SPL Tech

Many stations dont even bother to put the sticker on the pump. The vast majority of gas sold in the USA is E10 regardless of octane grade and brand. Unless it specifically says E0, I would assume it's E10.

Yea, its just 3 min but the problem is I am opening and closing doors all the time loading stuff in and out of the car, which means the lights stay on for more like an hour, or until I am done.

All vehicles (cars, trains, planes, everything) get better MPG at lower speeds, unless we are talking really slow, like 10 MPH.

Checked the tubes today. They were warm, but not hot enough that I couldent hold onto them for a long period. I drove 60 MPH steady for hours today and the tranny maxed out at about 153F today. 67 ambient. It seems those lines dont get that hot. Warm, sure. Really hot, not really, not unless your tranny is really hot. One was slightly hotter than the other, as expected. I dont think you will see a massive temp difference between the two, the intercooler just keeps the overall temp of the tranny down, but it's not an A/C unit, it's not that effective at cooling liquid.

Also, if you are getting 231*F, TFT 189*F, that seems to scale with what I get. I was at about ~171F TFT max and 217F ICE max. Yours seems a tad on the high side, but not by more than 10F. Now, that 250F you said you got in the first thread, that's a problem. But 190F, I would attribute that to the grill blocks. The higher the ICE temp the higher the TFT as I dont think the Cmax uses an intercooler, it pumps the TFT through the radiator block from the ICE to cool it, so hotter ICE means hotter TFT. That is strange that you said the cooler lines were cool to the touch when the TFT was hot though. Ill check mine. Where are the lines at? Can I get to them without lifting the car?

FOr what its worth, today I used FORSCAN and a 400 mile highway drive to check my TFT. I drove at 77 MPH steady in 65F ambient, and after 45 min the fluid climbed slowly to 170 - 175F and stayed there for the rest of the entire drive. I checked the same on a trip last month and I got about 168F for 400 miles too. So it seems the idea that the fluid is 20 - 40F below coolant temp is correct. I think 170F for TFT is pretty typical, and I dont see where you think most member are below 150F. There are only three people that reported in on this thread, one of which was me. So you're gathering that info from one sample. I did say my TFT was like 130F a few pages back, but I also said that was on a 9 mile city drive, which is much different than highway driving. I dont think it's reasonable to expect the TFT to stay below 150F on the highway for long drives. 170 seems more like it. Even your 190 is still well within limits. The max temp is like 308F, and most trannys run about 20F below coolent temp, so anything in the 170 - 185 range for extended highway driving seems well within normal. Also, you have to test for a minimum of an hour of constant freeway speeds (70 - 85 MPH). It takes FOREVER for the tranny to reach operating temp, and a 20 mile and then 10 mile test is not sufficient.

So did they tell you what the cause was?

I know the ICE pumps the fluid through the intercooler, keeping the fluid cool, but I though the lubrication does not require a pump, it's just free standing fluid that is moved throughout as the internal components spin. As far as the intercooler not spinning when the ICE is off, this seems like a non issue. It take a LONG time for the tranny to get warm. I drove over 30 miles at 80 MPH and noticed the fluid was still getting progressively hotter after 30 miles. It took 50 miles before the fluid temp stabilized. In city driving, the fluid temp takes even longer to reach max temp. On the highway, the longest the engine would ever stay off while you are in EV and pressing the accelerator is maybe 90 seconds if the HV is fully charged. It takes about 90 seconds just for the temp to increase 1 degree C, so not running the intercooler for those 90 seconds wont matter. Also, when the car is in EV mode the max it can do is 36 HP, which wont produce much heat. Coasting down a hill on a highway for a long time without the intercooler pump running seems like a non issue as well as the tranny is just spinning freely with little to no load, so heat buildup wont matter much. I have watched my TFT temp while coasting downhill in EV and I dont think it increases even 1C.

Isint the speed limit up there 120? So 135 in a 120 is nothing. That's like the average speed most people would drive in that speed zone anyway.

Regardless of the headlamp switch position, the parking lights stay on whenever the door is open. This is a problem for me as I transport large amounts of cargo in my car and so I am always opening, closing and keeping open my doors. Last night my door was open long enough that I had to jump start the car as the 12v was dead. Is there a way to disable this feature so the lights do not come on when the door opens?

Why? Say you check it and it seems hotter to you than you think it should be. What are you going to do about it? There is nothing you can do about it. The dealer is not going to do any work on your car under the prognosis that you think the tranny might be running hot. That's not sufficient, there needs to be physical damage or a code.

All transmissions are complex. A tranny replacement in [insert any car brand you want] is not much less expensive or less likely to require service. The tranny is protected to 100k/ 8Y anyway so your platinum investment was a complete waste of money.

