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Sliding Door - Vehicles
Without: Power Sliding Door
Sliding Door Precautions ...........................80
Opening the Sliding Door ..........................
80
Closing the Sliding Door ............................
80
Sliding Door - Vehicles With: Power Sliding Door
Sliding Door Precautions ...........................
82
Opening the Sliding Door ...........................
82
Closing the Sliding Door .............................
83
Stopping the Sliding Door Movement ........................................................................\
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84
Resetting the Power Sliding Door ..........
84
Sliding Door – Troubleshooting ..............
85
Keyless Entry
Locating the Keyless Entry Keypad ........
87
Master Access Code .....................................
87
Keyless Entry Settings .................................
87
Locking and Unlocking the Doors Using Keyless Entry ..............................................
88
Keyless Entry – Troubleshooting ............
88
Security
Passive Anti-Theft System - Vehicles With: Passive Anti-Theft System
(PATS) ..........................................................
89
Anti-Theft Alarm - Vehicles Without: Anti-Theft Alarm Horn with Integral
Battery ..........................................................
90
Anti-Theft Alarm - Vehicles With: Anti-Theft Alarm Horn with Integral
Battery ...........................................................
91
Power Running Boards
Using Power Running Boards ...................
93
Steering Wheel
Adjusting the Steering Wheel ..................
96Locking the Steering Wheel
......................
96
Wipers and Washers
Windshield Wipers ........................................
97
Autowipers .......................................................
97
Windshield Washers ....................................
99
Lighting
General Information ..................................
100
Lighting Control ...........................................
100
Autolamps ......................................................
101
Instrument Lighting Dimmer ...................
102
Daytime Running Lamps ..........................
102
Automatic High Beam Control ...............
103
Front Fog Lamps .........................................
104
Direction Indicators ....................................
105
Interior Lamps - Van ...................................
105
Cargo Lamps ................................................
106
Windows and Mirrors
Power Windows ...........................................
107
Exterior Mirrors .............................................
108
Interior Mirror ................................................
109
Instrument Cluster
Gauges .............................................................
110
Warning Lamps and Indicators ................
111
Information Displays
General Information ....................................
115
Trip Computer ................................................
117
Personalized Settings .................................
118
Remote Start
What Is Remote Start ................................
120
Remote Start Limitations .........................
120
Enabling Remote Start ..............................
120
Remotely Starting and Stopping the Vehicle .........................................................
120
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Remote Start Settings
...............................120
Climate Control
Manual Climate Control ............................
122
Hints on Controlling the Interior Climate ........................................................................\
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123
Rear Passenger Climate Controls .........
124
Heated Rear Window .................................
124
Heated Exterior Mirrors - Vehicles Without: Heated Rear Window ..........
124
Heated Exterior Mirrors - Vehicles With: Heated Rear Window .............................
124
Interior Air Quality
What Is the Cabin Air Filter ......................
125
Locating the Cabin Air Filter ....................
125
Replacing the Cabin Air Filter ..................
125
Seats
Sitting in the Correct Position .................
126
Head Restraints ............................................
126
Manual Seats - Vehicles With: 2-Way Manual Seat ...............................................
127
Manual Seats - Vehicles With: 4-Way Manual Seat ..............................................
128
Power Seats ....................................................
131
Rear Seats ......................................................
132
Heated Seats .................................................
135
Rear Occupant Alert System
What is the Rear Occupant Alert System ........................................................................\
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136
How Does the Rear Occupant Alert System Work .............................................
136
Rear Occupant Alert System Precautions ........................................................................\
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136
Rear Occupant Alert System Limitations ........................................................................\
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136
Switching Rear Occupant Alert System On and Off .................................................
136Switching Rear Occupant Alert System
On and Off - Vehicles With: SYNC 3
........................................................................\
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137
Rear Occupant Alert System Indicators - Vehicles With: SYNC ............................
137
Rear Occupant Alert System Indicators - Vehicles With: SYNC 3 ........................
137
Rear Occupant Alert System Audible Warnings .....................................................
137
Auxiliary Power Points
Auxiliary Power Points ...............................
138
Cigar Lighter ..................................................
140
Storage Compartments
Overhead Console ........................................
