Document Outline

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
  • Congratulations
  • Safety and Environment Protection
    • Warning symbols in this guide
    • Warning symbols on your vehicle
    • Protecting the environment
  • Perchlorate material
  • Breaking-in your vehicle
  • Special Notices
    • New Vehicle Limited Warranty
    • Special instructions
  • Data Recording
    • Service Data Recording
    • Event Data Recording
  • Cell phone use
  • Export unique (Non–United States/Canada) vehicle specific information
• Instrument Cluster
  • Warning lights and chimes
  • Gauges
  • Trip Computer (if equipped)
  • Multifunction display
    • • Information messages
      • Oil life monitoring system reset
• Entertainment Systems
  • Audio systems
    • AM/FM stereo or AM/FM stereo single CD/MP3 (if equipped)
    • AM/FM stereo single CD/MP3 SYNC? compatible (if equipped)
    • Auxiliary input jack (Line in)
    • USB port (if equipped)
  • General audio information
    • Satellite radio information (if equipped)
  • SYNC? (if equipped)
    • Added benefits
    • Support
    • Driving restrictions
    • Safety information
    • Privacy information
    • Using your voice recognition system
    • Initiating a voice session
    • System interaction and feedback
      • Adjusting the interaction level
    • Using SYNC?’s phone features
      • Phone dependent features
    • Pairing a phone for the first time
      • Pairing subsequent phones
    • Phone voice commands
    • Making a call
      • Answering an incoming call
    • Phone options during an active call
    • Maneuvering the phone menu
      • Accessing features through the phone menu
    • Text messaging
      • Receiving a text message
      • Sending, downloading and deleting your text messages
    • Accessing your phone settings
    • System settings
      • Bluetooth Device menu options
      • Advanced menu options
    • Accessing and using your SYNC applications and Services (if equipped)
    • SYNC? Services: Traffic, Directions & Information (TDI), if equipped, U.S. only
    • 911 Assist™ (if equipped)
    • Vehicle health report (if equipped, U.S. only)
    • SYNC?AppLink™ (if equipped, U.S. only)
    • Media features with SYNC
      • Compatibility
    • Connecting your digital media player to SYNC? via the USB port
      • What’s playing?
    • Media voice commands
    • Maneuvering the media menu
    • Accessing the features of your media menu
    • Accessing your play menu
    • System settings
      • Bluetooth Device menu options
      • Advanced menu options
    • Troubleshooting
      • Helpful Hints
      • SYNC? customer support
    • SYNC? End User License Agreement (EULA)
      • End user notice
      • Microsoft? Windows? Mobile for Automotive Important Safety Information
      • General operation
    • Glossary of terms
• Climate Controls
  • Manual heating and air conditioning system
    • Operating tips
  • Rear window defroster
  • Cabin air filter
• Lights
  • Headlamp Control
    • High beams
      • Flash-to-pass
      • Headlamp exit delay
    • Daytime running lamps (DRL) (if equipped)
  • PANEL DIMMER CONTROL
  • Aiming the headlamps
    • Vertical aim adjustment
  • TURN SIGNAL CONTROL
  • INTERIOR LAMPS
    • Dome lamps and map lamps with moon roof
      • Dome lamps and map lamps, rear lamps
    • Ambient lighting (if equipped)
    • Battery saver feature (interior lamps)
  • Bulb Replacement
    • Lamp assembly condensation
    • Using the right bulbs
    • Replacing interior bulbs
    • Replacing exterior bulbs
      • Replacing bulbs
      • Removing the front lamp assembly
      • Replacing the low beam headlamps
      • Replacing the high beam headlamps
      • Replacing the park/turn signals
      • Replacing the side marker lamps
      • Replacing the signal indicator mirror bulbs (if equipped)
      • Replacing the rear lamps (5-door)
      • Replacing the rear stop lamp (5-door)
