Ford, Are you Listening? 2018+ Change/Wish List

[jgudnason]

Does the captain's chair option remove the tip and slide?

NO, Captains chairs still DO tip and slide.

 

[st381183]

My recommendation is for a place to store a receiver hitch. Maybe on the drivers side wall compartment in the rear deck storage area. There’s a big opening there that could accommodate a standard receiver hitch. May a plastic stub to side the hitch over or into so it doesn’t rattle around. There seems to be enough room for even an oversized hitch.

 

[aggiegrad05]

center console- seems like a valid option. i would never get it, but i can see where it is desirable. this weekend we had a basketball tournament 3.5 hours away in Mt Airy NC. me, wife, 4 13 yr olds. incredible trip! drives so nice! tons of room! Sling TV was GREAT! i put my Yeti hopper 30 in between the 2nd row seats. after a couple of stops, the girls made me move the cooler to the back because it was a "pain in the butt" to move the seat up, etc to squeeze in and out. they said they MUCH prefer crawling through. not to mention the high mounted cup holders on the back of the front row console are money for the second row. so i personally would not get a console. now getting the bench is a different story. if you need the 8th seat, that is another story. at that point, you just have to use tip and slide to access the 3rd row

Does anyone (4thG or 3rdG) know of any after-market options to put between the captains chairs? I'm not looking for anything permanent, just something for road trips to hold a toy bin and maybe some goldfish (until the kids distribute them around the cabin, of course). Yes, I could just put a cooler there or something, but I was looking for something more...console-ish. Maybe something like this? https://jet.com/product/detail/ba84...MIq83y8M_92QIViYjICh3NBAKyEAQYASABEgJkrvD_BwE

I know I am not the first person to ask this question and there may be a thread about it on another gen's forum that I'm just not finding.

 

[NyackRob79]

My other vehicle is a VW Golf R. Some of the features (which could easily be enabled with software on my Platinum Expedition) are:

- Auto Brake Hold. Love this feature. Come to a full stop at a red light, let your foot off the brake pedal, and the car remains steady so that you can relieve your foot.

- Passenger Mirror Dip on Reverse. Parallel parking makes this feature a must. Need it to keep curb rash off those beautiful 22" wheels.

- Memory Seat assigned to vehicle keys. Our last MDX had two keys like every other new vehicle. Each was labeled with "Driver 1" and "Driver 2". Your seat memory position would be tied to each key. This way, when my wife drives with her key, she doesn't have to constantly press 2 to get the seat and steering wheel to adjust to her saved position. Car recognizes the key as "Driver 2" and auto-loads memory seat positions.

Small things, but they make life easier. For an $80k vehicle, they should have been a no-brainer.

 

[Flexpedition]

My other vehicle is a VW Golf R. Some of the features (which could easily be enabled with software on my Platinum Expedition) are:

- Auto Brake Hold. Love this feature. Come to a full stop at a red light, let your foot off the brake pedal, and the car remains steady so that you can relieve your foot.

- Passenger Mirror Dip on Reverse. Parallel parking makes this feature a must. Need it to keep curb rash off those beautiful 22" wheels.

- Memory Seat assigned to vehicle keys. Our last MDX had two keys like every other new vehicle. Each was labeled with "Driver 1" and "Driver 2". Your seat memory position would be tied to each key. This way, when my wife drives with her key, she doesn't have to constantly press 2 to get the seat and steering wheel to adjust to her saved position. Car recognizes the key as "Driver 2" and auto-loads memory seat positions.

Small things, but they make life easier. For an $80k vehicle, they should have been a no-brainer.

- Not sure how brake hold would coincide with the start/stop technology though.

- Ironically, I found the passenger mirror dip annoying on my BMW and they make it easy to turn this "feature" off. Expedition mirror surface area is so much larger than a BMW or Golf entire mirror housing, so tilt is redundant IMO. Somewhere between 360° backup cameras and rear bumper park assist sensors lies full driver attention.

- Memory, and going off of memory here, but I believe my 08 has my settings on my keyless FOB and hers on her FOB.

 

[deweysmith]

- Memory, and going off of memory here, but I believe my 08 has my settings on my keyless FOB and hers on her FOB.

My '12 is supposed to do this, but it doesn't.

 

[aggiegrad05]

My '12 is supposed to do this, but it doesn't.

The 18s are supposed to do it. I haven’t ever tried it as I’m the only person that drives mine. You put the key in a little slot in the floor of the most forward cup holder and it syncs the seat setting with that fob. At least that’s the idea anyway.

 

[st381183]

When you use your FOB hit memory for 1 it syncs the FOB to memory one. Second driver does the same for memory 2. That hole is for when your FOB battery dies and you need to start the truck. It’s a dead FOB override based on an RFID chip or something similar. Basically it’s a dead FOB override.

