jnthn98
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I really like my MME, but the issues with PaaK & FOB are really frustrating. Partly ranting here, but the last one (#3) happened tonight and I am like ?!@#?.
1. PaaK doesn't work for my phone. Tried many experiments (I am an engineer and have various methology/approach to debug an issue) and concluded that Ford's PaaK implementation is not as robust as Tesla. My wife has a Model Y, no phone key issue there with the same phone. To prevent any potential conflict, I removed the Tesla app, and tried Ford's PaaK again (reboot phone/resintall app/etc) but it still doesn't work.
2. Fine, I will use the FOB. But the auto walk-away locking feature works only 90% of the time, which is not good enough for security. Fine, I enabled the "honk" option to confirm the lock occurred. If I don't hear a honk, I will manually lock the doors via the FOB for the 10% of the time.
3. When I am home late, I don't want the honk (from the auto walk-away locking feature) to wake up my kids. So I use the FOB to lock the doors before I walk away from the car. This works most of the time, but it didn't work tonight. First press on the FOB lock button, nothing occurred as I am standing literally next to the car. Two seconds later, I pressed on the FOB lock button again, the doors locked, but the honk sounded. Yikes! My kids are sleeping! MME's honk confirmation is A LOT louder than Tesla's honk confirmation.
After walking away from the car, I realized I left something in the car. I walked back, unlocked the car, got my stuff, then really thought hard what to do. I don't want my MME to honk again. An idea came to mind: lock the doors from the internal button before I shut the driver's door. Everything seemed fine after the lock/door closure, but after a few steps away from the car, it honked. #@$?!@
Man, Ford really need to look into these phone/FOB issues.
1. PaaK doesn't work for my phone. Tried many experiments (I am an engineer and have various methology/approach to debug an issue) and concluded that Ford's PaaK implementation is not as robust as Tesla. My wife has a Model Y, no phone key issue there with the same phone. To prevent any potential conflict, I removed the Tesla app, and tried Ford's PaaK again (reboot phone/resintall app/etc) but it still doesn't work.
2. Fine, I will use the FOB. But the auto walk-away locking feature works only 90% of the time, which is not good enough for security. Fine, I enabled the "honk" option to confirm the lock occurred. If I don't hear a honk, I will manually lock the doors via the FOB for the 10% of the time.
3. When I am home late, I don't want the honk (from the auto walk-away locking feature) to wake up my kids. So I use the FOB to lock the doors before I walk away from the car. This works most of the time, but it didn't work tonight. First press on the FOB lock button, nothing occurred as I am standing literally next to the car. Two seconds later, I pressed on the FOB lock button again, the doors locked, but the honk sounded. Yikes! My kids are sleeping! MME's honk confirmation is A LOT louder than Tesla's honk confirmation.
After walking away from the car, I realized I left something in the car. I walked back, unlocked the car, got my stuff, then really thought hard what to do. I don't want my MME to honk again. An idea came to mind: lock the doors from the internal button before I shut the driver's door. Everything seemed fine after the lock/door closure, but after a few steps away from the car, it honked. #@$?!@
Man, Ford really need to look into these phone/FOB issues.
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