      • Replacing the reverse signal rear lamp (5-door)
      • Replacing the turn signal rear lamp (5-door)
      • Replacing bodyside rear lamp bulb (4-door)
      • Replacing the decklid mounted reverse lamp bulb (4-door)
      • Replacing the license plate lamps
      • Replacing the high-mounted brake lamp
• Driver Controls
  • Windshield Wipers
    • Rear window wiper/washer (if equipped)
  • Tilt/Telescope Steering Wheel
  • Center console
  • Auxiliary Power Point (12V DC)
  • Power Windows (if equipped)
    • One-touch up or down (driver’s window only)
    • Bounce-back (driver’s window only)
      • Overriding the bounce-back feature
      • Resetting the bounce-back feature
    • Window lock
  • Interior mirror
    • Automatic dimming interior rear view mirror (if equipped)
  • Exterior Mirrors
    • Power side view mirrors
      • Blind spot mirrors
    • Heated outside mirrors (if equipped)
    • Signal indicator mirrors (if equipped)
  • Speed control (if equipped)
    • Using speed controls
      • Setting speed control
      • Disengaging speed control
      • Resuming a set speed
      • Increasing speed while using speed control
      • Reducing speed while using speed control
      • Turning off speed control
  • STEERING WHEEL CONTROLS (IF EQUIPPED)
    • SYNC? system hands free control feature
  • Moon roof (if equipped)
  • Positive Retention Floor Mat
• Locks and Security
  • Keys
    • Intelligent Access Key (IA key) (if equipped)
  • Power door locks
    • Smart locks
    • Central locking/unlocking
    • Delayed Locking
    • Autolock (if equipped)
    • Autounlock (if equipped)
      • Deactivating/activating autolock/autounlock
  • Childproof door locks
  • INTERIOR LUGGAGE COMPARTMENT RELEASE (4–door only)
  • Remote entry system (if equipped)
    • Intelligent Access (if equipped)
    • Unlocking the doors/two-stage unlock
    • Locking the doors
    • Opening the luggage compartment
    • Replacing the battery
    • Replacing lost remote entry transmitters–integrated keyhead transmitters (IKTs)
    • Programming spare Intelligent Access Keys (IA keys)
    • Illuminated entry
    • Illuminated exit
  • Securilock? passive anti-theft system
    • Anti-theft indicator
    • Automatic arming
    • Automatic disarming
    • Replacement keys
  • Perimeter alarm system (if equipped)
    • Arming the system
    • Disarming the system
      • Triggering the anti-theft system
• Seating and Safety Restraints
  • Front seats
    • Adjustable head restraints
    • Adjusting the front manual seat
      • Using the armrest (if equipped)
    • Heated seat cushions (if equipped)
  • Rear seats
    • Second row head restraints
    • Folding down the rear seat
  • Personal Safety System™
    • How does the Personal Safety System work?
      • Driver and passenger dual-stage airbag supplemental restraints
      • Front crash severity sensor
      • Driver’s seat position sensor
      • Front passenger sensing system
      • Front safety belt usage sensors
      • Front outboard safety belt pretensioners
      • Front outboard safety belt energy management retractors
      • Determining if the Personal Safety System is operational
  • Safety Belt System
    • Combination lap and shoulder belts
      • Restraint of pregnant women
    • Safety Belt Locking Modes
    • Safety belt extension assembly
    • Safety belt height adjustment
    • Safety belt warning light and indicator chime
      • Conditions of operation
    • Belt-Minder?
      • Deactivating/activating the Belt-Minder? feature (if equipped)
  • AIRBAG SUPPLEMENTAL RESTRAINT SYSTEM (SRS)
    • Important SRS precautions
    • Children and airbags
    • How does the safety belt pretensioner and airbag supplemental restraint system work?
    • Knee airbag system (driver’s side only)
    • Front passenger sensing system
      • Determining if the system is operational
    • Seat-mounted side airbag system
      • How does the side airbag system work?
