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Sometimes I argue with Samantha, but I know how to shut her up. :)

Skip ahead to 105:00 to see intro to IOS7 in your car which will allow viewing your Iphone screen on your car display. I don't see ford listed though. :sad: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2013/

FYI, In order to allow a break-in period for your vehicle, you may not be able to create a Vehicle Health Report until your vehicle odometer has reached 200 miles.

From the manual p209 Grade Assist... Provides additional grade braking with a combination of engine motoring and high-voltage battery charging to help maintain vehicle speed when descending a grade.

Text to voice works on my iphone 4 too, did you enable sync on your phone under bluetooth settings? Its weird getting a txt message from a guy and having a womans voice read it to you.

At least they didn't zero the odometer. If they found any problems during QC they probably fixed them too.

Very creative, can't you just leave the car running when you go in to eat with the doors locked or do you have to use the remote start after leaving the car?

I suppose its possible Ford broke-in your car at the factory, they may take a car off the line occasionally for quality testing. Then after testing they could zero out the odometer and put it back in with other production cars to be purchased. If your mileage doesn't improve over time then that may have happened.

Wow , Which dealer is this?

I have the dark leather seats and it does seem warm in there during the daytime, they look great though.

Mine came with brackets and hardware installed on both ends, I suspect the dealer installs that because I removed their ad from the brackets. If you bought if from a dealer try taking it back asking for the brackets and hardware.

Here is one that lets you use the 8" screen and add additional cameras , even allows watching videos during driving. Expensive and you also need to add the camera. https://www.coastaletech.com/cmaxlockpick.htm

Here is a link that shows the c-max mpg vs speed, also shows the prius.

Does EV+ get you all the way to the top of the hill coming home?

I believe that is the instantaneous fuel option symbol.

I drove my F350 1ton Truck this week which a V10 gas engine that gets about 10mpg and I was laughing because I was trying to pulse and glide and regen when braking. It just didn't help my mpg at all. :sad:

Did the reflash reset your lifetime mpg? That could account for the sudden increase in mpg.

Wow more than half of your miles are ev, are you sure your not plugging your car in at night? :)

I used eco cruise most of the time and I did up my tire pressure to 45 prior to the trip and used oregon's regular e10 gas. Bought the car here --> http://www.courtesyford.com, good experence buying there bought my last 2 fords there. No pressure from the finance guy. Haven't used the service department there as we live on the west side of town. They give one free oil change.

Yes, very pleased with my cmax's performance, exceeded my expectations. Expect it will exceed epa ratings once its fully broke in whenever that is.

Took my first trip from Portland OR area to Bellevue WA. Only had 720 miles of in town driving on cmax at the start of the trip with lifetime mpg of 42. Was expecting my lifetime to go down due to higher speed driving but that was wrong, mpg kept climbing the entire trip. Roundtrip was 459.1 miles. Drove 60 - 68 MPH for most of the trip. Got an even 45.0 mpg for the trip. Ending odometer was at 1179.6 miles. Lifetime ended up at 43.7mpg.

I think you just figured out the accelerated breakin procedure. In the 1960's my dad worked at a Dodge dealership in AZ and when someone would bring back their new car that was burning oil because the owner had been babying the car, he would take the car on the hiway and put it in low gear and go as fast he dared go until the rings would seat in the cylinders.

Wow , maybe Ford will make a commercial c-max van with all the seats in back taken out!

Saw this C-Max customer review on yahoo, makes we wonder if there is a problem with some of the c-max cars getting low mpg. Yahoo review

Is the ev plus the only use for the GPS if you don't have Nav?