This is my first yahoo group I have joined. Saw on cleanmpg.com that there is a yahoo group for FEH owners, so I thought I would join, and I see some familiar...
... Good morning, Bruski! Yes, southern Wisconsin has had some really crazy weather this winter -- not as bad as Colorado gets typically, but really horrendous...
Having lived in the Chicago, Detroit and London Ontario areas and sampled skiing in Wisconsin, typical winters are much worse in the upper midwest , than...
Hi Linda, Somebody on cleanmpg referred me to the Milwaukee Hybrid Meeting, but I was out of town that week. I did send an email to the group to join the...
I always trust the fill up for my best estimage of MPG. If your like me, I fill up with the same gas station, and usually pumps all of the time, so the...
In my last five fill-ups, the difference between the gauge MPG and the calculated Gallons used and the actual miles driven MPG is only one mile or less per...
OK. Here is the followup on the Oregon $1500 tax credit for the FEH. I sent in the Residential Energy Tax Credit form early last week and just today received...
I am going to look at a 2005 FEH with 73,000 miles, at a dealership. What would be a fair price range? It appears to be in excellent condition from the...
Well I have 113K miles on mine and other than an AC problem has been pretty good. I expect to have it for a while yet and not too worried about major ...
I have almost that much mileage on my 2005 AWD and have never had a problem of any kind. The car feels like new. I have the navigation system but wish I ...
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Hi! We purchased our '05 FEH with the $1800 navigation/sound system. The price was a high for what you get. I do like the fact that it is built in and shows...
A 2005 model year is just the second year of production for the Escape Hybrid (if my research is correct) - and there may still have been some "new-technology...
Thanks everyone for your input. All the info is very helpful in my search. Its at a Nissan dealership. Their eBay ad grossly misrepresented the condition of...
I bought a used 05 FEH with 80,000 miles about a month and a half ago from a private party for $14,000 after a little haggling. He wanted to sell it because...
Sounds like you dodged a bullet - for all the right, basic, non-hybrid-specific reasons! Neil P Save resources - don't print this e-mail unless you truly need...
After a visit yesterday to the auto broker I use, he said my fully loaded '05 FWD FEH wholesales for $14,000 (low ball) and retails for $17,800. My '05 has...
Coming out of lurkdom for my first post...we're looking at buying an FEH sometime this year to meet our needs for: - a good winter AWD/4WD vehicle (we live on...
Hi Julie If you are exceeding EPA estimates in your Acura, you are a hypermiler. Hypermiler's use different techniques and some can get over 100% of EPA...
... Pretty Easy if you are a gentle driver and watch RPM, Battery Level, and try to maximize EV use ( battery only use ) buy keeping the 4x4 under 35 MPH more...
I beleive I have the same problem in my 2005 FEH. the symptoms are over heat warnings, a high fan rpm, and then shutdown of the engine on any open high run at...
There are three coolant pumps in the '05 FEH. One is a electronics coolant pump that cools the electronic DC/DC converter and eCVT. It is the larger of the two...
My M/E coolant pump was making noise, but still pumping fine at about 50,000 miles. I had no codes, no overheat, no shutdowns. But anyone could hear the loud...
There was a specific problem in SOME 2005s that required replacement or changes to the electronic cooling pump (happened to me). I have never heard of this...
Chris, this is the first time I've heard of a TSB on the electronic coolant pump, but there should have been. The hybrid tech told me that all the repairs and...
Thanks for the quick responce Gary. The "shutdown" came with one of those "Stop safely now" messages. Not a very comfortable feeling having the engine...
Same here, I did notice an unusual motor noise from the front end in the weeks preceding the problem. I did have this feeling about there being some kind of a...
Hello Chris! Where can I pull up a Ford TSB. I think I found the TSB number (#05410) but I can seem to find it anywhere on the internet. By the way, I did...
Has anyone had problems with the brakes where when I push the pedal it is like pushing on a non movable object? If I push hard it does stop. It has now...
Having moved to Canada, I've changed the info display units to metric and the nav to metric, but is there any way to change the odometer to metric as well?...
