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Welcome aboard, from nearby Burlington!

Raised mine briefly to test. Otherwise they go unused, as no one sits back there. But I agree with the assessment earlier in the thread that it is being wind damaged.

Redheads. All the way. Probably something to do with the fact that I’m a soulless ginger.

Jim, I’m assuming you’re wondering why I run Normal all the time - it’s for a couplefew reasons. 1. I am not big on the length of time it holds gears 2. I live in, and commute cross, the Greater Toronto Area in part via the busiest highway in North America, fondly known around here as “the...

Normal 99.5% of the time.

I’ll have to check on that. I get the same readings off a battery tester and also the car’s onboard voltage reading. And I’ve always been able to start. I like your suggestion about the multimeter.

Fair enough. Thank you.

It’s actually best practice anyway...less strain on the driveline, parking pawl, etc etc.

Heard mine do that on any incline as well. Think it’s just the sound of the trans coming out of park. If you ever tried taking a car out of park on a hill when you had to pull on the lever and the lever was actually physically connected to the transmission linkage underneath, it was harder to...

Does yours go into the 11’s within a day of being parked?

I envy the reasonable turnaround time. Mine took six months lol. Yay corona. Enjoy the ride!

Thanks. That reset trick worked. As for the whole battery issue, it’s unusual that the battery should be below 12 V whenever the car isn’t running, or at least I would have thought so. I’ll be doing some experimentation to see what happens. To start with I’ve turned off all the connectivity...

Yeah for the most part I think it just does whatever the f*** it wants. Lol

I’m starting to wonder if they have encased the antenna loop and sensor inside the plastic shrouding or in the body somewhere. Not exposed anymore.

I think the concept is that because the key is not in proximity to the tailgate, it won’t respond to foot kicking motions. I’m not sure if it being inside the car would override that or prevent it.

Out of curiosity has anyone had their driver side window go auto-up, and then when it gets all the way up it suddenly drops back down on its own almost all the way down and then stops at just a few inches from the bottom, and THEN won’t go auto up anymore? New one on me. I can raise it up by...

My understanding is it’s magnetic, so your foot disrupts the field as it passes by. Probably also why mine closes on my head when I’m standing under it - I’m a fat guy and have more mass to disrupt the field with lol

I’ll be interested to hear about your results. Mine doesn’t open randomly too often but it does love to close when I’m still standing under it.

Ok so this is what I found a while ago: And also this diagram, but it’s for a Ford Kuga which I think is the European equivalent of an Escape. In theory the principle should be the same, and the Youtube video link is slightly more helpful although it’s a generation old. On cursory inspection I...

I read that it is possible to unplug the wire loop that makes up the antenna for the foot swipe feature, I just haven’t got underneath to investigate it. The info I read was for the previous gen Explorer, so things may have changed.