ldm

My wife and I just picked up our new SEL last Tuesday and already had the EV+ come today, Friday, for the home arrival. I'm pretty surprised by that because I have heard folks say it's taken 9 or more days to appear.

Well we finally picked up our SEL today. I have been playing with....er....I mean analyzing all of the available features. The cell phone link up was amazingly quick. It started play my playlists with a touch of a button and Pandora was the same, very cool. One thing I was able to do but not sure of what use it is was to connect to one of my wireless routers. What will it use the connection for?

I guess We've been real lucky. Ordered on 12/03/12 VIN and window sticker 12/19/12 and built the day they said it would be built 01/08/13. The one little glitch is that the delivery was slid 4 days. Was scheduled for today but now the 02/01/13. But it is suppose to be in town now at the Kent WA rail yard. Rachel, I sure hope you get some good news soon.

Absolutely correct Jason. Lower incomes still need to travel for work and for food on a daily basis. Asking for high fuel costs to remedy another problem is ignoring possible negative impacts on others not in your same environment or situation. I read an article where someone was calling for a usage tax on electricity in order to make solar competitive with coal. Evidently they figured out that a carbon tax was not going to happen. Now someone please tell me how this is a good thing for folks just barely getting by?

I think it would depend on what kind of driving your doing as far as the Energi going that much further than the straight hybrid. Around town your right but on a long road trip I don't think so. That's one of the reasons we went with the hybrid. We will be doing some 6,000 mi. road trips and it made sense for us to get the highest long haul mpg we could.

Hey Nick, glad to see another close by C Max owner. Well ours is still in transit but we are being told Feb 1. We're just down the road near Black Diamond. Enjoy your new C Max.

Welcome aboard. As the reports on mpg are concerned they are all over the place. There are members here that side with the reports you saw and then there are others that have documented mpg higher than the 47/47/47 Fords advertises. Our C MAX Hybrid is due to arrive the 2nd of Feb and I have decided to wait and learn how to drive it then make up my own mind. Not all that concerned myself.

Actually the truth is many owners are getting very good mpg and there are a good number that do not. To say that the car does not get the advertised mpg is ignoring those owners that say they do. My thinking is that because there are so many variables in getting the 47 mpg there are some owners that can manage the process and some that can't or won't. Given the time of year it is and understanding the negative effect low temps have on all hybrids I expect to see lower mpg. In my state WA every vehicle gets lower mpg hybrid or not because they reformulate the fuel in the winter. My Tacoma gets 2-3 less mpg in the winter. I will withhold judgement until the summer driving season.

Welcome pkay. We just found out that our little bundle of joy will be 5 days late.

I am sorry I should have said that I do have the vin and a scheduled build date. But what I was curious to know was the shipping information. The build date is 01/08/13 and I was wanting to track the delivery. I had read where folks knew the rail car info and was actually tracking the train.

When asking the new car manager am I asking for the Vehicle Visibility Report?

Thanks folks, I appreciate the info.

Hey all, I registered on the The Blue Oval website so I could get some info about the SEL we ordered. They came back and said they would send me a validation email so I could log in. But I have not received the email and it's been about 10 days or so. I was wondering if any of you had the same problem. Thanks

Maybe we're lucky. We ordered our SEL on 12/03/12. Got the window sticker on the 19th with a build date of the 8th of Jan and projected delivery of 01/28/13. O' great I just probably jinxed the whole thing.

The down side to that is these policies are not guaranteed to be accepted by all Fords dealer service departments. The online Ford ESP is guaranteed to be accepted by all Ford service departments in the U.S. and Canada. To me that is worth the little bit more you'll pay for the online Ford ESP.

Now that's funny right there.

I was happy to learn that the C Max has the Li-ion battery and that's one of the reason we have a C Max on order now. This article makes me happier.

I did the Costco plan and it was supposed to be $300 over invoice. But the dealer I wanted to use was not in the Costco plan I found out but the sales manager said not only would he match the plan price but beat it by $100 bucks. That with the trade-in and rebate the deal was fairly good in my opinion. Happy Camper

I am highly interested. Our C Max won't be built until Jan 8th with a delivery date of Jan 28th. I will be contacting then. Thanks for your work.

Just checked as well. Window sticker was there. Ordered 12/03/12 Window Sticker availiable 12/21/12 To be built 01/08/13. Expected arrival 01/28/13

Thanks mt. My dealer seems to be the lesser is better type. I did not get the dealer ID number or an order number until I went down there yesterday the 19th with the car being ordered the 3rd of Dec. But I was surprised how willing and happy the lady at Ford was to find a VIN for me.

Hi all. We ordered our SEL on 12/3. I have been reading this forum for about a week now and I used the information gleaned from you folks to go back to the dealer for the vehicle order conformation sheet. Having the order number and the dealer ID number I called Ford directly and they were more than happy to look up the VIN for me. Worked out great. The dealer said he had not recieved the VIN yet. The status as of now is "order processing". I would like to thank you all for the information you have so generously provided. Maybe I too can contribute once we have our C Max. Laurel, we live about 12 miles from Kent WA so I will be tracking a long train ride as well!

I had better be at my wife's birthday party! With a very good present.

I lucked out a few years ago and took up Sirius's offer for a lifetime subscription for $300. I called them yesterday and they said for $75 I can have the account transfered to the new car once the trial membership is over.

It might be worth while to check out the cable traction devices. They seem to have the advantage in close clearance areas. This is a pretty good article: http://www.automedia.com/Choosing_Tire_Chains/ccr20011201tc/1 This is the cable chain I will probably purchase: http://www.scc-chain.com/Traction%20Pages/Trac_SZ6.html