Brian V

Okay, so I did some more listening, with CD's, and as someone had mentioned earlier, that the problem may be with the Sirius receiver. For CD's I got very good clean and transparent sound with the following settings: Bass +3, Mid -2 and Treble +3. FM HD also sounds very good. My next experiment will be to hook up my XM Roady XT to the Z and see if it sounds better than the factory Sirius tuner. Jim, try listening to some good CD's with those settings and see if you agree. Other than that (and the location of the brake release) I really love the car. It's incredibly smooth and quiet (I have the suspension tuned to comfort for our atrocious Michigan so-called roads) and am getting right about the same MPG's as my Fusion Hybrid: 39+mpg! Hard to beat that combination of great looks, comfort, space and luxury with the gas mileage of an econobox!!!

Did that when we bought a used 09 Fusion SEL- snapped pic with the iPhone and got the code. My 13 Fusion Hybrid had an identity crisis last week and wouldn't recognize either remote- and keypad was blank too, but remote start still worked. Cycled through the remote start/stop a few times and got the keypad to light up and got it unlocked. Reading through the owner's manual and found the way to bring up the door code (with keys in my case). Dealer had to erase and reprogram both remotes to get them to work.

Hi Jim! I also have the THX in my Hybrid, got it two days ago, and although I love the car, I am dissapointed with the sound on the satellite radio. Voices are definitely where the issue is most evident- there's plenty of deep clean bass and great extension with the highs, but they really didn't do justice to the capabilities of the system with the EQ tuning. It sounds like there's a bump in the 150 -550hz range resulting in the muddy quality of voices- or instruments in that range. (See my next post for an update) I was able to fix the sound in my 2013 Fusion Hybrid SE using the tone controls: Bass +2, Mid -6, treble +4 and selecting driver's seat mode, but it seems that the tone controls don't fall in the range that needs to be adjusted in the Z. Since cutting the midrange back didn't help, I tried boosting the bass +5 and mid +5 with the treble +6 and that seems to be somewhat better. By far the best auto sound I've ever had was in my 1994 Continental with JBL sound system- it was amazingly clean and had great bass and treble extension- sounded as good as a really good home stereo system. The sound in my 2008 Sable Premier was also very, very good (the audiophile sound system). Satellite radio was excellent, as it is with my other receivers- so it's not a problem with SiriusXM. I asked a friend who works in Ford Design about this, how they equalize the sound, etc. and he said he'd ask around to try and find out some info on it. I know that when they were setting up the JBL sound in the Continental, they had a very high end listening room set up (Magnepan speakers, Crown or McIntosh amps, etc) and compare the sound in the room and then duplicate it with the car's EQ to get it right.