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Can I use regular gas in the Freestyle or does Ford recommend Premium gas? Thanks!
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Replying to: vrm (Jul 29, 2005 7:49 am) |
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Replying to: vrm (Jul 29, 2005 7:49 am) |
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| The use of mid-grade or premium fuel in an engine designed to use 87 octane regular fuel is nothing more than a waste of one's money. You are not "treating" your engine. | |
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In most cases, using a higher octane gasoline than your owner’s manual recommends offers absolutely no benefit. It won’t make your car perform better, go faster, get better mileage or run cleaner. Your best bet: listen to your owner’s manual. The only time you might need to switch to a higher octane level is if your car engine knocks when you use the recommended fuel. This happens to a small percentage of cars. Unless your engine is knocking, buying higher octane gasoline is a waste of money. Using synthetic oil is personal preference. If you are going to keep you car for many years generally synthetic oil will help an engine last longer. Also the oil tends to start lubricating faster on startup, especially in cold weather. Plus synthetic oil will also increase your fuel mileage a little. I have used Mobil 1 for many years and am a true believer. They even have an extended mileage version up to 15000 miles, but not in 5W20 yet.
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We plan on getting an extended warranty in the near future, dealer wouldn't match the online price so we didn't fold it in with the purchase. Came across one tidbit which seemed unusual to me, thought I would pass it along. The extended warranties cover rental cars when you are in for warranty work. The basic/included warranty does not. That struck me as strange, as I think of extended as just prolonging the time, not adding extra stuff. Service guy confirmed this and said that the rental would be active during the regular warranty period as well. Since my commute makes either the closest dealer to home or the closest dealer to work not the most convenient for service, and the fact that there are no service loaners, we'll get the ext warranty in the near future. Only one defect noticed when we picked up the car, which they didn't have time to fix then, which led me down this investigation. One of the 2nd row seats is in a locked state and doesn't move forward and back on its track. Service guy did take a look and confirmed problem. We're going to look for other defects before appt on Monday, if this is the only problem I'll be happy.  Jackie
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Replying to: jackief (Aug 04, 2005 5:31 am) I had an extended warranty on my 97 Exploder which included a loaner or rental car whenever it was in for service. When the engine exploded, they gave me an "allowance" of $30 per day for a rental car. That got me into a Chevy Calalier for 32 days while the engine was being ordered and replaced. Gee, what happened to the "comparable vehicle"?....a compact? gee thanks Ford Come to find out that the rental, even though it was under $30 per day ($29 I believe), also had daily taxes and other fees that put it up over $30 per day. At the end of the rental term I ended up paying close to $200 in fees for my "free rental" GRRRRRR  I guess I could have rented a SUB-compact for $19.99 per day....hind sight is always 20/20. So you might want to verify how much allowance is available for a rental car. Funny, when I drop my RSX off for service and I can't hang around and wait, they give me a loaner TL to drive until my lowly RSX is ready. (What's wrong with this picture?) |
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we're not expecting the same level of pampering from ford as we got from acura or volvo. I had been getting free loaners for any service (sched maint, etc) for anything longer than the 3500mi services. I think this was something they gave to people who bought at that dealer which we had done. In fact, our wagon had been a service loaner which they sold at 8000 miles. Same for our Acura, free loaners. So we did factor this in. We are taking a step down from the luxury brands, but hope in the end we spend less overall and still get a decent driving experience and few troubles. The extended warranty covers $28/day rental. Our schedules are such that we can work around the lack of a rental, its good to have the option. If we had to have it, we'd add it to our insurance coverage. I think the insurance (Allstate) reimbursement amount is in the same range. We're planning on getting an ext warranty anyway, so this is something we'll have available if we need it before the reg warranty expires. the whole warranty booklet is online here which makes it handy for searches.
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Replying to: jackief (Aug 04, 2005 6:32 am) As long as you know up front what the rental fee covers. I'm going to be doing the same thing with my Freestyle that you are at some point also. |
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Replying to: bigskyguy1 (Aug 01, 2005 3:08 pm)
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