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cgul

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  1. talked in the in vehicle technical support line again - pretty much forget about getting it in the first quarter, they still have no idea. To add insult to injury tried going to the official support site - syncmyride.com and they don't support access with IE10 - which is the only version of IE that works on Windows 8

     

    That's odd!  I am running IE10 with Win7 and it works great. Could it have something to do with Win8?

     

    My NAV also works as it should or maybe I should say so far, in four months, no problems.

  2. My 2010 Fusion hybrid I traded for the Cmax had an Engineering Test Mode that could be entered at start up. I found out how to do this in the Cmax. When starting hold the ok button on the left of the steering wheel and start the car. In the left panel you will have the test mode which you can scroll with the up and down arrow keys. It has a lot of interesting information in it. If you haven't already tried it you might want to check it out. This mode will exit when you shut the car down.

     

    Charles

  3. I remember the first computer I built. It was a XT. My son was about five years old and played games on a PC junior we had. I was going to give him his own hard drive on this one. I bought two 10mb hardrives and a controler card for the sum of $895. I had about 3000 dollars of hard to come by money in it but it worked great. By the way that same son is 38 now. I have one of the Scan Disk Drives except mine is a 32gig. It great if you don't lose it.

  4. The weather has not been cold and my mileage is doing very well. I am pleased with it.

     

    This is the mileage on the present tank:

    Tank 2934

     
    One trip on the same tank:

    Trip 2 2934

     
    My lifetime mileage which was reset at 600 miles:

    Lifetime 2934

     
    The CMax will get the EPA mileage. This is NOT holding up traffic either. I try to run with traffic but use EV as much as I can. The HVB charges a lot faster than my Fusion hybrid did. By the way, I use my heater every cold morning just as I would with any other car. We have had some mild weather but it has changed today. I bought my CMax Nov. 9. It was one the dealer had ordered for stock and he called the morning it came in. Its build date was Sept. 17.

     

     

     
  5. My scangauge shows 14.8 volts with the car running and I just checked after sitting for about 5 hours in the garage 12.9 volts. I had to put the car in accessory mode for the scangauge to come on and the headlights and radio were on also but the engine was not running of course.

     

    I just checked the voltage after about 20 hours and it checks 12.16 volts with my expensive DVM. The scangauge still reads 12.9 so I would say the scangauge voltage readings are about .7 volts high.   

  6. If the doors are locked, the first kick unlocks.   The second kick activates the lift.  

     

     

     

     

     

    As my Grandpa said: "You just gotta old your mouth right sometimes".

    Mine don't work that way. If the doors are locked, it opens with one kick and the doors stay locked. When I kick again to close it, it closes and the lights blink to tell me it is closed and the doors are still locked. With the doors unlocked it opens with one kick but the lights do not blink when I close it. I stand in the center of the car and kick straight forward under the bumper and stepback a step as I bring my foot back. Works every time.

  7. Another option is to use both the gas engine and the electric motor to start the car from a standstill.  I noticed that when going up the on-ramp to enter the freeway, both the gas engine and electric motor are working (although only briefly).

     

    This is best, get up to speed and use EV mode to maintain speed. I always drive trying to conserve the HVB charge as much as I can as it takes fuel to recharge unless you have down hill grades to recharge, regen braking also works great down hills. I know other drivers say "look at that old man riding his brakes".  I also use gas if I need to increase speed and save the HVB for maintaining speed. On the 2010 Fusion hybrid it took a lot more attention to keep the HVB charged than on the C-Max. The C-Max's Lith-Ion battery holds the charges and charges much better than the Fusion. All this sounds like I am a "hypermiler" but I don't consider myself one. I try to go with the flow of traffic. I have some recent pictures of my fuel miliage in the thread on 60 mpg

     

  8. I don't consider myself a hypermiler but have driven hybrids over five years. First a 2007 Camry hybrid then a 2010 Fusion hybrid which was a great car but I needed more luggage space so I now have my C-Max SEL. A few shots of mpg. I did get over 60 in one and I was not holding up traffic, just going with the flow.

     

    TS 1456

     

    TS 1400

     

    Trip 2 1456

     

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