Our Explorer Pulls The Load

Bought our 2013 Explorer XLT in July of 2012 to replace a 2006 Explorer Eddie Bauer with V8. We deliberated for over a year on the new Explorer because we have a small travel trailer (about 3500 pounds) we use throughout the year and were concerned how the 2013 V6 engine/FWD would handle the load.

After several trips, no worries. With the factory tow package including the tow setting for the transmission, our Explorer handles the travel trailer as well as, and in some cases better, than the 2006 Explorer V8. Best Ford we’ve ever owned.

Photo was taken at Palmetto State Park, Ottine, TX, which is near Gonzales.

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Larry B When I submitted this story I thought I had submitted a photo with it. Photo was our 2013 Explorer XLT and our travel trailer. OOPS. Still love our black XLT we call Cruiser.
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I'd like to strongly suggest that the Power Lift gate on the Ford Edge be height adjustable. If you look at other vehicles around the Edge's size and class (for example the Toyota RAV4, Cadilliac SRX Crossover, Ford Explorer and the Kia Sorento just to name a few), all of these vehicles come with this capability already. This remedy would solve problems for quite a few people such as: 1.) for those of us who park our vehicles in the garage, a fully open lift gate would almost certainly hit the top of an open garage door (or the mechanical parts of a closed one) if it isn't parked in a VERY specific spot. I constantly worry about this when I park my new Edge in the garage. If I need to open the lift gate, I always have to pull the vehicle out of the garage at least half way to load the cargo area. In the snow and the rain, this is inconvenient at best! 2.) situations in which someone cannot close the lift gate completely, on a temporary basis, due to longer or larger cargo (such as lumber or a surf board) and that person isn't tall enough to reach the lift gate to pull it down to secure it. With a height adjustable lift gate (such as your Ford Explorer and the other vehicles mentioned have), it does not matter how tall you are... you can still fully utilize your cargo area as you see fit. Since the Ford Explorer already has this feature, I'm sure it would be next to nothing to have this feature added to the Edge; I'm not really sure why it isn't already on the 2013 Edge, but alas. On that note, since the Explorer currently has an adjustable lift gate it tells me that Ford already sees enough benefit in this feature to utilize it on (some) Ford vehicles. Since the lift gate on the Edge Limited models is already electronically controlled, via two buttons inside the vehicle as well as the key fob, it should be quite easy to distribute a software update to remedy this issue. Please, please forward this request to your software development team(s) and ask them to consider it! It would make a world of difference for a lot of Edge owners. Thank You. :o)
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