DaveofDurham

MBR has been proven wrong. If drdiesel1 were like Sheldon, then his witty reply would have ended with "Bazinga!"

. Welcome to the forum. What extra cost are you referring to?

Apparently some vehicles, including some Ford's, have noise making as part of their noise cancellation system. America’s best-selling cars and trucks are built on lies: The rise of fake engine noisehttp://wapo.st/1yrDUbO

My temp gauge starts out blue and turns white when engine gets warm enough. (2013 SEL)

Maybe a little hip action, but I didn't think I was pressing against the door. That's an experiment I can try without another ice event.

We had some freezing rain last night so this morning the car was encased in a thin sheet of ice. I lifted the drivers door handle and the door unlocked as usual. The door was iced shut so I needed to jiggle the door handle and push and pull on the door to get it free. As I was doing this the lift gate opened. My key fob was in my pocket. I don't think there was anyway that the lift gate part of the fob was depressed twice. So why did the lift gate open?

We call that Carolina Blue as in, "If Kellytoons is not a Tar Heel, why is his hair Carolina Blue?"

Anyone tried or seen this? Junojumper - 7 ounces, 12 volt output at 300 amps http://junopower.com/products/junojumpr-junojumper-most-portable-jump-starter

jmjdail - do you park your car near or under trees? The reason I ask is that a lot of "tree debris" gets stuck in the "hinge pockets" (area where the hood hinges connect to the body). This is a big problem for me. When my dealer cleaned the debris out for me the first spring I had the car, they told me that when the debris blocks the drain slot (which in my opinion is very small and easily blocked) that water could get into places where it should not be (such as the passenger compartment). If water has gotten into a place where you cannot see or feel it, that could be a source of odor in your car. I have not had any water get into my car and have not had any odor issues. I have had a few times where one or both of the drain slots have been blocked and after rain I found a pool of water that could not drain. For more info on tree issues see old thread titled "tree debris"

Too late for me. The new iOS works great for everything else.

My wife has an iPhone5 with 8.1.2. MFT working fine for her. I have an iPhone4 with 8.1.2. MFT was having problems (could only get my phone to connect if I made it the "favorite" and turned car and phone off once or twice, and then it would still have problem connecting next time I used the car) before I upgraded to 8.1.2. Now with 8.1.2 (installed 2 days ago) I have not been able to connect yet. I am going to remove my phone from the list and then install it again to see oif that helps.

The first Publix in the Research Triangle Park NC area opened today in Cary. According to WRAL news, "In-ad coupon: The ad has a coupon on the front page for $10 off the purchase of a $50 Gas Card with a grocery purchase of $50 or more. See ad for details. Coupon valid October 29 - Sunday, November 2." I found the weekly ad online. The coupon does not say where the gas cards can be used. This is not a convenient location for me, but my wife will be near there on Thursday and Friday taking a class at the NC Bar Association so maybe we will figure out a way to check it out. I hope they pick a Durham or Chapel Hill location soon.

Most gas stations in NC have light up signs and all of the light up signs still have the 9/10's on them.

+1. Me too. My observation has been that I need to hold the button down for a long time to get the windows to go down. So long that I don't think unintentional button pressing is the cause of the windows rolling themselves down which has happened twice to me.

Even though my 2000 Honda Insight has been gone since I got my C-Max, I still get occasional Honda hybrid list serve messages. This one on a smart monitor for the 12v battery came today. Full article at http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/831094/Smart-Monitor-for-Automotive-Battery Many modern types of batteries (such as lithium batteries) are designed with a smart battery chip built in, which provides a great deal of information about their state of charge and so on. Lead acid batteries are commonly made simple and lack any kind of smart battery chip in them, leaving the automotive shop with the task to test battery. Yet there is enough room in any motor vehicle to have a tiny sensor which can monitor lead acid battery at real time, so a small project was created to get proper hardware and software to work together to provide smart battery like features for automotive battery. A simple and non-intrusive approach was used so that no cables or wires are to be cut or disconnected in the automobile, only probes are attached to battery terminals, and one non-contact current sensor on battery cable. . . Described below automotive battery smart monitor (battmon) has significant capabilities to obtain, display and record several key battery parameters, and figure out several other battery properties based on several charge or engine starting cycles to notify user about battery health and life expectancy. The following raw automotive battery parameters are displayed and recorded Battery currentBattery voltageBattery temperatureBased on them, the above data from automotive battery, the following battery parameters are computed, displayed live at run time and logged to SD card as well State of Charge SoC (0 to 100%), separately, whileChargingAt restDischargingEngine Starting: Current draw and DurationBattery Internal ResistanceBattery cranking amperes (CA), and if temperature is low enough, then cold cranking amperes (CCA)Number of charge-discharge cyclesEstimated battery capacity (A*Hrs) based on coulombic charge accepted and charge releasedCharging timeBattmon can provide important battery health information: within secondswithout the need to remove battery from automobileon motor vehicle while driving, when parked, and when engine is off . . .

