In many ways, you just bought the next evolution of your Mazda. They both descend from the same platform. Ford and Mazda have had this relationship since at least 1981.
I would get it checked out, probably doesn't have to be at the dealership. The problem with that type of hit is that it basically impacts the transmission through the drive shaft.
Good thing is the hit was slow, and so there's a good chance that nothing was damaged.
Hope so too. Shortly after getting ours we hope to do a road trip out that direction and towards the coast. I just hope that happens this summer and not next winter.
I saw a Cyber Orange go by a week ago, and the unit I test drove was Iconic Silver. I know at least one person in the area who has received his Area 51 Maverick, but I haven't seen it.
Don’t have mine yet, but there’s one thing that drove my Lariat Lux purchase: the adaptive cruise. Everything else was on the XLT Lux, but that made it happen.
My little company deals on the edges of the automotive space and we put a second low speed modem in all our systems. It costs us about $1/per month per system, well worth the cost so we can be ahead of the game when it comes to service.
Technically, yes there is. Realistically, not really.
The telematics module will be getting data from the various modules over CAN or (if Ford has implemented it) 100BaseT1 Ethernet. You could perform a man-in-the-middle attack and alter the data as it went to the telematics module.
Hopefully...
Ford probably has two modems in there, a user high speed modem and Ford's low speed modem. The high speed modem is activated or not by the user, the low speed modem is always on and reporting telematics data.