DaveM

On yours when a passenger sits in the seat do you have to manually turn on his temp function? I do first time but as long as there is a passenger in the seat each time I start car it remembers he is sitting there and displays his personal temp. If I start car without a passenger it no longer shows and when passenger again sits in car he/she needs to again touch either the up/down display or touch duel on the thouchscreen as it disengauges the settings. Does yours do the same?

I too used that mode while learning the functions of the Hybrid. I also have used it a number of times while waiting for the wife to pay for gas.

On our hybrid it does NOT work unless someone is sitting in the seat. And each time someone sits in the seat it has to be manually turned back on if no one sat in the seat last time car was started. Stupid but thats the way Ford made it.

Then why are you reading it?

Yes it would be nice to have the push button start in as much as I can then leave my key in my pocket but as far as whether I have to turn said key or push button that in itself makes no difference to me and I think we are making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Good point but I too miss just walking up to the locked car, pulling the handle and the door unlocking and opening. Getting in, pushing a button and away we go. My wife like I'm guessing most wives would love not to have to hunt for her keys and can leave them to vegitate in the bottom of her purse since they are no longer needed. I'm guessing these will become more common in years ahead.

Come on, every 30 days. Maybe once a year or 18 months. You don't even check the engine air filter that often and it sucks a heck of a lot more dirt than the cabin does.

I have the liner but where the left foot rest is they just lack a good 2 or 3 inches in height. You set your wet, snowy foot there and crap drips behind the liner. Actually same around the gas petal.

I wrote a email to Weathertech about the same problem. I would have cost them maybe 2 cents more to extend the mat up a few more inches at that point but of course, no reply.

Mine does that when it is very cold out and the car hasn't warmed up. But once I driven a few miles the indication of battery charging while braking reappears. I hope this is normal.

I have never had the haze you talk about. Maybe there is something on your windshield or try a different window wash.

Maybe yours was made by Toyota.

Sounds a little high for a off brand warranty. That is all I paid for my 7yr. 100K on mine and it is through Ford so I don't have to ever worry about any hassles getting something done, nor jump through the hoops.

I have had many cars since ABS came out and I can't think for the life of me one that didn't do what you say the Prius is doing.

Have you checked to see what your dealer charges per hour labor? Just one repair could easily pay for your warranty. My neighbor had a seatbelt replaced out of warranty and it cost him almost $800 because the tech had to figure out just what was wrong with his car. The seatbelts are wired into the computer somehow and it was causing a fault to show up that led down the wrong path. We read here of some odd ball electrical problems that are hard to track down. Would you rather the dealer track them down on your dime or Fords? 20 years ago I wouldn't hesitate on skipping the extended warranty and I did so sucessfully but in this day and age of almost all electronics running almost everything on the car I think the extended warranty is worth its weight in gold.

Your wasting your time as Ford has nothing to do with the map updates. This is handled by private companies who get their information from the Feds, States, Counties, and cities and with the economy in the dump and all the governments laying off people updating their map databases I'm sure is on the very last page of important things to do.

I'm glad mine is built in and ALWAYS there to use without having to worry about someone stealing it or having to take it down and put it back up each time I enter the car.

Number 4 is against the law in most places plus if a thief breaks the window and drives away your insurance won't pay.

That don't sound worthless to me. On my FFH it doesn't matter as the headlights come on when needed and when they aren't on I have the daytime running lights on that I had turned on when I bought it.

I'll have to check that out, I didn't know we had altitude as this is the first Nav car (4) I've had that had that option. I too think this is great.

Yes it has as I have one without it. They changed the shape of the opening to completly round now but it looks like the cover is missing which it isn't as the picture of the old hole is different.

Another thing I think wasn't well thought out is the little plastic hooks in the trunk for plastic grocery bags. They are almost on the floor. Why didn't they put them up about a foot or so?

Ok, I've had my FFH now since Oct. and of all the technology on this car including the Nav the thing I find the most worthless is the Calendar. I see no reason for even having it. I had a Toronado once that when you first started it up would greet me on screen with Good Morning/Afternoon/evening (name) depending on the time and say today is Jan. 16, 2010. This all scrolled across the screen. I'd rather see the computer room used for something like this but I have to look at the Sony Logo instead. So what do you think is the most worthless option or whatever on your Fusion.

Doing as it should. Keeping the front window from fogging over do to you being in the car. If you don't like all that air than the simple answer is TURN DOWN THE FAN.

I think the Hybrid is a geat smooth riding car. But I'm 63 not 83 and have driven/owned a number of sports cars performance cars and like that type of ride. Before losing a lot of money getting rid of it why not talk to some aftermarket auto places and have them put softer shocks/struts on it. Would be a lot cheaper in the long run. A lot of it is you were brought up in the time when everyone thought a car should ride like a boat and float down the road. Now people realize this can be dangerous and you just don't have the control over a big old boat floating down the road.