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My wife has been experiencing a similar problem with her 2010 Fusion. We think we finally figured out the problem, but not a solution. The microphone in her car is located in the headliner above and to the left of the driver, not in the rear-view mirror. Because my wife is short, when she adjusts the seat to reach the pedals and steering wheel, the microphone is behind her. (I am taller, so when I am in the car, the microphone is above my head, which is why I don't have the same problem.) I had my wife sit in the car, while parked, and move her seat back and forth. When the seat was moved back, I could hear her over the phone fine. When the seat was moved forward, to her normal driving position, I had difficulty hearing her. This was while the car was parked. Add in road noise, when driving, and it is no wonder everyone complains when she is on the phone. Unfortunately, the dealer said they do not know of an no option to relocate the microphone. I am trying to get an answer from Ford about whether they can move the microphone.

Send copies of both responses to the presidents of Ford and Navteq.

The rest of the drive is used for the Navigation system and Gracenote DB.

You can manually edit the song and album information by going through theedit music library settings in the Jukebox. But that is very tedious. It is much easier to copy the CD on your computer and burn a new CD with album and track information embedded. I use Roxio Easy CD to do this, but other CD burning software has similar capability.

In my area, there are numbered streets, but they are followed by street identifiers; i.e., 42 Street or 12 Avenue. If I want to identify a destination on 42 Street, I need to say "Forty Second Street", not "Four Two Street". Maybe in your area, you need to say "Twenty Three Fifty" or "Two Thousand Three Hundred Fifty" instead of "Two Three Five Oh"

I use Roxio Easy CD to burn my CDs. You'd need to check the user guides for the software you use to see how to embed track information

Gracenote is preloaded with the Navigation maps on your Expedition. There are a couple of reasons why Gracenote may not recognize your CD. (1) The CD may not be included in the database. Either the CD is too new for the database, or the CD is just not one of the CDs included. (2) Gracenote does not recognize the CD. You need to understand how the Gracenote database works. For CDs that do not have music information embedded (and if the music info is embedded, you don't need the Gracenote database because the Ford jukebox will just read the embedded info), Gracenote reads the pattern of digital bits and compares this to "thumbprints" in the database to identify the CD. Only commercial CDs are included in the database. So if you create your own CD which is not identical to a commercial CD, Gracenote will not recognize the pattern of digital bits. There are two ways around this limitation: (a) create a CD which is identical to a commercial CD, or (b ) embed the CD and track information into the CD you create so the Ford jukebox can read the embedded information.

Sometimes the database has a slightly different name for the street. For instance, you might know it as "Maple Street", but the database knows it as "E Maple Street" or "CR 312 / Maple Street". Or the database might just have the street name wrong, or the street is not included. You can zoom in the map to the street location, touch a location on the street, and press "Set as Destination", and then see what the street name is called in the database.

Blackberries don't support text messaging on Sync. http://www.nsapp.fordtechservice.dealerconnection.com/sync/usEN/sync_us_EN_iop_1_30.pdf

I indicated in the first sentence of my first post in this thread that the Nav system does not display vehicle speed. I also offered an explanation as to why Ford may have decided not to include the feature (which has nothing to do with the price of the unit, or how common the feature may be in non-integrated nav units). (Also, there are regulations which govern the accuracy of speedometers ... so if Ford offered a vehicle speed display on the Nav system, it would be ocvered by the same regulations, which could be problematic if for some reason the Nav display showed a speed lower than actual.)

But if the speedometer needle is about 2/5ths of the way between 40 and 45, then it is indicating you are going 42 MPH.

The Nav system does not display your travel speed. Your speedometer is the speed measurement device Ford puts in your vehicle. If the Nav system did display the travel speed, and there were slight calibration differences between the speedometer and the Nav display, then Ford would have lots of customers complaining that one of them is wrong and needs to be fixed.

Confused. You paired your phone with Sync, but don't want to use sync to make phone calls. What do you want Sync to do with your phone?

USB and Jukebox have slightly different command sets. So I copied my Jimmy Buffett CD to a USB thumbdrive and tried the "What's playing command". Sync pronounced "Jimmy Buffett" as expected, and could recognize my asking for Jimmy Buffett. Then I deleted the Jimmy Buffett CD from the Jukebox and reloaded a homemade CD (created from the thumbdrive). Jukebox still didn't recognize Jimmy Buffett. So I manually changed the artist name to "Bob Smith", and Jukebox didn't recognize that either. Then I manually changed the artist on an Abba CD in the Jukebox from Abba to Bob Smith. Jukebox still didn't recognize "Bob Smith". But when I said "Play Artist Abba", jukebox responded with "Playing artist Bob Smith" and went to the Abba CD which was now a Bob Smith CD. So there seems to be some hidden label (possibly in the Gracenote Database) which is identifying the Abba/Bob Smith songs as really being Abba songs. And it is probably has the Jimmy Buffett CD mislabeled to something else which I have no way to identify.

"What's This" command doesn't work with the Jukebox.