IPC Buzz Noise - OTA Update Possible?

[IB_NYC]

Just wondering if anyone knows if the Instrument Panel Cluster "IPC" can be updated via OTA? Awhile ago I read somewhere that Ford was working on a fix for the IPC buzz noise.

Love the car but the IPC buzz noise is still very annoying. I find myself constantly playing around with the brightness levels to get it to the level with the most tolerable level of buzz. Need the radio on at least a level 9 to drown it out.

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[Mach-Lee]

Yes, but an update will not fix the buzz since it’s a hardware issue. You can see your dealer for replacement but they all buzz, some are just worse than others.

 

[generaltso]

Just wondering if anyone knows if the Instrument Panel Cluster "IPC" can be updated via OTA? Awhile ago I read somewhere that Ford was working on a fix for the IPC buzz noise.

Love the car but the IPC buzz noise is still very annoying. I find myself constantly playing around with the brightness levels to get it to the level with the most tolerable level of buzz. Need the radio on at least a level 9 to drown it out.

Ford's official answer is that it's a normal characteristic of the screen.

 

[Jimrpa]

Oh, no, not the IPC Buzz again… sigh… this makes the frunk debacle took like a walk in the park on a sunny spring day, with birds chirping and bees … er, buzzing… by comparison

 

[Mirak]

I got my IPC replaced last year due to buzz. Didn't fix the problem entirely, but it is better. I figured they'd have fixed this for the 22s but evidently not.

 

[IB_NYC]

I got my IPC replaced last year due to buzz. Didn't fix the problem entirely, but it is better. I figured they'd have fixed this for the 22s but evidently not.

Oh interesting. Did it take long? Don't really trust them ripping apart everything but maybe I'll try that route.

 

[ARK]

I got my IPC replaced last year due to buzz. Didn't fix the problem entirely, but it is better. I figured they'd have fixed this for the 22s but evidently not.

Two dealerships told me there was no issue because they could not hear it. Did you have to do anything special to gets yours approved?

I find it more annoying in the winter months as I am more likely to have my windows closed and therefore more likely to hear it.

 

[Polyphonic]

Have a variation of this in my Mini electric. Seems to be a cooling loop for the cluster screen. Why a sophisticated cooling loop is necessary for a screen that is downright primitive in comparison to the Mach-e screen is odd. Even more odd is that nobody else seems to be bothered by it.

Have you all tried 3D printing a transparent barrier? In tandem with some dampening material it might attenuate the sound to tolerable levels.

In terms of design flaws like this I have learned two big lessons.

1. Car companies never (or at least exceedinly rarely) issue fixes to existing owners over things like this. You are on your own.

2. With EVs, spend extra time listening to everything before you pull the trigger. Wind noise, road noise, motor noise, instrument cluster noise. There are so many potential acoustic annoyances.

 

[azerik]

I got in my FFE the other day (I hadn't driven it since I got my MME) and oh man! The buzz in that car is deafening. It comes from behind the touchscreen but echo's through the center speaker hole. I tried beating the dash to see if something was loose but nope! I'd say the IPC buzz in my MME is 1/3rd as loud as the nearly 12 yr old FFE with Sync3.

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