Mark426

Its fancy car wax.

Could someone tell me what a CD player is?

That's the way the doors are designed to work. On every car I have owned the door locks worked that way as well. I THINK some import cars do require you to unlock the doors before they will open from the inside but not sure about that. Activating the child locks will prevent the rear doors from opening when locked as others have already posted, but only for the rear doors.

Red El Camino with fake wood trim and to make it more awesome, a huge CB radio antenna. EDIT: I now realize that teens have no fashion sense at all.

I had mine done a week ago and it either was not really done or done correctly. No changes in anything (EV+ or 65mph EV limit), I suspect they didn't do it at all even though the work order ticket says it was accomplished. Makes me wonder if the headliner recall I also asked for was done.

8200 miles with 43.1 mpg lifetime.

Accessory/add-on/option...Daytime running lights and memory seats. Not an accessory /add-on but as said earlier...get rid of the shifter and use push buttons or go with a Prius style shifter. The center console would then be actually useful. I don't really understand the purpose of a huge shifter in the 1st place.

hummm.... I have no complaints about the build quality or have I had any mechanical issues. Maybe I got lucky or maybe some of the complaints came with the build dates prior to mine (3/13). Last week I spent almost an hour checking every single area of my Maxx trying to find some defect since I was going in to the Ford shop to have the rear bumper protector installed. Nothing found. I will agree that Fords Mytouch is strangely designed, but is no worse than any other car companies (cant understand why they are ALL so bad). However...I didn't buy it for the somewhat lame Mytouch system that I knew would be less than it should be.

1996 Ford F150 with 130,000+ miles. Has had zero problems and the only maintenance has been the scheduled items as outlined in the owners manual. Looks/runs almost as good as new. Prior F150 had a similar history in its 100,000 miles. C-Max (build date 3/13) with 5800 miles has had none of the problems I have seen here. So far perfect. Well..almost...I can sometimes make the guide lines disappear from the rearview camera if I put it in reverse before the display has booted up. So....long story short. My Fords have been damn good. I cant say that about my wife's Honda Odyssey we got rid of for the C-Max, but that's another story.

Mine doesn't.

If you are asking about the little white engine symbol at the end of the outer Kw band, it's just to indicate that that outer band is the engine indicator. The inner blue band has a similar reminder that is noted by the EV letters to let you know that it is the electric motor indicator.

Interesting... I haven't had a car in decades that didn't have the nozzles on the hood. Guess we have been driving different brands.

I believe its the antenna for the GPS device that the NSA installed in all recent US automobiles. I removed mine the same day I removed my implant.

My dealer dropped the price, along with 2 others to match www.truecar.com. A little over $2300 off the sticker (incl. the $750 Ford rebate)

My experience is the same as lowbars. Zero problems with the nav or anything else either. I was concerned I wouldn't like the nav system, as most every "built in" system I have used in other cars was nearly useless and the user interface was awful at best. I am pleasantly surprised with how nice the Ford system is to use. I say...go for the big package.

When I bought my SEL/302a, I used www.truecar.com pricing service. Within a couple of hours 3 near by dealers responded and agreed with the price truecar provided. Since I had already looked at/driven a friends C-Max all I needed to do is go in the next day...give them my money and drive out a little over one hour later. The total price quoted was out the door ..... in my case there were no other fees. Your mileage may vary. Below is a screen shot: ========================================================== Your Preferred Vehicle Price Configured MSRP Configured MSRP includes a base vehicle MSRP of $28,365, a destination fee of $795, and additional options valued at an MSRP of $3,820. The configured MSRP also includes regional fees. $32,980 Guaranteed Savings $750 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid Customer Cash This incentive may not be combined with the following incentives: 2013 Ford C-Max HEV Special Trade-In Assistance Bonus Customer Cash Not combinable with some finance incentives.. See dealer for details. (Expires 04/01/2013) -$1,954Additional Estimated Savings Your selected preferred options have an MSRP of $3,820. -$411 Based on a configured MSRP of $32,980 This is your Estimated Savings -$2,3657.17% off MSRP Based on your selected vehicle preferences This is your TrueCar Price EstimateDoes not include dealer documentation, administrative or processing fee. See below for details. = $30,615

My SEL/302a with a build date of @ 2/13/13 has been flawless for 2000 miles. Lifetime mpg of 42.2 I can think of dozens of improvements but the existing functions have worked as advertised. I think the new software will fix most of the problems the early adopters have experienced. Sounds like the update for these folks will be out very soon, like in days, not weeks. Hopefully they will be rewarded for their patience. Mark p.s. correction...I can make the guide lines disappear from the rear camera if I shift into reverse before the MFD fully boots up. Requires going back into the settings menu to reactivate. So...almost flawless.

In addition to the many great suggestions, add: 1) Adaptive cruise control 2) Heads-up display for at left the left screen

Mine have disappeared twice. Have to go back thru the menus and turn it back on. Haven't figured out what or why they disappear. MAYBE its the shifting into reverse before sync boots up? Will test this theory out...if I can remember. Build date 2/10/13

OK... shortly after a previous post , UPS delivered our replacement gray mats. They are somewhat darker than we expected. Opted for the Digital Liners in the front and All-Weather mats for the back. The Digital Liners would make the in floor rear storage compartments almost impossible to access IMO. Note: the rear All Weather mats are noticeably darker than the front Digital liners. fishead924, you describe the Digital Liner colors perfectly. With both equally mismatching, to my eye the gray looks the best of the two color choices for stone interiors and will probably be more stain resistant in the long run.

WE ordered the tan mats for our light stone interior and thought they looked too brown. Exchanged them for the gray mats. As soon as UPS shows up with the replacements we will see if we made the right decision.

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We have had our SEL for 2 weeks now and our NAV works flawlessly (fingers crossed). No off-road problems, lost position or any of the other malfunctions posted here. Maybe the software update cures most of the problems with the earlier versions. Only knock is voice command is just OK, but no where near perfect. But in Fords defense, I have yet to find any voice control that works perfectly more than 80% of the time. My android speech recognition stuff is pretty good though. Anyway, I rather run through the screen inputs on most any device at this stage of technology. Once you understand the "Ford Way" its fairly fast and easy. I do wish there was some way of overriding the lock outs while moving. Build date of @ 2/13/13 with latest software.