141
Storage
Bottle Holders ...............................................
142
Overhead Storage .......................................
142
Rear Overhead Storage .............................
142
Starting and Stopping the Engine
General Information ...................................
144
Ignition Switch ..............................................
144
Starting a Gasoline Engine ......................
144
Switching Off the Engine .........................
146
Engine Block Heater ...................................
146
Auto-Start-Stop - 3.5L Ecoboost™
What Is Auto-Start-Stop ..........................
148
Auto-Start-Stop Precautions .................
148
Switching Auto-Start-Stop On and Off ........................................................................\
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148
Stopping the Engine ...................................
148
Restarting the Engine ................................
148
Auto-Start-Stop Indicators .....................
149
Auto-Start-Stop – Troubleshooting ........................................................................\
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149
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Lighting control
Low tire pressure warning
Maintain correct fluid level
Note operating instructions
Horn control
Panic alarm
Parking aid
Parking brake
Power steering fluid
Power windows front/rear
Power window lockout
Requires registered technician
Safety alert
See Owner's Manual
See Service Manual Service engine soon
Passenger airbag activated
Passenger airbag deactivated
Side airbag
Shield the eyes
Stability control
Hill descent control
Trail control
Windshield wiping system
Windshield wash and wipe
SPECIAL NOTICES
New Vehicle Limited Warranty
For a detailed description of what is
covered and what is not covered by your
vehicle ’s New Vehicle Limited Warranty,
refer to the Warranty Manual that is
provided to you along with your Owner ’s
Manual.
Special Instructions
For your added safety, your vehicle is fitted
with sophisticated electronic controls.
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WARNING: You risk death or
serious injury to yourself and others if you
do not follow the instruction highlighted
by the warning symbol. Failure to follow
the specific warnings and instructions
could result in personal injury. WARNING: Never
place front seat
mounted rear-facing child or infant seats
in front of an active passenger airbag.
On Board Diagnostics Data Link
Connector WARNING:
Do not connect
wireless plug-in devices to the data link
connector. Unauthorized third parties
could gain access to vehicle data and
impair the performance of safety related
systems. Only allow repair facilities that
follow our service and repair instructions
to connect their equipment to the data
link connector.
Your vehicle has an OBD Data Link
Connector (DLC) that is used in
conjunction with a diagnostic scan tool for
vehicle diagnostics, repairs and
reprogramming services. Installing an
aftermarket device that uses the DLC
during normal driving for purposes such as
remote insurance company monitoring,
transmission of vehicle data to other
devices or entities, or altering the
performance of the vehicle, may cause
interference with or even damage to
vehicle systems. We do not recommend
or endorse the use of aftermarket plug-in
devices unless approved by Ford. The
vehicle Warranty will not cover damage
caused by an aftermarket plug-in device. Notice to Owners of Pickup Trucks and
Utility Type Vehicles WARNING:
Utility vehicles have a
significantly higher rollover rate than
other types of vehicles.
Before you drive your vehicle, please read
this Owner ’s Manual carefully. Your vehicle
is not a passenger car. As with other
vehicles of this type, failure to operate this
vehicle correctly may result in loss of
vehicle control, vehicle rollover, personal
injury or death.
Using Your Vehicle With a Snowplow
Do not use this vehicle for
snowplowing.
Your vehicle is not equipped with a
snowplowing package.
Using Your Vehicle as an Ambulance
If your light truck is equipped with the Ford
Ambulance Preparation Package, it may
be utilized as an ambulance. Ford urges
ambulance manufacturers to follow the
recommendations of the Ford Incomplete
Vehicle Manual, Ford Truck Body Builder ’s
Layout Book and the Qualified Vehicle
Modifiers (QVM) Guidelines as well as
pertinent supplements.
For additional information, please
contact the Truck Body Builders
Advisory Service: Web Address
www.fleet.ford.com/truckbbas
You can also call us at
1–877 –840–4338
.
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6. Allow the belt to retract to remove
slack. The belt clicks as it retracts to
indicate it is in the automatic locking
mode.
7. Try to pull the belt out of the retractor to make sure the retractor is in the
automatic locking mode (you should
not be able to pull more belt out). If the
retractor is not locked, unbuckle the
belt and repeat Steps 5 and 6. 8.
