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By the way, just in case anyone is wondering, that 1.5L (once they fixed the issues) is a really nice engine for just a general all-around family car. My wife has that in her 2020, which is one from after those were fixed, and we're very happy with it. It's a good, solid engine, and we really like that car. I still prefer my Fusion Sport with the 2.7L twin-turbo V6, but I'll definitely stand up and say that 1.5L is a good engine for just general use.

Yes if I were in your situation, I would take the $2000 the dealer offered and not worry about it, like @HotRunrGuy said. The car is really old, has almost 200k miles on it, and has served you well but its time is up.

What engine did it have? There was a TSB for the 1.5L and, I think, the 2.0L for coolant intrusion into the cylinders. You might want to look that up. I don't know if, in 2024, that will still help you, or not, but just wanted to share that information in case it helps.

Have you or the dealership hooked up a code reader? Is the car throwing any codes? Any smoke out the tailpipe? If the turbo is bad you'll typically get a code, and maybe white smoke for example. What you describe could just as easily be a loose hose or something, it's hard to say without knowing more. Did they trace the sound to see exactly where it's coming from? That would help determine what the cause was.

Hi, Is anyone willing to provide a copy of the ESourceBook for the Lincoln MKZ for any of the years 2017-2020? I would prefer the 2018 if possible but really any of these years should be fine. Thanks!

Why? It's completely impractical. I live in an apartment. I have absolutely no way to practically charge a BEV. Nor do I wish to spend a large amount of time waiting to charge. I'd much rather fill up and be on my way in minutes with a full tank. Not everyone has a personal situation where electric makes sense. Besides, I fully expect rolling blackouts everywhere (just like California) once enough people are forced onto electric. I can't do anything about that, but having a good ICE car is one thing I can do (assuming they're available still).

This is all so depressing. This next 10 years or so is going to be just awful for car lovers. You're probably right though.

Built on the S650 platform, but more luxurious. Twin-turbo V6 engine, either 2.7 or 3.5 (preferably offer both). Even consider offering a 5.0 V8, but I think the twin-turbo 6 engines would be mandatory for this car. We're talking luxury here. Fully adaptive suspension, tuned for comfort but able to tighten up nicely in Sport mode. Entire car should be very comfortable normally, but very responsive in Sport, ala the Fusion Sport or MKZ, but on steroids. Active exhaust if you can make it sound decent (I realize that's difficult in a turbo six, but there are ways). Limited-slip differential. Try to integrate the dash display better, don't have it be a tablet-glued-to-the-dash kind of thing. Again, luxury. This car should be rear-drive or, even better, Intelligent All-Wheel Drive but rear-biased, not front-biased. Consider a hybrid version but if you do, it needs to be focused on performance, not just gas mileage. Don't cheap out and decontent things. Include the AC outlet, garage door opener, accent lighting, all that jazz. Put in a very serious audio system. This car should be a very comfortable, stylish, driver-focused coupe. But one that has a huge amount of power (north of 400 HP). Anything less than that won't be enough. Remember, this is probably the last chance for an ICE incarnation of this car. Finally, you could introduce a Lincoln LS version at the same time, and have Lincoln Approach Detection, etc. on that one, with the Lincoln badge, and charge $10k more or something like that.

And a 2.7 V6. The second gen version with 400 lb ft torque.

You're probably right, although isn't that what we already have with the Mach E? It's a nice car if that's what someone is wanting, but I'd describe it as basically a BEV CUV.

All wheel drive Lincoln Mustang. Maybe something like a coupe version of an MKZ. Powered by a 3.0, 3.5, or even a V8 engine. Offer a hybrid version maybe with dual electric and gasoline drivetrains. Make it a real Mustang but with the luxury of Lincoln. No less than 450 HP at crank. Active exhaust. Magneride or similar active suspension system.

Hi @bbf2530! So I found out after I sent this that my wife actually really despises this feature. She doesn't like it at all. It hurts her hands, and if the driver alert is enabled that compounds the problem by criticizing her driving. So I've just turned off driver alert on her car, and I'm not going to take it in to Ford because she said she basically never wants the lane keeping system turned on, ever, anyway. I don't see any point in fixing a feature she doesn't want anyway so I'm not going to waste my time. But I do think if this is a problem in 19 and up, Ford needs to figure that out, or risk losing customers in general. In my case though, I think maybe we should have gotten her a less high end model. She also really dislikes the adaptive cruise, for instance. I may just switch her car to normal (non adaptive) cruise mode. I think some folks (me being one of them) really like all the tech, and others just really don't. It's hard to please everyone I guess.

You should really upgrade the Sync 3 cars, like the 2018 Fusion for example, to Sync 3.4. It looks bad to have a minor version upgrade available and refuse to provide it to other vehicles on the same major version. It makes it look like you're trying to encourage people to buy a new vehicle by refusing to upgrade their Nav system.

We have two Fusions: A 2018, and a 2020. Both have Lane Keeping Assist. Both say, in the manual, that the enable/disable setting of Lane Keeping is preserved when you shut off the car and restart it. However, only the 2018 behaves that way. In our 2020, every time we shut off the car and restart it, Lane Keeping is off. We can turn it back on and it works fine, but we have to press the button on the stalk to do so. This means it never, ever gets used (it's my wife's car and she just won't use the feature if she has to turn it on manually). This makes the feature useless. I have looked for settings and they're identical in both cars. Also, there are no DTCs when I scan. I even, in desperation, tried flashing the 2018 firmware for the Steering Column Control Module into her 2018, but that didn't change anything. So I flashed her 2020 firmware back (which, as expected, didn't fix the problem either). Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

I'm a little sorry to hear that, @Exit32! It's been interesting hearing your stories about this. One last word: I wanted to mention (and just never got back to you about it---been working on some things with my FFS) that I wholeheartedly agreed with your choice of an analog voltmeter vs a digital one for this. While I love my digital for straight signal measurements of mostly steady levels, you're absolutely right that there's no substitute for an analog on rapidly-varying signals (nor for an o-scope for transients, of course). Anyhow just wanted to say I've enjoyed your posts on this! And @akirbyI'll be really disappointed the day Ford removes the AM and/or FM from their new cars. I imagine it'll happen eventually but I hope not for a very long time.