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My final payment is next year. I’m wondering if anyone that wanted to keep their Mach-E has found the “residual” on the “lease”/Options loan is significantly greater than the market value of the car. In such a case, it would be cheaper to turn in the car (not make the final payment on the...

I don’t normally lease, but there are exceptions that make it worthwhile (explained below). Buying my FE was such an exception for me. My day 1 plan, unchanged is pretty simple. First, I pre-paid for the life of the lease, meaning the only interest I actually incur is for the lease time of...

Just a data point: I regularly travel from Tempe to Lake Patagonia, in the opposite direction from Flagstaff. It’s 175 miles and I go from 1200 feet to over 5200 (ending at 4300). Most of the trip is at 75-80 MPH. My First Edition (AWD) gets there with over 35 miles reserve. Coming back...

I renewed BC for $600 last month, but Ford didn’t charge my card until Jan 1, and BC was disabled for all of Jan 1, resuming on Jan 2.

Have you tried one of those fix-a-crack windshield repair guys?

Google: "Siri replied, 'Yes, Ford can turn on your wipers. Here is a link to the on-screen user manual for enabling Ford to turn on your wipers.'"

I believe texts in the car can only be managed by Apple or Android SW, and it would likely be a huge liability for Ford to store any of those messages beyond them being cleared from the display. Perhaps they note that a message was handled by a specific phone and time through the car’s display...

Chapman Ford, Scottsdale, Arizona Sales and service both excellent. Much better than was Chapman BMW in Chandler. Same owner, quite different experiences, and surprisingly, the Ford dealership is better in most respects.

Mine included work to fix the intermittent front camera/Blue Cruise failure on my First Edition that required me to leave the car for a day. The $30 service charge was OK, but they made me suffer through the ordeal with a Mach-e GT loaner! 🤣

BC is working as before. Camera related faults have not returned. The car does seem a bit more sluggish than before (damn GT loaner!).

I just had the exact same experience at Chapman Ford in Scottsdale. Well, not exactly the same... I took it in on Thursday for the 20K inspection and tire rotation, and to fix the front camera/pre-collision/Blue Cruise cancelled/etc. frequent alerts. They said it might take up to four days...

All ICE (non-hybrids) have brake lights that are exactly synced with the brake pedal. The driver always knows when the brakes are being used and when the brake lights are on. With EVs (and most hybrids that have one-pedal driving), the brake lights turn on as either 1) the brake pedal is...

As has already mentioned, but I think worth repeating, a power/regen gauge would be useful, and brake light activation indicator would be greatly appreciated. The power/regen is especially nice when on cruise and you can't otherwise tell if you are on an incline or decline, such as when driving...

My 2014 i3 went mostly trouble free for almost 5 years when the AC went out and “totaled” the car with a $23K repair quote. The compressor self destructed no fault of my own. The book value went from $16K to an $8K salvage value. I loved that car so much, until that happened. Given that the AC...

I think $200/year is too much for the value received. However, I expect I will pay that for 3 years when my free trial ends. If it is still more than $200/year after that, no way. Might even encourage me to a non-Ford EV replacement. My MME-FE will be around 6 years old by then, and 6-10 years...

There were a number of subjective reasons we chose the Mach-E over the Y, but the two objective reasons that were important were 1) the terrible rear view in the Y cutting off so high that a small car at your bumper could be completely out of sight without the rear camera, vs. excellent...

Can this be done in route? Seems like changing settings is only allowed when not moving. Then restarting the route may be tedious, depending on whether that route had been completed previously, allowing for easy recall. When the guidance system does this to me, it often seems to start making up...

Around our primary home, I am passed more than passing others when going 10 over posted, so that is where I set the buffer. Another more rural area we spend a lot of time at our cabin has a 5 over “community standard.” After many manual override of the auto-set speed at 10 over down to 5 over...

My i3 had capacitive touch via a thin metal trim strip on the inside of the steering wheel, flush with the leather wrap. A very light contact with that strip was all that was necessary. That car did not hold the lane as well as the Mach-e, and once I got used to the slight torquing on the...

So the car raises for off road use. Except the bottom of the car stays put, leaving zero more ground clearance. The lower "teeth" don't move as the upper "teeth" go up with the rest of the car to expose the teeth/gear look. The only drive-train components (motor, diff, and wheel half-shafts)...