We all love the 2018+ redesign, its better in most every way (IMO) and more importantly, most professional auto reviewers are very impressed with the new Expy/Navi, so impressed that they are giving the edge to Ford in the never ending Ford Expedition/Navigator vs. GM Tahoe/Suburban/Yukon/Escalade race. What a great win for Ford!
The list of positives is long: great looks, great ride, great comfort, great features….but this thread is about the things we wish Ford would do differently, and who knows maybe they will listen and make some changes in the coming years. I personally like 99% of everything in the new Expedition/Navigator, but there is that 1% that I wish could be improved.
I just spent two weeks and 2,000 miles with a beautiful 2018 Expedition. Overall, I LOVED it. But below are my issues and “change requests” to Ford.
What are your wish/change requests to Ford? Here's mine:
The list of positives is long: great looks, great ride, great comfort, great features….but this thread is about the things we wish Ford would do differently, and who knows maybe they will listen and make some changes in the coming years. I personally like 99% of everything in the new Expedition/Navigator, but there is that 1% that I wish could be improved.
I just spent two weeks and 2,000 miles with a beautiful 2018 Expedition. Overall, I LOVED it. But below are my issues and “change requests” to Ford.
What are your wish/change requests to Ford? Here's mine:
- Fix the rear seat entertainment system. The software is clunky, slow, and almost unusable.
- Third row, driver's side seat, seatbelt harness that descends from ceiling is made of hard plastic and is way too close to a person's head. God forbid one is ever in an accident, or even if one has to make a sudden lane change…your head would smack against hard plastic that is protruding from the ceiling. Ford, please just wrap that thing in some soft touch material.
- Heated seats and heated steering wheel: don’t get hot enough, and heated steering wheel feels like it cycles heat- gets warm for 30 seconds, then cools for 3 minutes, then warm again for 30 seconds…instead of a steady warm heat. (i know, first world problems, but I'm comparing this to GM's)
- Second row captains seats (and maybe bench too) are perforated, which is nice for adults, but horrible to keep clean with kids. Try cleaning a smashed banana or ******* out of those tiny little holes. [emoji4] Ford, please provide the option of non-perforated captains seats.
- I almost don't want to mention this because its too hard to change and maybe I just needed to get used to it: The doors have a very large (2 inches) horizontal lip at the bottom that basically just sticks out towards the inside of the door. It's for a wrap around style that looks great when the door is closed. However, on the first day we had the vehicle, both I and my wife separately smacked our legs hard into this protruding lip as we were getting into the vehicle. I actually got a huge welt from it that is still healing after 3 weeks- ouch. You just don't expect to have to swing one's leg so far away from the door when getting in. With other cars you can kind of swing your leg right up next to the door, but with the Expy you have to give it room. Maybe we just needed to get used to this unique design "feature", which I think we did as it only happened on the first day.
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