Jena61 Posted November 21, 2010 Report Share Posted November 21, 2010 CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO WHAT A MY TOUCH IS? AND ABOUT WHAT DO THEY COST? JENA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowesdell Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 My Ford touch is an 8 inch touchscreen for phone, navigation, radio and climate. So instead of buttons that you are used to pressing, you can control those 4 things through 1 touch screen. You can make the whole screen any one of those 4 to get detailed control, but access to the other three is easy because each one is shown in a different corner. The only way to get navigation on the Edge is if you have MFT. It is an option, and you can see pricing and a video on the fordvehicles.com website. It is different from Sync, which is voice control, where you just say "Call Mike" if you have BLuetooth enabled phone, or say "106.5" to change the radio station, or say the address of a destination for the navigation. Some people are having some problems with it, but it is a new product. I have had mine for 6 weeks with only a few minor, intermittent, annoying problems, nothing to make me dislike the car or MFT. A software update should be out soon, so I am not worried. I have never had to pull fuse 29 that a lot of people refer to, and mine has only had the "regular maintenance" screen show up twice, and it is only there for a minute. I was wondering if there are a lot of widespread problems with it, so I was looking on the web and the only place I am finding people reporting problems is this forum, several consumer and car sites show nothing. I don't know how many '11s with MFT have been sold, but if Ford is selling about 9-10,000 Edge's a month, and they have had two full months of selling the 11's, I am just guessing that at least 50% have MFT (? a guess), so there are roughly around 15-20,000 out there with it. (And the 50 people who have bought Lincoln MKX's!, Just a joke. I bought my Edge from a Ford/Lincoln dealership and my wife looked at the MKX. Salesman talked her out of it saying it is basically an Edge for 10 grand more) I would think that is enough to get a good sample of common problems, I just don't know how people have been reporting them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilsons66604 Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO WHAT A MY TOUCH IS? AND ABOUT WHAT DO THEY COST? JENA Ford has two systems. Sync and My Ford Touch. My Ford Touch is the new touch system found in in the 8" screen on the 2011 Edge. Sync is in many other Ford models. The 4" screen in the 2011 Edge's cluster is a version of Sync. That said, The new Edge has both systems. They try to stay in sync but the current My Touch software bugs prevent that from being a smooth experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilsons66604 Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 I was wondering if there are a lot of widespread problems with it, so I was looking on the web and the only place I am finding people reporting problems is this forum, several consumer and car sites show nothing. I think Google is the reason that this forum is the only place you find reports of problems. The first thing people do is Google. I found this forum via Google. This forum is THE PLACE to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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