Mike G
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So a few notes from my install today....
I actually did try to remove all the stuff needed to perform this task according to the workshop manual. It was a PITA, and 90% of it is unnecessary.
If you've read through it at all you know they want you to essentially remove the entire center stack, which is actually ridiculous once you know the routine.
I've attached the instructions here (again) for those who want to read along...
So my experience was on a Lariat with a 15.5" center display. I've seen the online video(s) where a guy swaps the shifter on a F-150 King Ranch with the 10" screen and that's a lot easier.
And the video made by @branden is a good reference...with one exception, and I'll talk about that below.
So if you're going to do this using the instructions on a Lightning with a 15.5 inch screen, I recommend you start at step 13. Skip every bit of removing the center stack. All of it.
Take the two left and right side covers off by prying outward on the rear of the cover and then when all the clips are unseated just slide it back. (When reinstalling you'll notice that the right side cover, for some unknown reason, is a little fiddly to get back in place, so you need to actually go around to the passenger side and lean down and check that your front tabs are going into the slots when trying to align it.)
After the side covers come off, you want to make sure your stowage compartment door is in the closed position so you can get the center trim off. Lift up on the rear corners of the center trim covering the shifter and cup holders. Then get out of the driver's seat and lean down and look for the front alignment pin/hole next to the forward most clip and press it up and out of the alignment hole:
That tab that the pin goes into will flex down enough to lift the pin out of the hole and you just wiggle it back with your index finger. With the pin out of the hole and sitting in the gap right behind the hole....go around to the right side and repeat the procedure to get the right side pin out of the alignment hole as well:
Then with the center trim piece lifted in the rear...disconnect the key detection module under the right rear cupholder, and lift the center trim piece clear, and then proceed to swap the shifter as shown in the video.
When you're ready to replace the center trim piece back in you'll probably have to first slide the left and right side alignment pins into their holes first (lean down so you're at eye level, like in the pics) and then with the front pins in the holes, and while holding up the rear of the center trim, plug the connector back in for the key detection module.
Left side trim piece is dead easy...but like I said for some reason the right side takes a bit of fiddling to get it back into place.
After I did the install I connected up FDRS and checked for DTCs...nothing found. So I selected the GSM module and then selected the 'VIN Write' procedure (just in case it had the previous vehicles VIN embedded somewhere in the firmware, I don't know if it did or not). I did not do a PMI. There's no way that would have worked, since this shifter isn't supposed to be provisioned in this vehicle application. But it works great..
And just to confirm, The shifter I used is a LX6P-7P155-LE part number, out of a '21 model Bronco Sport. And it's fully functional and throws no errors.
I actually did try to remove all the stuff needed to perform this task according to the workshop manual. It was a PITA, and 90% of it is unnecessary.
If you've read through it at all you know they want you to essentially remove the entire center stack, which is actually ridiculous once you know the routine.
I've attached the instructions here (again) for those who want to read along...
So my experience was on a Lariat with a 15.5" center display. I've seen the online video(s) where a guy swaps the shifter on a F-150 King Ranch with the 10" screen and that's a lot easier.
And the video made by @branden is a good reference...with one exception, and I'll talk about that below.
So if you're going to do this using the instructions on a Lightning with a 15.5 inch screen, I recommend you start at step 13. Skip every bit of removing the center stack. All of it.
Take the two left and right side covers off by prying outward on the rear of the cover and then when all the clips are unseated just slide it back. (When reinstalling you'll notice that the right side cover, for some unknown reason, is a little fiddly to get back in place, so you need to actually go around to the passenger side and lean down and check that your front tabs are going into the slots when trying to align it.)
After the side covers come off, you want to make sure your stowage compartment door is in the closed position so you can get the center trim off. Lift up on the rear corners of the center trim covering the shifter and cup holders. Then get out of the driver's seat and lean down and look for the front alignment pin/hole next to the forward most clip and press it up and out of the alignment hole:
That tab that the pin goes into will flex down enough to lift the pin out of the hole and you just wiggle it back with your index finger. With the pin out of the hole and sitting in the gap right behind the hole....go around to the right side and repeat the procedure to get the right side pin out of the alignment hole as well:
Then with the center trim piece lifted in the rear...disconnect the key detection module under the right rear cupholder, and lift the center trim piece clear, and then proceed to swap the shifter as shown in the video.
When you're ready to replace the center trim piece back in you'll probably have to first slide the left and right side alignment pins into their holes first (lean down so you're at eye level, like in the pics) and then with the front pins in the holes, and while holding up the rear of the center trim, plug the connector back in for the key detection module.
Left side trim piece is dead easy...but like I said for some reason the right side takes a bit of fiddling to get it back into place.
After I did the install I connected up FDRS and checked for DTCs...nothing found. So I selected the GSM module and then selected the 'VIN Write' procedure (just in case it had the previous vehicles VIN embedded somewhere in the firmware, I don't know if it did or not). I did not do a PMI. There's no way that would have worked, since this shifter isn't supposed to be provisioned in this vehicle application. But it works great..
And just to confirm, The shifter I used is a LX6P-7P155-LE part number, out of a '21 model Bronco Sport. And it's fully functional and throws no errors.
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