    • Side-curtain airbag system
      • How does the side air curtain system work?
      • Determining if the system is operational
    • SOS Post-Crash Alert System™
    • Disposal of airbags and airbag equipped vehicles (including pretensioners)
  • Safety restraints for children
    • Important child restraint precautions
      • Recommendations for attaching child safety restraints for children
    • Transporting children
  • Safety seats for children
    • Infant and/or toddler seats
    • Installing child safety seats with combination lap and shoulder belts
    • Attaching child safety seats with Lower Anchor and Tethers for CHildren (LATCH) attachments
      • Use of inboard lower anchors from the outboard seating positions (center seating use)
      • Combining safety belt and LATCH lower anchors for attaching child safety seats
    • Attaching child safety seats with tether straps
      • Four door
      • Five door
    • Child booster seats
      • When children should use booster seats
      • Types of booster seats
      • The importance of shoulder belts
    • Child restraint and safety belt maintenance
• Tires, Wheels and Loading
  • Information about uniform tire quality grading
    • Treadwear
    • Traction AA A B C
    • Temperature A B C
  • Tires
    • Glossary of tire terminology
  • Inflating your tires
  • Tire care
    • Inspecting your tires and wheel valve stems
    • Tire wear
    • Damage
    • U.S. DOT Tire Identification Number (TIN)
    • Tire replacement requirements
    • Safety practices
      • Highway hazards
    • Tire and wheel alignment
    • Tire rotation
  • Information contained on the tire sidewall
    • Information on “P” type tires
    • Additional information contained on the tire sidewall for “LT” type tires
    • Information on “T” type tires
    • Location of the tire label
  • Tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS)
    • Changing tires with a TPMS
    • Understanding your tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS)
      • When your temporary spare tire is installed
      • When you believe your system is not operating properly
      • When inflating your tires
      • How temperature affects your tire pressure
  • Snow tires and chains
  • Vehicle loading
  • Trailer towing
  • Recreational towing
    • Vehicles with a manual transmission
    • Vehicles with an automatic transmission but no push button start system
    • Vehicles with an automatic transmission and push button start system
• Driving
  • Starting
    • Positions of the ignition
    • Preparing to start your vehicle
      • Important safety precautions
    • Starting the engine
    • Push button start system (if equipped)
    • Guarding against exhaust fumes
    • Important ventilating information
  • Engine block heater (if equipped)
  • Brakes
    • Four-wheel anti-lock brake system (ABS)
      • Using ABS
      • ABS warning lamp
    • Brake over accelerator
    • Parking brake
  • AdvanceTrac? stability enhancement system
  • Steering
    • Speed sensitive steering
  • Brake-shift interlock
  • Automatic transmission operation (if equipped)
    • Understanding the gearshift positions of the 6–speed automatic transmission (if equipped)
    • If your vehicle gets stuck in mud or snow
  • Manual transmission operation (if equipped)
    • Using the clutch
    • Recommended shift speeds
    • Reverse
    • Parking your vehicle
  • Hill start assist (HSA) system (if equipped)
  • Blind spot mirrors
  • Driving through water
• Roadside Emergencies
  • Roadside Assistance
    • Vehicles sold in the U.S. : Getting roadside assistance
    • Vehicles sold in the U.S. : Using roadside assistance
    • Vehicles sold in Canada : Getting roadside assistance
    • Vehicles sold in Canada : Using roadside assistance
  • Hazard flasher control
  • Fuel Pump Shut-off
  • Fuses and relays
    • Fuses
      • Standard fuse amperage rating and color
    • Passenger compartment fuse panel
    • Power distribution box
