What’s that sound?, and other newbie questions

[Tangible]

Questions on 2nd day of ownership, and yes I DID search first:

- When I turn the car off, before I open the door and leave, the car continuously plays an annoying three-note tune. What is it trying to tell me? Can I turn it off?

- When the car auto-locks it beeps the horn once. Can I make it not do that?

- Yesterday automatic high-beams we’re working. Now they aren’t. The switch, on the vehicle/lighting screen, is on. I didn’t change anything, to my knowledge.

- The manual says to let the frunk lid close of its own weight. When I do that it latches partially, cannot be re-opened, and then needs a shove that feels like it could damage the hood to finally latch. I did see an early thread about that. Is it a universal problem, or can I bug my
dealer to fix it?

Thanks.

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[BMT1071]

Questions on 2nd day of ownership, and yes I DID search first:

- When I turn the car off, before I open the door and leave, the car continuously plays an annoying three-note tune. What is it trying to tell me? Can I turn it off?

- When the car auto-locks it beeps the horn once. Can I make it not do that?

- Yesterday automatic high-beams we’re working. Now they aren’t. The switch, on the vehicle/lighting screen, is on. I didn’t change anything, to my knowledge.

- The manual says to let the frunk lid close of its own weight. When I do that it latches partially, cannot be re-opened, and then needs a shove that feels like it could damage the hood to finally latch. I did see an early thread about that. Is it a universal problem, or can I bug my
dealer to fix it?

Thanks.

Check your headlamp switch.

Turn audible feedback off in settings.

Probably related to the headlamp switch issue, but I haven't heard that problem reported before.

When the hood is about 10" from closed, flick it down sharply. It has been described as the motion you make shooting a basketball.

 

[Blue highway]

Questions on 2nd day of ownership, and yes I DID search first:

- When I turn the car off, before I open the door and leave, the car continuously plays an annoying three-note tune. What is it trying to tell me? Can I turn it off?

- When the car auto-locks it beeps the horn once. Can I make it not do that?

- Yesterday automatic high-beams we’re working. Now they aren’t. The switch, on the vehicle/lighting screen, is on. I didn’t change anything, to my knowledge.

- The manual says to let the frunk lid close of its own weight. When I do that it latches partially, cannot be re-opened, and then needs a shove that feels like it could damage the hood to finally latch. I did see an early thread about that. Is it a universal problem, or can I bug my
dealer to fix it?

Thanks.

The tone is made when the headlights are in the ON not the AUTO setting….

drop the Frunk from a higher height

there is a setting to turn off the horn on lock in the car settings.

not sure why the auto high beams are not going but it could be because the lights are ON not on AUTO.

congrats on taking delivery of the car!

 

[timbop]

Check your headlamp switch.

Turn audible feedback off in settings.

Probably related to the headlamp switch issue, but I haven't heard that problem reported before.

When the hood is about 10" from closed, flick it down sharply. It has been described as the motion you make shooting a basketball.

What he said ^

The auto high beams are a bit finicky - if the camera picks up what it thinks are headlights or taillights it won't turn the highbeams on - even if the red lights are a traffic light. I tried it for a while but it was too finicky so I disabled it.

 

[Badger_Prof]

Auto headlight dimming is designed to not work at lower speeds.

 

[BMT1071]

What he said ^

The auto high beams are a bit finicky - if the camera picks up what it thinks are headlights or taillights it won't turn the highbeams on - even if the red lights are a traffic light. I tried it for a while but it was too finicky so I disabled it.

I assumed they meant the IPC indicator was not displayed. If it's just that they fail to switch when expected, that's a different story.

 

[Motomax]

The car sometimes forgets it’s headlights are in auto mode, you can tell if that’s the case because the switch area won’t have any indicator lights. Just switch it to on then back to auto, that should fix your high beams and the chime.

If you use paak I would suggest you don’t turn off the honk. Occasionally the car won’t lock itself and if you don’t have the honk you’ll never know.

 

[OH2AZ2OH]

I agree with all of the comments here so far, but to add some clarification:
The honk on walk away lock is a separate setting from the honk on lock setting - you have to turn off both. I eventually turned off walk away lock. The inconvenience of having the car almost always locked in my garage outweighed the convenience of having the car lock itself correctly 95% of the time, and it since it didn't work 5% of the time I ended up manually locking it all the time anyways.
The automatic high beams won't turn on until you go above 30 mph. But if the highs are activated, they won't instantly turn off if you fall below 30. They just don't turn back on again until you get above 30. I'm actually quite impressed with how well they work.
The number of owners whose frunk closes with its own weight is small. I'm in the group that finds giving it a "flick" down from about 8-12" above closing works best.

 

[Maquis]

My frunk will not close properly under its own weight no matter how high I drop it. Always requires help.

