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Let me make this clear- my issue with ACC is it operates like a 16 year old boy is controlling the throttle when it needs to accelerate. It's really unnecessarily aggressive on the throttle inputs. I feel that being able to maximize fuel mileage is one of the things that makes a good driver a good driver. Ford's ACC programming does just the opposite- it uses significantly more fuel than necessary to make minor speeds adjustments on the highway..

Yea you can turn it off. I don't wan't to turn it off, I want it to be able to maintain a gap at highway speeds without it quickly stabbing the gas every 6-10 seconds to adjust the gap. It is quite inefficient- it costs me at least 3 MPG if I use it all the time in my commute. As always your mileage may vary. I'm not talking out of my ass here- I'm very good at maximizing fuel efficiency. For example, Ford has us in two rentals since our Edge and Fusion are Takata air bag cars with no parts available. I averaged 54 MPG in a 2018 Hyundai Elantra rental last night driving home 25 miles from work. It's rated at 37 on the highway and my drive consists of about 75% highway. I'm averaging 47 MPG overall on this tank so far, 170 miles into it. I'm very good at maintaining momentum, rarely using the brakes, timing lights, etc. Bottom line- compared to an intelligent human paying attention to the road who knows how to wring the best possible fuel mileage from a car, Ford's ACC is a total fuel hog.

Drill some holes. Anything can be mounted anywhere- it's just a matter of desire.

I find the acceleration portion of Ford's ACC too aggressive, and it wastes a lot of fuel compared to regular CC, which in turn wastes more fuel than just driving it with my foot. I still use ACC though, however when I come up on a slow car and the ACC slows the vehicle down to match, I then re-set it at the now lower speed after dropping back a little bit. Basically I try to avoid having the system "keep up" with a slower vehicle ahead since it is always on and off the gas trying to match the speed and it is really inefficient compared to a steady light cruising load that typical cruise control system provides. You can watch the instant MPG meter and see ACC tipping way too far into the throttle when it accelerates to match the car ahead. I have a hard time giving up 3~4 MPG because the software cannot drive as efficiently as me yet.

No one will make an electric water pump for the Edge, so it'd have to be custom. It' would definitely be cheaper just to run it and swap in a low mileage used engine if it blows.

They have a rinse, so you can drain it all out including the block drains, then run the rinse, drain it all again and re-fill with the good stuff.

Nothing like a 91 step, 26 page document on how to change coolant.

We got the rental- two actually. One for our Fusion and one for our Edge. Fusion rental is a Hyundai Elantra. Great mileage with a correspondingly weak engine. Ugly as hell. I like it overall, but mainly because it gets 35+ MPG without me even trying. Edge rental is a Subaru Outback wagon. Way uglier than the Hyundai, and it has a really bad intermittent rough idle with only 6K miles on it. Wife wants a different car when we "re-up" at 30 days.

Maybe when you look at one particular vehicle you can argue that- but, overall you and I would be better off if all American bought cars sold by American companies versus if all American bought cars from foreign car companies, no matter where the parts are made and the cars are assembled. Do you agree what that statement? Toyota's and Honda's profits do not benefit Americans. Jobs are one thing, but when you make cars and sell cars, you make a LOT of money. There's a reason there are so many car companies and models available- it's a very profitable product to sell. Basically, it's the most expensive thing 95% of people ever buy except for a house. Ford has sold tens of billions of dollars worth of just F150 Raptors since 2010. It didn't cost them even half that to design and build them. Those profits can either stay in the US and buy more US products, or they can go overseas and buy products made overseas. Yes, ideally, Ford would not have any assembly plants in Canada or Mexico, but they do. However, Ford has a LOT more auto assembly plants in the US than Honda or Toyota overall and cherry picking a couple vehicles assembly locations like you did is exactly that, cherry picking one example. Don't forget it's not just hard parts either. Where do all the engineers who design the cars live? Is that salary going to American engineers or Japanese engineers How about the accountants? All of the people who support the massive overhead of running a worldwide automotive manufacturing giant- all of those jobs can either be ours, or theirs.

Tell your kids to wake up and buy American made products.

The ones on our 2010 Sport still look like new. My wife can drive it to her destination and back without hitting curbs. I think they'll last forever (ie no peeling like chromed alum wheels) if you don't curb them.

Driving tip- don't run into curbs.

Chinese people.

Yea, what is really causing the failures? I mean, changing coolant is obviously good for lots of reasons, but does it really help prolong the life of the water pump?

After having 3 of 4 OEM Ford wheel bearings fail at less than 40K miles on a Taurus SHO I just bought- I'm going with SKF on the Edge.

Id use 3M weatherstripping adhesive. The yellow stuff. Its like contact cement but better.

What's any different under her dress? Seem the same to me. 1.5 does look a bit Asian with those eyes though.

It's not fixed if it reaks of oil idling at a stop.

TCE is the real deal.

The battery terminals on our 2010 Edge look brand new. We have about 65K miles on it.

Always cheaper to fix what you got than buy anything else, that's for sure. Plus no matter how bad it might be, it's the devil you know, right?

I did a vinyl overlay on ours. Looks perfect three years later.

Wow, that looks like something out of a 1986 Buick.

Pretty much a worthless feature anyways. If something is wrong, the check engine light will come on. No need for a "report" when it's all OK.

I always set mine up at 18" to the top of the ball.