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You do realize, I hope, that most of your complaints are not specific to Ford, but rather are a function of the way our economy in general and auto industry in particular works, right? For example, "crap that doesn't work half the time" is a function of the economics of testing and validating a...

I don’t closely track developments in FSD, but I was under the impression that Tesla is at pretty much a dead end because of Elon’s decision to forego LIDAR in favor of optical sensors? I trace this back to Musk’s poor engineering skill, “move fast and break things” might work in some places...

What delays? Why be resistant to data? Facts are facts, right? FWIW, a little understood economic factoid: if petroleum supply exceeds demand by a certain threshold, the oil companies stop drilling because the ROI on each marginal barrel is net negative. It’s a result of the economics of...

With the new Democratic Congress it should be very easy to re-instate. I hope they do.

I think the OP is asking about how to get back to the plain ‘ol built in AM/FM radio…

Why are you continuing to pick at this? Aren't there more important things to worry over?

What does marriage or birthday cakes or parental lineage have to do with tires on a truck? Sure I can. I just did! j/k! Seriously though, I neither downplayed nor dismissed anyone's feelings - I just said I don't understand it. No need to be thinskinned about it ... we're talking about...

I’m with you. As an engineer I just don’t understand the emphasis on appearances.

It took me a long time to untangle the way SiriusXM works (or doesn't) so you're not alone.

One of the delights of SiriusXM is that it behaves differently when you are using the SiriusXM that is built into your truck vs using the SiriusXM app on your phone vs accessing Sirius via the web front end using your laptop. The “favorites” list in your truck is NOT the same as your SiriusXM...

Your truck is about three years old, which is about the life I would expect from any OEM battery. My ‘22 XLT PowerBoost is a little over three years old, so I am expecting it to need new batteries (there are two batteries in mine) sometime this year.

I struggled quite a bit with selecting a tonneau cover. In the end it came down to understanding my requirements, which helped clarify the situation quite a bit. In my case, my key requirement was the ability to use an over-the-bed rack to carry our tandem bike. So for me, that immediately...

Very nice looking truck! Someone else suggested waiting just a bit before diving headfirst into big time mods. Seems like good advice. I’ve kept my ‘22 XLT PowerBoost 302A more or less stock. Here are the few things I added. - CERAMIC COATING! Cannot say enough good things about this. I had...

In general, it seems beneficial to go with aftermarket products instead of Ford OEM. For formats, both Husky and Weathertech make high quality products that are known to fit nicely in these trucks. Likewise with rear wheel well liners.

“Feminized millennials raised by single moms”??? What does this have to do with Fords or F-150s?

Yes, and you can change it to whatever you like using Foreskin. Many people are recommending setting it 98%, just to be sure. But only after doing five BMS reset cycles. Not only does the badge change to “Inactive”, but the truck shuts down and a warning light comes on saying, “we are stopping...

As boomers, we grew up hearing the stories first hand from our fathers. A visceral sense for the horrors of war and the damage that fascism can do was instilled into us directly by the generation that fought against it. In my bedroom right now I have the insignia and brass from my dad’s Naval...

Guessing you don’t know a ton of boomers or are one yourself?

None of us actually knows what the SOC Threshold value does or how the BMS uses that parameter, but there has been some speculation (and that’s all it is) that boosting it may negatively impact battery life. Porpoise Hork published some very interesting observations the other day concerning the...

Keep in mind that the purpose of a BMS reset is to notify the BMS that a new battery has been installed. The BMS uses the age of the battery as one of many inputs to the algorithm that it uses to ‘calibrate’ SOC. Remember, the BMS re-calibrates its idea of what the SOC is AFTER a period of rest...