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I'm eager to see pics. I bet that looks good with a black FFH. All that service including house call, removing and replacing the tires, balance, etc was probably worth several hundred alone. Did he have to strip the existing paint first? I assume the wheels as they come from Ford are painted cast aluminum. That was a great idea, something that makes the car unique but won't subtract from the resale value.

I agree with all that the lack of a built in garage door opener is a bummer. A step down from my 2000 Ford Explorer, Eddie Baurer version that I traded in as a clunker, simply due to mileage (189K), not any other product shortfall. It had 3 garage door buttons in the sun visor. Anyway, I bought the one below for my motor scooter, and it comes in real handy, for all 3 garage doors. It is small enough to hang on a key chain. I have had it 3 years and the original button battery is still good, and it has a better range than my larger opener remotes. Genie model GMI-3BL. http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=5469763 $22.75 plus $5.95 shipping, USA

The extended long term warranty just started sounding more attractive.

Below is my information before we bought using Z plan. I think you mean the 502a option plan which I think is a bargain since the price of the sum of the parts would be more than the bundled cost, if you could buy them separately. We are very happy with the car and half of our enthusiasm for driving it on 3 major trips already is the feature package in the 502a. Our average mpg since new, based on actual fill-up data is 39.1.

For altitude, hit the "I" button in the middle for Info. The top left screen button on that menu is "where you are". After pushing that, you will find the altitude roughly in the middle of the screen. It is so small you have to really look hard, maybe you shouldn't be driving while trying to see it.

If you want significantly better mileage, slow down to 60-65 and don't use speed control. I'm not recommending it, it might not be worth it for you to compromise travel time and the convenience of speed control. But you might zero your trip mpg and try it once, just as an experiment. Speed control aggressively accelerates on minor hills to maintain speed, enriching the fuel mixture unnecessarily. A steady foot on the pedal doesn't do that if you can deal with the speed variation.

His casual comparison of the Camry Hybrid to the FFH shows that he hasn't done his homework on relative mpg.

Do you have a web address?

8K mile update on my full record of mpg since it was new is attached. My average keeps dropping. The dealer told me he has a friend at the gasoline distribution points and they are being told to use 15% ethanol, despite what the pump says. So I just filled up with 100% gas. The dealer said you can still find one 100% gas station in just about every town. A lot of older cars can't stand any ethanol. By the way, if you are adding air to your tires to get better mileage, keep these two things in mind. In general if you go over 38 psi, you start to reduce the tire to the road patch size, making your emergency braking less effective, like longer distance to stop. Secondly, you are also increasing the tire rolling radius, but your computer odometer just counts revolutions with a fixed rolling radius based on the specification air pressure. So you might want to check your odometer against marked mileage markers, like check it on a straight section of highway for at least 5 miles. You might find that your odometer is reading fewer miles by a percent or 2 than you actually went, which means you can increase your mpg calculation by that percentage.

In matters of taste, there is no right or wrong. :wacko:

My Wife and I agree. We both look forward to driving our FFH on short and long trips, because we know we are ahead of the curve on mileage, and with the moratorium on USA drilling firmly in place now, the price of gasoline is just going to keep going up. The handling, ride, and low noise of the car make it a pleasure to drive.

Yeah, that Sony logo is annoying, especially when you have already started backing out of your garage, and you need the rear view camera. Things I find useful but hard to find, are the altitude, (on the where-are-you screen under info), but so small you can hardly read it, and the ability to mark as an address point, where you are. I did it the other day but then couldn't remember how I did it next time I needed to do it. And I can't figure out how to put in a longitude latitude location. I find the altitude useful to often explain why the mileage is higher or lower than expected, knowing if you are going up or downhill, which you often are even if it appears that you are traveling level.

Beer Chug, I think you did solve the problem. Per your suggestion I tracked down and emailed the supplier of the OBD2 scanner with my complaint, and got this response: "sorry, it doesn't work the new cars, please buy the new, U581 OR U600, please check our website, www.uiftech.com thanks Nicolas" You've got to love China. So those in the market for an OBD2 scanner, be forewarned that just because the advertisement says works on all OBD2 compatible vehicles since 1996, it might not. Thanks, and have a nice day.