I have worked in some of the largest server farms in the world--imagine a Wal-Mart filled completely with IT equipment. I have never seen a cooling system that uses large quantities of fresh water. Nearly all server cooling is done by fans and A/C in all of the facilities in which I have worked. The routers, switches, servers, ect have fans which vent hot air into the atmosphere. Then the hot air is removed by industrial A/C systems. The A/C systems do use water, but it's in a closed loop. The heat is removed from the water by using industrial fans blowing through massive coils (radiators). I do recall Google saying they had a number of server farms close to the ocean and they use sea water to cool their gear, but the vast majority of server rooms use air cooling and A/C.

Gas is cheap? news to me. Still upwards of $3 - $3.50 a gal on many west cost areas.

There is no repair for MFT issues. The issues exist because the MFT operating system was not sufficiently debuged and as a result it is very poorly programed. That's why Ford fired Microsoft for the Sync 3 system. Both me and my GF have a number of seemingly endless and always changing problems with our MFT units. They are just crap units, very poorly programed. Nothing can be done about that beyond software patches which Ford is not releasing. The best thing to do is to keep going back to the dealer over and over and over and over and to other dealers and even more dealers and cost as much money as possible. The higher the bill that Ford has to foot for repairs, the more interested they will be in releasing software patches. Just run up the dollar signs and someone will notice eventually.

It's simple, the Cmax, and just about any other car, gets the best fuel economy at about 20 MPH. From there as speed increases, fuel consumption increases in a very predictable and logarithmic path. This data can be charted in Excel quite easily. There is no magic speed here. The fuel consumption increase that occurs as speed increases is very predictable all the way up to the maximum speed of the vehicle. I drive at about the same speed as everyone else. I found I got about 35 MPG at 85 MPH with no wind, which is better than most cars. A truck will get about 15 MPG at that speed, a semi, 5 MPG.

It's worth adding that hybrids are NOT alternative fuel vehicles. They are ICE conventional cars. They burn gasoline for every part of their operation. A hybrid is like a motorcycle. It's just a more efficient ICE vehicle, but it's still 100% gasoline dependent. Electric is never going to work for large vehicles. Good luck towing a 80,000 lb trailer using electric only. Even electric light duty trucks are beyond the technology available right now. In order to even have an F-150 with a 8000 lb trailer, half of that weight would have to be batteries. Completely outside the scope of what is reasonable for anything other than a small car.

Also, comparing the highway FE of a full size hatchback to a compact sedan is beyond ridiculous. That's like complaining that your semi truck gets worse fuel economy than your F-350. Apples to apples gentlemen...

My Cmax was used as a rental and it's fine. Even wear on the tires, came with fresh change of oil, and best of all, I probably got a better deal on it than almost anyone on this site. I only paid $6,500 with my trade in, and it's a fully decked out SEL with all options and with 26k miles. The type of people who rent hybrids probably arnt exactly the type who are going to drag race them or take them off road. I will say though that they never performed the 20k cabin air filter maintenance, although that's not really that important anyway.

In a number of states, mostly NV, UT and CO, only 85 and 91 octane is available. So far I have been going with 3 gallons of 91 and 10 gallons of 85 to kind of get 86-87, but it's annoying. Can I just use straight 85? I mean, everyone pretty much uses 85 in those states and I have not heard of any issues so far.

That's not exactly a bragging point. You can get that out of some conventional cars. I sold my VW Jetta with 66k miles and it had over 50% pad life remaining. Hybrid pads should last 200k.

An extended warranty, when considered from a mathematical and statistical standpoint, is not in your best interest. Actually, I would like to amend this and say ANYTHING a dealer sells you is probably not in your best interest. EVERYTHING a dealer and manufacturer does is to make money. They exist to help themselves by exploiting you. They are not your friend and they are selling you a product that they want to make money on. Do you honestly think Ford would offer an extended warranty at the price they do if they were loosing money on it? They are doing the math, they know how much money people are actually getting out of the in free repairs and they are charging enough that they continue to make money. That means as long as they are making money on you, you are loosing money. You're betting you will need the warranty, they are betting you will not. If they were wrong more often than right, the extended warranty would not exist. So from a mathematical standpoint, which is really the only standpoint to take in a scenario like this, the math adds up to Ford's favor, not yours.

They were testing the minimum stopping distance from 60-0 which means they slammed the brake peddle. In emergency braking I am sure the regen cycle stays off and the vehicle only uses the brake calipers. That would make the most sense as it would be the most stable for extreme braking.

ICE is not ending and it shouldent. It's still the best technology available for the application it's used in. Electric will never be the future--it cant be. People need to drive cross country which cannot be done without a huge network of charging stations and extremely high current, high voltage charging stations. Further, some people just do not want cars. They want huge trucks that can tow 80,000 lbs, and electric is especially not suited for that application. ICE will be around for a very long time. It's not going anywhere.

Not for me.. It doesent dont work. I can only input an address correctly about 20% of the time using voice. My iPhone gets it right about 90% of the time.