Disabling turn signal 3-blink function

[pswired]

Sorry if I missed this in a search, but I wasn't able to see any previous discussion on the topic. Is there a way to disable the turn signal 3-flash function? The "feature" that causes the turn signal to flash three times if the stalk is moved momentarily into the engaged position, or just by tapping the detent?

I'd love to have this disabled, but I can't find a setting for it in any of the SYNC menus.

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[iam-s-Hon]

Curious as to why? I use mine a lot. It's all the time I need to make a quick lane change, passing or not. Tap and go.

 

[21st Century Pony]

Sorry if I missed this in a search, but I wasn't able to see any previous discussion on the topic. Is there a way to disable the turn signal 3-flash function? The "feature" that causes the turn signal to flash three times if the stalk is moved momentarily into the engaged position, or just by tapping the detent?

I'd love to have this disabled, but I can't find a setting for it in any of the SYNC menus.

I wish I could change the three blinks to seven blinks in this lane change alerting function, like I did on my 2015 Ford Fusion.

 

[iam-s-Hon]

I wish I could change the three blinks to seven blinks in this lane change alerting function, like I did on my 2015 Ford Fusion.

TBH if I think I may need that much time I click all the way. But with the acceleration I rarely need it and 3 secs is a courtesy to others around me. I mean, I'm often where I want or need to be by the time anyone else may see the blinker anyway.

 

[pswired]

Curious as to why? I use mine a lot. It's all the time I need to make a quick lane change, passing or not. Tap and go.

I'd rather have positive control over when the signal turns off. Occasionally I'll start a lane change, signal, then have a bunch of cars slam on the brakes in the lane I'm about to occupy. Aborting the lane change with the blinker still showing I'm proceeding makes me look like an idiot.

 

[Awmustang]

I know in other Fords you could change the number of blinks using ForSCAN. Not sure if you can change it down to 1. However, since this feature is pretty universal, I would assume most people would understand what happens in those occasions.

 

[generaltso]

I'd rather have positive control over when the signal turns off. Occasionally I'll start a lane change, signal, then have a bunch of cars slam on the brakes in the lane I'm about to occupy. Aborting the lane change with the blinker still showing I'm proceeding makes me look like an idiot.

If you were to entirely disable this feature, you'd have to press the turn signal all the way when changing lanes. Couldn't you just pretend it's disabled and start pressing it all the way anyway? Seems like that would do exactly what you're looking for.

 

[21st Century Pony]

I'd rather have positive control over when the signal turns off. Occasionally I'll start a lane change, signal, then have a bunch of cars slam on the brakes in the lane I'm about to occupy. Aborting the lane change with the blinker still showing I'm proceeding makes me look like an idiot.

To cancel the remaining lane change blinks, just lift the turn signal lever slightly the other way.

 

[pswired]

To cancel the remaining lane change blinks, just lift the turn signal lever slightly the other way.

Doesn't that cause a blink in the opposite direction? Maybe I'm conflating with my previous car, but I seem to get caught in 3-blink hell in the other direction when I try that.

 

[pswired]

If you were to entirely disable this feature, you'd have to press the turn signal all the way when changing lanes. Couldn't you just pretend it's disabled and start pressing it all the way anyway? Seems like that would do exactly what you're looking for.

My usual turn signal SOP for changing lanes is to hold the stalk up against the detent, without actually engaging it, for as long as I want the signal on. Which, admittedly, is usually about 3 blinks.

 

[generaltso]

My usual turn signal SOP for changing lanes is to hold the stalk up against the detent, without actually engaging it, for as long as I want the signal on. Which, admittedly, is usually about 3 blinks.

But you said you want that feature disabled, no? If that was disabled, you'd have to press it all the way past the detent and fully engage the turn signal, right?

 

[21st Century Pony]

Doesn't that cause a blink in the opposite direction? Maybe I'm conflating with my previous car, but I seem to get caught in 3-blink hell in the other direction when I try that.

It causes one blink and cancels.

 

[ARK]

What I think you are really asking is whether you can change the three-blink signal to instead blink indefinitely so long as you hold the stalk down or up but don’t fully engage it, and then to stop blinking as soon as you let go.

I believe the answer is no - that is threading a very fine needle when you can just push the stalk all the way up or down to engage the turn signal like normal and then push it back in the opposite direction when you are done (assuming it didn’t automatically disengage based on completion of a turn).

 

[pswired]

I just want it to behave like every vehicle made before the late 2000s when turn signal controls began to be intercepted by the BCM. If you hold the stalk up against the detent, the signal stays on for as long as you hold it. If you push the stalk past the detent, the signal stays on until you reset it or the wheel resets it after a turn. If the stalk is in the middle/off position, no signals are flashing, period.

 

[pswired]

TSSC Latching vs momentary is probably an attribute of the switch hardware, right? Or is this my apparently very obscure setting? Maybe not a switch hardware attribute since it applies to both the CAN and HW input types...

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