Remove remaining slack from the belt.
Force the seat down with extra weight,
for example, by pressing down or
kneeling on the child restraint while
pulling up on the shoulder belt. This is
necessary to remove the remaining
slack that exists once the extra weight
of the child is added to the child
restraint. It also helps to achieve the
correct snugness of the child restraint
to your vehicle. Sometimes, a slight
lean toward the buckle helps to remove
remaining slack from the belt.
9. Attach the tether strap (if the child restraint is equipped). 10. Before placing the child in the seat,
forcibly move the seat forward and
back to make sure the seat is securely
held in place. To check this, grab the
seat at the belt path and attempt to
move it side to side and forward and
back. There should be no more than
1 in (2.5 cm) of movement for correct
installation.
We recommend checking with a NHTSA
Certified Child Passenger Safety
Technician to make certain the child
restraint is correctly installed. In Canada,
check with Transport Canada for referral
to a Child Car Seat Clinic.
Using Lower Anchors and Tethers
for Children (LATCH) WARNING: Do not attach two child
safety restraints to the same anchor. In
a crash, one anchor may not be strong
enough to hold two child safety restraint
attachments and may break, causing
serious injury or death.
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•
Seatbelt warning light and chime. •
Crash sensors and monitoring system
with readiness indicator.
The seatbelt pretensioners at the front
seating positions are designed to tighten
the seatbelts when activated. In frontal
and near-frontal crashes, the seatbelt
pretensioners may be activated alone or,
if the crash is of sufficient severity, together
with the front airbags. In side crashes and
rollovers, the seatbelt pretensioners
activate when the Safety Canopy is
activated.
FASTENING THE SEATBELTS
The front outermost and rear safety
restraints in your vehicle are combination
lap and shoulder belts. 1. Insert the seatbelt tongue into the
proper buckle (the buckle closest to
the direction the tongue is coming
from) until you hear a snap and feel it
latch.
Note: Make sure that the seatbelt tongue
is properly fastened in the seatbelt buckle. 2.
Press the button to release the seatbelt
tongue.
Using Seatbelts During Pregnancy WARNING: Always ride and drive
with your seatback upright and properly
fasten your seatbelt. Fit the lap portion
of the seatbelt snugly and low across
the hips. Position the shoulder portion of
the seatbelt across your chest. Pregnant
women must follow this practice. See
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Conditions of operation
Then
If
The seatbelt warning lamp illuminates andthe indicator chime sounds for a few seconds.
The driver seatbelt is not buckled before
the ignition switch is turned to the on posi- tion...
The seatbelt warning lamp and indicatorchime turn off.
The driver seatbelt is buckled while the
warning lamp is illuminated and the indic- ator chime is sounding...
The seatbelt warning lamp and indicatorchime remain off.
The driver seatbelt is buckled before the
ignition switch is turned to the on position...
SEATBELT REMINDER
Belt-Minder™
This feature supplements the safety belt
warning function by providing additional
reminders that intermittently sound a tone
and illuminate the safety belt warning light
when you are in the driver seat or you have
a front seat passenger and a safety belt is
unbuckled. The system uses information from the
front passenger sensing system to
determine if a front seat passenger is
present and therefore potentially in need
of a warning. To avoid activating the
Belt-Minder feature for objects you place
in the front passenger seat, only the front
seat passengers receive warnings as
determined by the front passenger sensing
system.
If the Belt-Minder warnings expire
(warnings for about five minutes) for one
passenger (driver or front passenger), the
other passenger can still cause the
Belt-Minder feature to turn on.
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Then...
If...
The Belt-Minder feature will not activate.
You and the front seat passenger buckle
your safety belts before you switch the
ignition on or less than 1-2 minutes elapse after you switch the ignition on...
The Belt-Minder feature activates, the
safety belt warning light illuminates and a warning tone sounds for 6 seconds every
25 seconds, repeating for about 5 minutes or until you and the front seat passenger buckle your safety belts.
You or the front seat passenger do not
buckle your safety belts before your vehicle reaches at least 6 mph (9.7 km/h) and 1-2
minutes elapse after you switch the ignition on...
