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Originally Posted by Escape08TR  I am still getting the oil change due 5% message even after the oil change. Do I need change something or did the dealership forget to update it? Thanks for any help! |
If I do remember correctly, the manual says that whatever intervention you're doing to the car that has to do with the message center, it takes some kilometers (or miles) driven in order for the computer to 'understand' them and apply changes in its messages. Sounds stupid to me but this is what it says in the manual. I don't really know if it applies to oil changes but you might want to ask the dealership alright.
The liftgate thing seems to be a major bug, indeed. Mine has it and a lot of people are writing on the forum(s) about it. To me, it happens when a) all other doors are properly closed and b) the heater fan is on. I figured out that there is a buildup of pressure in the car that eventually prevents the door from closing properly. What I do is rattle it every time to check it's properly closed. If it's not, I am opening any door, close the liftgate then close that door too. I will take the car tomorrow to the dealership to have a mirror fixed (cracked due to extreme temperatures, -36 Celsius) and I will address this too. If they can fix it I'll write here.
I don't really know what you mean by 'sluggish' in terms of acceleration. I am not a speed guy myself, so the pace this car has is quite fine for me. I am very aware that it's neither a Porsche Cayenne nor a Grand Am, but just a cheap CUV. So I don't expect it to make it from 0 to 100 km/h in 8 seconds. In this regard it behaves normally. Now if you have someone which does 70 km/h on the highway and you want to pass them but the car won't let you, that IS definitely an issue and has to be corrected. Keep in mind though that you really need to put the hammer down to have the Duratec deliver its full power. In other words, the 200 horsepower that they advertise won't show up until you hit 6000 RPM on your tacho. That's what I've read about the 3.0 liters engine, I don't know about the smaller one.
I've done a test drive yesterday in some very extreme conditions. I'll put a short story on this forum (and a couple other Ford forums too) about it as soon as possible. What I want to say though is that, on icy and snowy roads (no sudden accelerations) it behaved absolutely ok, and it stays around 2000 RPM at 100 - 105 km/h, which should give a very decent mileage and very low engine noise. The Contitracs are noisier than the engine itself if you ask me (haven't changed them yet). I cannot test the acceleration too much, all our roads are covered in hardened or frozen snow right now and they will stay like this at least until next month.
On a side note, being sluggish might have to do with the intelligent system the car uses. This model is known to have a history of capsizing (rollover) and even the user manual and the sun screen sticker warn you about this risk in case of sudden maneuvers. Perhaps it's this limitation that prevents you from doing this and that with the car. Remember that the safety canopy, the side airbags and the stabilizer front bar are the very attempts to solve or soften this particular issue (anyone can correct me if I'm wrong but I remember about a class action suit against Ford for the early Escape models rolling over a couple of years ago).
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