ECU module programming guide using FDRS

[superfordman]

There's a few variants of this. It's a cat and mouse game of ford invalidating the keys they hand out. It results in a monthly key change remote-in from whoever sold it.

The price for one's own vehicle should be free since ford still hasn't gotten OTA figured out yet, plus when they brick the car with an OTA, FDRS can be used to rectify their error. The VCM / mongoose cost is already a sufficient barrier to entry that they don't need to be milking customers for more $$$.

I figured as much, just like any other grey/black market software licenses. Once I saw the remote in to install/sign in, I was pretty much na, I'm good.

I kind of wish we just had the ability to update the vehicles we own at no cost. Verify the VIN and that you own it, then have access to update just that VIN as much as you want for free. Just make the hardware investment and have at it.

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[Snakebitten]

I figured as much, just like any other grey/black market software licenses. Once I saw the remote in to install/sign in, I was pretty much na, I'm good.

I kind of wish we just had the ability to update the vehicles we own at no cost. Verify the VIN and that you own it, then have access to update just that VIN as much as you want for free. Just make the hardware investment and have at it.

It'd be hilarious if Ford did an honest due diligence cost analysis and discovered that it saved THEM money to allow exactly that!

 

[Gord0]

Looks like I'm down to one last APIM update (tried this afternoon and it failed to download, retry 3x, completed,then failed to make USB 2x and I aborted). And then there's the dreaded BCM. I might just wait to see if that one decides to come OTA... Might have a TCU and IPC after the APIM goes through and I'll be up to date!

 

["Steve"]

gents, anyone ran the, "IPMA - Image Processing Module A (IPMA) Alignment application"? i need to try doing that to clear a DTC. does it just trigger the 4 or 5 sub alignment procedures back to back/cascading or something? wanna know what to expect before i wipe the ipma learned values.

 

[Kanuck]

When I did mine, it had an error that would not clear. I checked with Rugdraw and it showed it installed ok. I can look on PTS and see what it shows. PM me your VIN

 

[Kanuck]

gents, anyone ran the, "IPMA - Image Processing Module A (IPMA) Alignment application"? i need to try doing that to clear a DTC. does it just trigger the 4 or 5 sub alignment procedures back to back/cascading or something? wanna know what to expect before i wipe the ipma learned values.

Mine did a few, but would not clear the DTC. I waited a week and checked with Forscan. It was still showing. Cleared it with Forscan and it was gone.

 

["Steve"]

i added powerfold mirrors a while back and have had a dtc since. cannot be cleared, and 360 alignment process wont stick, despite completing successfully about 5 times.

 

[Kanuck]

i added powerfold mirrors a while back and have had a dtc since. cannot be cleared, and 360 alignment process wont stick, despite completing successfully about 5 times.

All this is above my level of knowledge...sorry

 

[Gord0]

When I did mine, it had an error that would not clear. I checked with Rugdraw and it showed it installed ok. I can look on PTS and see what it shows. PM me your VIN

If this was directed to my post about the APIM not installing, I know it didn't. It never even created the USB.

 

[Kanuck]

If this was directed to my post about the APIM not installing, I know it didn't. It never even created the USB.

Sorry, That was directed to Steve.

 

["Steve"]

ended up getting this resolved thanks to jesse's help. had to reset the learned values of ipma, and then redo alignment procedures. dtc gone. woot.

 

[jgrant]

OK, team, progress was made this weekend but I'm still short of a full update. I finally got through the big IPMA update with no problems, but I'm stuck on the APIM update. I guess I'm experiencing the same issue that @Snakebitten and Jesse were able to work around? The APIM update binary fails to download, or possibly fails to validate with Ford servers. My Sync 4 is stuck on a 2022 version and I"d like to get this piece updated. Any advice or pointers to other posts or threads on this issue are appreciated.

 

[Kanuck]

OK, team, progress was made this weekend but I'm still short of a full update. I finally got through the big IPMA update with no problems, but I'm stuck on the APIM update. I guess I'm experiencing the same issue that @Snakebitten and Jesse were able to work around? The APIM update binary fails to download, or possibly fails to validate with Ford servers. My Sync 4 is stuck on a 2022 version and I"d like to get this piece updated. Any advice or pointers to other posts or threads on this issue are appreciated.

Looks like the server is missing a file.

 

[Gord0]

Mine failed on the download portion of 23291 quite a few times, then it failed to make a USB 2x. I gave it up for the day and came back to it the next morning. It redownloaded a couple files and made the USB just fine. It failed a final test after install, but fixed itself. I'd give it another try tomorrow when servers aren't down. There's also a spot where fdrs downloads it's files to (it's mentioned a few times in this thread but I can't remember where) You can go in there and delete all the files and it will force it to redownload all of them.

 

[Sparks]

Is there a way to correlate these SW Updates to OTA update numbers or find additional info about the updates?

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