ANOTHER Stop Safely Now (MME GT)

[Scooby24]

@Aquar33f were you often on the Level 2 charger or did you go stretches of time without charging? Have you monitored the 12v's health or done any maintenance charging on it since taking delivery?

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[Aquar33f]

My local gym has free charging via ChargePoint. I might get a little juice there a few times a week, and then I plug in at home 2-3 a week, or every night if cold.

I had a LV battery warning once over a month ago, but I monitor the voltage, and it’s been between 12 and 15.

The o Lu other symptom I had was the car seemed slow to boot up (screens, seat adjustments) yesterday morning. It seemed OK last night though.

 

[Aquar33f]

Called the service dept. They said it was a software issue and they updated 6 modules….I’m a little suspect.

 

[Electric Goat]

Called the service dept. They said it was a software issue and they updated 6 modules….I’m a little suspect.

Interesting... The first time this happened to me they said it was a software issue so the ended up re-flashing ~6 modules. The car bricked itself again 4 days later then they decided to replace the BECM and the HVJB.

 

[Kitten]

Was on my way home, and now here I am waiting on the side of the road with stop safely now. HVB and power train errors.

couple more details

I have never do fast charged
2933 miles
Was an October Build (Job 2)

@Ford Motor Company - I’m at a busy intersection. My car is beautiful and it’s getting a lot of eyes, and will be stared at as it gets towed.

What is the deal with these issues?

Will post more later.

Damn this is my worst nightmare for this car. I too have a GT, 2k+ miles, and believe I was @ October/Job 2 build. Every time I read one of these horror stories, I am able to find a factor that doesn't apply to my car. Until now. Hope you get a quick, effective repair.

 

[Aquar33f]

Damn this is my worst nightmare for this car. I too have a GT, 2k+ miles, and believe I was @ October/Job 2 build. Every time I read one of these horror stories, I am able to find a factor that doesn't apply to my car. Until now. Hope you get a quick, effective repair.

Well, got confirmation from both the dealer AND ford it was only a software issues. 5 modules updated, and all seems to be working.

 

[Kitten]

Well, got confirmation from both the dealer AND ford it was only a software issues. 5 modules updated, and all seems to be working.

Too bad "only software issues" results in your car bricking and needing to be towed.

 

[Ride_the_lightning]

Too bad "only software issues" results in your car bricking and needing to be towed.

Agree. That’s worse in my opinion. Software shouldn’t brick cars.

 

[Kitten]

Agree. That’s worse in my opinion. Software shouldn’t brick cars.

Though to be fair, a software issue semi-bricked my other car, which was also a new model for a different mfr.

 

[HuntingPudel]

Well, got confirmation from both the dealer AND ford it was only a software issues. 5 modules updated, and all seems to be working.

Let’s hope this was the issue. There was a prior report of software repairing the “bricked” state, but that car went down again and needed an HVBJB and BCM. I’m hoping yours truly is a SW issue. ??

 

[Aquar33f]

Too bad "only software issues" results in your car bricking and needing to be towed.

well to be fair it wan’t bricked when I got the warning.

It seemed to drive OK, and I was able to pull it on the tow easily, and even maneuvered the car backing up and pulling forward to allow the tow to get in place.

all other systems appeared nominal.

that on top of the fact that it seemed to clear itself after the tow.

I also had an AWD error throw. It does seem like it was some crazy error between being on AAC/LaneKeep/BC, a slightly wet road, and the little brake bump I did to turn it off to come up to a stop sign.

will report back if anything changes.

 

[Aquar33f]

Too bad "only software issues" results in your car bricking and needing to be towed.

I will also add that a member of the ford team reached out and told me they also reviewed the diagnostics, and that this was a different issue than others had received.

 

[scoopman]

Too bad "only software issues" results in your car bricking and needing to be towed.

Doesn't seem like a scalable way to update the software on our cars. How much do you think that cost Ford, $2000+ at least because they don't have properly functioning mechanisms to update modules via OTA?

 

[Bigfeets]

Interesting... The first time this happened to me they said it was a software issue so the ended up re-flashing ~6 modules. The car bricked itself again 4 days later then they decided to replace the BECM and the HVJB.

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