 

[aggiegrad05]

When you use your FOB hit memory for 1 it syncs the FOB to memory one. Second driver does the same for memory 2. That hole is for when your FOB battery dies and you need to start the truck. It’s a dead FOB override based on an RFID chip or something similar. Basically it’s a dead FOB override.

You’re right! My dealer lied to me.

But! There IS a way to do it.

 

[NyackRob79]

This is great. Thank you for th screenshot!

 

[gtnator]

Now that folks have had these vehicles for several months, are there any more changes folks would like?

 

[dlcorbett]

Media information in the tft screen or in a hud

 

[aggiegrad05]

Media information in the tft screen or in a hud

100% THIS!!!

Ford puts media info in the dash in many other models, why not this one?

 

[MonkeyBrains]

Here’s a few suggestions that might have not come up much...

Not too many, my kids included, seem happy with how the 2nd row seats recline. They recline fine, it’s the awkward operation.

Front center console is awkward and inefficient. The cup holder section sucks, whereas the center console in my F-350 is awesome and much more functional. I do like the giant console compartment though.

The cargo management bins in the rear are too small to be useful. Would like to see them combined into one single bin below the cover. Also see no reason it couldn’t be another couple inches deeper.

Would like the ability to lock drive-time settings for suspension and traction control modes as well as engine auto-stop. This seems to be an annoying Ford thing... Other cars I own allow me to set the engine stop/start function to off and leave it there. Or if we’re in the middle of a multi-day blizzard, I can set traction control accordingly and not have to change it every time I start the car. Or maybe I’d like to leave my suspension in Sport mode, or... Yes, I’m aware that all of that can be accomplished with Forscan and tweaking/tuning things. That’s beside the point.

Would really like a HUD...

Would really like DVR ability built in for all the vehicle’s cameras. ...And that last one with the DVR is probably my top request.

 

[shane_th_ee]

Towing mirrors.

 

[proeasy]

Put Nivomat Self Leveling shocks back on. In addition to a small trailer sometimes carry an approx. 325 lb Endruo bike on a receiver hitch carrier in addition to riding and camping gear in the truck. Nivomats are great, you never notice them (unlike noisy and problematic air leveling

 

[gtnator]

Thanks for you comments.

What about the front cup holders and also front console don’t you like?

Are you referring to the cup holders on the back of the front console?


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[Randy Schmidt]

Put Nivomat Self Leveling shocks back on. In addition to a small trailer sometimes carry an approx. 325 lb Endruo bike on a receiver hitch carrier in addition to riding and camping gear in the truck. Nivomats are great, you never notice them (unlike noisy and problematic air leveling

Can these shocks be added if they are not installed from the factory?

 

[proeasy]

Can these shocks be added if they are not installed from the factory?

• It Depends, in theory yes, but when Nivomats are put on a Truck they tend to use lower rated springs as these shocks have significant lifting Power
• On the other hand if you have CDC type suspension and remove those shocks you will get a fault code unless you install the proper resister as a bypass
• How, do I know,,my former Suburbans had Nivomats, GM took them off for a cost savings. The air system was a disaster, both the air pump and air shocke either fail or leak. As the rear spring in my case were matched for leveling I was ok, then ordered on Ebay, the GM Stabilitrak bypass resistors for about $30 for 4. Put the Nivomats on in place of the crappy air shocks Best thing about them is you never notice them, go to home depot put in 800lbs + of topsoil bags, etc, in less 1/2 milp themselves up to normal ride height

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...71D99C7C227E31B745F671D99C7C227E3&FORM=VDQVAP

 

[Randy Schmidt]

• It Depends, in theory yes, but when Nivomats are put on a Truck they tend to use lower rated springs as these shocks have significant lifting Power
• On the other hand if you have CDC type suspension and remove those shocks you will get a fault code unless you install the proper resister as a bypass
• How, do I know,,my former Suburbans had Nivomats, GM took them off for a cost savings. The air system was a disaster, both the air pump and air shocke either fail or leak. As the rear spring in my case were matched for leveling I was ok, then ordered on Ebay, the GM Stabilitrak bypass resistors for about $30 for 4. Put the Nivomats on in place of the crappy air shocks Best thing about them is you never notice them, go to home depot put in 800lbs + of topsoil bags, etc, in less 1/2 milp themselves up to normal ride height

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...71D99C7C227E31B745F671D99C7C227E3&FORM=VDQVAP

Very interesting. I, during the summer months tow a boat that weighs 6000 lbs. I am very interest in some kind of load leveling shock or air ride suspension. Where can these be purchased for the Expedition? I tried a Google search without any results...