WSDOT Good To Go! pass placement

[EVDriver]

Ford's Mach-E Chief Engineer, Ron Heiser posted windshield design for optimal pass placement. The identified rectangular sections should yield the best performance.

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[JellyBelly]

Thanks - coming from Ford - they must have tried it out

 

[Mike_1234]

Unfortunately it's more confusing than that in Washington. There's good posts here on the forum about installing toll & parking passes in that location that's designed for it. All the ones I've seen though are cute little stickers; the Washington Good To Go flex pass is a big ugly box that seems to be designed to thwart the MME.

The picture above is also in the MME manual, showing where to locate:

And then the Washington instructions seem to be a perfect complement (in a bad way):

In the text it doesn't say it has to be below/behind the mirror, but it does say it has to be 2 inches below the top of the windshield. By the time you put it there, the 1.5 inch toll box is only partially in the shaded area designed by Ford.

And in any case, the instructions also say to not put it in any tinted area, presumably such as the shaded area designed by Ford. (The pass has a typical transponder, it also has a red box you can open/close that the toll system has to visually see, indicating if your car is HOV and doesn't have to pay the toll.)

So I'm hoping there's some WA MME-ers here that have figured this out. The only way I know of to test it is to install it somewhere, drive it on the two different kinds of toll roads here, and then check my bill. (If the toll system doesn't see the transponder it reads your license plate and tacks on a surcharge.)

 

[silverelan]

I put mine on the passenger side at the top of the glass. This keeps it completely invisible to the driver and usually out of sight from the passenger (depending on their seating position).

Zero issues getting billed.

 

[ChasingCoral]

Unfortunately it's more confusing than that in Washington. There's good posts here on the forum about installing toll & parking passes in that location that's designed for it. All the ones I've seen though are cute little stickers; the Washington Good To Go flex pass is a big ugly box that seems to be designed to thwart the MME.

The picture above is also in the MME manual, showing where to locate:

And then the Washington instructions seem to be a perfect complement (in a bad way):

In the text it doesn't say it has to be below/behind the mirror, but it does say it has to be 2 inches below the top of the windshield. By the time you put it there, the 1.5 inch toll box is only partially in the shaded area designed by Ford.

And in any case, the instructions also say to not put it in any tinted area, presumably such as the shaded area designed by Ford. (The pass has a typical transponder, it also has a red box you can open/close that the toll system has to visually see, indicating if your car is HOV and doesn't have to pay the toll.)

So I'm hoping there's some WA MME-ers here that have figured this out. The only way I know of to test it is to install it somewhere, drive it on the two different kinds of toll roads here, and then check my bill. (If the toll system doesn't see the transponder it reads your license plate and tacks on a surcharge.)

If the pass is a box, then it is a transponder than needs to be mounted on the dotted area as Ford describes. If it is an optical sticker, you need to place it outside the dots. Try following the Ford instructions and see if it works.

 

[silverelan]

If the pass is a box, then it is a transponder than needs to be mounted on the dotted area as Ford describes. If it is an optical sticker, you need to place it outside the dots. Try following the Ford instructions and see if it works.

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[ChasingCoral]

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[Blue PonyE]

II took my pass out of the plastic holder and placed it in the depression behind the top of the center display. It seems to work ok with tolling on 520, 405 and 167. Had a few times I had to pay .25 extra for a license plate toll, but out of sight. Only drawback is I have to fish it off the floor occasionally after WOT to clean out the carbon build-up in HVBJB.

 

[Rachid]

So, what's the consensus here for those of you with the Good to Go Flex pass? I'm getting ready to install mine, but I'm a bit hesitant if the HOV portion has issues in the shaded area of the windshield.

 

[Mach-Lee]

So, what's the consensus here for those of you with the Good to Go Flex pass? I'm getting ready to install mine, but I'm a bit hesitant if the HOV portion has issues in the shaded area of the windshield.

Put it in the shaded areas and it will work fine. That's what they are for.

 

[dealthmalfoy]

The washington flex pass has a red area that I think needs to be visible from the outside when the HOV switch is turned on. The black areas of the mache windscreen will block the red areas. Have anyone had good luck with this pass on their mache?

 

[milepost1]

The washington flex pass has a red area that I think needs to be visible from the outside when the HOV switch is turned on. The black areas of the mache windscreen will block the red areas. Have anyone had good luck with this pass on their mache?

I have had good to go pass in that area for 3 years. Not gotten pulled over yet. I use good to go because you are supposed to. However you can probably drive with HOV and by the time you are pulled over $500 fine is cheap.

 

[Mach-Lee]

The washington flex pass has a red area that I think needs to be visible from the outside when the HOV switch is turned on. The black areas of the mache windscreen will block the red areas. Have anyone had good luck with this pass on their mache?

I would mount it in the black anyway and just deal with it if you get pulled over. Because otherwise it won't work. As long as you actually have a passenger the police probably don't care about some little red flag.

 

[ChehRob]

Mine did not read once, so I got a bill in the mail. I called the service number and the very helpful guy who answered said we needed to couple my license plate number with the Good To Go pass number, and then it could work regardless. So now while I don't know which of the two it is using it doesn't make any difference.

 

[JeffGo]

I bought the license plate pass for my '21 Mach-E. Worked maybe once or twice in the beginning only, then they started billing me at the mail in rate. Customer service was completely useless (and very slow to respond) but they did refund a couple of charges. I then just added my plate. I don't travel on the toll roads very much, mainly 520 bridge.

I got my '24 GT last week and bought a Flex pass this time. It's in the shaded area - we shall see. I haven't gone on a toll road yet.

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