Only real issue I have is I have a wireless dongle for android auto, and if I end up using the other USB port to charge, sometimes they fight for control... And I'll either need to plug into the USB charger on the 12v (cigarette lighter), or pull the dongle.
The USB on the rear of the console is a charge only port.
I'm and old dog and I worked in IT for 34 years, I am not so familiar with phones and tables. I never configured or used Ford pass, I've had my vehicle for 2.5 years, never had a problem, and I refuse to think I have to monitor my modern day vehicle with an application and check on status messages every day. Ignore it - you'll live a happier life.
I am curious...did you use key punch cards at the beginning of your career? When I was a senior in college, my class was the last one to use them.
I did! 3 or 4 college years we used punch cards (back in the mid 70s) , year four they finally got terminals. When I started work in 79 my boss gave me a list of programs that I was responsible for and he proudly pointed to the group of steel gray - likely WWII era - cabinets and he said - and your card decks are right over there. Imagine a few 4000 card programs, imagine the fun of patching them....when I asked my boss if it was ok if I dumped them to disk and maintained them there he was reluctant - he said well he didn't trust that 'disk' - but hey it was my call. Yeah they got xferred to files within a month.
Maybe so…but Ford Pass helped me recover my stolen F250 truck in less than an hour. I tracked it on the map as they drove it away. Showed the cops where it stopped. Two officers were there standing by the parked truck in 42 minutes. I was driving back home in less than an hour. FordPass doesn’t run my life, but it sure saved me from having to pick a new color…if you know what I mean.
well that's great, glad it helped find it, it for sure has some definite use.Maybe so…but Ford Pass helped me recover my stolen F250 truck in less than an hour. I tracked it on the map as they drove it away. Showed the cops where it stopped. Two officers were there standing by the parked truck in 42 minutes. I was driving back home in less than an hour. FordPass doesn’t run my life, but it sure saved me from having to pick a new color…if you know what I mean.
I worked in credit card billing for Gasoline sales. Punch cards used until about 1975-1976. Had 35 punch operators punching account numbers and amounts in the cards manually carbon printed at service stations. Was running just under 700,000 cards per month. Replaced most of them with optical scanner with florescent ink jet printer that could feed 1200 cards per minute. The optical reader had a 15k lumen bulb with an oscillating mirror that would reflect each character onto a 176 photo cell panel. The character would bounce somewhere into the 176 cells. I got to write the code that determined if it was a particular number. Like a 1 would trip a certain number range of cells and a 0 would trip over twice as many with more at the top. 6 and 9 would be approximately the same number but the 9 would have more at the top than the 6. Etc.... only had milliseconds for each card with 16-22 characters. If program could not issue a spray command before the card passed the spray head card feed was stopped and 8-9 cards would wind up in trash bins knife edged into each other with 1-3 cards set on fire by the hot bulb so 1 or more people would get a free tank of gas with several getting partially burned "proof of purchase". Ahhh! The good old days.
Change your AndroidAuto setting to connect even when your phone is unlocked.
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Just download the .pdf from Ford.com to a PC, tablet or phone. The .pdf is searchable, making finding something much faster than trying to thumb though a print version.
