SBGrad

Got the letter for 13C02 yesterday (along with a 2nd letter regarding 13B07), so I called my FLD today to set up an appointment. Surprise! They don't have the parts yet. I thought the letters didn't go out until the parts were in, but I guess I was wrong. DID make an appointment for 13B07, since I have a SAN-SFO-SAN trip coming next week-- should be interesting to see what sort of mileage I get. It was somewhere around 35mpg when I did the trip in December.

Heh heh, it's been -8- hours and I still don't have the car back. Just called the dealer, the tech guy has had problems with the dealer internet connection driopping. 'It's about 70% done,' and he swears I'll have it back today. Well, if the connection stops dropping.

ATT-- HTC Google Dev 1 it's at least 3 years old, and I don't even know WHICH version of Android it has, 1.5 or something. I don't have a data plan for the phone, and I have a newer tablet, so the lack of support for the old OS isn't really a problem for me. On the plus side, I've had no problems with it whatsoever, and it does have a hard keypad (which I also prefer).

Just took the car in for 10K oil change. Asked my SA 'who's the Sync expert around here?' She said she was, so I explained that I had 3.1.3 and that new builds had 3.5.1 and what's up with that? She hadn't heard about an upgrade, but I DID get an interesting tidbit out of the conversation. The SAs just put in the VIN into the computer and the DEALER COMPUTER tells them if the car requires any upgrades. Makes sense, that way the SAs don't have to try to keep track in their heads of the different combinations of software and what car gets what upgrade, they just look at the printout from the master computer. So, doesn't sound like there is any 3.5.1 in my future, since Big Brother hasn't given my car the thumbs up yet. BBBuuuttt, on the good side, the SA sounded genuinely interested in the whole issue, and she said she was going to look into it. When I get the car back I'll see what I find out.

...I'd try to get one of these!!! Slightly less hp than our Maxi (185), almost certainly worse gas mileage, but look at the benefits: 7.62 machine gun, nobody will ever cut you off-- more than once -2- spares! space for extra gas cans panoramic view that puts moonroof to shame

Wow, you're way past the 1200 files I have on a thumb drive. Still, external hard drive isn't a bad idea. Drop it into the Bottomless Pit of Storage and you should be set. I take it that this exrternal HD doesn't require power? My Western Digital 500MB drive does have its own power cord, so I probably wouldn't put it in the car on a daily basis.

Dueling trips? I haven't heard about one of those in a long time. The very last duel in California, Broderick and Terry (1859) they had to travel over the city line after the police stopped their 1st attempt to duel a few days earlier. More famously Alexander Hamilton had to travel across the river to meet with Aaron Burr.

Yah, what PW said. I have a Windows Vista computer, Vista automatically rips CDs if I put them in the drive. Once I had all 100+ CDs ripped, I took a thumb driv, popped it in a USB port on my computer and simply copied all the folders (Windows made one folder per album) to the thumb drive. I didn't have to format the drive or anything. Once I popped the drive in the Max USB port, everything worked. Well, MFT has to index the thumb drive, that took about a minute on my machine, but after that, Bob's your uncle. I have no idea if it works the same way in the Mac/iTunes world.

Do we really care what the MPG of a Prii is? I mean, they wake up in the morning, and they're still driving a car with no acceleration, that makes a lot of noise, has a off centered (to the driver) video display (I might add, a monocromatic display, if that display was a phone it would have a dial!), and a stick shift that belongs on a video game.

At the office we have a 4 1/2 level parking structure. The 'basement' half level and 1 and 2 are always full. Up on 3 about half of the spaces are mostly empty. In the empty section (farthest from the stairs) is where you see all the cars without license plates. By some unspoken rule, the 'regulars' park every other space. Just about once a week somebody will park next to somebody else, but it is always a visitor/transient parking next to one of the regulars.

The engineers told you 10/11 times, with 30 seconds between each cycle?! Seriously? I love the car, but their cheat codes need work-- a lot of it. It needs to be easy, like going into Engineering Test Mode. ..not this is on you, it's most definitely on Ford.

Trying to find space for CDs in a C-Max? or another car? 'cause I've got over 100 CDs in the center console. On a thumb drive stuck into one of the USB ports. I stil haven't put an actual CD into the slot yet-- I have no idea if it works.

Full on awesomeness.

It would drive me crazy, my blood pressure would go up a whole lot. If they were directly in front of me they would be getting high beams flashed at them for sure. As far as getting your personal MPG higher, put it in eco-cruise whenever possible. Leave the HVAC off if it isn't too hot outside-- today it was 81 and not only did I put on the HVAC, but the AC as well--buh bye MPG.

The kinda scary thing is, the display says 12.2 gallons burned, yet you say it took 13.88 to fill it up again. I've seen the same thing in my car, it was off my 1/2 a gallon last time I filled it. How are we suposed to know when to fill this thing up? ..and this is really a rhetorical question on my part. We've talked about this in the DTE thread, I'm not really looking for an answer. I did show some pictures to the Ford engineers, showing gallons burned vs gas station receipts. He was slightly surprised, and made some notes on it.