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Dumb newbie question. I have used a BAFX OBDII scanner with Torque Pro for my 2007 Honda Accord (classic Bluetooth, IIRC). I always took it out when I was done using it because I had problems with parasitic battery drain (not driving the Honda enough). I thought the scanner left plugged in 24...

I have an Apple Watch Ultra (Series 8), and a FordPass "widget" shows up on my Apple Watch. The only options that I see are just Unlock, Start, and Lock. A FORD logo takes up most of the space on the watch face! :rolleyes: . But the options provided work well. They require the watch to be...

Perhaps then Congress should consider requiring cell phone manufacturers to put AM back into the phone SOCs for emergency broadcasts. It used to be Samsung had a radio built into its phones. You had to use a wired headset as the antenna, so that might be the problem with having it in phones...

If Ford will backtrack on AM radio, maybe there's hope they'll backtrack on the $800/year future Blue Cruise subscription pricing. There are probably a lot more people at the gate with torches and pitchforks for Blue Cruise pricing than there are for AM radio! ?

Verge article that says long-driving ranges mean big batteries in big vehicles, which the Verge article argues is the wrong way to make EVs affordable to the masses and save the planet, etc., as big vehicles with big batteries degrade the planet in other ways. Ford CEO came very close to saying...

Motor Trend review of Ford subscription pricing and what any of it is worth. Their view is Blue Cruise is not worth $800/year. We’re Paying $650/Year to Subscribe to Our Ford F-150 Lightning (motortrend.com)

AP News summarized Farley's 5/21/23 talk with more emphasis on other points he made vs. the spin in the quoted press release in the OP post. https://www.f150lightningforum.com/forum/threads/article-ford-is-about-to-break-out-big-ev-losses-for-the-first-time.14960/post-317860

A summary of Farley's 5/21/23 pep talk on improving margins: Ford's Farley: Cut costs, improve quality and boost margins through software and services | AP News

For folks like me who are not up on much music past the '80's: The Meaning of TLC's "Waterfalls" - Extra Chill But no profit, no business, no ability to raise capital, etc., .... (unless you're Amazon in its nascent days! ? ).

Maybe the price increase is just part of Ford's overall game plan to reach a +8% eBit margin by 2026. If so, then perhaps we get an inkling of how well those plans are going to go over .... (thud!)...

Ford is hosting a capital markets day on Monday to discuss its plans to reach a +8% eBit margin by 2026. Ford's capital markets day seeks to convince Wall Street of EV plans (cnbc.com)

Actually, if you do the math with only a 5-key code and 9 tries allowed, there is 1 chance in 70 of hitting a correct code in 9 tries, assuming you try a different code each time. With a 10-key code and 9 tries, there is 1 chance in about 2,223 of hitting a correct key code. Assuming there is...

I had trouble getting PAAK to work, and I found the following Mach-E forum instructions to work great with adaptation to an iPhone. https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/how-to-remove-re-install-and-re-configure-paak-on-android-to-enable-a-backup-startcode.4544/ (Post #1). I tried the...

Perhaps they should adopt one of the Garmin mapping plans (it's been a while since I've bought Garmin maps). But back in the day, Garmin didn't make you pay for the whole U.S. You could pay only for what you needed, down to the state level and, IIRC, even regional levels within a state. One...

The other thing that seems crazy about the price increase is that one might naively think that with more and more vehicles on the road using Ford Blue Cruise, the more "self-mapping" of roads there would be. If Ford had hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road sending it sensor data, as...

@Ford Motor Company. The thing that's wrong about the $800/year subscription price is that it doesn't take into account MILES DRIVEN. I'm a 77-year-old retiree. One of the reasons I got the Lightning was I wanted an EV truck for hauling stuff with safety features that would help keep me from...

The official answer from FMC on whether 3rd-party products violate your Ford warranty, copied out of a chat transcript from 5/17/23. Basically, consult a service tech at your dealer and even better, have them make any after-market modification.

Another dumb newbie question from me. Since Ford removed the intrusion/inclination detection feature from 2023 Lightnings, I am considering having a Viper alarm installed that provides those features. I was wondering if installing a third-party alarm is likely an excuse to void part of the...

Yeah, I found the "answer" to the adapter removal problem from the Ford Mobile Charger in a Tom Moloughney State of Charge YouTube video. The link is to the time in his video at which he discusses the difficulty of removal: He says many of his viewers have contacted him about the difficulty...

Rather than start a new thread, maybe I can sneak in a Mobile Charger adapter question here on the side. :) Yesterday while visiting Austin, I plugged the 120-volt adapter into my Mobile Charger base. I can't easily pull it out. There is not much to grip at the base of the plug that goes...