KiteVan

Don, I’m talking about this plastic trim piece on sliding door. I have the passenger version, so I cannot see what is holding it on from inside. I assume it is held on with all clips but have seen trim in past that require removal of interior panel because fasteners attach from inside. Just wanted to make sure before I start prying.

How do you remove the sliding door bumper guard/molding on the Gen 2 transits. Are there any hidden screws or is it all clips and adhesive? I’ve checked previous posts. The closest thing was about how to remove it on a 2012 which look completely different.

It took about 10mins start to finish. The five T15s are located just under the weather gasket above the bumper. If you open back doors or lift gate step back a little you can see the T15s. The lip edge has double sided tape. I would dry fit first before starting the tape because the adhesive promoter they provided with the tape makes it super sticky. Follow the instructions you can’t go wrong. Basically put in position, tighten T15s then lift up loose edge to pull tape and press down. I did celebrate with 1 beer cause I no longer have to look at all the dings and scratches. I chose this product because it covers pretty much the whole area where materials are most likely to scrape. Yes it is a tad more then just the sticky rubber pads that don’t cover the whole width of bumper. The best part is the lip edge wraps around so water and debris can shed off and not get trapped underneath.

Looks like the factory stock hitch is rated class 1 but comes in 2”. I thought you don’t get 2” receivers until you hit class 3. So did Ford splurge on a class 3 receiver but down rated the tongue weight and tow capacity to fit vehicle’s towing limitations? I’m asking both out of curiosity and because the bike rack I want to install requires 500lb tongue weight rating. I know in one of the previous posts it was mentioned the tongue weight Is more for handling purposes while towing, but I have bent hitches in the past due to over loading tongue weight. Just want to be safe. I don’t want to spread 300lbs worth of E-bike and batteries all over the highway.

When I bought my 2020TC the thing that worried me most on first glance was the rear bumper. It is all plastic and painted to match. I’m gona use this thing as a do it all family/work van. A lot of things will slide across that bumper. There are going to ba a lot of paint scratches. Within the first week the back bumper was thrashed. Well a quick search on Amazon came up with this. It fit perfectly, almost looks factory like. All the holes lined up and there is almost no gap between the protective liner and original bumper. Here is the before and after. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B073FTL598?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

So here is progress report and some curious questions about transmission fluid change frequency. First the progress I did test drive a 2020 TC with the same specs as mine both at a dealership and a friends. I did so just incase the adaptive drive cycle was set specific to my friends way of driving. There was a big difference in how smooth the other two vans shifted on then hills. Everything else seemed about the same. I called the ford service department that wiped the PCM the first time and they are going to actually drive and reinspect the van. That seems weird thought they should have done that if first time to verify instead of just going off trouble shooting list. We shall see what they say after their workup. Now the question about transmission fluid change frequency. Ive read a lot of post here about changing the transmission fluid. Most the post seem to pertain to the 6 speed 6F35. I wonder if you guys would recommend that for the 8 speed. The recommendations on the owners manual sounds questionable to me. For the 2020 TC with 8speed trans the recommended transmission fluid change milage is 100,000 but if you look on the next page it says if you have a roof box or pull a trailer with any frequency the recommended change milage is 30,000. That is a 70,000 mile difference. I can see that if you are hauling heavy trailer all the time but a roof box? Sure aerodynamic drag is exponential but that still has to be a one heavy roof box to affect the transmission that much. What do you guy think about that huge discrepancy in recommendations?

Thanks for all the information guys. I hope its just me getting use to driving the van. I am not an aggressive driver by any means. In fact my bumper sticker says "just pass Im slow". It sounds a lot like what Lostintransit said. When the van has some momentum it will stay pretty smooth. Its only an issue on low to moderate speeds on steep hills. The shifting becomes jerky. I just had the adaptive learning wiped. The van did objectively drive better, but the issue reappeared soon after like 48-72 hr later. I don't want to have to pay to have computer wiped every couple of days. It just seems weird to me that a newish 2020 van would have to work so much harder then my super beater 1998 Toyota tracel. Anyhow going to test drive a 2020 transit to compare. Will definitely take on steeper hills. Let hope its just me getting use to the transit.

Hello all, new here. Just bought flex fuel 2020 TC xlt. When I test drove the Van it was on mostly flat and moderate hills. It drove fine in those conditions. I however live in an area with many moderate to steep hills. I find the van has a real hard time maintaining anything above 30mph going up hill. It either reves at 2000rpm or races to 3500 not at whole lot i between. Is this normal for the TCs? I have never had issues with my much older and smaller horses powered cars doing the same hills. The van is not loaded with gear or people just me most times. I guess my questions are, how does your TC handle uphills. Is it sluggish? Should I worry about the transmission or torque converter? Or is this just the adaptive learning still doing it’s thing?