The Complete DIY Guide to Updating Your Mach-E with FDRS

[benk016]

I did updates on Wednesday and had no RFA update available. Today I am seeing the RFA available on every car I checked. Will likely do this later today.

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[Mike G]

I did updates on Wednesday and had no RFA update available. Today I am seeing the RFA available on every car I checked. Will likely do this later today.

Is that across multiple model years?


Check that....it just showed up for my '21J1 and it wasn't there about two hours ago.

Well now I guess I have a reason to go update since it's the RFA and the latest HVAC I hadn't gotten around to doing.

 

[Mike G]

I wonder if that RFA is also an OTA? I'm gonna check to see if it is before I do the update with FDRS.

 

[21st Century Pony]

I wonder if that RFA is also an OTA? I'm gonna check to see if it is before I do the update with FDRS.

How would we check that?

 

[Kabay0]

Received an hvac update today thru Ota. 4.2.5

 

[Mike G]

How would we check that?

Well I sat in the car with it running and hit the check updates button and then when that came back with the last PowerUp I had gotten (4.2.4) I hit Connectivity, paused a second and went back to check updates again just to make sure there wasn't something in the pipe.

I did stop by the service advisor's desk while in town and had a look at the OTA dashboard and there wasn't anything showing, but he did show me that I had a DTC for the RFA that led him to the attached SSM 50845....which said to update the RFA. ?

So back to the house and did the update first for the HVAC (went from "-AL" to "-AM", took 6 minutes), and then the RFA (went from "-AM" to "-BC", and took 22 minutes).

After the HVAC update I did get the same "Stop Safely Now" error message on the instrument panel and in FordPass that I got when I did the door modules back on 30 March (SOBDMC issue) ....but I cleared it by doing the self-test but then after the RFA, it didn't do it again. I checked all DTCs and confirmed "green" before disconnecting.

 

[i8iridium]

Just did RFA with no drama. Best part was it kept the DC/DC converter on, so I didn't need to hook up the power supply.

 

[Mike G]

Just did RFA with no drama. Best part was it kept the DC/DC converter on, so I didn't need to hook up the power supply.

Careful! @HuntingPudel is gonna call you a cheater! ?

 

[Jobi]

Hey, anyone had same problem, than me, I had speed sign recognition before I updated my car and still have but I can't anymore configure the exceeding speed? I did configure it to +9 and luckily it remembers it, but I can't change it anymore, the setting is gone... ?

 

[Mark Hassa]

Well I sat in the car with it running and hit the check updates button and then when that came back with the last PowerUp I had gotten (4.2.4) I hit Connectivity, paused a second and went back to check updates again just to make sure there wasn't something in the pipe.

I did stop by the service advisor's desk while in town and had a look at the OTA dashboard and there wasn't anything showing, but he did show me that I had a DTC for the RFA that led him to the attached SSM 50845....which said to update the RFA. ?

So back to the house and did the update first for the HVAC (went from "-AL" to "-AM", took 6 minutes), and then the RFA (went from "-AM" to "-BC", and took 22 minutes).

After the HVAC update I did get the same "Stop Safely Now" error message on the instrument panel and in FordPass that I got when I did the door modules back on 30 March (SOBDMC issue) ....but I cleared it by doing the self-test but then after the RFA, it didn't do it again. I checked all DTCs and confirmed "green" before disconnecting.

How does the service advisor check for DTCs? Doesn’t the car need to be hooked up? I had to show an advisor once how to check my OTA dashboard.

 

[Wonky_Donkey]

Hey, anyone had same problem, than me, I had speed sign recognition before I updated my car and still have but I can't anymore configure the exceeding speed? I did configure it to +9 and luckily it remembers it, but I can't change it anymore, the setting is gone... ?

I had a similar issue last year and I had to delete my profile from the vehicle to fix it.

When I recreated my profile again the functionality had returned back to normal.

 

[Mike G]

Hey, anyone had same problem, than me, I had speed sign recognition before I updated my car and still have but I can't anymore configure the exceeding speed? I did configure it to +9 and luckily it remembers it, but I can't change it anymore, the setting is gone... ?

Jobi, actually I turned speed sign recognition off. We have some roads around where I live that the signs have been left up after construction is ended and I got tired of the continuous changes. So I set the speed to what I know I can get away with and my car ignores the signs. Works great!

 

[Hammered]

Just did the 3rd or 4th iteration of the door module updates and the car is finally keeping the DC/DC on -- imagine that. Gosh, it's like it could have been done that way all along. Instead of using a charger I just toss 1.6kWh worth of LFP into the frunk.

 

[Mach-Lee]

Just did the 3rd or 4th iteration of the door module updates and the car is finally keeping the DC/DC on

In what circumstances? How is it different?

 

[wappla1911]

Anyone here in the EU with the APIM "v4.x.x" its frustrating...

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