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

[Kamuelaflyer]

It's the 6th of October and I think a bunch of OTAs are supposed to be arriving this month, not the least of which is the BC 1.3 group of stuff.

Since I just got the 6.1.0 gateway update today, and that's supposed to be the first in a series that sneaks up on full BC 1.3 functionality, I'm now wondering when the next one will arrive...like do I have to wait until next Friday? Or will the cloud server update overnight and offer me whatever the next thing is tomorrow morning? That would be great if I didn't have to wait a full week because MME updates only go out on Fridays or something.

I’m at a week since 6.1 arrived. Nothing else yet, I’d not hold my breath.

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[Hammered]

21 F150s got 6.1.0, 22s got 6.2.0 both with the BC 1.3 file suffixes. Surprised to see the same updates hit both series of vehicles. Haven't checked in with the lightnings to see how they're progressing.

Some are getting OTA pushes, others using FDRS.

 

[737flyer]

I’m still waiting last update 5.1 in Aug. MME 21 job 2.

 

[Eric_C_Boston]

It didn’t cause issues but it wouldn’t install. Errors out right after download. If someone else can try and see if they get the same thing it would be interesting to know. Thanks

I had similar problems before that seemed to be a server side problem. I retried later on and it cleared up. I will try updating tomorrow.

 

[Mike G]

21 F150s got 6.1.0, 22s got 6.2.0 both with the BC 1.3 file suffixes. Surprised to see the same updates hit both series of vehicles. Haven't checked in with the lightnings to see how they're progressing.

Some are getting OTA pushes, others using FDRS.

My 22 Lightning has not gotten 6.1.0 yet, and I haven’t heard of any others getting it so far.

 

[TJSparky]

I had similar problems before that seemed to be a server side problem. I retried later on and it cleared up. I will try updating tomorrow.

Ok… yeah I had the same issue. I tried again about and hour ago and the error indicated a file/config wasn’t available on the server.

 

[Neil4Real]

Still nothing showing for my car, wonder if we'll be left in the dust while they worry about the roll out they can make happen?

 

[markboris]

Mike, How long has the APIM LJ8T-044R30-AC been out? I've not updated for awhile and found this today?

 

[Mike G]

Mike, How long has the APIM LJ8T-044R30-AC been out? I've not updated for awhile and found this today?

I don't think that's a valid value. What is the F188 DID value? It's -EC on my '23 and I've seen -EE on a 23.5.

That LJ8T-044R30-XX value populates sometimes in the APIM software block but it's BS...when it does that you scroll down to the F188 DID to see what the value should actually be. That's a known FDRS 'feature' that you just have to workaround.

 

[markboris]

I don't think that's a valid value. What is the F188 DID value? It's -EC on my '23 and I've seen -EE on a 23.5.

That LJ8T-044R30-XX value populates sometimes in the APIM software block but it's BS...when it does that you scroll down to the F188 DID to see what the value should actually be. That's a known FDRS 'feature' that you just have to workaround.

‘21 job 1, 2 is CC

 

[dj_stang]

No 6.1.0 yet for my car. In other news this is looking like a promising power supply. Much smaller ff and more portable than the popular PL6100.

It’s pricey but 33% off. What do you guys think?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q2Y2M7R

 

[generaltso]

No 6.1.0 yet for my car. In other news this is looking like a promising power supply. Much smaller ff and more portable than the popular PL6100.

It’s pricey but 33% off. What do you guys think?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q2Y2M7R

After 33% off it's still substantially more expensive then the PL6100. I don't think I've heard anyone complain about the size of the PL6100, just the price. So this certainly won't help with that. This also doesn't look like it has a screen, so I'm not sure you can set it for more than 12V of supply (you'd also have to use a separate multimeter to measure votlage). And I'm not sure it's as small as some may think:

 

[HuntingPudel]

No 6.1.0 yet for my car. In other news this is looking like a promising power supply. Much smaller ff and more portable than the popular PL6100.

It’s pricey but 33% off. What do you guys think?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q2Y2M7R

Additionally, this is a charger, not a regulated supply. Ford states that a regulated supply is needed for flashing vehicle software. ??

 

[generaltso]

Additionally, this is a charger, not a regulated supply. Ford states that a regulated supply is needed for flashing vehicle software. ??

It looks like it does have a supply mode, but I'm not seeing anything that's better than the PL6100 to justify spending more.

 

[HuntingPudel]

It looks like it does have a supply mode, but I'm not seeing anything that's better than the PL6100 to justify spending more.

Oh, I missed that. ??

Yes, I don’t see anything there that makes it worth a few hundred dollars more than a PL6100. ??

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