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In defense of the rear fog lights. i spent 10 days in Great britain and 10 days in Ireland mostly driving the countryside while touring the countries. A person who thinks that they know what fog is, gets a real awakening while driving the vast countryside on narrow roads in the fog. It is more imnportant to be able to see the vehicle in front of you than the little bit that the front fog lights illumnate. The brighter rear lights are a necessity. Fog is a fact of life over there; not infrequent like over here. I have only used them twice here and both time when an overly aggressive driver got literally right on my rear end and I pulled out the switch so he would think that I was braking.

Welcome to the Forums. I know what you mean about colors. We seem to be the only dealer in Houston to order TC's in colors other than white and they sell.

Congrats and welcome to the forum. Make sure you post a couple pics after it is wrapped.

Congrats and welcome to the site. Good luck with your new TC.

I agree. I have the rear window glass but with the Adrian Hybrid partition and a shelving unit on each side, the rear visibility is almost non-existnat. Took a little time to get used to but now I don't even give it another thought.

I spoke with Azure Dymanics the other day as we are becoming a dealer for their Hybrid Econoline. They are also the company that is modifying the TC to an all electric version which will debut at the Chicago Auto Show next month and is supposed to go on sale towards the end of the year.

Welcome from across the pond. I spent a little over a week over there a year ago. Stayed in the Cotswald's. Beautiful country; hope to return again to see more if it.

Welcome to the Forums. Good luck with your Transit Connect.

Looks great. I have the driver side Ranger shelf in mine for show and a base Adrian on the other side for show. They do com in handy for carrying brochures, etc. I also went with the Adrian Hybrid bulkhead. It lessens the noise in the cab area a little and is a little better at insulating the cab area.

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Our lead times in TX are a minimum of 4 months from time of submission until the unit arrivers at the dealership. It takes almost a month from time of arrival at the Port for processsing and shipping to TX.

Mad I was unable to answer message on my phone. Remember if they swith to bank financing that u get the $500 rebate. Also if u are a bomafide business there is a $200 comercial upfit rebate. Good luck.

Plenty of XLT's here. We have only sole 1 XL out of all the TC's we have sold. Welcome to the Forums!

I agree. Spent 25+ years in the Midwest. Not fun cleaning off a lot full of commercial trucks and plowing snow when wind chill is sometimes below 0. Been here 3 years and i will take the hot summers [reason God invented swimming pools] over the bitter cols ant day of the week. Do not miss it one bit.

How do you like the wheel / tire change. Any appreciable differernce in the ride? New wheels are in my budget for next year. I have had TPMS issues with my wife's Focus, mainly during significant temperature changes but none so far with the TC.

I am having same issues and without the daytimne running lights. Also at night my function and radio buttons are not backlit so it is a real pain to change radio stations while driving. The buttons only seem to light up when the W/S is booting up on initital vehicle start and they go off after 10 seconds or so. Today I switched to the daytime display mode even though it was dark out on the way to work and the buttons lit up. Perfectly logical, they light up in daylight when it doesn't matter and go off at night when you can't see the buttons. Otherwise I love my T/C. Showed it to a customer last week and am delivering 2 to them today and 7 mor in the 1st quarter of next year. They are a water treatment business and will be using them for service vehcicles.

I passed along your feedback to the Marketing Manager for Transit Connect.

Good luck selling them. i am also thinking of replacing mine with something a little nicer. If mi wife reads this, XMAS hint hint!