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it would be very cool to have a pair of speakers mounted in these panels with a remote control for the radio. so if you're hanging out back tailgating you can listen to some music.

I figured since the wiper cover is shown as green then the other plastic covers would be green as well. That diagram only shows 3 of the covers in green, so one is missing. The purple has 4 covers. thanks for the pics. very nice. yours are gray. figured they would be black like the wiper cover in my van. the fasteners on the masonite panels are black too, yet yours are also gray. Wonder what color the spare parts ones are. will check out the other diagrams in the spare parts catalog.

thanks for the input. I don't recall that happening with previous cars, 15 deg - ouch. you've had a long winter. hope you get a little warm up this week

thanks for providing that. so the purple color ones are the masonite panel version and the green ones are black plastic version. I'd like to see those on a wagon model before ordering.

thanks for the update. glad you were able to easily fix that. nice job!

check out this recent thread http://fordtransitconnectforum.com/topic/3315-rear-seat-floor-well/#entry9780

those are pretty nice looking covers. hope the ones I ordered look as good.

thanks for your input guys. seems like a faulty design and I wonder what the long terms affects would be on components in that area, aside from the safety issue. I tried running the heater with the temp setting as you say, right when it turns read and it still got pretty hot, but as you say not as hot if it was set on the full heat setting. I plan to show this to the local Ford dealer at some point cause I think it needs to be corrected in some way. I have another sort of related thing, have you noticed that if you run your van for a while and then park with the engine off, when you restart the engine the temp gauge is almost right back at the same temp as a warmed up engine. I've gone down the beach and parked in cooler weather for 2-3 hours and this happens. Very strange. The radiator doesn't seem to cool off very quickly. Anyone else experience this?

that's a bummer. what's behind the panel when you removed it? is there a plastic covering like in my pic of the rear door panels? Is it the stiffer panel making the noise or the stiffer panel changing the resonance of the door noise. keep us posted on how you mitigate the noise.

sounds like a nice solution. can you share a pic of your handiwork?

thanks for the input. I should check those out. as I said earlier, wonder why Ford didn't make these panels out of black plastic to match the black side panels. using masonite is pretty cheesy.

thanks. now that I have my van I can see that getting to the forward mounting point would be hard because of the head liner in the cab area. the remaining mounting points are all visible since there is no head liner. I would imagine that the wagon model uses this forward mounting point for the roof rail so not sure why that would be an issue for the van model. They both should have the same air bag setup.

@GBL - thanks for the pics. that's a very nice looking hitch. the spare tire location doesn't leave much room for a hitch but this Curt model fit nicely without sticking out as much as the OEM one. Your poor TC if covered in winter road rash.

@acadian - glad I could help. If you aren't in a big rush, you can wait until I get my seat covers in to see how well they fit or just go for it. As I said, I added the seat back map pockets ($5 per seat) and the headrest cover ($14.50 per seat). For color I ordered the Black Outer/Black Center. Not very adventurous but figured that would look best with the dark gray/black interior. Also, I got the Tailor Made version of the seat cover ($218.00 for the pair). $257.00 total with free shipping and no tax.

@GBL - thanks for the input. The cargo van doesn't have ducts beyond the dash area so nothing going below the seats. there has to be a pretty significant heat source in this console area below the shifter to produce the types of temps I'm seeing. Beyond what you would feel coming out of a normal air vent.

nice. can you take a few pics to show how it mounts?

did you test out the rear heater? wagon owners have been posting lots of complaints about lack of heat for the rear passengers and location of vents blowing cold air.