Heck of a great post! I looked into steering wheels a bit; there are several options for motor size, gas vs. hybrid. Which version did you get, or does it not really matter since you're changing the programming?So was following the threads here on enabling cruise but didnāt see anyone doing it on a hybridā¦
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 āleversā 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 doesnāt 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 didnāt have the spade terminals to receive itā¦Iām 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 āregularā 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 ācruise controlā 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 canāt live without cruise, especially on long trips..
any confirmation on this?
Confirmation of what exactly?
of mileage loss. But since you kindly provided the link to the better Forscan version, I'll run with that. Thanks!
I cannot confirm it. But at least two other hybrid owners did see it.
now I just have to find an appropriate wheel!.
Those are still being explored/tested/developed by @Tyvemattis, so nobody knows yet. If you have skills and an adventurous streak, give it a try and report back!
found controls only from a Titanium which got me wondering:
1 - if the paddle shifters would work with the rotary or
2 - if I could install the heads-up display into the gauge housing...
You know you're a crazy dude, right? I love it, hats off to you! Can't wait to see what you come up with next!
Escape titanium shifter in, still no dice on paddles working. Not sure where to look for the changes needed. I have a list of bcm and abs things that I'm gonna try. I found one block in the pcm that matches the BS and escape but I'm hesitant to mess with the pcm.
HowSo was following the threads here on enabling cruise but didnāt see anyone doing it on a hybridā¦
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 āleversā 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 doesnāt 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 didnāt have the spade terminals to receive itā¦Iām 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 āregularā 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 ācruise controlā 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 canāt live without cruise, especially on long trips..
2020 Escape
