The car shuts off without warning when you are driving. it has happened 6 times in the last 3 months. the power steering shuts off and the car comes to a complete stop before you are able to try to restart the car. this is a very serious safety issue when this happens on a busy highway and you are in the fast lane or making a left turn across oncoming traffic. i took the car to a local dealer (jerry's ford of leesburg va) and it is not showing any maintenance codes for the issue and they said there is nothing they can do. i spoke to ford (case# cas-17221031-z4l4r3) and they said to drive the car until the issue happens again and have it towed back to the dealer as restarting the car will clear the maintenance code. i told ford this was unacceptable due to this being a very serious safety issue and i didn't think it was a good idea to put someone's life at risk to trouble shoot the problem with the car. ford has no other options at this time. from research i have done online i can see other people have had this same exact issue. nhtsa id numbers 11047965 and 11055106 seem to be the same issue.
During hard acceleration, the smell of rotten eggs enters the cabin regardless of what type of fan is blowing (air conditioning - fresh air or recirculate). lincoln under a tsb claimed that they fixed the problem by resealing the rear seals to the rear hatch. the smell continues and if you do research, this is a widespread problem in ford edge's, explorer's and lincoln mkx's. ford doesn't seem to think that exhaust entering the cabin for which they do not have fix for is worthy of a system wide recall. i suspect that carbon monoxide and other poisonous gases are entering the cabin and cannot be good for the occupants... this issue was present from the first day i leased the vehicle.