Adaptive cruise retroactive install in future?

[Gary Beatty]

Will there ever be a way Ford can add adaptive cruise on my2025 XLT in the furture?

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[Glen Baker LLC]

I'm sure they can.
Will they? That's another question.
How much are you willing to pay for the retrofit$$$

 

[Gary Beatty]

I don't know I just miss it I had it on my Escape

 

[Darnon]

Very, very slim-to-none odds a dealership would retrofit it. And for the cost you'd likely be better off trading for a Lariat in the first place.

 

[Hot Runr Guy]

Will there ever be a way Ford can add adaptive cruise on my2025 XLT in the furture?

As suggested, bite the bullet and re-order a Maverick equipped the way you want it. I've done it, it only hurts for a little while,,,,,,,

HRG

 

[Meeka]

As suggested, bite the bullet and re-order a Maverick equipped the way you want it. I've done it, it only hurts for a little while,,,,,,,

HRG

That’s what she said! Sorry in advance people, I just couldn’t resist!

 

[RobN]

Does the 2025 XLT have the radar piece in the front, behind the grill? If not, you'd be adding that hardware before you could get adaptive cruise - and may need to adjust other pieces if the grill is different. I'm sure with enough money you could retrofit almost anything, but how much are you willing to spend?

On a side note, personally, I hate adaptive cruise, so I see this as a feature. I set the cruise to the speed I want, if I need to slow down I want it to let ME slow down or decide to change lanes. I get why some people like it, but it's not for me.

 

[710-oil-614]

If you've ordered an XLT you're so close to the adaptive cruise and everything else in the Lariat...

 

[OleFordGuy]

i would highly doubt ford would add it your truck. That's one of the reasons they have trim levels with extra features. Their not going to mess that up. However, with enough money for parts and software and labor, most anything can be done at a price.

 

[jbwilli]

Does the 2025 XLT have the radar piece in the front, behind the grill? If not, you'd be adding that hardware before you could get adaptive cruise - and may need to adjust other pieces if the grill is different. I'm sure with enough money you could retrofit almost anything, but how much are you willing to spend?

On a side note, personally, I hate adaptive cruise, so I see this as a feature. I set the cruise to the speed I want, if I need to slow down I want it to let ME slow down or decide to change lanes. I get why some people like it, but it's not for me.

There are APPS for your smart phone that will give you an alert (visual or audible) when you reach your pre-chosen speed vs speed limit. Example: WAZE
can alert you when you reach or exceed the speed limit, both visually and audibly, if you enable the feature. You can set a threshold for when Waze should consider you speeding and choose to receive alerts when you reach that threshold. Here is short tutorial link: and WAZE can also alert you to hidden radar.cameras as you approach them:

 

[RobN]

There are APPS for your smart phone that will give you an alert (visual or audible) when you reach your pre-chosen speed vs speed limit.

Here's a crazy idea - set your cruise for the speed limit, even if you sit in the slow lane and let people pass you. It saves money on tickets, gas, radar detectors, apps to tell you about speed traps or to complain you're going too fast....

But an app to warn you about your speed has nothing to do with adaptive cruise control, unless they're upgrading ACC to tie into GPS and/or the camera looking at speed signs to feed that data into the cruise control - they're not doing that right now, are they? If it really does more, then retrofitting it might be more complicated because there may be more systems to get to talk to each other.

I've only seen ACC that slows you down before you start tailgating someone who is going slower than your cruise is set, and might speed you up back to the setting if he changes lanes or speeds up. That requires the radar (lidar?) transmitter/receiver behind the grill, and may also use some of the camera features, to watch how close you are to the car in front. That seems possible to retrofit to me, though I don't know how expensive it may be.

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