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There's a lot of nasty business going around with thieves plugging into diag ports and impersonating or adding keys to steal vehicles. Enrolling keys is one of the BCM functions in FDRS, isn't it? I would have to guess the restrictions on overwriting the BCM firmware are here to stay. I looked...

If you installed a cold-climate whole house heat pump for $5000, you're either a genius, or it is possible you may know somewhat less about heat pumps than you think. We live on the shaded side of a ski mountain, well up the hill. When we put the heat pump in our house we kept the old electric...

The Powermax converters have both 3-stage programmed charging and fixed voltage modes. Changing back and forth is a little unintuitive (the same trim pot that sets the fixed voltage also sets the bulk charge voltage for 3-stage mode) but it's easier on the "charger" models due to the built-in...

The Lightning draws a lot more current while updating modules with FDRS than an ICE truck, too, because the entire cooling system runs the whole time. My truck drew 42A for more than an hour and blew up a 40A bench power supply while updating the IPMA. One relatively affordable option for a...

The truck end doesn't have a ground, really. The tires are very good insulators. But the truck end has a GFCI, which I suppose would trip if you shorted line to ground through your body while plugging in the cable - because the line and neutral current would be unbalanced, and that's how...

Just fired up FDRS again to see if there were new updates relating to the BC 1.3 business, and I see several modules have a "GVMS Warning". I clicked on one of them in the list at the bottom of that screen and it popped up a dialogue box saying it had opened an As-Built Assistance request for...

I don't think we know the Generlink doesn't work - I think we just have no report that it *does* work. If it doesn't work, I suspect it's because it ties the ground pin on its receptacle to the meter enclosure, which is probably effectively (though not as a code requirement) tied to ground in...

I guess PG&E's transfer switch, unlike the Generlink, must isolate the ground wire from the F150 - or perhaps the cord they supply does? If they just isolate the ground inside their enclosure, but the neutral and ground remain bonded at the panel, what's the risk here really? This seems like...

I think the "EV's chewing tires" is related to Tesla's insanely poor suspension setup on many of their vehicles. Like the S and X where the performance variants end up with like 2.5 camber at the most common setting for the adjustable height suspension, and they have no camber adjustment at all...

My LVB got down to a terrifying 7.8V (I think this cannot have been the true voltage - see below) reported in FDRS when my nominally 40A continuous, 50A peak bench power supply failed during my recent IPMA update. The screens and cooling pumps shut down as voltage dropped towards "8V" and I was...

I have run into one station -- just one -- where no matter what I did I could not get the lock on the A2Z adapter to engage. It's a new-ish V3 station in Lagrangeville, NY with high curbs and large parking lot light towers arranged so that they're basically permanent, unremovable bollards which...

I think @Ford Motor Company may want to have a chat with the dealer involved...

I'm wondering too - what's available via the rather complex and scary FDRS/Forscan upgrade path is supposed to be BC 1.4, while now what's shipping via OTA is 1.3. what are the differences? The 1.4 upgrade via FDRS is so resource intensive I question whether it could ever be applied by OTA at...

We have owned Teslas going back to 2015 and have a 2022 F150L with BlueCruise. In my opinion the BlueCruise stack is more reliable and safer than the Tesla stack. Autopilot has had terrible problems since Elon got in a spitting match with their original technology supplier and decided to...

I know some of our forum members are in the industry and will have some insight here. Are there even non-CDK options for dealers to use? When I bought my truck, I wanted to buy a set of Pro wheels with it for snow tires. The part number wasn't in CDK's system yet so I couldn't order it. We...

It's wise to think of transfer switches as temperamental machines that work sometimes and should be babied unless an absolute emergency dictates otherwise. In the late 1990s - just at the very end of the era when a major bank might have run a datacenter or, as some of us still called it then, a...

Tesla does not sell a CCS1 to NACS adapter for level 2 charging. Their adapters for CCS1 (not J1772) are DC only.

According to the published specs, only the "64H" wheels from the Heavy Duty Payload Package are rated for the ER trucks. You may have more options with an SR, some of the other wheels miss the mark by only a few dozen pounds.

Well, as of 2023 it looks like it was planned to be, yeah. Now that Elon has fired the whole Supercharger construction management organization in a fit of pique... who knows?

Sure, with a factory engineering team available, I bet it's a thing the could be done. It would be crazy to get near this otherwise. Think of all the ways you could destroy two $80,000+ trucks, and potentially hurt others around you on the road. A few examples: How are you going to tow...