ScubaDadMiami

I played with this today. For me, whatever was the last setting before shutdown (of the vehicle) stays the same at the next power up. If I turn off the power to the climate control, when I try turning it on using either the power or fan switch, the A/C turns on, and the fan goes at the highest speed. I tried using one of the directional switches, powering down the climate control, and then starting back up using the fan or power switch, and again the A/C comes on (though I can't remember if the fan turns on to the high setting). I had my temperature turned down to Lo, so I am not sure if this was part of the issue.

I think I will take the tires from 38 to 40, and that will about be it. I am already getting great fuel economy. After all, I made it from Miami to the border of Maine in less than 2.5 tank fulls!

Let me see.

Why doesn't Ford make this the spec? There must be some reason?

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I never know what to do about this kind of thing. I do not want to risk safety. That's my first concern. I don't know how changing things can ultimate affect safety/handling/stopping distance/wet road handling, and the like.

If you are talking about the main screen, it always goes back to the four quadrant "home" screen. I would also vote for the user being able to customize the screen.

I am particularly stupid in this instance (beside all of the other times), because I have had a pressure gauge from day one, and I never bothered to use it. I'll check again in a while, and certainly before I head back to Miami, just to make sure that everything is holding. I don't expect to find any leaks.

This is normal, if you don't have a passenger sitting in the seat, or if you have only something that is not heavy on the seat.

This past winter was the first time without constant AC use in my car since I moved to Florida, in 1981. On the other hand, I dive in a drysuit even when the water is 87F. Even I can't fully reconcile it. Let's see how you handle the 100 percent humidity, before casting sweat drops at us!

Yeah, I am going to call out the dealer for not putting the tires up to pressure during that service that I did just prior to this trip. It was over 90F when I left Miami, and it got to about 63F up north. I just can't see that swing being enough to take the pressure from spec down to that low. I am willing to bet that they were more like 34-35 PSI before I left Miami.

Check around for a post that I did on how to accelerate from a stop, including chasing up the threshold to keep in EV until about 13 to 18 MPH. Then,do a brief 2 Bar burn to get moving with traffic, and then try to reduce to 1.75 as soon as you can. After that, try to reduce to about 1.2/2000 RPM while you get near your intended speed. Using all of this works well in flat city driving, up to about 45 MPH or so. You will need to adjust the last step for getting up to highway speeds. Jus is much more the expert for other-than-city driving than I am. He's done some great posts on that.

Thanks. I'll bump them up when I check for leaks, in a few days.

I don't know of any.

I used DHA a lot in North Carolina. Looking forward to using it some more in New Hampshire and Vermont. For me, it does not engage (small "E") on flat terrain.

Welcome aboard!

I get about 10 MPG less with air conditioning use. I am not really finding much of a difference by using a higher setting for temperature. As said above, open your windows with the fob before entering the vehicle, drive with the windows down for a minute as you start down the road, blowing the last of the hottest air out before closing the windows. Do not use Auto, and always leave recirculate turned on. If you can possibly stand it, try not to turn on the air conditioner until ICE first turns on. That way, ICE will both charge the battery while also powering during the first operation of the compressor, which, from my observation in My View, draws a lot of juice when it first turns on.

Question: If my dealer inspects this and finds that it is not a problem, will they "clear" it on Etis? I had mine inspected, but I still see it as an issue on the Etis report.

I do not have these problems. Whatever was the setting at shut down, it stays the same when I next start up. If I was using A/C before shutdown, it is on again when I start up the next time. If it was off, it stays off (but fan is still on if left on). The one thing that I recently learned was that the passenger side will change to the driver's setting upon start up. The big thing is to remember NOT to use Auto. I turn things on by muscle memory, at this point, so I am having a problem remembering exactly what I do to turn on the unit, if it had been turned off. I think that I just use the fan button, not the power button, but I am not certain.

Speaking of NAV, I installed the A5 card just before departure. I suspect that it made a mistake in directing me through the traffic jam of DC, because I saw an I-95 Bypass kind of sign (to NY and NJ) that I was not directed to follow, and that was right where it led me to that major traffic jam. Other than that (and I can't even say if that was an error or not), everything worked perfectly. Here in New Hampshire, it did direct me to a carwash that was no longer in business. I also learned some new Synch voice commands by playing around with things. For example, I was able to add a waypoint to the route. Synch did direct me to use the screen for one step at the end, but it did most of the work by voice command. By the way, since this was the subject of a previous thread, I did get to search for Rest Areas along my route, and that worked by voice command without any problem. I usually buy my fuel from Costco, where they do not use gasahol but the real thing. I am not seeing any difference in my numbers by using the the ethanol 10 percent gasoline that I am forced to buy on the go. I am using high test, as I always do, so that could be contributing to the lack of difference I seem to have. I also don't see any difference in fuel economy by using the 0W20 oil. Since I didn't mention it before, I used Eco Cruise almost the entire time.

Hey, everybody, I just arrived in New Hampshire, walking distance to the Maine state line. Unfortunately, I can't post photos from my Android tablet (even though I was able to at least upload to the Gallery). So, I'll have to see about moving some photos into this post sequence, at a later time. Anyway, just to give you a good idea of some real world numbers, I drove the entire distance at whatever was the posted speed limits. However, there are a few exceptions to this, which I will state up front. Rather than drive 70 MPH, I limited my highway speed to 68 MPH. I hit traffic as I passed Washington, D.C. (very bad for about 45 minutes), New York City (just some slowdowns, nothing too bad), Hartford, Connecticut (surprisingly bad, but not too long of a distance), and Lowell, Massachussetts. If I had to guess my average speeds, I would say that I averaged 65 MPH from Miami to Philadelphia, and then more like 60 (speed zones ranging from 55 to 70) from there to the end. I used the air conditioner for about two-thirds of the trip, and I set the temperature to about 74 (sometimes 75, sometimes 73). I drove 1,566 miles, and my indicated fuel economy for the entire leg of the trip was 44.4 MPG. It was more like 42 to 43 from Miami through Washington, D.C., and then it got considerably better for the last part of the trip, which I imagine was due to decreased temperatures and passing the gradual incline of the early part of the trip. One last important footnote to mention: As I crossed the state line into New Hampshire, I got a low tire pressure warning. I figured that I had picked up a nail or something, but the tire looked okay. I only had 30 minutes to go, so I elected to keep going, hoping to make it to my destination. The next day, I checked the tire pressures, and they were down on all four tires, mostly to about 34 PSI, but with one just above 30--which I am guessing to be the one that set off the warning. I filled the tires up to 38 cold, and I am going to see what happens. I suspect that the dealer did not check or top up my tires at my 10,000 mile service, which I had done just before leaving Florida. On the other hand, it could be that the 30 degree difference in temperature outside played a part in this. The point is, that I suppose that my numbers could have been even better, had I checked the pressure before leaving Miami. More to come!