Tree63

I agree - best car I've ever had, in terms of comfort ("like sitting on my living room sofa" friend said after 14 hour drive), features, maintenance, FE. I put 325K km on our 88 Honda Civic Wagon over 15 years, with way more headaches. As long as tranny holds up with the highway miles that I'm driving now, it will continue to be a great drive. I'm hoping there will be a swing to fuel cell (hydrogen) before I need another car. Seems less expensive in terms of infrastructure with a shorter "refill time" than plug-ins. ps my lifetime is down to 5.4L/100km, just haven't updated Fuelly for a while

I was told by dealer that the housing holding the bulb in 2013 C-Max was starting to rust out, but new bulb should work for a while. Maybe yours has gone past the point of working. Replacement was about CDN$700.

Twice or so a year, I have towed brush to the dump at the cottage in a small 4x4 box trailer, probably 3 feet high to keep sight lines. The front end is noticeably lighter handling. There's no way I would see anything more than this towed with my C-Max. Solution? Rent what you need for occasional towing. Buy what you need if more serious. But keep the C-Max for routine driving to save $$ to get what you need. :)

My 2013 has some minor surface rust in the same area. It's gone through 4 winters up here. Not bad. Time to put some wax or NuFinish on it before winter.

I had to replace a fuel injector at 80K km/ 50K miles - only unusual maintenance so far ... Flushing coolant due to colour change at 32K miles doesn't sound right.

I just had 12V battery in my 2013 C-Max SEL (140K km/90K miles) fail --- without any warning --- no dimming lights, no hiccups with anything. Almost 4 years to the day I bought it. Just had it towed to the dealer. Paid C$175 for battery plus C$150 for AVR test. With the real winter conditions, it could have been a lot worse. Any way to catch this? I couldn't open trunk or any doors besides driver's. No other battery problems since getting the car. This and having a flat (and no spare) are making think a bit more.

Thanks djc. Fusion Energi cars had a couple of transmission leaks but out of the 4 Fusion and C-Max models, only C-max Hybrid had transmission failures in 3 of 4 testers. Wonder if the transmissions are same across Energi and Hybrid/Electric models? Could C-max H have a "smaller" tranny that shows strain due to proportionally greater weight of vehicle? Perhaps others can offer more depth with this.

Great find - thanks! Will ask when I go in for rest of work on unrelated FSAs/Recalls to be completed this week. Zero hiccups with anything audio related since the last dealer visit, through a good number of bumpy cottage roads and all kinds of fall weather. Probably marking this as "take fuses out if it happens again". Static build up or connections bumped out of alignment with fuses - any guess. Still a great car. Had a Blaupunkt installed after the one radio failure 35 years ago that I mentioned earlier. Glad to hear their sound is still as good as ever.

OK --- not all parts were delivered to the dealer today, including new radio. They "put everything back together" so I could have the car over the long weekend (Cdn Thanksgiving). They drive car up to the pick up spot AND ... car jockey has radio tuned to the Blue Jays - Rangers ball game !!!! WOO HOO, except we lost the game. Paddle for voice control and rear warning system are all working fiine again. I called over the service advisor and of course we'll see if this is an intermittent problem or a matter of pulling fuses 69/79 out from time to time, for whatever reason. Kellytoons - interesting comment - and I hadn't thought of the rock and roll over time - but last radio I replaced was in college days with a 78 Datsun B210. I like holding onto cars too -- there's a lot of earth-materials in every car so may as well stretch their lifetime.

I also have SEL with July 2012 build date. Yesterday I lost Entertainment, Voice Control paddle and Rear Warning system. Couldn't even get CD out - showed No Disc message after swallowing it. Dealer looked at it today while doing some updates and advised radio needed replacing. This is not exactly a part that wears out with mileage so I was surprised it wasn't covered by extended maintenance plan. Anyone else had this happen? Glad to find at least one related thread. ... Tree63

Work done at dealer under extended warranty, so just wait time for me. Ready next day - seems to running fine again. Not sure how a fuel injector "breaks" - just clogged or does something shear off somehow. Wonder if Ford looks at such broken parts from a QA/improvement/root cause perspective, in case it is a manufacturing defect of some kind for a part common across a family or model year.

I am so thankful for this Forum. Just experienced a fuel injector failure on the weekend at 80K km/ 50K miles, confirmed at dealer today, and I think my guess impressed the SA. Good to know they are relatively rare among us, even with the long cold spell through Feb in NE. If I get another, I'll consider replacing all 4 at the same time, but for now will see how FE is affected. Glad car ran smoothly in EV mode but might be fun to have option to press a button and get a "rough idle massage"! Will miss DD.

Might not be what is going on in your case, but when this happens to me, it is usually because the fob has something blocking it in my pocket or my body is in the way (when I am opening the passenger door for instance). Most of the time, a jiggle to reposition it is enough to get it to work. Sometime in winter up here in the north, I have to take a glove off to get it done. The trouble is that I am starting to get upset when the front door of my house doesn't autmatically unlock even with jiggling the house key in my pocket :) - it is such an addictive convenience.

There are threads in the Forum on hitches, and certainly my local guy had a few listed for C-Max. He had no problem putting in a hitch with harness for me. I use it a few times a year to haul shingles and brush about 10km (6 miles) to the dump at the cottage with a 4 x 4 pup trailer. With a full load of shingles once this year, the rear sagged a few inches but no other sign of strain. Saw a "towing number rating" (forget the real name) on a commercial for a "super heavy duty top-towing" pickup - 873. A regular pick up was 450 something. When I looked up the value for C-Max, it was 97. Now, I wouldn't call it a 97-lb weakling, but as OM says it just wasn't designed for any serious towing. Bicycles and brush are enough for me.

My Ford dealer has a service bay for free Nitrogen top ups, since that's what came with the tires. I follow all the other helps mentioned - monitor for leaks, check regularly, watch start of colder weather etc - and also do a visual before any long drives, and at all stops on those drives. Spotted a bulging tire on one drive and that could have been serious safety issue.