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So was following the threads here on enabling cruise but didn’t see anyone doing it on a hybrid…
Went and bought a 2020 Escape steering wheel with leather and heat, swapped it out for the XL wheel and spent a bit of time fiddling with FORscan to get it operational.
Worked like a charm!
First I suggest unhooking the battery, which resides under the rear passenger side seat:
To remove old wheel:
Use flat blade each side from back and move the ‘levers’ toward center of the wheel, horn button/airbag :
Rotate the wheel 90 degrees to access each side, have to hold the airbag on the releases side so it doesn’t re-attach.
Once removed, unhook the connections, the white clip comes off by pushing the center tab, to remove the airbag clips slide a flat blade under the orange tab and lift, once the tabs are raised the clip can be carefully pulled straight off the airbag.
Take off the nut holding the wheel on, I used an impact gun..
Reattach the new wheel in reverse of the removal process.
Interestingly the new heated wheel had wiring for heat, but the socket in the clock spring didn’t have the spade terminals to receive it…I’m looking to add heated wheel so will re-address this in a separate thread.
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New wheel in place:
Now came programming via FORscan- I used this one:
OBDLink EX FORScan OBD Adapter
Loaded Forscan, accepted the modules, had a friend with a Lariat so scanned his to see what the settings were..
for the right button, changed the setting in the SCCM module to #1
The left button was trickier - had to go through all the options as the XL didn't have adaptive CC, just ‘regular’ CC. Checked the volume switch it until it worked, which was #11
So switches worked, but still no cruise enabled. Tried a bunch of modules wherever there was ‘cruise control’ listed but nothing seemed to add criise operation until I flipped this in the IPC module:
And it worked! Operating CC in a Hybrid!
All buttons work as intended and was certainly a very easy and integrated way to add cruise to the Hybrid Maverick.
Hope this helps others as I just can’t live without cruise, especially on long trips..
Went and bought a 2020 Escape steering wheel with leather and heat, swapped it out for the XL wheel and spent a bit of time fiddling with FORscan to get it operational.
Worked like a charm!
First I suggest unhooking the battery, which resides under the rear passenger side seat:
To remove old wheel:
Use flat blade each side from back and move the ‘levers’ toward center of the wheel, horn button/airbag :
Rotate the wheel 90 degrees to access each side, have to hold the airbag on the releases side so it doesn’t re-attach.
Once removed, unhook the connections, the white clip comes off by pushing the center tab, to remove the airbag clips slide a flat blade under the orange tab and lift, once the tabs are raised the clip can be carefully pulled straight off the airbag.
Take off the nut holding the wheel on, I used an impact gun..
Reattach the new wheel in reverse of the removal process.
Interestingly the new heated wheel had wiring for heat, but the socket in the clock spring didn’t have the spade terminals to receive it…I’m looking to add heated wheel so will re-address this in a separate thread.
.
New wheel in place:
Now came programming via FORscan- I used this one:
OBDLink EX FORScan OBD Adapter
Loaded Forscan, accepted the modules, had a friend with a Lariat so scanned his to see what the settings were..
for the right button, changed the setting in the SCCM module to #1
The left button was trickier - had to go through all the options as the XL didn't have adaptive CC, just ‘regular’ CC. Checked the volume switch it until it worked, which was #11
So switches worked, but still no cruise enabled. Tried a bunch of modules wherever there was ‘cruise control’ listed but nothing seemed to add criise operation until I flipped this in the IPC module:
And it worked! Operating CC in a Hybrid!
All buttons work as intended and was certainly a very easy and integrated way to add cruise to the Hybrid Maverick.
Hope this helps others as I just can’t live without cruise, especially on long trips..
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