Mandretti
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- First Name
- Brian
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- Feb 15, 2021
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- Eugene OR
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- Mustang Mach-E Premium AWD Long Range Red
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Ok - we've had the AWD EB IB MME for about 5 weeks now and put about 1100 miles on it. Love the road feel, the power, the comfort and amenities, and especially the way it looks. It's a very pretty car and it gets a lot of attention wherever we go. That's the LOVE part. Here's the HATE, or maybe that's too strong a word. How about frustrating, irritating, pissing us off kind of stuff? Yes it's a brand new model and thing for Ford, but really folks - you needed to do a better job coming out the gate. Most of the issues we have are software related, so probably fixable - and I do hope they are working on them. Here goes...
1) Even after a warranty fix, the rear hatch foot kick maneuver works only about half the time for both me and my wife. Geez.
2) Paak, even after recent patch to fix that, still is not reliable. My wife now refuses to drive the car without the fob, and will not devolve into doing access and backup codes. We need two fobs Mr Ford - and no charge for programming etc. I've seen $500 for some to get this going.
3) The automatic headlight dimmer works - most of the time. But not all.
4) The 'Imminent Collision' warning happens way too frequently, usually when someone is turning off the street in front of us and we are nowhere close to them.
5) The 'open all doors' button is located where the mirror memory buttons are for the seat etc. Why are they not down where the windows, mirrors adjustment controls are?
6) The relationship between Apple Car Play and the native functions of the MMS are not clear. I'm not sure that Apple Car Play is useful for anything other than streaming Spotify or whatever. It's confusing to have two separate navigation systems, two separate phone systems etc. The center display says no phone connected, no Bluetooth connection and a bunch of other status that are wrong just because Apple Carplay is in action. That whole interface is not intuitive.
7) The profiles and memory function relationship is not clear.
8) There is no way that someone who is not tech savvy can use this car, especially since many of the tech features have been implemented in non-intuitive ways.
9) The manual is not clear or complete in many different areas.
10) We're getting about 250 miles range....on the flats, reasonable acceleration, warm weather (not too hot). Really? Not anything close to the 304 advertised.
There's more - but I've forgotten them. None of these are super important except the Paak/Fob thing - you can workaround the other stuff but - it's pretty annoying. I'm still trying to figure stuff out after 5 weeks of driving. There's no way someone could just step into this car and drive it, which is kind of ridiculous. It's a car damn it! Oh well - I feel better now.
1) Even after a warranty fix, the rear hatch foot kick maneuver works only about half the time for both me and my wife. Geez.
2) Paak, even after recent patch to fix that, still is not reliable. My wife now refuses to drive the car without the fob, and will not devolve into doing access and backup codes. We need two fobs Mr Ford - and no charge for programming etc. I've seen $500 for some to get this going.
3) The automatic headlight dimmer works - most of the time. But not all.
4) The 'Imminent Collision' warning happens way too frequently, usually when someone is turning off the street in front of us and we are nowhere close to them.
5) The 'open all doors' button is located where the mirror memory buttons are for the seat etc. Why are they not down where the windows, mirrors adjustment controls are?
6) The relationship between Apple Car Play and the native functions of the MMS are not clear. I'm not sure that Apple Car Play is useful for anything other than streaming Spotify or whatever. It's confusing to have two separate navigation systems, two separate phone systems etc. The center display says no phone connected, no Bluetooth connection and a bunch of other status that are wrong just because Apple Carplay is in action. That whole interface is not intuitive.
7) The profiles and memory function relationship is not clear.
8) There is no way that someone who is not tech savvy can use this car, especially since many of the tech features have been implemented in non-intuitive ways.
9) The manual is not clear or complete in many different areas.
10) We're getting about 250 miles range....on the flats, reasonable acceleration, warm weather (not too hot). Really? Not anything close to the 304 advertised.
There's more - but I've forgotten them. None of these are super important except the Paak/Fob thing - you can workaround the other stuff but - it's pretty annoying. I'm still trying to figure stuff out after 5 weeks of driving. There's no way someone could just step into this car and drive it, which is kind of ridiculous. It's a car damn it! Oh well - I feel better now.
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