DaveofDurham

Is this the $550/$325?

I totally agree.

I'm still looking forward to my first C-Max drive to Asheville and back. Two weeks ago we drove from Charlottesville VA to Parkersburg WV. This was 5+ hours of uos and downs with minimal interstate over the Skyline Drive and through two national forests. We used grade assist on most of the 6% downhill grades. Once the battery was full, the vacuum cleaning/sewing machine noise was interesting.

Has anyone been to a Ford Eco-Boost Challenge Drive Event? I got an invitation and my C-Max is taking me there for: A chance to win the Ford vehicle of your choice (complete sweepstakes and activity rules available at the registration desk).Get behind the wheel of the all-new Escape with the 1.6L EcoBoost engine that gets up to 33 MPG.Experiment in maximizizing your MPGs with the “Hypermile Challenge” with the all-new Fusion Hybrid.Test out the Ford F-150 “EcoBoost Challenge” and see how V8 power gets delivered on a 3.5L V6 EcoBoost engine.

For the past few days under "Vehicle Software" I keep getting: "Information from GIVIS is not available at this time, please try again later."

Although it has been unusually rainy, cloudy and cool here this summer I would still love to have a solar powered ventilator (as is available as an option on the Prius) that helps keep the parked in the sun car cooler - no superheated air in the passenger compartment or AC ducts.

I didn't know what tire deflectors were. I searched on "tire deflectors" and found a set of photos at http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/tire-deflectors-spats-17548.html The first photos are of a Ford Focus. Seeing what these are I think they could likely be retrofit onto a 2013.

The sales figures I found are combined hybrid plus energi - so if the $550 is hybrid only then the $19 million total is too high.

I found C-Max sales data for Sept - Dec 2012 and Jan - July 2013 at http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2012/10/ford-cmax-sales-figures.html In the US, 2012 sales were 13,309 and so far in 2013 sales have been 23,040 which totals 36,349. At $550 per vehicle that's $19,991950. Not sure if this applies to our friends north of the border. Sales in Canada were 155 in 2012 on 870 to-date in 2013 which totals 1,025. At US$550 per vehicle that would be another US$563,750. I wonder how the $550 will play out for 2013 cars in the process of being purchased and for deals made to buy new 2013's after today's announcement.

Which, if any, of the changes being made for the 2014 vehicles could be applied to our 2013's? For example: New hood seal, front and rear tire deflectors, A-pillar moldings and the addition of rear lift gate deflectors to improve vehicle aerodynamicsNew engine oil with reduced friction

The C-Max hybrid in the video needs its 13B07 upgrade.

White Duck Taco Shop?

Marty - My car does have nav.

I had three updates done this week - the MFT/Sync 3.5.1, the one-kick liftgate and the PCM. I notice the clock was about 5 minutes slow. I went into clock settings and pushed sync w GPS. The clock then changed to one hour slow (i.e., didn't account for daylight savings time). I advanced the clock one hour to get the correct time. I tried to sync the clock w GPS the next day and again it was one hour slow. I may be confused, but I thought there was a daylight savings time on/off button before I got the updates. I can't find a daylight savings time on/off button now. Am I missing something?

I had the PCM update done today. After dinner I went for a brief highway drive to test the PCM update. I got a full charge on the battery going up a hill on I-40. I got off and headed back the other way. I set eco cruise at about 75mph and then started backing off about 2mph at a time. I saw the switch to ev at about 65mph and then was able to stay in ev for about 4 clicks up to 69-70mph. I need to read this thread and the other PCM update related threads some more to see what others have experienced and then go for a longer highway drive. I'm not sure yet if I am getting/seeing the full effect with regard to staying in ev at higher speeds.

When I went to pick up our car this afternoon I thought I would be coming home with only the daily double but I wound up coming home with the trifecta. (I failed to mention in my earlier message that I grew up in Elmont NY home of Belmont Park and the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of horse racing's triple crown.) At 5pm my service advisor called to say that they had done the liftgate update and the PCM update but they could not do the MFT/nav update because they were out of new nav cards. I went to pick up the car and left expecting to return on Monday when they had more nav card. Less than a block away I noticed "insert new SD card" on the big screen. I looked in the console and the card slot was empty. I went back to the shop and asked for my old nav card so we would have nav over the weekend. After a few minutes my service advisor came back out with the technicain. The tech asked for my key fob. He got in the car and after pushing a few buttons inserted a SD card. Then they said I was all set with the MFT/nav update. I thought they had not done anything on this since they did not have the new nav card. Turned out the software update had been done in anticipation of having a new nav card this afternoon. Once the software had been updated the old nav card would no longer work. What the tech did was put his bench nav card (that he uses for testing and troubleshooting) in my car. I tested the new MFT and nav on my way home. All seems in order including the new powersplit screen. After dinner I went for a brief highway drive to test the PCM update. I got a full charge on the battery going up a hill on I-40. I got off and headed back the other way. I set eco cruise at about 75mph and then started backing off about 2mph at a time. I saw the switch to ev at about 65mph and then was able to stay in ev for about 4 clicks up to 69-70mph. I need to read this thread and the other PCM update related threads some more to see what others have experienced and then go for a longer highway drive. When I got home I tried the liftgate. On the first try it opened with just one kick.

Very interesting. I might have said "conditions" instead of or in addition to "patterns". >>>demonstrating that winter driving patterns differ quite a bit from summer driving.>>>

Trifecta! I love it. We dropped our SEL off this afternoon to have the same 3 updates done (in Durham NC) tomorrow. Interestingly, after very few glitches over 8 months and 11,000+ miles, our nav system stopped speaking to us a few days ago.

Yes, seriously because a generic locking gas cap won't work on the C-Max and it appeared you had found one that you either knew or thought would work. Anyway I googled away and found http://accessories.ford.com/locking-fuel-plug.html The same search also took me a thread titled "Locking Gas Cap?" started in Nov 2012. I had not seen this thread before. The link to http://accessories.ford.com/locking-fuel-plug.html is cited there by rfruth and in reply RedLdr1 said, "Unfortunately those locking caps / plugs do not fit the C-Max. I have one sitting on a shelf in my garage I had used on my 2010 Flex that I thought I could reuse. The C-Max has a really weird filler and neck, that is why Ford supplied a funnel in case you ever need to add fuel from a gas can...." Too bad Ford didn't just make an inside release the only way to open the gas door on the hybrid models.

I made an appt today to bring our C-Max in later this week for the MFT and liftgate (one kick) upates. I asked about the PCM upate and was told they would not have the software until August 1. Some dealers have it now and some don't? I asked about the headliner and ws told they would order the parts.

Details? What is it, how much and where can they be purchased?

Yes, but it would not be as effective in holding down the temp of the air in the ductwork.

Haven't tried it yet. I need to see if I still have one of the aftermarket solar vent fans. Also, in order for this to work the fan needs to pull air through the vehicle's ventilation system. In older cars I used the solar fan in (e.g., 1983 Tercel or 1987 Camry wagon) this meant having the system set on fresh air (not on recirc). I recall reading something about the ventilation system in the C-Max closing the vents when the car is turned off. I thought this was odd when I read it. I just searched through the C-Max owners manual and could find anything about this.

I would love to have a built in solar powered ventilator fan for hot summer parking. I have used aftermarket in-the-window solar vent fans in several cars. In cars with rear windows with straight sides they work great. When the car is parked, the interior temp never goes above the ambient temp and the air ducts don't get filled with superheated air.

Congrats Marty!