Mach-E display screen / infotainment in chinese

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Hi All, i bought a mach e that turned out to be Chinese import with Chinese only infotainment system. Anyone knows if its possible to over-ride it and reinstall the English Version? I believe its sync 4 that's installed on it

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Hi All, i bought a mach e that turned out to be Chinese import with Chinese only infotainment system. Anyone knows if its possible to over-ride it and reinstall the English Version? I believe its sync 4 that's installed on it

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I would be surprised if anybody on this forum would know that. If the car's systems were intended to be used in China's home market I would suspect it would take some server backend changes to enable language or other feature changes that are not available outside of China.
 

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Did you buy it sight unseen? How common is it to have cars (non exotic) imported to Dubai?
 

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I would take the vehicle to a ford dealer and let them deal with it. Frankly, who knows how much personal information a Chinese vehicle would harvest and ship back to Beijing.

Update: sorry, I didn’t see the OP was from Dubai. My answer doesn’t apply.
I am curious though - why would ANYONE in the Middle East buy an electric car? Sort of seems silly when you’re swimming in free petrol over there.
 

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I would take the vehicle to a ford dealer and let them deal with it. Frankly, who knows how much personal information a Chinese vehicle would harvest and ship back to Beijing.

Update: sorry, I didn’t see the OP was from Dubai. My answer doesn’t apply.
I am curious though - why would ANYONE in the Middle East buy an electric car? Sort of seems silly when you’re swimming in free petrol over there.
Environmental concerns, maybe?
 


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I would take the vehicle to a ford dealer and let them deal with it. Frankly, who knows how much personal information a Chinese vehicle would harvest and ship back to Beijing.

Update: sorry, I didn’t see the OP was from Dubai. My answer doesn’t apply.
I am curious though - why would ANYONE in the Middle East buy an electric car? Sort of seems silly when you’re swimming in free petrol over there.
Lol re petrol price. Its a bit of helping the environment and a bit of "can't afford an aston"
 

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Hi All, i bought a mach e that turned out to be Chinese import with Chinese only infotainment system. Anyone knows if its possible to over-ride it and reinstall the English Version? I believe its sync 4 that's installed on it

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I highly doubt you can.

It’s not the same car.

English versions are built in Mexico.

Chinese are for the Chinese market only. Different plant, different battery and drivetrain as well.

Your best bet would be to find someone who speaks Chinese and see if there is an option in the menu to change the language (like we can switch to French or spanish).
 

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right, but what I mean is that cars are sold there through OEM dealerships and not gray market cars.

In the US, it's really rare and difficult to import a car.
 
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right, but what I mean is that cars are sold there through OEM dealerships and not gray market cars.

In the US, it's really rare and difficult to import a car.
It's not been released in the uae yet. Plenty of independent dealers import to sell in market, specially for unreleased electric cars like VW and Ford
 
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I highly doubt you can.

It’s not the same car.

English versions are built in Mexico.

Chinese are for the Chinese market only. Different plant, different battery and drivetrain as well.

Your best bet would be to find someone who speaks Chinese and see if there is an option in the menu to change the language (like we can switch to French or spanish).
I tried that but the option doesn't exist...
 

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I suspect you're screwed.

In the US, the cars have an AT&T modem. Take that car overseas, and you can't get over the area updates, you can't use connected services. I suspect that the Chinese system is the same. I also suspect you can't fix your problem.
 

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I tried that but the option doesn't exist...
Ah then you’re probably SOL.

Time to learn Mandarin?

On a related note. Is it a GT?

And if so, could you video some acceleration runs? Supposedly the Chinese GT doesn’t have the same power limiters the ones built in Mexico have. But for whatever reason, no tests or acceleration videos seem to exist for it.
 
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Ah then you’re probably SOL.

Time to learn Mandarin?

On a related note. Is it a GT?

And if so, could you video some acceleration runs? Supposedly the Chinese GT doesn’t have the same power limiters the ones built in Mexico have. But for whatever reason, no tests or acceleration videos seem to exist for it.
It's not a gt. It's the only mustang mach e to come to the country and it's premium extended battery
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