  • Changing the tires
    • Dissimilar spare tire/wheel information
    • Stopping and securing the vehicle
    • Tire change procedure
  • Wheel lug nut torque specifications
  • Running out of fuel
  • Jump starting
    • Preparing your vehicle
    • Connecting the jumper cables
    • Jump starting
    • Removing the jumper cables
  • Wrecker towing
    • Emergency towing
• Customer Assistance
  • GETTING THE SERVICES YOU NEED
    • Away from home
      • Additional assistance
  • In California (U.S. only)
  • The Better Business Bureau (BBB) Auto Line Program (U.S. only)
  • Utilizing The Mediation/Arbitration Program (Canada only)
  • GETTING ASSISTANCE OUTSIDE THE U.S. AND CANADA
  • ORDERING ADDITIONAL OWNER’S LITERATURE
    • Obtaining a French Owner’s Guide
  • Reporting safety defects (U.S. only)
  • Reporting safety defects (Canada only)
• Cleaning
  • Washing the exterior
  • Waxing
  • Paint chips
  • Aluminum wheels and wheel covers
  • Engine
  • Plastic (non-painted) exterior parts
  • Windows and wiper blades
  • Instrument panel/Interior trim and cluster lens
  • Interior
  • Leather seats (if equipped)
  • Underbody
  • Ford and Lincoln car care products
• Maintenance and Specifications
  • Service recommendations
  • Precautions when servicing your vehicle
    • Working with the engine off
    • Working with the engine on
  • Opening the hood
  • Identifying components in the engine compartment
  • Windshield washer fluid
  • Changing the wiper blades
  • Engine oil
    • Checking the engine oil
    • Adding engine oil
    • Engine oil and filter recommendations
      • Use SAE 5W-20 engine oil
  • Battery
  • Engine coolant
    • Checking engine coolant
    • Adding engine coolant
    • Recycled engine coolant
    • Coolant refill capacity
    • Severe climates
    • Reduced engine power due to high temperature
  • Fuel Filter
  • What you should know about automotive fuels
    • Important safety precautions
      • Refueling
    • Easy Fuel? “no cap” fuel system
    • Choosing the right fuel
    • Octane recommendations
    • Fuel quality
    • Cleaner air
    • Running out of fuel
      • Refilling with a portable fuel container
  • Essentials of good fuel economy
    • Measuring techniques
    • Filling the tank
    • Calculating fuel economy
    • Driving style — good driving and fuel economy habits
      • Habits
      • Maintenance
      • Conditions
  • Emission control system
    • On-board diagnostics (OBD-II)
    • Readiness for Inspection/Maintenance (I/M) testing
  • Brake/clutch fluid
  • Transmission fluid
    • Checking 6-speed automatic transmission fluid
    • Checking 5-speed manual transmission fluid (if equipped)
  • Air filter
    • Changing the air filter element
  • Vehicle storage
  • Motorcraft? part numbers
  • Maintenance product specifications and capacities
  • Engine data
    • Engine drivebelt routing
  • Identifying your vehicle
    • Safety Compliance Certification Label
    • Vehicle identification number (VIN)
  • Transmission code designations
• Accessories
  • Ford Custom Accessories for your vehicle
    • Exterior style
    • Interior style
    • Lifestyle
    • Peace of mind
• Ford Extended Service Plan
  • Ford ESP Extended Service Plans (U.S. Only)
  • Ford ESP Extended Service Plans (Canada Only)
• Scheduled Maintenance
  • GENERAL MAINTENANCE INFORMATION
    • Why maintain your vehicle?
    • Protecting your investment
      • Oils, fluids and flushing
    • Genuine Ford parts and service
      • Convenience
      • Factory-trained technicians
      • Genuine Ford and Motorcraft? replacement parts
      • Value shopping for your vehicle’s maintenance needs
    • Owner checks and services
    • Multi-point inspection
  • NORMAL SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE AND LOG
    • Maintenance schedule log
  • SPECIAL OPERATING CONDITIONS
    • Special operating condition log
  • Exceptions
  • ENGINE COOLANT CHANGE RECORD
    • Engine coolant change log
• Index