Any heat signatures from the door lock button area?These are thermal images of all the heated areas in the Mach-E. Taken with a tiny FLIR thermal camera that has poor resolution.
Heated seats:
Heated steering wheel, my favorite:
Rear defrost:
Heated mirrors and warm side glass:
Heated wiper parking area:
Heated front camera:
The trace runs up around and down the side of the windshield to the connections in the cowl:
Front windshield defrost:
Battery pack:
Air extractors under the rear bumper cover. This is where the warm cabin air exits your vehicle. If you use too much fan speed, this area will get hot. Marker light is also warm.
This one has personal significance. Notice the roof glass in front of the shark fin is cool. That's because I have my Reflextix covering the glass. It's doing a great job blocking heat loss, so good that you can clearly see its outline because I have some tiny gaps around the edges where some heat is getting through.
Notes:
- Heated mirrors and wiper park areas seem to stay on all the time with AUTO.
- You can feel the warm areas by hand
- Rear defrost only comes on when you press the button
- Front camera heater only comes on at startup, and you cannot manually activate it. It turns on itself when the view is blocked.
- Using lower fan speeds will minimize the amount of warm air blowing out the rear vent extractors (wasted heat).
- Reflectix roof covering is very effective at blocking heat loss.
The red dot is the parking sensor I believe. Also the large heated area is the rear radar (if it's cabin air exhaust heating it, that's just clever design, not coincidence).Air extractors under the rear bumper cover. This is where the warm cabin air exits your vehicle. If you use too much fan speed, this area will get hot. Marker light is also warm.
because it is a vertical surface? Not gonna collect a lot of snow usually.
It did for me last year. It all stuck to the plastic and the distance detection was unavailable. I posted a picture of it somewhere here.
Awesome pics, Lee! ? Thanks for sharing these and for being part of the Ford family!These are thermal images of all the heated areas in the Mach-E. Taken with a tiny FLIR thermal camera that has poor resolution.
Heated seats:
Heated steering wheel, my favorite:
Rear defrost:
Heated mirrors and warm side glass:
Heated wiper parking area:
Heated front camera:
The trace runs up around and down the side of the windshield to the connections in the cowl:
Front windshield defrost:
Battery pack:
Air extractors under the rear bumper cover. This is where the warm cabin air exits your vehicle. If you use too much fan speed, this area will get hot. Marker light is also warm.
This one has personal significance. Notice the roof glass in front of the shark fin is cool. That's because I have my Reflextix covering the glass. It's doing a great job blocking heat loss, so good that you can clearly see its outline because I have some tiny gaps around the edges where some heat is getting through.
Notes:
- Heated mirrors and wiper park areas seem to stay on all the time with AUTO.
- You can feel the warm areas by hand
- Rear defrost only comes on when you press the button
- Front camera heater only comes on at startup, and you cannot manually activate it. It turns on itself when the view is blocked.
- Using lower fan speeds will minimize the amount of warm air blowing out the rear vent extractors (wasted heat).
- Reflectix roof covering is very effective at blocking heat loss.
At startup - when the outdoor temp is below 32ĀŗF the front camera heating element is tested on startup. In theory you could turn the car off and back on in an attempt to clear the camera.
