bulb connector doesn't look like its polarized in any way. Use a multimeter to make sure the black wire going to your relay is negative.
- The relay is connected to the driver side ballast and the passenger side ballast.
- Good to go.
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This is a serious problem on a $36,000 CAD car...
Anyways the trip to the dealer did not help, the issue still remains. I will try once more and will gather all the documentation I can and might need to end up going to CAMVAP for arbitration. I am only kicking my self for not doing it earlier, if my car was under 30,000 KM when I started abitration I would have gotten nearly 100% of the purchase price back if they chose to do a buy-back (30% odds). Will probably also try another dealer too, the problem is it only occurrs after the car is cold and has sat for an hour.
Otherwise I'm out about $5-8,000 for "Use of the vehicle".
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Have you gotten Ashley involved over on the FFH Forum? She has done a great job of getting worthless dealer service departments motivated to fix customer issues. Perhaps the dealer did a bad job installing the cracking noise fix and then caused a problem. It sounds like metal on metal.
Does it happen going both forward and backward? Does it happen when the steering wheel is turned as well as straight?
Thanks for the advice!
I will contact her on Friday if the issue isn't resolved, they're going to have a new CV shaft tomorrow that will be replace (ie: again, it was their first guess for the cracking noise).
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not sure if it's related but I do get a weird sound when i press the brakes while turning up a steep driveway. anyone else experience this?
No go jack your own thread.
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The amp is in the head unit.
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This is kind of a serious topic... Seems like Ford's have more problems left right and center than any other forum I prowl. Even my landlord who drives a fusion has the whole interior is peeling to s*** problem. Headliner (winkles and falls apart on the edges). Brakes (sequeel and click). Transmissions (jerk and break 6F35 anyone?). Rattles (everywhere). Trunks (don't even open). Radios (hiss and sass at you all day). Batteries (don't keep a charge) and Power (don't even charge em). Door Lights (burned out from the factory). Windows (one touch doesn't even work windows stay open). Trim (doesn't fit, maybe never meant to be). Wheels (peel like banannas).
Does anyone know if ford actually even does QA before it leaves the plant or is it just "Yup look a car came out!"
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Thanks for the reply. They said that also, but its not really on first break and its even occurrs on the street sometime after diring for a while. In the driveway in the morning I can go up and down several times and it will do it repeatedly.
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Hmm, did you try changing the prompt volume? If you press the voice command button and fiddle with the volume knob you change the prompt volume.
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Damn right! Greed is what happened! Something like this should be free with the purchase of the car anyways!
Espcially one as problem prone as this one!!!
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Hi all,
I've had this issue for more than I can remeber, the car didn't have this noise until the TSB for the Ping / Click / Pop sound was done. Now ever morning the car makes a vary serious metal breaking sound.
Look at these videos below. It happens every single morning, has anyone had any expeirnece? They a the second last time I was there the technician reproduced it. Now they said they can't reproduce it and they need to be able to do it again. The nerve of the dealship is insane, they told me "Could be uneven road surfaces" what a jerk.
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You should probably do some more research before talking on this subject.
What do you do for a living jinx8402?
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This right here shows you have no idea what you are talking about. You do realize the power of HTML5 is in browser processing of animations, views and layouts easily, right? I mean the entire web is moving toward HTML5 at this point because it is so powerful and great at what it does. Flash died because of HTML5.
And while you're right about iOS being proprietary, why would you ever suggest that it will never be in a car, when in fact Apple has been trying to get into the car infotainment industry the last few years.
You should probably do some more research before talking on this subject.
I'm CTO of a software engineering company and have done Android Developement for over 4 years and HTML5 development for over 3...
Performance is performance and HTML anything is mediocre at best.
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Millions of apps have nothing to do with MFT. MFT is the application and it runs in Flash or HTML 5 which is totally independent of the underlying operating system. You don't just allow customers to download apps to an in vehicle system for a multitude of reasons. The same would be true of iOS or any other operating system.
So now here is CarPlay... You're really smart
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Sync yes. MFT - no. Microsoft did not do any development of MFT - that was Bsquare, a company made up of former MS employees. Microsoft stepped in after the initial launch debacle to help stabilize it but Bsquare was still involved.
RIM has no resources to work on application code. Several of my former co-workers went to work there and were recently let go.
MFT will be html 5 and QNX provides a html 5 SDK and that's all they need.
From one half baked solution to another! Really? HTML 5? Come on guys this isn't 2008... 2014 and the future deserve a better offering.
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Millions of apps have nothing to do with MFT. MFT is the application and it runs in Flash or HTML 5 which is totally independent of the underlying operating system. You don't just allow customers to download apps to an in vehicle system for a multitude of reasons. The same would be true of iOS or any other operating system.
They would be stupid to continue usingFlagh / HTML 5... You can leverage the power of the operating system including its animations, views and layouts easily.
I never said you would allow customers to download apps, but including them for Ford would be trivial. iOS is proprietary and owned by Apple and today would never see the light of day in a car.
Mr snarky!
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They should go with Android... They would have had access to literally millions of apps that are compatible right out of the box... From Pandora and Tune In to Google Maps and Gmail. Its fast, stable and very touch friendly.
The license if free as in air.
Best of all modifying it and burning it into custom boards is usually a straight forward process with decent amounts of documentation out there. The UI development would be a piece of cake, there are thousands of materials to read online. Going with QNX means you have to re-invent the wheel (again and literally) just to do many of the things you can on an Android phone out of the box.
The only real con I see is the fact that current Sync platforms are ~ 400 Mhz single core processors, you'd need something with a little more oomph.
The next Fusion recall? It's here!
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Yeah but that would take one trip to the dealer to fix... NOT 13 IN THE FIRST YEAR OF OWNERSHIP!!