The Belt-Minder feature activates, the
safety belt warning light illuminates and a warning tone sounds for 6 seconds every
25 seconds, repeating for about 5 minutes or until you and the front seat passenger buckle your safety belts.
The safety belt for the driver or front
passenger is unbuckled for about 1 minute
while the vehicle is traveling at least 6 mph (9.7 km/h) and more than 1-2 minutes
elapse after you switch the ignition on...
Deactivating and Activating the
Belt-Minder Feature WARNING: While the system
allows you to deactivate it, this system
is designed to improve your chances of
being safely belted and surviving an
accident. We recommend you leave the
system activated for yourself and others
who may use your vehicle.
Note: The driver and front passenger
warnings switch on and off independently.
When you perform this procedure for one
seating position, do not buckle the other
position as this will terminate the process.
Read Steps 1 - 4 thoroughly before
proceeding with the programming
procedure.
Before following the procedure, make sure
that:
• The parking brake is set.
• The transmission is in park (P). •
The ignition is off.
• The driver and front passenger safety
belts are unbuckled.
1. Switch the ignition on. Do not start the
engine.
2. Wait until the safety belt warning light turns off (about one minute). After
Step 2, wait an additional five seconds
before proceeding with Step 3. Once
you start Step 3, you must complete
the procedure within 60 seconds.
3. For the seating position you are switching off, buckle then unbuckle the
safety belt three times at a moderate
speed, ending in the unbuckled state.
After Step 3, the safety belt warning
light turns on.
4. While the safety belt warning light is on, buckle and then unbuckle the
safety belt. After Step 4, the safety belt
warning light flashes for confirmation.
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WARNING: Your vehicle may have
an airbag deactivation switch. Before
driving, always look at the switch to
make sure it is in the appropriate
position. Failure to put the switch in the
proper position can increase the risk of
serious injury or death in a crash. The front passenger airbag on and off
switch has indicators that will illuminate,
indicating that the front passenger frontal
airbag is either on or off. The indicator lamp
is on the overhead panel.
Note:
The passenger airbag status indicator
OFF and ON lamps illuminate for a short
period of time when you switch the ignition
on to confirm it is functional. Passenger airbag
Passenger airbag status
indicator
Switch position
Disabled
OFF: Lit
Off
ON: Unlit Enabled
OFF: Unlit
On
ON: Lit
Turning the Passenger Airbag Off WARNING:
If the light does not
illuminate when the passenger airbag
switch is off and you switch the ignition
on, have the passenger airbag switch
serviced immediately by a qualified
technician. WARNING:
To avoid switching on
the airbag, always remove the ignition
key with the switch in the off position. WARNING: Never
place front seat
mounted rear-facing child or infant seats
in front of an active passenger airbag. WARNING:
You must switch the
passenger airbag off when using a
rearward facing child restraint on the
front seat.
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1. Insert the ignition key, turn the switch
to OFF and hold in OFF while removing
the key. 2.
When the ignition is turned on, the pass
airbag off light illuminates briefly,
momentarily shuts off and then turns
back on. This indicates that the
passenger airbag is deactivated.
Turning the Passenger Airbag Back On WARNING: The seatbelts for the
driver and right front passenger seating
positions are specifically designed to
operate together with the airbags in
certain types of crashes. When you
switch off your airbag, you not only lose
the protection of the airbag, you also
may reduce the effectiveness of your
seatbelt system. If the passenger does
not meet the requirements stated in the
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration or Transport Canada
deactivation criteria, switching off the
airbag can increase the risk of serious
injury or death in a crash. WARNING:
If your vehicle has rear
seats, always transport children who are
12 and younger in the rear seat. Always
use seatbelts and child restraints
properly. Do not place a child in a rear
facing infant seat in the front seat unless
your vehicle is equipped with an airbag
on and off switch and the passenger
airbag is turned off. This is because the
back of the infant seat is too close to the
inflating airbag and the risk of a fatal
injury to the infant when the airbag
inflates is substantial. WARNING:
If the passenger airbag
off light is illuminated when the
passenger airbag switch is on and the
ignition is on, have the passenger airbag
switch serviced immediately by a
qualified technician.
The passenger airbag remains off until you
turn it back on.
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