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[PungoteagueDave]

Why did you hit activate if you are so worried about losing a week or two of your subscription?

And it isn’t a week or two. It is probably two months. It will be at least six weeks because I am motorcycling in Europe until mid-July and can’t take delivery until late July. No biggie from my perspective, just sharing the screw-up on Ford’s part, and the kinds of issues they are creating for themselves. I don’t plan to make an issue out of a couple months subscription loss, but it really should not happen for a whole bunch of reasons, and goes to Ford’s naïve competence with this technology.

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[monsterlag]

And it isn’t a week or two. It is probably two months. It will be at least six weeks because I am motorcycling in Europe until mid-July and can’t take delivery until late July. No biggie from my perspective, just sharing the screw-up on Ford’s part, and the kinds of issues they are creating for themselves. I don’t plan to make an issue out of a couple months subscription loss, but it really should not happen for a whole bunch of reasons, and goes to Ford’s naïve competence with this technology.

Couldn’t agree more. Ford has shown time and time again that they can’t learn anything from Tesla’s history.

I still haven’t seen any other EV that actually uses technology well. The simple act of walking away from your car, with your phone, and everything locking hasn’t been figured out by anyone else.

 

[millim]

So the tracker at shop.ford.com finally has a date of 6/15 for In Production for 1FT6W1EV6NWG08256 (didn’t see that the other day when I checked…was well after 6/15).

On my account page at Ford.com still show “in progress”.

1189 rows in my modules - Platinum with Max Recline.

 

[greenne]

And it isn’t a week or two. It is probably two months. It will be at least six weeks because I am motorcycling in Europe until mid-July and can’t take delivery until late July. No biggie from my perspective, just sharing the screw-up on Ford’s part, and the kinds of issues they are creating for themselves. I don’t plan to make an issue out of a couple months subscription loss, but it really should not happen for a whole bunch of reasons, and goes to Ford’s naïve competence with this technology.

I'm sure your first world problem of motorcycling in Europe didn't factor into Ford's decision process.

What a pity....

 

[greenne]

Couldn’t agree more. Ford has shown time and time again that they can’t learn anything from Tesla’s history.

I still haven’t seen any other EV that actually uses technology well. The simple act of walking away from your car, with your phone, and everything locking hasn’t been figured out by anyone else.

With Tesla's phantom braking and running into emergency vehicles with flashing lights, not sure Tesla is the one I'd be trying to copy...

 

[Ford4Life2319]

I've reached the stage in Shawshank Redemption where Andy talks about "Hope" and Red let's him know "Hope is a dangerous thing inside these walls"

 

[greenne]

The simple act of walking away from your car, with your phone, and everything locking hasn’t been figured out by anyone else.

Or maybe they decided some people don't want that stuff. I don't...

 

[Prime8]

Or maybe they decided some people don't want that stuff. I don't...

It's particularly annoying because on my wife's Model 3 it works "almost" every time. So occasionally it won't unlock or lock so you are never certain of it working, very common theme with everything Tesla imo.

 

[greenne]

It's particularly annoying because on my wife's Model 3 it works "almost" every time. So occasionally it won't unlock or lock so you are never certain of it working, very common theme with everything Tesla imo.

I could see it as very easy to accidently lock the car when you don't want to or for it NOT to work when you expect it to. Phone as a key seems like a gimmick to me, rather than being useful.

 

[monsterlag]

Or maybe they decided some people don't want that stuff. I don't...

What? They literally do have Phone as a Key as a paid feature. My point was that they half assed it even as a feature. Tesla has been doing this feature for years and comes as standard.

With a Tesla at least I always have a keycard in my wallet as well. Also another amazing feature since you can literally have 20 keys if you wanted to.

 

[monsterlag]

It's particularly annoying because on my wife's Model 3 it works "almost" every time. So occasionally it won't unlock or lock so you are never certain of it working, very common theme with everything Tesla imo.

This has never happened to me yet but I use an iPhone. I have read that their app doesn’t work as well on Android.

 

[monsterlag]

With Tesla's phantom braking and running into emergency vehicles with flashing lights, not sure Tesla is the one I'd be trying to copy...

I mean you can always copy the good things without copying the shitty ones.

 

[Prime8]

I could see it as very easy to accidently lock the car when you don't want to or for it NOT to work when you expect it to. Phone as a key seems like a gimmick to me, rather than being useful.

Actually this happened to my wife, she was charging the car, with our dog in it, she got out and the car locked itself with the phone INSIDE in 90 degree weather. Another Tesla owner was able to let her get through to Tesla for remote unlock but she was freaking out for a bit!

 

[Prime8]

This has never happened to me yet but I use an iPhone. I have read that their app doesn’t work as well on Android.

She uses iPhone, glad it doesn't happen for you. I use the key card whenever I use her car and I really wish they put in a slot to hold the key plus I wish you could lock/unlock from the passenger side with the card. Anyway this is a Lightning forum so I'll stop ranting!

 

[PungoteagueDave]

I'm sure your first world problem of motorcycling in Europe didn't factor into Ford's decision process.

What a pity....

Clueless response from you per usual. The truck isn't ready to be delivered and won't be for some time, nomatter the reason. The point stands that Ford has activated a timed subscription feature on my truck, a vehicle that has not yet been delivered, paid for, or titled. It has also activated features that allow third party control of that vehicle. That is a clear breach of basic security protocols and I'm sure that Ford's systems people would like to both know about it and fix the issue. There are both software and procedural issues at play notwithstanding your ad hominem attack. Of course, Ford does no wrong, Tesla sucks, EA fast charging is superior to Supercharging, yadda yadda, we get it. Now please go climb back under your rock until you can be more constructive.

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