BeerInPeril
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- First Name
- Pierre
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2022
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- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Vehicles
- 2022 Rivian R1T, 2016 Porsche GT4, ex 2022 MME GT
- Occupation
- ļ£æ Software Engineer
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"Bye Felicia" some will say, but I still wanted to open up a thread to thank the community that helped me a lot through my short Mach-E adventure.
I was a long time lurker here and found a lot of content that helped me through the order process, delivery and ownership.
Traded-in my 2022 MME GT as my long awaited Rivian R1T finally showed up.
Funnily enough, the Rivian was ordered way ahead of the MME, so props Ford on that.
Even on the last day, I couldn't help but think that the MME is a gorgeous looking car and I hope it'll make a lot of great memories with whomever ends up behind the wheel next.
As for the trip report, here it is:
MME GT Ownership - May 11, 2022 to September 16, 2022 - 4514mi
The good
I would have just wished for two things:
So once again thank you all (special mention to the 3/14 build gang ), enjoy the road ahead and I will keep lusting on good looking MMEs at the charging stations.
I was a long time lurker here and found a lot of content that helped me through the order process, delivery and ownership.
Traded-in my 2022 MME GT as my long awaited Rivian R1T finally showed up.
Funnily enough, the Rivian was ordered way ahead of the MME, so props Ford on that.
Even on the last day, I couldn't help but think that the MME is a gorgeous looking car and I hope it'll make a lot of great memories with whomever ends up behind the wheel next.
As for the trip report, here it is:
MME GT Ownership - May 11, 2022 to September 16, 2022 - 4514mi
The good
- My actual experience.
No issues with the car! As on forums, people mostly come to report issues, I felt it was worth mentioning first. - Looks.
Exterior look, and with a little less enthusiasm the interior look that is nice for a Ford but nothing to write home about for a $60k+ SUV
- Trust.
As you can tell with the mileage, I never used the car for roadtrips, only as a daily driver as I was never able to trust it to be reliable due to the HVBJB issue and I don't have time to get stuck in the middle of nowhere with a dead car, deal with Ford's shenanigans, towing companies that have no idea how to deal with the car and so on... - My dealership sucked and the overall service experience does too.
The delivery experience was meh, they scratched the car as they were "detailing" it and wouldn't do anything about it.
It took months and almost had to stalk my advisor in order for them to cut me a check for my purchase protection money. I can swear they were hoping for me to give up and keep Ford's money.
Predatory salesmen that try to sell you useless warranties, or come in for a "great deal" which means paying 20k ADM for the same car with an extra option...
Absolutely zero service availability, seeing that the first appt was over a month away, I waited for the recall OTA supposedly coming in July. Came the end of August with no OTA, I found another dealership further away with less wait and got it updated. - Software.
BlueCruise works well. That's the only positive I have about the car's software. Everything else is bad and all traditional car manufacturers need to get it together to be able to compete in the future.
Sync performance is bad... looks like it renders at 25fps max, stutters a lot, takes forever to boot.
The UI/UX is quite poor as well. Lots of wasted space, information hierarchy is backwards (who though putting the speed in an area usually occluded by the driver's hand was a good idea?), and overall feels unfinished.
There are a bunch of low hanging fruits leveraging the existing hardware to add features, for example using the cameras as Dashcam/Sentry mode.
The mobile app/cloud services are ridiculously slow as well, the UX is utter non sense as well with a lot of third tier info upfront and actually useful features either hard to get to or missing. - Suspension.
It's been debated over and over on the forum, I don't have much to add there but even if it's supposedly better than the Select/Premium, suspension on the GT still leaves a lot to desire, especially on the rear axle. That's my only gripe with the chassis.
I would have just wished for two things:
- a program to proactively replace the HVBJB on all Mach-E before you get stranded somewhere
- the 2021 and 2022 MMEs to get the upcoming Android Automotive system retrofitted to get rid of Sync
So once again thank you all (special mention to the 3/14 build gang ), enjoy the road ahead and I will keep lusting on good looking MMEs at the charging stations.
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