If Ford called you tomorrow asking for one design change… what are you telling them

[powerboatr]

I attended A&M in the Corps way back. ‘65-‘66.

I did the master program at a@m commerce exstended campus...
Only visited the the head shed in college station once.
Cool place.. lots of signs. I only got lost a dozen times..
I fit right in.

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[JoeInPI]

All in all, I'm pretty happy with my 24. OF course, I have changed some things that annoyed me, like swapping in the 2022 adjustable vents, real leather seats (Clazzio Nappa covers), swapping in a larger battery and changing my SOC settings, the LED tails, swapping in power fold mirrors this week, and some other stuff- most of that stuff should already be on a $65,000+ truck. Our 2020 Ranger XLT had power folding mirrors. Now those are not on a giant truck like the F150 is beyond me. Some of the stuff that is included on it vs. some of the stuff that isn't- is what makes it all puzzling.

I'd like to have a heated wheel, our $32k 2025 Escape has one, and the auto high beams work better than on my truck- the truck fires to low-beams when the opposing car is about 3 miles away. I'm always over-riding it.

I like having the blue-cruise setup, because I can use the free-ankle-weight-on-steering-wheel to get pretty much the same thing on 2-lanes (we live rural) so that works great. Not interested in using the other system created to make a full-autonomous system I saw.

I wish the ridiculous shift-to-park if you open a door was gone, I do a lot of trailer work, and for years have opened up the door sometimes when backing or talking to someone- having that stupid shifter go to park is RIDICULOUS.

 

[RLXXI]

Sentry mode for the onboard cams, allow us to d/l video to a thumb drive like Tesla does.

 

[JoeInPI]

Yep, “premium” system that somehow still sounds like it’s missing a sub half the time.
Bose or even a partnership with someone like Harmon/Kardon would be sweet

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[Regular150]

Please add back the tailgate applique. My 21 Limited had it, my 25 we picked up yesterday, Platinum Plus, looks naked without it. A $90,385 truck should look like it,if I had a lower trim, fine.

 

[FirstTimeFord]

Please add back the tailgate applique. My 21 Limited had it, my 25 we picked up yesterday, Platinum Plus, looks naked without it. A $90,385 truck should look like it,if I had a lower trim, fine.

They did add it back in the 26 without the PAT though as shown in your photo. PAT, no applique. Without PAT, it gets the applique. Apparently, you are not alone.

From the 26 Build Site:

Platinum 702a

Platinum Plus 703a

 

[TarnishedCopper]

I did the master program at a@m commerce exstended campus...
Only visited the the head shed in college station once.
Cool place.. lots of signs. I only got lost a dozen times..
I fit right in.

 

[TarnishedCopper]

I wish I had never bought my 2022 F-150 Max tow 3.5 EcoBoost!
For starters due to the Covid Fraud, Stuff I considered rather important like XM radio, and power/extendable tow mirrors were not available.

The lack of XM radio is a royal P.I.T.A. Having to use Android Auto to get it is Rube Goldberg! Part of the time it doesn't connect the phone to the truck, or XM cannot start, or the XM app is not on the one station I want to listen to.

I would rather have a truck minus all the Body control Modules and other electronic B.S. than one that crap doesn't work on half the time.

Oh and yes put a battery with large enough capacity that isn't continuously telling me that it is shutting down to conserve battery.

There also should be a time limit for automakers to devise solutions to the parts that are recalled. Since they choose to buy foreign-made junk parts, the customer suffers. (e.g. wiper motor, rear axle bolts, fuel pump, etc)

This vehicle has about 17,000 miles on it. It will be my last FORD product!

 

[PaulGrun]

I wish I had never bought my 2022 F-150 Max tow 3.5 EcoBoost!
For starters due to the Covid Fraud, Stuff I considered rather important like XM radio, and power/extendable tow mirrors were not available.

The lack of XM radio is a royal P.I.T.A. Having to use Android Auto to get it is Rube Goldberg! Part of the time it doesn't connect the phone to the truck, or XM cannot start, or the XM app is not on the one station I want to listen to.

I would rather have a truck minus all the Body control Modules and other electronic B.S. than one that crap doesn't work on half the time.

Oh and yes put a battery with large enough capacity that isn't continuously telling me that it is shutting down to conserve battery.

There also should be a time limit for automakers to devise solutions to the parts that are recalled. Since they choose to buy foreign-made junk parts, the customer suffers. (e.g. wiper motor, rear axle bolts, fuel pump, etc)

This vehicle has about 17,000 miles on it. It will be my last FORD product!

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 design, versus shipping it out the door with an expectation of fixing it with an OTA download.

This phenomena is common in the auto industry (not to make this political, but IMHO Tesla is the worst offender here). The concept of Over the Air Updates was intended to fix problems that were revealed well after the product had been released or to add new features and feature upgrades.

It didn't take product manager, who are under intense pressure from corporate bean counters, to "shoot the engineers and ship the product" to realize that they could do just that ... cut corners in the design and design validation stages and plan to "fix it later".

In my industry, for years the long pole in the tent was hardware design since design validation is an expensive and time consuming process. But over time, us hardware architects and designers, facing constant pressure to git 'er done, began including more and more programmable components, and to rely more and more heavily on the software to fix it later.

Same is true about "features" that most of us believe should be automatically included in an expensive truck. The fact is that the bean counters take a hard nosed look at the incremental cost, literally right down to the penny) of each and every feature and weigh that against the number of units of sales they gain or lose and make a decision accordingly. These guys (the car companies) have been at this a loooong time and are pretty good at guestimating their markets.

For example, in my former industry (Intel), when a new product was being specified, the product development teams had to justify each and every square micron of silicon area. If it didn't increase market penetration, the feature simply didn't get included. We're talking micropennies of cost, but when you're shipping hundreds of millions of the things, it all adds up.

Anyway, if you are hoping to escape this phenomena by fleeing to say, GM, or RAM, or Tundra, my guess is that you are likely to end up disappointed. The fact is that this is a reality of today's economics. Sad and pathetic though that may be.

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