MattM
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Traveling across Illinois on I74 I have been using a nav map function that when selected showed upcoming exits and which ones have gas, food, coffee or lodging, as well as showing upcoming rest stops and the distance to them. It was very helpful for planing gas stops since we are towing 7000 lbs. After a rest stop break the symbol to access that function disappeared off the map display. There is nothing in the settings that appears to control this function. Has anyone else used this and is it something Ford decided to delete without telling anyone? I know there are other ways to find upcoming gas and rest stops but seeing a list by upcoming exit and the distance was extremely useful.
Gripe two, about every minute or so a chime would ding and a symbol would appear on my route shows a "weigh restriction". Upon getting to that point there was nothing there. So for several hours this damn chime kept sounding and alert for nothing. Why would weight restrictions even be something an F150 would be concernd with on any major highway, even pulling a trailer. I am more worried about height restrictions on back roads but here again the one warning got about height turned out to be for an old railroad bridge that looked like it had been gone for years and would not have affected the hight set up for my trailer. Anoying and not useful.
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While I'm sharing, there was a nav function in my old 2013 F150 XLT that let me set the range from about .5miles to 100. I it was helpful to see what towns were coming up and would stay up until you changed the range. I know on the new trucks you can zoom in or out by "pinching" the screen but the range does stay there and reverts back to close range. Sometimes "New" isn't better.
Gripe two, about every minute or so a chime would ding and a symbol would appear on my route shows a "weigh restriction". Upon getting to that point there was nothing there. So for several hours this damn chime kept sounding and alert for nothing. Why would weight restrictions even be something an F150 would be concernd with on any major highway, even pulling a trailer. I am more worried about height restrictions on back roads but here again the one warning got about height turned out to be for an old railroad bridge that looked like it had been gone for years and would not have affected the hight set up for my trailer. Anoying and not useful.
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While I'm sharing, there was a nav function in my old 2013 F150 XLT that let me set the range from about .5miles to 100. I it was helpful to see what towns were coming up and would stay up until you changed the range. I know on the new trucks you can zoom in or out by "pinching" the screen but the range does stay there and reverts back to close range. Sometimes "New" isn't better.
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