California Autos Examiner

Monday, November 12, 2007

Ford Owner's Manuals


From time to time I like to look through the search patterns of visitors to this site. I'm not sure why you would need to get goat urine out of car, but someone out there is looking for an answer. In any case, a visitor was researching how to set a clock on a Lincoln MKX. That got me to wondering if Ford had owner's manuals online, and sure a shootin they do. You can visit this site and select your model, if you're lucky they'll have a whole bunch of PDFs for you to view.

For the Lincoln owner, here's what you need to do: Press MENU until SET HOURS or SET MINUTES is displayed. Use up/down arrow to manually increase/decrease. Press MENU again to disengage clock mode.

This brings up a good point. You see lots of self setting clocks that automatically get the correct time off of radio signals. How much would it cost to add this feature to your car? Wouldn't it be nice to just get into your ride and not have to battle with sometimes counter intuitive programming to set the darn clock? And let's face it, do you set your clock in your driveway when you have plenty of free time? No, you don't realize the clock isn't set properly until you're on the road. Then at a traffic light you try and fiddle with the buttons to get the correct setting or worse try and set the clock while driving. I've seen you do this. I know it happens.

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