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I noticed on my 17 remote start would turn on heat or cooled seats as appropriate but when shifting into gear etc it would go to previous setting or off... on my 18 they stay on

That’s I guess is the issue.. they can’t pinpoint what exact circumstances cause the issue.. but in general (and this happens to me fairly regularly). . If you remote start the car say with your lincoln way app.. the 15 mins times out and the car shuts off just before (say 3-5 mins) before you get in the car... when you start it (at least in my case) you will get the chime from the cluster only and will not goes through the audio system.. shut the car off .. let it set ohh 15-20 mins .. get back in .. restart it.. chime goes through the audio system properly

Ok so here is what I have learned... according to the service manager at my dealership. He has required Ford engineers for this issue on several occasions.. he told me that there is basically one thing that causes it BUT there are a few things that cause that one thing... So it’s evidently the audio/sync energizing timing.. the chime itself is generated by the cluster. As the ACM starts up there is a timing/handshake that hands off the audio from the cluster to the ACM. When that handshake fails that’s when you get the harsh cheap sounding chime. The problem lies in what is causing the handshake/handoff mid-timing. There are a few things that can cause it that they are aware of .. one is voltage, evidently there is a pretty tight limit on voltage requirements in order for the ACM to take the hand off. If the ACM thinks the voltage is to low, it will “conserve power and not take the chime handoff to conserve power for essential functions like starting the car. This “power misread” can be caused by several things .. ACM wake time, cluster voltage output rise the me... etc. The other thing that causes the issue is when remote starting etc the ACM and cluster only “partially” wake to run the car during the remote run time and then shut down again, this can put the cluster or ACM in a strange state where it doesn’t properly reset and re-execute the hand off.. He said they are working on trying to figure out where the main issue stems from but it’s been pretty slow and difficult to pinpoint.

my grandad had a slightly different spin on that saying... "if it has tits or tires, its gonna give you trouble"

my '17 has the EXACT same thing on the exact same door and the exact same "fix" (pushing on door handle)

I see they killed the midnight sapphire blue and replaced it with rhapsody blue. I like my midnight sapphire

sounds like a low charge

I have been looking to no avail so far... you could piece together a custom setup but as of yet no bolt on kits

Some 6 piston fronts and 4 piston rears for brakes (it is a beastly heavy car) ... tweak up the suspension a bit in sport, and put a jaguar tuned ZF in my driver package car .... ohhh and paint the Z red for the driver package ... and you would have a legit BMW/Audi/Mercedes hunter for sure

There are tons around me (well relatively) not nearly as many as there are FCA product (auburn hills, what can you expect). But so far I am only 1 of two driver package cars I have seen in 10 months of ownership

Absolutely agree ... my kid just picked up a 2010 and it still has map version 1.0x the latest is 9.0x

That was going to be my question also drolds1. Ford products in general have issues with older batteries. Even my Mazdaspeed6 when the battery hit between 3-4 yrs old it checked ok but not "pristine" and it would do crazy crap with traction control, fuel cut, abs warnings... replace the battery... viola...perfecto.

There is an update for the sync (for the onboard modem) and another for sync randomly restarting itself - might also address your phone connection issues

Exactly... the app is to allow you to start the car to warm up or cool down from the comfort of your office, restaurant etc. or if you are unsure you locked the doors you can lock them from the same remote area. The fob being present to drive makes sure that someone don't hack your phone etc through wifi then go on a nice little joy ride in your car ...

Not sure about better but the traffic re-route does work. Case in point traveling I-75 through mid Michigan and the Nav kept telling me to get off the next exit... bewildered because I knew we had a good 75-80 miles left on the road, but I was like why not... and as I was exiting topping the off ramp I could see the traffic ahead at a dead stop. It took me parallel to the interstate for about 5 miles put me back on in front of the mess and continued on... personally I like the sync integration better than the apple CarPlay overall (preference) Just my 2 cents

The battery on my mazdaspeed 6 all but set on top of the turbo. The only thing I noticed was a "shorter" total life. The oe battery about 3 yrs and the autozone "gold" that I replaced it with lasted about 4 (was replaced under pro-rated rate -that essentially paid the "core" charge)

My impressions from test driving the XE (cross shopping) hit many of the same points. One thing that the XE wins hands down on... the ZF 8-speed .... Jag got their collective sh*t together on that one. It even kills the programming of the ZF in the Audi S4/5. If could have that trans in the Z... wowzer.

Car returned today - Lincoln way app is now working properly! The acm update was also done - so far no "dashboard" chime, only the full speaker chime

So my car is at the dealer for the updates both PCU (modem) and ACU (chime/battery). When dropped off my service advisor let me know that the reflash has been very hit and miss and many times they end up replacing the modem. Will advise when complete

I actually contacted Lincoln on this on Friday (my app stopped working) there is an onboard modem update for the pcu and it's a hard download(dealer only). Mine would not do anything from the app could start/lock/etc. Figure I will get it taken in and get the modem update and the audio control module update (chime/battery issue) done

Looks good grey!!!

I have used VHT nite-shade before and it works great

Reserve for drivers package, climate package and revel system. My only regret is I should have gotten the tech pack w/LED lights and Revel Ultima

I haven't done mine yet .. to cold and was to busy at the end of last year ... it will be a spring time project I am thinking

A quick and easy way to do that is an intercooler spray bar.. that helps the iat off the line then once at speed it's not needed