jeffreybehr

SEARCH, yehven, Search, You'll find among other things a FoMoCo engineer pleading with everyone to use 5W20 oil year-round. I use RedLine synthetic and a Mobil 1 filter. And that postist's 'real (sic) life experience'? Unless he/she works in a test lab and can do contolled testing on a high number of engines (the way FoMoCo and all the other manufacturers do), one person can't possibly have enough experience to make such conclusions reliably.

RedLine 5W20 and a Mobil 1 filter. This synthetic was added at 4000 miles after a couple changes of deaddino oil and MotorCraft filters.

Thx, Freddy, I DO like the looks of that. Three corners of my car are dinged minorly, and I'll be getting those fixed soon. I'll have the foglite surrounds painted then and find out what they'll want to paint the grill.

FWIW, I agree with about 90% of what bbf writes. EVERY car owner should have a tire gage and check his/her tires regularly, perhaps every couple weeks. And every car owner who is having trouble with tires losing pressure and doesn't have or use often a pressure gage deserves all the bad service from his/her tires that the poor, neglected things give him/her. Ksaness07Edge: "What good would checking them myself do if I don't have nitrogen to fill them back up(?) I'd still have to go to the tire shop." Yes, you would, but YOU would know which tires are and aren't losing pressure, and eventually, after you have this problem isolated and fixed, you'll learn that your tires are indeed inflated correctly. Do you ever check your engine-oil level?

I've replaced all 4 of my doors' speakers. See http://www.fordedgeforum.com/index.php?sho...p;hl=front+door If you replace your subwoofer and would consider selling it, pls PM me.

07 MKX: "Your dating women now jeffery?, he has a big stereo if you like that" FIVE errors in one 'sentence'...approximates your IQ, huh?!?!?!

Welcome, Gloria. I hope you enjoy us. And yes indeed the smartasses are a PITA. I love your signature pic; is that you?

N, had you SEARCHed, you would ave found this http://www.fordedgeforum.com/index.php?sho...;hl=front+seats thread. Raising the front of the seat sure helped in mine, and I think I'll add a couple more washers.

Yes, it's an '04 Turbo that I owned for 4 years and had about 60,000 miles on it when I sold it to my nephew. He too loves it. It was the 1st car in 45 years of car ownership that had enough power. I bought it for its off- and on-pavement excellence, but then I quit landscape fotografy and off-pavement driving and felt I was wasting it (and premium gasoline, too). Here are a few more pics. This is Como Lake in SW CO. The 1st 2 are north of Como on the Alpine Loop. http://gorp.away.com/gorp/activity/byway/co_alpi2.htm

Abrannan: "jeffrey..that as your Porsche?" I don't understand the question.

"Love it looks great." TYVM. "How did they prepare the panels?" I have no idea; all I did was drop it off, retrieve it, and write a check.

Welcome, DPM; do you have a name? Feel like helping me with some Edge parts?...as in all the garage/service/wiring manuals...such as what are their titles, PNs, and retail prices? And then your real prices?

kbesner, akirby gave you good advice. FYI, here are the differences between actual MPG and indicated MPG for my 11 tanks I've kept this info. Positive numbers show the computer's results over actual results. 0.7MPG -0.6 -0.1 0.2 0.0 -0.3 0.3 -0.4 0.0 -0.2 0.3 So while the results from one tank might be off a bit, overall the computer is adequately accurate.

As I've written in other threads, I keep a spreadsheet of actual MPG. My SEL+ AWD now has c. 7200 miles on it and its cumulative MPG is 17.6. It now gets around 17 during local driving and over 20 on the hiway...around 20 at around 80MPH and around 23 at 65 - 70. The last 4 tanks' cumulative average is 18.5. BTW the highest difference between actual and computer-indicated mileage for the last-nine tanks is 0.4, and usually they're withing a couple tenths.

I found (at only 5'8" but a bit long-armed) that the lower cushion's front wouldn't raise enough to support my thighs, so I raised it myself about a half-inch, with a stack of large-diameter washers. Feels lots better.

Not for those of us who do NOT like garish.

Buy a powered subwoofer before you blow up what you have. Bass controls maxed and you want more thump, huh? I'm mighty glad I live no where near you. THX? Haven't heard about that in an Edge.

I agree--is is bold. I'd simply like it to look less garish.

Not a one in almost-7000 miles. I LOVE it.

The last 6 fills (October and November) for almost-2000 miles averaged 18.9MPG with my AWD Edge. These miles include a little more freway (65 - 78MPH) miles than earlier. The extremes of differences between the computer's rates and the real numbers are 7/10s high and 6/10s low (computer over/under actual), with the other 4 numbers much closer. I'm sure liking this thing. :yup:

I got mine from Tire Rack, with the ASA-brand wheels. The 1st set they sent were too short--the locknuts bottomed on the studs. TR had McGard ship a 2nd set to me; they fit correctly.

SEARCH, HD, Search--it's already on this forum somewhere.

Hmm...my manual indicates 5000 miles (= 8039KM) for severe conditions and 7500 miles (= 12093KM) for normal conditions. Those are substantially different than 5000 and 10,000KM. Are the recommendations for Canadian (?) Edges THAT different?

Interesting thread. Like 07_MKX, I too have been using the best engine oils money can buy for decades, and I too believe that the price of oil is about zero compared with the price of the vehicle. And just as on Bob Is The Oil Guy.com ( http://theoildrop.server101.com/forums/ubbthreads.php ), there are LOTS on opinions here that are very difficult to substantiate--but PLEASE, no one should read between that line. I used Mobil 1 for a few years, but after learning more on BITOG, I decided to go with a group-IV oil that uses a higher proportion of polyol-ester base stock; I chose Red Line and used that (5W40 and 10W40*) in my Porsche Cayenne Turbo for several years (and it's still using it with its new owner in Tucson). Another thing I like about RL oils is that their only engine oil to require and use viscosity-index improvers is 5W40. At about 4000 miles, I recently drained the Edge's 3rd fill of deaddino oil and filled with RL 5W20, and I'll be using that year-round here in the Arizona desert. I use Mobil 1 oil filters. * RL uses no hyphens in their viscosity designations.

Mine sure did. After many weeks, I think these are the perfect size and shape. A better view but before I had the valences painted.