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A datapoint for 2021 Job 1 cars: I did FDRS yesterday on my car. Last time I used FDRS was May 31st, 2025. The dealership also did the Car Door update in October. The only listed update was the Off-Board Charger Controller (OBCC). The version I now have is: Engineering Assembly P/N...

Important note for Apple Watch users: I discovered the Ford complication* on my watch face had gone missing. Turns out the name changes have removed references to the Ford Watch app. All you need to do is go into your Watch settings on your iPhone and edit your watch face(es) to re-add the Ford...

404Media did the original reporting and is much better at explaining the situation and the context. https://www.404media.co/inside-the-underground-trade-of-flipper-zero-tech-to-break-into-cars/

I can actually listen to the stereo again! Though I worry if I have to replace it ever again, I'll need to buy the OEM part only to get a replacement plug. My goal was only to replace what was broken, not a full rebuild of the speaker system. I'm not that picky about sound in the car, but I do...

Sorry for the false alarm! I'm clear of DTCs now. Having the car off for about 30 minutes and then testing again solved everything, including system beeps from touching SYNC buttons. Lesson learned!

Installed and still getting B1A02:13-0B. But a wrinkle: One of the contacts in the plastic adapter slipped out while I was soldering, but was able to get it back. I'm getting radio audio just fine, but the system based audio is not happening through that speaker at all. Any thoughts?

To be 100% sure: You mean the black blob of wrapped capacitor?

I did the center speaker mod using Kenwood eXcelon KFC-X3C, but hit a snag. Running my DTC check, I am always getting a `B1A02:13-0B` circuit short error. Speaker is working when I attach speaker wires from a different receiver outside of the car. But when installed it's much lower volume in...

I'm getting this old problem again with my 2021 as of yesterday. The problem was active between two drives of one hour each. When I had this early on, it was a broad mix of in-warrantee testing and replacing the center speaker to resolve the problem. Now that I'm out of warrantee, I'm open to...

Great catch! I've been seeing similar alerts of past triggers and not currently present when manually checking my DTCs via ForSCAN for months now. Never got an error while driving… until yesterday. I hit a bump in the road, and got full-on alerts as the OP described. While still driving, 5...

New hires for the software and service side are all well and good. But the inability for the hardware (cars) to update in a user friendly way -- let alone encouraging dealership service centers to update the cars -- makes all efforts in software and services a waste of time. If Ford's software...

For as long as I've been on this forum, I've been lamenting Ford for not implementing the Connected Car Consortium's Digital Keys standard. This is the non-platform specific name to the standards that power Apple's Apple Car Key and Android's Digital Car Key. Both are for the same standard. In...

It doesn't hurt to have WiFI connected when at home or regularly trusted spots as it won't prevent the download from happening. It may or may not happen on WiFi, but it's not an inhibitor. Worse case it's all cell download. Best case it downloads faster on WiFi and ready quicker.

I never understood why people think OTAs are not downloaded over WiFi. I've seen my own network show that the larger ones do download on WiFi. In the first 2 years of my Job 1 car, I would see the big download occur, hopped immediately in my car, and the OTA went to work. Well before the public...

A reminder that $400 CAD is currently $278.63 USD.