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ORIGINAL: Jim Smyth

Well I finally got a call back from the local Service Manager at my local Ford dealership. He told me the Ford rep that he deals with told him the car was tested last winter in Duluth MN and they didnt have any problems with icing and the short drop window feature. If you belive that I have some prime Flordia swamp land to sell you! He also told me the rep told him that if it does freeze you could pull hard and it "SHOULD" open but not to do it very often! WTF!

Also for all you guys that live in the warmer climates that have chimed in and think this issue may not be a problem for you, I have news for ya. You are in the same boat if you battery goes dead! Just food for thought. I feel Ford is going to have a real problem with this over the next winter and my idea of a fix will be a re-designed swap out for the plastic trim pieces so they dont encapsulate the entire window. That would be a logical conclusion.

Good recommendations I have gotten from the service manager for the interm and that I intend to use during the winter is to use the car cover I already have and is in my truck as I type. Also to keep a can of deicer fluid in the trunk just in case the window gets iced up and I was too lazy to put the cover on.

If you hit an ice storm like we had a few times last winter and your windows are completely frozen, that drop down "feature" will absolutely NOT work. THe only issue would be the window actuators wearing a little...maybe even break eventually over an extended period of time. Just keep the car in the garage if possible!!