2011 Edge repair shares & maintenance: What I've learned

[canucklehead]

I started with P0304 cylinder 4 misfire code. Swapped coil packs, no change, Swapped spark plugs, no change. Dumped 2 cans of Seafoam into full tank of gas, VOILA! Misfire cleared up in about 100 miles. Guessing crudded up injector. Not saying this is do all-end-all but a cheap attempt to try and fix. Try the coil then plug swap first to see if it triggers code for a different cylinder and that could be your easy answer.

 

Then I got Code P0174 System Too Lean Bank 2. Research says most likely vacuum leak, but other things like MAF can be cause. I checked and the rubber air cleaner hose to throttle body was very loose, clamp not tightened. Tightened clamps and so far seemed to fix. 

 

Car still runs a little rough, not 100% sure what is off. Spark plugs have 40K miles on them so they shouldn't need replacing. Air cleaner new. No codes on dash but just not running smooth, exhaust sounds a little frappy.

 

Dumped tranny oil. It holds 5L of Mercon LV. I may do this every oil change since I have a hoist and it is just a drain plug and fill procedure. Glad to see there is actually a dipstick and easy way to check fluid level. 2015 Escape I just sold was not set up this way. 

 

Headlights are weathered so i tried toothpaste and 400 grit paper...didn't help. Did some research and dude had great speed-video showing all the H/L restoration products so I am trying the Sylvania one to see if it restores these things. 

 

Replaced and re-programmed my TPMS sensors. All these vids saying off/on x3 etc..confusing! Mine has a 2 step off/on process vs other models that are just one off/on. Long story short: mine needs the start button pushed 8 or 9 times to hear honk to get it into TPMS learn mode. 

 

Hope this helps someone.