BoomerGer

So, C-Max owners, after spending 3 or 4 months listening and making comments, I have finally bought the vehicle I want. It's not a CMax, it's not even a Ford product. So I'll be removing myself from here, but I have enjoyed the conversations of the various poster/owners, and you know who you are!

What about the Chevy Trax? One of the colors is orange and it looks like a pumpkin on steroids. Or........It's the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown! gas mileage is not TOO bad.......but when you're comparing to CMax, fuggitaboutit!

Go to a truck parts place and find a back up alarm, or maybe a forklift service center and find same. I have a LOUD alarm that is switchable when I want to use it (Don't want to use it in my driveway in the early morning and wake the neighbors in the 'hood) and when I do use it, people hold their ears, give me dirty looks, and people in farther parts of the lot look around as if there is a dump truck backing up. Hey, I do not care if they give me ANY kind of looks. PLUS, I take it with me when I switch cars!

Might one accept this as "official"? BFD = Battery Failure Diagnostic

Now let's see, where did I see this.......A spare tire carrier for a full size spare, in some thread. It was a hitch mounted spare tire carrier, slipped into a receiver and it had a hinge that folded back so you could get into the hatch. Going a step or two farther, one could get a soft cover for that tire, or for more secure reasons, a metal or fiberglass cover that fits and locks the spare onto the carrier. Taking it farther (as I might do), the hitch receiver would be ideal to use for the lightweight utility trailer that would be used only "sparingly" (pardon the pun...) when I need it for something too big/heavy/nasty to carry inside the car.

I guess if I DO get a spare tire, it's going to be a full size one, since that back has room enough for it (judging from previous posts of what people were sticking in that HUGMONGUS hatch back!)and room for a jack, too. The towing capacity is another story......

It says "...a space saver DUMMY spare tire". I get the drift.

Yeah! I'd like to see a 'Max with a full size spare AND the capability to tow a small utility trailer (please state the towing capacity in pounds USA, okay?) Enough of this pussy partial car equipment of no spare, etc!

Well now DCarley, how did that 'Max tow that rascal? Any hard pulling, overheating, braking problems? Any unstability, etc?

You know, the big thing behind the seats that made this car so famous. Has anyone ever had THAT battery take a dump? When considering a 'Max at the place where I take it in for service, I asked my service director his opinion of how the hybrid batteries hold up. He stated he has never had to replace one except when one was involved in a wreck and it split open and had to be replaced that way. As for failing, he still has customers that that have over 200K on the Hybrid Escape and one that has almost 300K on it. But none that have "failed". This sounds encouraging, doesn't it??

YEAH! I finally found another picture that someone took of the switch control for the seat heaters, so thanks, I found it. The great thing about CARMAX is that they show detailed pictures of everything in the car and on the dash, so one practically knows the layout of everything before one even gets in a 'Max for the first time! :) :camera: :victory:

Looked at all the pictures, have yet to see where the switch for the seat heaters is. In my Escape hybrid, they were down between the bottom of the seat and the door jam, a rather odd and hard place to reach. I have seen other photos of seat heater switches on the dash of other cars, but not the 'Max. Anyone? TANKS!

Similiar thread here, I saw somewhere (and now cannot find it) that someone posted the cargo area in sq ft for the CMax and the Prius with the seats down and with the seats up. Seats up the Prius had more room than 'Max, but seats down, the 'Max had more room than Prius. What I want are those numbers! But I cannot find them! Anyone seen the same thing I have? Can you direct me to it or send me the link? Oh wait! I found it. but it was for the Soul, not the Prius! NOT considering a Soul. Never mind! TANKS!

Uh Mike, please excuse the off topic subject, but if you have a lot of homeless people up in sillycorn valley (I thought that was too expensive even for peeps with homes!) and you keep helping them out, perhaps if you DID NOT help them out and everyone kept NOT helping them out, then they would leave sillycorn valley because if you keep giving them money they have no reason to leave and expect you to keep financing their lives. Thank you for allowing me to rant, we now return you to the normal mode of discussions....

John Brock - Have you towed this motorcycle trailer with the CMax? I am looking to tow an 800 plus pound utility trailer with easily rolling wheels (it's not like I am going to the local tractor pull contest to drag a 50,000 pound sled across dirt!) to take to the dump avery two months or so, or haul something too big and bulky for the inside (or outside). Was your trailer easily towable?

Towing! A BIG word here. One that makes other Ford owners shudder if I mention it. However, I am not going to a tractor pull contest and dragging a 50,000 pound sled down a dirt track. Just a small utility trailer, very easily rolling wheels, not overloaded heavy, maybe 800, 1000 pounds at most, EVERY OTHER month or so to the dump, or maybe when I need to carry a oversize bulky load that will not fit IN or ON the car. I have had no problems of towing with as small as a Dodge Colt w/ stick shift, on up to my 2007 Escape Hybrid or 2012 Focus. But when we "Max-speak" about towing, then people clam up as if it was 1984 and Big Brother and "thought-criminals" are taking over. I guess when I get right down to it, has ANYONE towed a small utility trailor with the 'Max with any or no problem?

My cousin lived in AZ at the time this happened. He had a Chevy with the driver and passenger windows tinted as well. (AS whoever said they need windows tinted in the southwestern desert of the US) Just shortly after crossing over into the Californbia side of the border, a CHP cruiser stopped him and gave him a ticket for tinted driver and passenger window (after first cruising next to him and checking out the windows). Since he rarely drove into CA, he ignored it for some time. He checked occaisionaly with his other cousin in CA who was a local police officer with a small city in the LA area who would check from time to time to see if it was still on the books, and it was, and the fine grew from whatever small fine it was to a quite large one. So our local police officer cousin pulled some strings and got it off of the books. But can you imagine just perhaps he might be renting a car (which he sometimes did) and might get stopped for some small infraction and they checked his record and found him in the state of CA with a still unpaid warrent out? "Never mind where you're going, son, we gonna take yer ass off to jail here in CA until you pay UP!"

And how would the 12 volt battery be dead? Did they kill it? DELIBERATLY? What is to stop them from picking the mechanical door lock? Would THAT cause the 12 volt battery to go dead? This answer does not make sense, Smiling Jack.

After that commercial for BOTH cars, they seem to be equally the same. Just substitute the names and there ya go. Oh, and hey, I'll have some of that c-Max A LA MODE if ya will......

That's great to know!

Always thought white was so blah. Still do. If I "had" to buy a white one, I'd "have" to buy a flame or fireball decal to break up that white. Then again, I might be considered a flaming C-Max owner! :) :lol: :lol2:

Yes, I agree, classy and kind of executive-looking. More so if the "max was a bigger car.

Hi Gerry, great name, spelled correctly, too! I really like your red 'Max, especially the chrome additions. They do, as you say, make Sparky "pop"! Are you planning to replace the wheels with some with more chrome to them? It seems the 'Max could use better looking chrome wheels. Anyway, great looking car! Gerry - AKA Ger, the Southern California Connection

I've not exactly seen this color in person for someone to say, "Hey, that is Ice Storm!", but I have observed a color that I consider a very pale green. Since 'Max isn't offering a "GREEN" color, and since that color is my least favorite color on a car, I seem to be gravitating toward it. So do you all consider this a variation of green or blue, or a combination of both? Or does anyone even give a snap?

N8JJ, nice pics, but what is the 1st one on top? Can't figure that one. And is that coax you have in a tight coil? Is that acting like a choke on your xmit? KF6PHV - Ger - The Southern California Connection