C-Max taxi spotted this morning on 6th Avenue at W 14th Street in New York City.

Welcome GBranyan! This has been the subject of previous threads. For example, http://fordcmaxhybridforum.com/topic/3171-c-max-mpg-not-calculated-correctly/

With ios 8 if I make my phone the favorite then my phone connects automatically and (when my phone is not present) my wife's phone connects automatically. Pre ios 8 with my wife's phone as the favorite her phone would always connect automatically and (when her phone was not present) my phone would sometimes connect automatically. I may try a system reset. I will have to read up on how to do it.

My wife has an iPhone5 and I have an iPhone4. Both are synced with our C-Max. Her phone is the favorite. Before we upgraded to ios 8, our phones would always connect with no problem. Since we upgraded to ios 8 and then to 8.0.2, my phone will only connect if I make it the favorite. Her phone connects automatically both when chosen as the favorite and when not chosen as the favorite. If my phone is not the favorite, then it will not connect automatically and it will not connect manually (sync can't find my phone and eventually gives up). I have tried removing and resyncing my phone, but nothing changed. I don't know if this is a MFT problem, phone problem or ios 8.0.2 problem.

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Did they change the valve stem when they took the tire off the rim?

+1 for me again. Just sent a PM from my phone and it went through.

Ouch! From http://www.nationallawjournal.com A federal appeals court on Wednesday rebuffed Ford Motor Co.’s bid for $445 million in interest it claimed it was due after overpaying its corporate income tax. On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit found that Ford, represented by Latham & Watkins partner Gregory Garre, is not entitled to the refund and that the court has jurisdiction to hear the case. The long-running dispute began when the IRS in an audit made a preliminary determination that Ford underpaid its taxes from 1983 until 1989 by about $2 billion. In the 1990s, Ford remitted a series of payments to the IRS totaling $875 million. The deposits stopped the accrual of interest that Ford would otherwise owe once the amount of its underpayment was finally determined. Except it turned out that Ford didn’t owe anything—it actually overpaid its income tax. The IRS refunded Ford’s money, but the question before the court was how much interest the company was owed. Ford initially designated the payments “deposits in the nature of a cash bond,” which the IRS says is “is not a payment of tax,” and “if returned to the taxpayer, does not bear interest.” Later, Ford asked the IRS to treat its remittances as advance tax payments, which do bear interest in the event of an overpayment. The government said Ford only gets interest after the money was reclassified as an advance tax payment, while Ford argued it was entitled to interest from the first day it sent in the money. “Both parties offer imaginative and convoluted theories to support their arguments, but the interpretative dispute we must resolve is ultimately a simple one,” wrote Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, who was joined by Judge Alice Batchelder. Judge John Rogers wrote a separate concurring opinion. The two forms of tax payment have tradeoffs—a company can demand its cash bond back at any time, while an advance payment can be returned only through the IRS’ formal refund process. “Ford is a sophisticated taxpayer, and its designation of the remittances was not accidental,” Gibbons wrote. In 2012, the Sixth Circuit backed the government and ruled Ford was not entitled to the interest. However, in December 2013, the Supreme Court in an unsigned order overturned the decision, questioning whether the district court had jurisdiction to hear the case. Ford argued that the case was properly brought in district court, which has jurisdiction over cases “for the recovery of any … sum alleged to have been excessive or in any manner wrongfully collected under the internal-revenue laws.” In opposition to Ford’s certiorari petition, the government for the first time argued that the district court didn’t have jurisdiction because Ford was not trying to recover money—it wanted interest that the IRS refuses to pay. As a result, the government said the case belonged in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. “The Sixth Circuit should have the first opportunity to consider the government’s new contention with respect to jurisdiction in this case,” the high court held. The appellate panel dispensed with the question quickly, ruling that a 2005 Sixth Circuit decision, E.W. Scripps Co. v. United States, confers jurisdiction. “We decline the government’s invitation” to review that decision, Gibbs wrote, which “undeniably affirms the district court’s jurisdiction to decide this case.” Ford counsel Garre referred a request for comment to the company. “We are disappointed in the result and are considering our options for next steps,” Ford spokeswoman Whitney Eichinger said in an email. Read more: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202672019224/Ford-Again-Loses-Bid-for-445M-Tax-Refund#ixzz3EwMz0BxE

+1 - I just experienced the same problem.