Noah Harbinger

From the manual, you can turn it off or play with the threshold at which it switches between day and night: Display You can adjust the touchscreen display through the touchscreen or by pressing the voice button on your steering wheel controls and when prompted, say, “Display settings”. Press the Settings icon > Display, then select from the following: (....) Mode allows you to set the screen to a certain brightness or have the system automatically change based on the outside light level. • If you select AUTO or NIGHT, you have the options of turning the display’s Auto Dim feature on or off and changing the Auto Dim Manual Offset feature.

The C-Max is in a class of its own.

I will never be 10-2... but 2, and occasionally 10 for some rest works fine. What are 'nibble' and 'drift' control?

I know I'm not the only person who has commented on the C-Max's steering - specifically, that there does not seem to be any free play on the steering wheel, and the slightest turns of the steering wheel at freeway speeds produce a surprising degree of turning, at least relative to my previous car and others cars I have driven. I just want to add some follow up thoughts on that. I think the reason this was a problem for me is that I would tend to hold the steering wheel from the bottom - one hand at 5-o-clock, the other on the seat rest, out the window, whatever. When a gust of wind or an uneven road surface produced some motion to one side, the tendency is for your hand to move in the opposite direction (just from inertia), and hence turn the wheel a little in that direction. E.g. the wind blows the car to the left, my hand moves to the right, and since I'm holding the bottom of the steering wheel, it turns the wheel counter-clockwise, further steering the car to the left. So small sideways movements would get exaggerated. When I figured that out, I started keeping my hand in the proper position, at 1 or 2 o'clock. That helps a lot, although my arms get somewhat tired on long trips. Today was the first time I really realized how much that actually dampens sideways movements as well. I was driving for a couple hours with 15-30MPH winds coming from about 10 o'clock, which was buffeting the car around madly. But the steering response, combined with the inertia of my hand, made the movements almost perfectly self-correcting. It was like magic! I tried steering with my hand at the bottom of the wheel and it was definitely much more difficult to keep a true course. Anyhow, I wonder if anyone else noticed this, how many of you are "lazy" bottom-steerers, and how many of you are "attentive" 10-and-2 steerers?

Well I did a little touching up on the hood, and while it's far from perfect, it's certainly less noticeable than it was - and probably good enough that I'm afraid to make it worse.

I was hearing a creeking near the seat belt tensioner, but that went away after the headliner recall was performed. I'm grateful for that. Too bad the squeak when my leg pushes against the armrest will never go away. My legs are long and my arms short, so I have to kind of splay my knees to fit right. I wish the telescoping steering wheel came out another 2 inches!

Any follow up on your touch up work? I just bought the Candy Blue touch-up kit. I've got 3 blemishes: A chip on my hood (probably from a rock), a barely visible scrape where my left rear bumper found a pole in a parking garage, and the bottom of my front passenger door where a friend didn't pay attention to a high sidewalk. The door scratch got to metal, but since it's not really visible a touch-up would be more about just sealing out moisture. The candy blue is good at hiding problems, so I probably won't do anything about the rear bumper (which is black plastic underneath). I'm kind of scared about touching up the hood. Interestingly, there's a noticeable dent in the Ford logo on the grille. I'm vain enough that I would buy a replacement if that part were sold separately, but it doesn't appear to be.

> Okay, there is one thing I still hate, and that is the dead pedal. I hate that thing I couldn't agree with you more > especially the decision to put it on the driver's side! Huh?

Is he starting a campaign fund? I could donate... edit: Dang, I obviously need to read all the posts before commenting....Anyone need a Kerry/Edwards button?

When I look on fordparts.com, I certainly don't see anything different in any of the Transmission categories.

It's been, what, 8 months, but I finally got the powertrain control module reprogramming. I have a very short freeway segment on my commute with a steep hill, and I think the reprogramming will make it a lot easier to get the same get the best possible fuel economy: I have always tried to target keeping the battery as empty as possible before I start braking, since I must come to a complete stop at the bottom of a 300-foot hill and want to recapture as much of that as possible. Now I can put more of that electrical energy, which previously would have consumed headroom and prevented recapturing, towards saving time, and I don't have to think so carefully about what I'm doing. I'm very excited to see how this works out!

I actually did a little better last weekend (82-ish MPG), but forgot to take a picture. Now that I've got the fuel economy update, I'm curious how much better that cheater trip will do - it's got very long stretches of downhill, which would be perfect for a car that won't need to run the gas anymore!

The brake coach kind of sucks, but I assume that's intentional - they don't want you focusing on the display when you're braking because the fact that you're braking probably means there's some hazard or limit in front of you. That said, you would be surprised how hard you can brake and still capture 95-100% of energy. The catch is that the more rapidly you apply braking pressure, the more of the braking will be done by the friction brakes (i.e. WASTE!). So you have to press the peddle extremely evenly. I would love it if anyone knows more about how the braking system proportions force between the regenerative braking and the friction brakes.

Not "Ready to drive" (the green icon with a car over bidirectional arrows), "transmission in drive" (gear selector lever positioned at "D"). However, either I was incorrect, or they failed to do that reprogram - the chime still does not sound when the car is Read To Drive, the gear selector is in Drive, and the door is open (only when the door is in Park).

If I understand correctly, it ONLY affects the keyless ignition vehicles. The difference it makes is when you open the door with the engine on and the car in drive - before the recall, it does not chime in this scenario, I tested and confirmed it. Most people never experience this condition because even if you accidentally leave the drive system engaged, you probably have the car in park. I am taking it in for that (and the PCM reprogram and the headliner replacement and my first oil change) tomorrow.

I was just considering whether to resurrect this thread. It's totally a cheater trip - from 5500 feet elevation to 500 feet - but last weekend I averaged 80.4 MPG over 66.1 miles. It could have been a lot better if I hadn't wasted some gas on the freeway over the last 5 miles or so... I'm far more impressed by many of you getting good fuel economy on regular, flat-ish runs, though!

I just want to second that and say that in my data monitoring, I maxed out at 69.8% SOC - the needle got there and didn't budge for entire minutes time during a long downhill drive.

Do you salt and one-way hash it with a slow hash (bcrypt or sha-512 with a couple thousand iterations)? EVERYONE does it. Your customers are reusing their banking passwords on your websites, so you may think it doesn't matter if your users' passwords get stolen... but it matters to them. https://xkcd.com/792/ Heck, you could probably wreck havoc on a bunch of users here!

I'm betting the overdrive is the two speeds: Stick an epicyclic gear after the CVT that engages when cruising at high speeds and low output, like an old overdrive gear from the 70s, to keep the motor spinning at lower speeds to extends its life and improve its efficiency. Smiling Jack, sounds like you think words don't mean anything.

Can the forum settings be changed so you can't post a new topic until you've got 10 posts in? I'm kind of tired of these people popping in to enumerate their problems, and then never returning to acknowledge the responses, and having a posting history would at least reduce that.

I've been keeping track of the pump's claimed volume since my third tank, and it has worked out to, the pumps claim 3.3% more dispensed than the trip-meter claims was consumed.

I recently shifted my work hours a little more towards rush hour - the slower flow of the additional traffic has bumped my commute fuel economy by 5-10%.

Just being a nit-picker, but there's nothing inherently metric about quantity per distance. Gallons per 100 miles makes just as much sense, for these purposes, as liters per 100km.

When you can't do something that everyone else can do, why do you assume it's a "forum" problem, rather than a "you" problem?m

Sweet, the La Mesa location is a block from my old High School, and I pass the Sorrento Valley location on the way to work every day... It's nice to know someone's had a good experience there, before going myself.