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25 Lobo Start/Stop Eliminator Install Thwarted?

gjallen3

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I have a 24 XLT. I guess I can count myself amongst the fortunate as it seems Ford has in fact made it more difficult for 25+ model years to install the eliminator. It was not difficult at all. I didn’t even have to take the console apart or remove it. The switch that has the start stop switch, drive mode, brake hold, and traction control buttons, came out with a little effort by sliding a credit card on each side of the switch and the console housing disengaging the tabs. Then using a plastic pry tool to pop it out, disconnect the harness from the bottom of the switch, plug in the eliminator, then the harness back in. Snap the switch back in the console. I recognize that 25+my are designed and configured differently, and apologize for rubbing salt in your wound, but this may help those with 24 and earlier years.
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havoc

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That plugging that Chinese designed PCB and workmanship into my factory harness scares me more than using Forscan to disable auto start/stop on the module itself. There’s no way they plug these into a test fixture to QC checks.
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