 

[Tangible]

Thank you all for your helpful responses. The headlight system was not in Auto mode, though it had been the day before and I did nothing to change it. I expect that putting it in Auto will end the problems of the warning when I turn the car off, and the failure to change automatically between high and low beams. I can't test this until after dark, though.

Since the dial that controls the lighting mode is not positional, but just a click counter, it doesn't have a physical state; it's all in the software, which appears to have a bug. Now that I know, it won't be hard to recover if it happens again.

I'm sorry to hear that the frunk closing difficulty is embedded in the design. I'm prone to lateral epicondylitis, or as the human say, tennis elbow, and that wrist action sounds like a great way to end up back in physical therapy. I wish they had spent a little more and put in an electric motor to snug up the hood when it's manually closed.

To fund that, they could have eliminated the escape button from the frunk interior. Nobody over about 18 months old is going to fit in there, and that baby may not have the presence of mind to push the button. It looks like the lawyers overruled the engineers on that one.

 

[Maquis]

Thank you all for your helpful responses. The headlight system was not in Auto mode, though it had been the day before and I did nothing to change it. I expect that putting it in Auto will end the problems of the warning when I turn the car off, and the failure to change automatically between high and low beams. I can't test this until after dark, though.

Since the dial that controls the lighting mode is not positional, but just a click counter, it doesn't have a physical state; it's all in the software, which appears to have a bug. Now that I know, it won't be hard to recover if it happens again.

I'm sorry to hear that the frunk closing difficulty is embedded in the design. I'm prone to lateral epicondylitis, or as the human say, tennis elbow, and that wrist action sounds like a great way to end up back in physical therapy. I wish they had spent a little more and put in an electric motor to snug up the hood when it's manually closed.

To fund that, they could have eliminated the escape button from the frunk interior. Nobody over about 18 months old is going to fit in there, and that baby may not have the presence of mind to push the button. It looks like the lawyers overruled the engineers on that one.

Closing the frunk doesn’t require much effort. About like closing a conventional trunk or countersprung hood. It‘s not enough to aggravate my strained rotator cuff/frozen shoulder. I hope it doesn’t cause you problems.

 

[ReelSweet]

Thank you all for your helpful responses. The headlight system was not in Auto mode, though it had been the day before and I did nothing to change it. I expect that putting it in Auto will end the problems of the warning when I turn the car off, and the failure to change automatically between high and low beams. I can't test this until after dark, though.

Since the dial that controls the lighting mode is not positional, but just a click counter, it doesn't have a physical state; it's all in the software, which appears to have a bug. Now that I know, it won't be hard to recover if it happens again.

I'm sorry to hear that the frunk closing difficulty is embedded in the design. I'm prone to lateral epicondylitis, or as the human say, tennis elbow, and that wrist action sounds like a great way to end up back in physical therapy. I wish they had spent a little more and put in an electric motor to snug up the hood when it's manually closed.

To fund that, they could have eliminated the escape button from the frunk interior. Nobody over about 18 months old is going to fit in there, and that baby may not have the presence of mind to push the button. It looks like the lawyers overruled the engineers on that one.

someone else mentioned it up in this thread, but the auto high beams only work going over 32MPH.

 

[OH2AZ2OH]

Thank you all for your helpful responses. The headlight system was not in Auto mode, though it had been the day before and I did nothing to change it. I expect that putting it in Auto will end the problems of the warning when I turn the car off, and the failure to change automatically between high and low beams. I can't test this until after dark, though.

Since the dial that controls the lighting mode is not positional, but just a click counter, it doesn't have a physical state; it's all in the software, which appears to have a bug. Now that I know, it won't be hard to recover if it happens again.

I'm sorry to hear that the frunk closing difficulty is embedded in the design. I'm prone to lateral epicondylitis, or as the human say, tennis elbow, and that wrist action sounds like a great way to end up back in physical therapy. I wish they had spent a little more and put in an electric motor to snug up the hood when it's manually closed.

To fund that, they could have eliminated the escape button from the frunk interior. Nobody over about 18 months old is going to fit in there, and that baby may not have the presence of mind to push the button. It looks like the lawyers overruled the engineers on that one.

I also have tennis elbow. At least for me, closing the frunk is not a problem. You'll probably found out, like me and many others here, that the frunk is so inconvenient that you just won't bother most of the time. That may change once they add the ability to open the frunk from the touchscreen/app. I'd say the somewhat awkward leaned over, reaching forward, double pull on the release causes more discomfort for my elbow than the closing motion.

 

[Tangible]

someone else mentioned it up in this thread, but the auto high beams only work going over 32MPH.

I invoke the 5th Amendment with regard to my speed, but it was well over whatever minimum the system uses.

 

[Tangible]

That may change once they add the ability to open the frunk from the touchscreen/app.

My frunk unlatches with a button on the FordPass app. I know because I touched it accidentally, and then my car refused to remote start, because the frunk was open.

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