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I've tried it in sport and normal in both drive modes. To be honest I can't see much difference between both modes, enough that I'm not even sure what mode i'm in now since I last toyed with it. So you say you can feel how solid the car is through the steering wheel?

Hey guys, I dunno alot about cars and all the terms and whatnot, but whenever my edge gets up over 60mph, and obviously it gets worse the faster you go, but I get this feeling like I've already lost grip on the road. The car is solid, but I just can't feel it at all. Combined with how quick the steering responds it's caught me off guard alot. Is that just how it is with electric steering, or are there any aftermarket suspension parts that would improve that?

Are we sure the new ST is using the new generation 2.7L with the dual injection? I could never find anything that stated that, it still looks like the old 2.7L, and it may be that the 2nd gen 2.7L is wider with port injection and may not fit in the Edge. I love my Edge but I want you to know exactly what you're getting.

2018 Ford Edge Sport: -The lack of feeling in the steering, it's kinda scary at high speeds to have no sense of grip on the road from the steering wheel. I'm also not quite used to the adaptive steering, I feel like it's overly responsive at highway speeds, but I'm sure I'll get used to that as I drive it more. -The cooled seats turned out to be not all that cool.

Yeah buddy! I will be sure to steer clear of them now that I've been warned. Shady business practices should be rewarded with lost sales.

Hey Welcome, tacbear! Grats on the Edge Sport. I am jealous, I want one too! Also Hi from Alabama as well. :3

You completely lost me somewhere in the middle of that paragraph.

I'm pretty adamant about what I want. If I go with an F150 over the Edge, this is the exact pre-built configuration and color I want. It's only really an option on the table right now because I am mildly concerned with the direct injection engine in the 18 Edge, and I'm not a fan of the 19 facelift.

Nice, there's a slim chance I might get one too over a new edge. We'll see what kind of deals roll in when it's time to turn in my lease.

not yet

It's ok. It probably means people are out driving their Edges. :3

I hadn't. I looked it up to be sure, but I definitely favor the look of the Ford over Lincoln. Just my personal preference. :3

I finally had the opportunity to test-drive a sport today. There is a 100% chance that I am getting a sport or an ST. I'll test out the pedalMAX, and if I like it I'll just use it for my sport whenever I get it. But that thing in "S" mode was a beast on it's own. I love it, now I just need to decide on a color and either get used to the look of the new ST or start thinking about how I can get as much money taken off the sticker price of a Sport when the time comes. My final lease payment is on 12/30, and the dealer is telling me they'll pay the lease off 3 months early, so I have to sit and stew for another 6 months. ;__;

Yeah, it sounds like alot of work. I'm not too worried about it now though. I finally got a chance to test drive a sport today, there's no way I'm not getting one now. :3

I decided to try the pedalmax. I'll let y'all know what I think, lol.

Oh, I was out checking my mail today and on the way back I was looking at my car and it dawned on me what you were talking about.

Really all I want is those shaped exhaust tips and a bumper molded to conform to them. Since my SEL has black plastic trim all around it would look a little weird to suddenly transition to a painted bumper, but I seem to remember while the sport bumper is painted, the actual insert where the plastic conforms to the exhaust tips is black....and I just looked it up and I am correct. https://i.imgur.com/J0s16GW.png So I'm really just looking for the black insert piece and the chrome tips. I saw some online that were aftermarket without the chrome tips that didn't look bad, althouth it made the back of the edge look weird, a little tall like a Transit Connect van.

How difficult would it be to swap out the lower bumper and exhaust tips to make a regular SEL Edge look like a Sport on the backside? While I am at it, how difficult would these parts be to acquire if its possible? I didn't seem to have much luck finding any.

It was certainly something on my list of options I wanted to try. For $300 bucks solving half of my complaints with a car I am very happy with, and possibly solving other complaints because if I didn't have to guess when the power was kicking in, I could better handle steering torque, I think. I can probably look this up on my own, but I hope JMS has like a 30 day return policy. It would be nice if I could try it out and if it does what I like, great, but if I wasn't happy with it I'd like to not have a $300 dollar paper weight. Then after my my warranty had expired I would like to have gone for the BOOSTMax or I saw a really nice race chip? product that sounded nice. Would have put my car at 311HP as they advertised it. Kinda worried about the torque on that, but I understand the first 2.7L Sport had a FWD option? lol, I wonder how that thing handled...anyway, this part of the conversation is probably better suited for a technical or performance forum. :3

I don't really know anything about them and finding a general consensus on the internet is kind of hard. I actually have been on this forum before researching it and these guys were arguing about it: http://www.fordedgeforum.com/topic/22557-jms-pedalmax-g2-edge-sport/?do=findComment&comment=170295 I wish I knew how to tag people so I could ask for a little more detail. To me the PEDALMax sounds like all I really need, minor installation, but this Nick Halstead guy seems to think despite claims that a Ford technician would be able to tell this type of aftermarket product had been installed, and it would be my luck if something in the drivetrain were to go wrong that this would void my warranty and worse, since I am leasing. Really sounds like its not worth it in the end.

I've read up on the PTU issues, I've even seen MacT's video regarding it. I accept the failures of Ford on this design and would be prepared to properly maintain the PTU either by paying a mechanic to do it or getting the proper tools to take care of it myself. I'm not real keen on the idea of picking up a used vehicle. I've had bad experiences with used cars in the past, but putting that all aside, I just prefer to know how my new vehicle was treated beforehand. You can see a service record easily enough, but it's hard to tell just how hard a car was driven for however many tens of thousands of miles before they traded it in. Personally there is a series of S turns going up and downhill that leads to my house, and everyday I drive it as hard as I care to push it, being its a residential road. I put alot of load on the shocks and springs and the engine does a fair amount of work holding gears while I fall down the hill. It's nothing too bad, it probably holds 3500-4000 rpms, but it holds it what seems like forever, probably 10..15....20 seconds, before it finally shifts again. That's actually another complaint I have about the edge, the shifting habits of this particular transmission are very strange, and for me, uncomfortable. So when I turn this in though, the next guy's not gonna know how hard I worked the suspension or how long I let this engine hold moderately highrevs. I'm a bit older and not really all that flashy, so I think I am not unreasonable in worrying how the last guy drove an edge, especially if I'm considering the sport model. As far as the 3.5L goes. I drove it the other day and I am not a fan. I prefer more torque up-front for the quicker acceleration over the top-end the 3.5 might offer with the extra 30 HP. It just seemed really sluggish compared to what I've gotten used to. For me it's either going to be another 2.0L engine or the 2.7L. This is how I drive all day every day. I haven't used D since I discovered sport mode a few months after owning it. And it really doesnt pay to mash the gas on this one, the throttle response is delayed either way and I've always felt like mashing the pedal just chokes smaller engines, so I always ease into it. Even easing into it it's just really annoying to have virtually no power at all and to crawl out in front of vehicles, then to suddenly have a metric fuckton of torque while you've got the wheel turned 45 degrees. On the plus side I've gotten pretty good at straightening that wheel in a hurry. EDIT: I should add after watching MacT's video I was curious if he stopped at 2016 because of when he made it, or if there has been a fundamental design change on the AWD PTU going to the 2017 model?