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How is the dealership going to apply this CSP with powertrain module updates via FDRS on hold until October?

The entire design is flawed and should have been rejected early by any senior engineer who got anywhere near it. I'd guess none did until it had gathered sufficient momentum within Ford to be too hard to stop. All these devices are connected by control wiring (the power wiring serves a dual...

Sure! It'll be a few days, though - I'm 3,000 miles away from my truck right now, driving around in a very unsatisfying rental car...

I think they're both cameras. I have never had that DTC show up and I have also never, in thousands of miles in hands-free mode, had BlueCruise tell me to look at the road when I already was - not even with mirrored sunglasses on.

Sounds like you suspect the additional cooling demand from towing in high ambient temps had something to do with the decrease in efficiency and range? Makes sense to me.

"Inner City chargers" is probably the key here. NYC has huge incentives for taxi and app car drivers to switch to EVs, which are mostly Model Ys, and Tesla recently pulled out of a plan to actually provide adequate charging for them in several convenient locations in the city and at the...

I have a 2022; I have up to date FDRS; I still get the prompt for what is basically a login that proves one is a bonded locksmith (I am not) and blocks updates to the BCM. I have had an available BCM update in FDRS for a couple of months that I can't apply because of it. This isn't surprising...

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No need to go to 20" and 20" will limit your choice of snow tires. The 18" 64H wheels come up on eBay from time to time and they will work great. Many aftermarket 18" wheels are rated for enough weight too but it can be hard to find one with an offset that doesn't make your truck look stupid.

It depends which 18" rims you have left over from the 2016 and also whether your Flash has the SR or ER battery. The only 18" Ford wheels that are rated for the weight of the ER trucks are the "64H" wheels from the F150 Heavy Duty Payload Package.

You're right. I missed the "of 120V" in the original claim. That said, drawing 30A per phase via the 5-20R outlets which are clearly marked as 20A max is a bad idea (and I am surprised Ford's design doesn't use a separate breaker to prevent this). Even if the wiring from inverter to each...

But you directly claimed 60A is available from the bed outlets. That is false, as it seems you now agree.

This isn't "another" 30A 240V circuit. It is the same one. There is a single 30A inverter. You cannot actually draw 30A from the locking 240V outlet and 30A from the 120V outlets simultaneously.

A few months after trading in our 2015 Model S (no heat pump) for a 2020 Model Y (heat pump, no PTC) we took it to Massif de Charlevoix in Quebec in December. There was no lack of cabin heat, in temperatures as low as -30F overnight and routinely dipping to around -20F while driving. It was...

Looks like you could buy a few different CU9AL or CU7AL rated lugs and steal a set screw from one of them, whichever one is the right size. I agree that if the threads don't clean up nicely with a tap (use a roll-forming tap, they are better for thread repair than cutting taps) retapping to the...

It had never occurred to me to consider what electrical lug set screws might be made of. After checking a lot of sources, I'm skeptical that they're aluminum. Nobody seems to sell aluminum set screws in sizes smaller than 1/2". Maybe they're plated steel?

Having done it for some time I'm going to suggest that a 40A or smaller charger will prove inconvenient for many folks driving vehicles with large batteries. It can certainly be done with some planning but it is far from hassle-free, especially if you use the truck every day. If a service...

This isn't going to work great unless your other major appliances are gas or oil fired. Hopefully you have a gas kitchen, gas or oil water heater, gas or oil heat. Even so, I would expect a load calculation to show you should not be putting the charger on more than a 40A breaker which means...

Why would that be? I don't know how to calculate heat loss for a moving vehicle, but for residential applications, cold-climate or "hyper heat" vapor injection heat pumps have about 1.3X the max (not "rated") heating vs cooling output compared to cooling-only models. In my climate, with a...

That sounds wrong. The Generac 6852 should switch both the neutral and hot for all circuits connected to it, meaning there is no bond for the truck's GFCI to "see" when the neutral is switched to the generator inlet. More likely is a situation further downstream with two neutrals tied together...