2013 C-Max

smithpa

I've had my C-Max hybrid for a month now, and the active park assist has worked flawlessly... until yesterday. I avoided clipping the front car during active parking assistance last night by asking my passenger to look out the window to tell me if the car was really turning too close to the other vehicle. It was, and I aborted the automation and parallel parked the old fashioned way. Today, I allowed the system to parallel park my car, and while slowly letting the car back up, it turned too quickly and pushed my front fender into the bumper of the car in front of the parking spot. I was moving very slowly at the time, because it looked like the system was misjudging distances... however, the damage was done. There is now a nice indentation on my driver-side front fender. There was nothing unusual about either parking spot, both were plenty large, and the cars and curb were normal. Has anyone else had the system malfunction as to turn too soon and run into other parked cars? I'm not sure how to explain the incident to Ford, unless if continues to malfunction in the same way. Needless to say, I have a front fender to repair due to the cars maneuvering and I'm afraid to let it try to park the car again. Anyone have similar experiences?

hof

Fellow owners, I'm curious of your perceptions concerning the effects of the recent software update. I had it done in late August or early September. My first impression was that I was getting about 3 MPG more post-update, perhaps better than that on the highway. In fact, ever since the update, until a recent cold snap the car was reporting 47- 48 average MPG. That being said, on my first two post-update tanks, I hand-calculated my MPG from the gallons pumped, and for two tanks in a row, I was 3-4 MPG below what the computer reported. The computer had been no more than 2 MPG high before, and a couple times was within 1 MPG. Is anyone else noticing a less accurate computer estimate of MPG post-update?

(I don't want to be all negative. I think the car behaves better in the 60-65 MPH speed range than before. I still love the C-Max, and I have had better than 40 MPG observed and calculated ever since my second tank of gas in April. The car is reporting lifetime MPG of 45.1, and actual MPG is probably around 43. )

bobw3

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