Traded Tesla Model Y for Mach-E GTP - a Comparison

[sotek2345]

My kids are constantly going to sports and martial arts.... hands full of gear and when they come up to the car with their hands full, I open/close the hatch constantly. And with the loss of the kick-to-open feature gone for 2022, it's even more helpful.

Ah ok - whenever I take my kids to things (usually robotics, not sports), I am going with them, so I am getting out and unload/loading the back.

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[jmatero]

I'm still confused as to why there is a hard button for the Max Defrost when there's a soft button always present on the screen.

 

[db4z]

I'm still confused as to why there is a hard button for the Max Defrost when there's a soft button always present on the screen.

Safety reasons - if your screen fails you can still safely drive the vehicle by being able see in poor weather by being able to turn on the defroster.

 

[Mirak]

Ok - I am really curious what your use case is that makes you want to open the hatch from inside so often. 99.9% of the time I want to open the hatch, I am behind the car wanting to put something in or take something out. I have opened the hatch from inside exactly once when I picked up some pizza.

Do you have kids? I probably spend 15-30 minutes a day on average in somebody’s driveway, or a parking lot, dropping off or picking up. And it is always “hey Mr. ___ can you pop the trunk?” This is not uncommon at all with kids. And it’s why I’ve never ever been in a car where you couldn’t open the trunk with one push of a button.

 

[Mirak]

I'm still confused as to why there is a hard button for the Max Defrost when there's a soft button always present on the screen.

So are we all.

 

[Mirak]

Safety reasons - if your screen fails you can still safely drive the vehicle by being able see in poor weather by being able to turn on the defroster.

Let me rephrase: I’m still confused why there is a button on the screen for max defrost when they already gave us a physical button. We can’t have one-touch access to the trunk or the cams, but we’ve got built in redundancy for that defrost! Got the defrost COVERED.

 

[Neil4Real]

My kids are constantly going to sports and martial arts.... hands full of gear and when they come up to the car with their hands full, I open/close the hatch constantly. And with the loss of the kick-to-open feature gone for 2022, it's even more helpful.

Sounds like you need to enable the kick to open liftgate on your 2022 using FORScan

 

[HuntingPudel]

Ok - I am really curious what your use case is that makes you want to open the hatch from inside so often. 99.9% of the time I want to open the hatch, I am behind the car wanting to put something in or take something out. I have opened the hatch from inside exactly once when I picked up some pizza.

I keep my grocery bags in the rear compartment. It’s much easier to open the hatch as I am getting out of the car than to open it after I get behind the car. There are other reasons as well, like when I pick my sister up, it allows the hatch to be opened without my having to open it for her from behind the car.

 

[Mach1E]

Safety reasons - if your screen fails you can still safely drive the vehicle by being able see in poor weather by being able to turn on the defroster.

We have a redundant button in case the first button fails?

But what if the 2nd button fails? What then??

If your reason was the reason for redundancy, we would have a physical button for everything.

 

[scoopman]

Somebody needs to make one of these for the MME.. basically low power Bluetooth buttons that fire CAN-bus messages.

https://abstractocean.com/products/s3xy-buttons

One could program a button for hatch, frunk, drive mode switching, 1PD on/off.

The Tesla aftermarket eco-system is simply larger right now due to the the cars being on the market for longer and more on the road. MME will get there.

Yeah -- this would be great. Anyone know if this would be possible on the MME? Could be a large(r) market if there are similar control protocols used across multiple Ford models. Someone needs to do some OBD port hackery please.....

 

[SWO]

Ok - I am really curious what your use case is that makes you want to open the hatch from inside so often. 99.9% of the time I want to open the hatch, I am behind the car wanting to put something in or take something out. I have opened the hatch from inside exactly once when I picked up some pizza.

It's a PITA when the wife is either dropping me off or picking me up from the airport, for one.

 

[ARK]

Yeah -- this would be great. Anyone know if this would be possible on the MME? Could be a large(r) market if there are similar control protocols used across multiple Ford models. Someone needs to do some OBD port hackery please.....

I don't know specifically about those bluetooth buttons, but a forum member had created a DIY liftgate switch - see here.

 

[scoopman]

I don't know specifically about those bluetooth buttons, but a forum member had created a DIY liftgate switch - see here.

Yup but these buttons are great because there’s no wiring required and you can dynamically program their function

 

[agoldman]

very good write up! Thanks.

 

[voxel]

Yeah -- this would be great. Anyone know if this would be possible on the MME? Could be a large(r) market if there are similar control protocols used across multiple Ford models. Someone needs to do some OBD port hackery please.....

I've pinged the engineering company that designed it - https://enhauto.com/commander-full

All the hardware should be the same... the only difference would be CAN-bus programming/messages I suspect. Unless it's all encrypted data like new Toyotas.

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