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  1. 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!
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. And a 2.7 V6. The second gen version with 400 lb ft torque.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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!
  11. 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.
  12. positioning of the interior fuse panel is quite a challenge. ?
  13. I certainly applaud the effort there, that was very good thinking! But I would raise three technical concerns for further consideration: 1. Sensitivity of your voltmeter: I'm not sure whether the sensitivity of your voltmeter will be adequate to visibly detect a voltage level change in a regulated circuit, even under the proposed conditions. 2. Responsiveness of the voltmeter: I'm not clear that I've ever known the frequency or duration of the pulse length, but for certain values of frequency and duration, I would think the voltmeter would have a difficult time representing a change. Someone more familiar with the actual noise would perhaps be better able to assess the risk of #2 being an issue; the longer the duration of the pulse, and the lower the frequency, the more likely the meter will adequately display a variance. 3. Noise leakage into car circuitry: It does sound, from the messages above, as though the noise signal is being transferred through vehicle wiring. However, this does not preclude the possibility that, while the signal level is above the noise floor, it may be on the order of millivolts or even microvolts, and could even carry a modulation at frequencies far beyond what a voltmeter could represent. I would perhaps connect an oscilloscope to the 12V on the car, and watch the waveform pattern while driving. Given a suitable oscilloscope, that would address even #3, which while it has components of #1 and #2 included, is really a separate and distinct issue. Think here of the noise patterns introduced by leaky digital circuits into DAC systems, for instance, such as was common on older PCs, if that helps illustrate what I mean. You'd almost always need an oscilloscope to adequately represent what was happening.
  14. It sounds like maybe a motor. My guess would be something like the fuel injectors. The problem would be narrowing it down, and I'm not sure the problem is something, like you suggested, that would be easy to get a lot of attention. I can't reproduce it because I don't own the same platform, I have a Fusion. So aside from offering advice which so far hasn't helped, I don't know how to help you here really. But I will say it sounds like something like a motor probably. AM noise is very low frequency compared to most systems in a modern car so I wouldn't expect anything like Adaptive Cruise radar, for instance, to be the issue. I think ignition or small motor (electric motor I mean), most likely. I wish you luck getting it narrowed down.
  15. Does it change with throttle input (more gas making more, louder, or higher-pitched pulses)? I just wonder if it's the ignition spark or something like that. Of course that's still happening when you're stopped at a light, but only enough to maintain engine operation.
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