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Warning will pop up again. I drive mine for about 3 weeks during the issue, and never noticed anything. I rarely venture more than 10 miles from home though.
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I have noticed the hotter it is outside +95F the more likely I will get the Gear Shift Mechanism (GSM) error as read on the scanner and the service engine soon orange wrench on the instrument screen. I attached a video of the fold shifter button failing to fold making a nice clunking sound as it pushes up against the stuck lockout solenoid. Appointment Friday August 15th with the Dealership to get their opinion.



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This got me last night too. Hit the ACC button and it bonged at me, "ACC no longer available", "one pedal drive no longer available, use break to stop", "Service vehicle soon". Couldn't go faster than like 20mph. Pulled over, restarted and all seemed fine but service icon illuminated. Get in it today and wrench icon is no longer showing and all is well again.
 

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Bad module incoming? This assumes Lee’s insight applies to the Lightning. Never seen my variation so high.

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Hard to believe a 1% variation would be a bad sign. And with 100% SOH State of Health! Wish @Ford Motor Company would give us more insights on batteries and their calculations.
Following up with this, the HVB module variation creeped up to 1.16% yesterday and 1.34% this morning. SOH still at 100%. Im wondering if this will lead to anything or the BMS will automatically balance past a certain percentage of variation.
 

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FWIW, it seems like the BMS is doing its thing. My variation today started creeping back down: 1.1%, 1.09%, 0.93% and last I checked it was a 0.77%. This is all within a couple of hours with no charging and short drives inbetween. For dorks like me, I really wish I could sit down with an engineer and pick their brain on the trucks logic.
 

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Edit - F/U. Got about a mile out from dealership and DTC popped again. This time just a wrench and "Service Vehicle Soon." Drove back to dealership and this time said....."Shifter." Part is back ordered (of course). "We'll call you when it's in." I almost bought a rotary shifter just in case! I'll put it on Forscan and see what the actual code is.
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