Body Specifications

Body

WARNING:
Never install used or reconditioned parts (as specified below) from pre-owned, salvaged or damaged vehicles. The use of such parts could lead to serious injury.
Never use non-Ford parts or accessories for completing repairs.
Ford Motor Company does not approve or recognize body and structural repair procedures, tools, parts or anything but new genuine Ford equipment. Ford cannot attest to the safety, quality, durability or legality of non-Ford parts or accessories. Use of such parts could lead to serious personal injury as they may contain damage which is not visible.
Ford does not approve use of the following:

- Salvaged or used parts
- Major body clips or assemblies from salvage vehicles
- Aftermarket structural or body components
- Salvaged or reconditioned wheels
- Used supplemental restraint system (SRS) components
- air bags
- restraint system modules
- safety belts, buckles or retractors
- crash sensors

Returning a vehicle to pre-accident condition can only be assured if repair procedures are carried out by skilled technicians using new genuine Ford parts and Ford-approved methods. Structural component repair procedures approved by Ford, using genuine Ford parts, have been validated by Ford Motor Company engineers.
Ford Motor Company does not endorse, cannot attest to, and makes no representations regarding structural repairs (frames, rails, aprons and body panels) carried out using non-genuine Ford Motor Company parts or non-Ford-approved methods. In particular, Ford makes no representations that the vehicle will meet any crash safety or anti-corrosion performance requirement. Such parts and methods have not been tested by Ford, and may not meet Ford's requirements for safety, performance, strength, quality, durability and corrosion protection.
Ford Motor Company bears no responsibility or liability of any kind if repairs are performed using alternative structural component repair procedures and/or parts.

The body consists of the following:

- All steel bodies
- Steel roof panel and optional panoramic roof panel with moveable front and fixed rear glass panels
- Unibody cab forward design
- 2,805 mm (110 in) wheelbase
- Laser-welded inner frame rails in front structure that cannot be sectioned
- Front structure common between Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX
- Radiator support bolster constructed of hybrid glass fiber polypropylene material
- Edge and MKX have unique front fascia and grille
- High-Strength Low Alloy (HSLA) and mild steels
- Dual Phase Steel (DP), located in A-pillar (upper) and B-pillar outer reinforcement body side components
- Bolted, removable front fenders, hinged doors and hood
- Steel hood
- Fenders constructed of dent resistant High-Strength Steel (HSS) steel
- Body side outer panel constructed of mild steel
- Body side outer panel available as 2-piece service replacement
- Steel doors incorporating dent resistant HSS steel outer panels
- Liftgate outer panel constructed of dent resistant HSS steel
- High-strength, bolt-on front and rear bumper beams
- Front and rear subframe assemblies housing suspension and steering components
- Underbody common between Edge and MKX
- Underbody floor panels constructed of mild steel
- Underbody front floor side member(s) constructed of HSLA steel
- Underbody rear floor side member(s) constructed of HSLA steel
- Structural adhesive used in cowl side-to-cowl top panel joint, body side outer-to-inner rear wheel house hem, underbody rear sill and inner fender reinforcement
- Sound deadening material used throughout front and rear floor pan.