Here is the only thing the manual says: If a linking error message shows, turn the ignition off, check if he u380 connector is closely connected to the vehicles diagnostic socket, and then turn the ignition back on. If the linking error message still shows, there may be the problems for U380 communicate with the vehicle. It's made in China, so I don't think I'm going to get much tech service. There website is uiftech.com. It's not that old, I got it a year ago, and it has worked on several 04-08 vehicles. I was wondering if anyone else is having any OBD2 issues with the FFH.

Does anyone know why I get a "linking error" message when I hook up my U380 OBDII Memoscan Car diagnostic tool to my 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid OBDII? The scanner works OK on my 2000 Mustang.

Tell me more. I thought that E10 meant you didn't have to get the alcohol additives anymore (usually yellow bottle at O'Reillys), but I always used fuel injector cleaners anyway, which are different. I know that "gas treatments" can be either or but usually not as good as injector cleaner additives. When I traded in my 2000 Explorer with 187,000 miles on it, it had never had a fuel injector issue, and I treated the gas with fuel injector cleaners quarterly. But that's just one data point, maybe others had injector issues while using them.

This is not a recommendation, because I am not an expert on what is causing your problem. I have applied "Final Detail" , an expensive but quick to apply body wax to my Fusion from when it was new, to protect the paint. I have used it on two other vehicles in the past as well. I apply it to all the glass as well. I barely need the wipers because the rain beads and rolls off, unless the rain is very heavy. It reminds me of Rain-x that I used to use 15 years ago, but as I recall, Rain-x back then would leave a film in the wiper path after a few weeks. Final Detail doesn't do that for me, but then maybe there is something special about your windshield. Good luck.

This is not an answer, just conversation. I just got my FFH in August, and it came with a free dealer first oil change. The only thing I can find about oil change frequency in the owners manual is the maximum mileage per oil change is 10,000 miles. I have about 6700 miles on my first oil so I am thinking about doing this soon. I would assume changing the oil is no different than on a regular car, drain the oil pan, remove the filter underneath, replace the with a new filter, add 5 quarts on top. But I'm eager to hear first oil change experience from others since I haven't done it yet. I am guessing that a synthetic oil might be a good choice for the high mileage change suggested.

Looks like winter in Tennessee is affecting our FFH just like everyone else. Here is our latest fill-up record....

Id be interested in the gas mileage he gets. I hope he keeps records.

There are reports of failed Prius batteries which are often nothing more than corroded connectors. But of course, the dealers aren't trained to get inside the battery packs and replace corroded connnectors, nor is the customer or aftermarket encouraged to do the same, given the risk of an amateur fix-it guy frying himself with the 275 volts. Pruis replacement battery packs cost from $4K to $8K, depending on the story you are reading. Here are some Prius battery stories...: http://www.hybridcars.com/economics/hidden-costs.html I think the truth is nobody really knows what the service situation will be in 8 years, so it is all speculation, but I'm betting I will not have to pay more than $1K per 100K miles for batteries, since I will likely figure out a way to just replace the bad cells or connectors, if service is needed at all. I'm not the kind of guy who takes his car to a dealer and says fix everything, damn the cost. There will be forums explaining how to do it in that time frame. So I'm expecting to pay a $10 battery premium per 1000 miles for owning a hybrid, I think I will still come out ahead. At current prices ($2.40/gallon) that would mean I'm effectively only getting 34.3 mpg, versus th 40 mpg I am really getting, if I had no battery costs to worry about. Try to find and sedan as nice as a loaded Fusion that averages 34.3 mpg. If you follow the math, that last number improves, as the price of gas goes up. All speculation, granted, but the long term cost of batteries is not in my top 40 concerns.

Thanks! We are 2 months into it, and we have gotten quotes for ~$150 a year. We are new to Sirius and we like it alot, since when we travel (mostly hiking or skiing trips) we are often in remote areas where we can't get good AM or FM. We like the talk radio, Fox and CNN for news and commentary, plus specialized music. So that's 3 deals we will wait for at 6 months $12.95 for 3 months, $78 a year, or a lifetime for $275.

Turn your radio up.

After seeing that almost everyones long term mileage is low when they first start out, I am guessing that there is some process at the Fusion assembly plant in Hermosilla that involves some stationary idling, which will knock down the average FE. My complete mpg record is listed elsewhere on the forum, sounds like it is very close to everyone elses. I have just over 5000 miles now, and it is still a challenge to keep my averages over 40 mpg, it is not getting any easier. My measured by fill-up data overall mileage is 39.71, the computer long term is about one mpg higher.