Recent content by chasc

I couldn’t find any official sources but I read around tonight and found some credible-sounding explanations. It implied that there was a normal controller responsible for the chime, blinker, and various alert noises but also a totally separate controller that can act like a backup in case the...

If you wait long enough all of the software-based recalls seem to have become available over-the-air so no dealer visit required. I got burned with a 2021 Ranger when they had to drop the headliner to fix a piece attached to the roof: Put a hole in the fabric and then tried to fix it but made...

I did not notice this after the ITRM update but I may have an explanation for what you’re hearing: I think many modern vehicles primarily rely on the same speaker system as the radio, etc. However because some noises are safety-related they have a backup audio path with its own speaker if...

My reading of the BCM update notes is that what you’re describing is the behavior it’s meant to fix: That the BCM interpreted activity during software updates (probably even of other controllers than itself) as a fault and logged a trouble code. So hopefully this was the last time and future...

Do you know what the tongue weight of those trailers are when loaded how you’d use them? The general target tongue weight is 10-15%, so assuming it’s in that range then for a 5,000lb load the low end of that range would basically be the Raptor’s max rated capacity with no margin.

I can’t predict what will happen if they’re unplugged or continuously covered but I do know that in my narrow garage before I’m finished parking it throws an error about sensor being blocked and shuts off the whole system: Front and rear sensors plus cameras.

You must have a bigger garage than me :). They have the same purpose as the parking sensors on the front and back bumper but they add coverage of the sides of the vehicle. If you pull into a very narrow spot you’ll see the orange or red bars appear on the screen along the sides of the vehicle...

I don’t remember if it was default or had to be enabled with a menu but my Lariat shows that large center view when very close to the turn and upcoming turns further out go up between the 4 gauges at the top.

Are new folks continuing to receive the Sync update? I’ve been checking since it was reported here and still don’t see it. Curious if it’s just a slow phased roll out or if it’s exclusive to some particular trim level like the RR. Mine is a ‘24 Lariat.

I got two other OTA updates recently but haven’t seen this Sync one yet; checked a few times over the past couple days. ‘24 Lariat.

I’ve gotten a couple OTA updates in the last few weeks including this one but they seem to be prep work leading up to the Trailer Brake Controller update and not the TBC update itself yet.

Best to check the headlight housing for that specific badging but I believe I’ve read here that in MY25 or MY26 they stopped including the hardware support for the “matrix” capability in the US. My US market MY24 Lariat has it and it works with the Forscan changes documented.

Excellent paint and wheel choices!

Best of luck! The people selling wheels commercially there seem to want the most money and I found often the photos weren’t of the exact set you’d be buying. The set I found was a private seller who just got their own deal on bigger tires for their Bronco and needed the old set to stop taking up...

I am skeptical this is the case. I had a car with HID projectors where you could see the motion of the light as something physically moved when you turned the high beams on. My ‘24 Lariat doesn’t look like that at all. In fact it has the cute feature where auto high beams fade in imperceptibly...