I took my antenna off and replaced it with a stubby disk, so if that hits I have a real problem All kidding aside I am more concerned with other drivers than I am myself. I love my truck, and I would hate for it to even get a ding on the door. I try to park as far away from other cars as I can. Sometimes you cant, and people are so careless with their doors.
Sure, tech can be cool but I get in my car or truck and drive. Most of my charging is at home. i don’t require my car to remind me to plug in. Coming over from the MME forum, the complaints I heard the most was overall build quality. I like how both mine drive and so far no particular build issues with either.
The Lighting won’t squeak or rattle, but it will chime, beep and ding dong you to death. I don’t know about the B&O Unleashed but the “sound system” in the Lariat Lightning is extremely underwhelming compared to a Tesla 3/Y premium. Yes the UI is extremely laggy and the navigation is bad. You can’t pinch/zoom/drag the Carplay map, Carplay will hijack your phone to function, it takes forever to type in a destination in the nav and the screen is low resolution even though the size is huge. It’s probably SVGA. It will take it seconds to load a new menu. It doesn’t have a hepa filter and if it’s cool outside it will defaut to turning recirculation off and it can turn it back off even if you just turned it on (you can end up with exhaust in the cabin if you are in an area where cars have bad exhaust). It’s a full sized truck in a paring lot. It has very good sensors and cameras but you will be doing extra turns in tight parking spots. The parking pal will allow the truck to roll when you put it in park if you don’t manually set the parking brake. If you have basic AP, BC is about that level. It won’t ever be driving you anywhere. The DCFC cables for CCS are much heavier and bulkier than a SC cable. CCS charging is more cumbersome than NACS and can be infuriating. In the app you can lock or unlock the car, but it won’t tell you if it was locked when you checked. If you open it again it will let you lock or unlock it but it still does not know if it is locked. You can set the climate, but it won’t tell you what the cabin temp is. If you leave your pets locked in there is no remote view, and you can’t tell what the temp is. If you have the AC on and you are charging and the charging stops (for any reason) the AC will turn off. I say these things because if a few squeeks bother you, these things might bother you too.
If anything it is worse. Tesla FSD got 10X better in the last year. It now drives me everywhere from my driveway to my destination parking lot. But that is not why we have the Lightning. It is for doing truck/haul things.
Actually my previous 2018 M3P was the most fun and my favorite car I’ve ever owned by far. You would not think the size difference between the 3 and Y is that big but it is huge. The 3 feels like you are wearing it, you have great visibility and your front view is of the fender haunches so you know exactly where the tires are. I can’t see those in the Y and the rear window though large from outside is covered by a big plastic piece on the inside so the rear view is compromised. I sold the 3 to my brother so I get to visit it. He loves it, so all good. I also have Tesla insurance now so I could’t drive as “fun” as I used to.
I've been driving F150's for 30 years. I bought a F150 Lightning XLT SR and loved it but I had to have a black Model S with the yoke and white interior. So, I traded my son's car in on it, lol. Loved the Model S and drove it for 9 months but I really need/like a truck. So I traded the MS in on a brand new 2023 F150 Lightning Platinum that had been sitting on the lot for 18 months. Got a great deal, $35,000 off MSRP.
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I drove my Cybertruck to Phoenix a few weeks ago. It is unquestionably more comfortable than the Lightning. The Lightning seat is too hard and it feels like it pushes back. The only saving grace is the seat massagers, but honestly they’re not that great and my passenger side stopped working.My wife drove her X from Las Cruces to Albuquerque yesterday. I drove my Platinum Lightning. I left an hour early, she beat me home by an hour.
The Tesla supercharger in Truth or Consequences doesn’t work for non Tesla’s. Socorro does, however, I had a charge fault headed south through there last Wednesday. Yesterday, it charged for 10 minutes in Socorro then failed. Then none of the stations worked. Truck said no charger detected.
I found a ChargePoint on the Socorro plaza. 65 kWh max. Then I found another station, 400 kWh, moved the truck, charge default. Went back to the ChargePoint and waited for enough to get home.
Will have to see if Ford can diagnose a hardware problem this week. I’ve got 3100 miles on it. Dec 24’ Platinum.
With unreliable charging solutions for the lightning out on the highway and questionable charge solutions at Tesla SC, my wife will never let me take her in the lightning out of town.
The guess-o-meter continues to be one of the worst EV misses IMO for Ford. Audi, Porsche. Oh and the non intuitive user interface, public charging, charging and navigation in the lightning.
I mean, Ford only had like 10 years of seeing what Tesla had done and they still screwed it up. If you’re new to EV’s I’d not recommend Ford. You’ll need a stronger backbone, ready to deal with uncertainty.
I enjoy my Lightning for 1 task, driving around Albuquerque using it as a work truck to check job sites without too much attention: that’s what it does best.
Here’s a picture charging in T or C. 150 kWh, I never saw higher than 109 kWh.
XLT SR
