PWBarrett

I don't buy it... Even with the sliders up at heavy traffic, mostly highway, aggressive driving, and AC Always on, which is way more extreme than what we really do, it says 44.1. We average 36 or so. In reality our driving would be medium traffic, mostly city, spirited driving, and AC sometimes on. For this it says 46.5. For any trip where I see 46.5, I'll see 3 trips that are in the 20s. Maybe it needed a slider for typical trip distance: Mostly <3 miles, mostly 3-10 miles, mostly 10-40 miles, mostly >40 miles. [Oh wow - I see Fuelly says our avg. is 34.2 now.]

"All" it does is steer and prompt - it's up to the driver to brake and shift when prompted to do so.

We got ours today in Plano, TX. (just North of Dallas). ...Nice to have somebody send you a significant amount of money just-cuz :) I'm still happy doubling the MPG of our previous car, and never expected to hit the EPA numbers anyway.

Assuming you mean for Intelligent Access (i.e. pushbutton start): I went through this when we first got our C-Max. I found several writeups of procedures to try, but none of them worked. Turns out you have to take it to the dealer (then hope they know what they're doing.) At the time, my dealer spent almost 5 hours and still couldn't get it done, but I've heard people say that their dealer did.

I've always wondered what the MPG of the ICE would be like if charging the HV battery could be removed from the equation. (If that's what the elusive "sweet spot" is all about, it sounds quite significant.) It seems a bit counterproductive to be charging while accelerating, but you can often see it doing that as indicated by the up-arrow. I'd like to have a selectable mode that would only charge by regen and by what's generally considered engine braking. (Okay, you'd also have to maintain enough charge to start the engine. Running the A/C would probably have to disable this mode.)

I can't see or feel any difference after the fix. It must have been something very minor, like a 1/8" piece of crushable foam or something.

Mine didn't get better till after the power steering failed at about 7000 miles. After they replaced the Steering Gear Assembly and whatever related work, it hasn't been twitchy at all. Now smooth as butter even at highway speed. Tells me the twitchiness was a symptom of the real problem (I think somebody suggested overtightened linkages?) But good luck getting a dealer to do anything about it unless it fails.

This thread http://fordcmaxhybridforum.com/topic/2576-mft-36/ has lots of posts from people who have installed this, myself included. I don't have nav, so I can't vouch for improvements in that area. I doubt that'll help with Sirius skipping - are you sure that's not just from going under trees or other obstructions?

Unfortunately won't work with the CMax (without a lockpick or the like,) because the display is locked out unless you're in Park. I'd like for a passenger to be able to watch a video on the MFT display wihle driving. OTOH, it's only 640x480 composite video, so it's probably not worth all the trouble when you can buy a better resolution tablet for a hundred bucks or so.

Upgraded ours last night without incident. (Be patient when it gets to installing step 3 of 9 - it takes a while.) Haven't had a chance to play with it much since, but I was pleasantly surprised it didn't lose the touch-screen calibration this time.

We've already got knobs and buttons for the most-used radio controls and the climate control. In fact, the only one I'd add would be a vertical scroll wheel to keep from having to use the touch-screen slider for things like going through the Sirius channel list.

Ours had the twitchy steering syndrome at highway speeds until after about 6000 miles when the power steering failed. They replaced the steering gear assembly, and now it's fine. I seem to recall when we got it the tires were a few pounds under-pressured.

I thought the recall was about the driver's head impacting something in the B-pillar / roof area. The only issue I see in this video would be about rear passengers and the C-pillar area, namely that the airbag doesn't extend far enough down in the back seat.

My dad's business was doing well for a few years there, and he got me a new '75 Firebird with a 350 in it, back when I was about 17. Then when it got up to about 30K miles, he sold that and got me a Trans Am with a 400 in it. It was a good thing I was in his fleet insurance, because I lost count of the number of tickets I got. I drove that like it was a tank, and commuted to college in it. By the time it had 120K on it, it had a cracked frame, multiple replaced panels, a bad oil pump, and would only run a few miles before losing oil pressure. Ended up selling it for salvage. Yeesh. I'm so glad our son is nothing like the reckless driver I was at that age. He's now 24 and hasn't had an accident or ticket. (Jinxed now?)

I don't think this system uses a hard drive - just flash memory.