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9 hours ago, Bob Rosadini said:
Made appt at dealer. stay tuned
Hopefully they’ll get it squared away.
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6 hours ago, Bob Rosadini said:
Mine is on negative. I disconnected BMS from the lead-so it is disconnected from battery that is still connected and no change.
I don’t know if it’ll work on your generation of truck, but it’ll take a little while if it does. The problem on the 12th Gen trucks was that the BMS wasn’t allowing the charging system to sufficiently charge the battery (maybe because of short trips, I don’t remember), so it was legitimately turning the system off to save battery. After disconnecting the BMS, it took a few trips for the charging system to get the battery back up to full capacity, and that’s when the truck stopped turning everything off right after killing the ignition.
Also, on the 12th Gen trucks, there were sensors on both power leads from the battery. One was the BMS that was safe to unplug, but the other one had to stay connected. I’ve long forgotten what the “other one” was, if I ever knew at all.
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1 hour ago, akirby said:
It’s on the positive lead. Did it charge better or just get rid of the error message?It’s not so much an error message as a status notification. Disconnecting the sensor caused the system to stop the “optimized” charging and just go back to charging all the time, which caused the cutoff to stop happening so quickly after killing the ignition. It still happens, but only after 20 minutes or so.
I was concerned that it might shorten the battery life, but considering that my truck is coming up on 12 years old and is on its second battery, it would appear that the short cutoff was the only “casualty.”
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3 hours ago, Joe771476 said:
So one of the Ryobi electric tractors had a shiny metal button on the dash. Upon closer inspection it was for.......wait for it.........cruise control!!!!
I haven’t spent much time on hydrostats, but every geared tractor I’ve ever driven has had “cruise control”—it’s called a hand throttle and a governor.
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23 hours ago, akirby said:
might just not charge enough while driving
The solution for this on the 12th Gen F-150 was to unplug the Battery Monitoring System sensor on one of the leads to the battery (I think it’s on the negative lead, but it has been a long time since I yanked it). The BMS is supposed to make charging more efficient, but all it seemed to do was cause it to charge insufficiently.
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tl;dr: Lawsuit claims that the Mach-E doors are dangerous as designed because there’s no manual/mechanical release.
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11 hours ago, Sherminator98 said:
Ford stock is worth next to nothing because the Ford family owns a controlling interest. There is no way their stock goes as high as GM or Toyota because of that.
Yep. We’ve discussed this ad nauseum over the years, but Ford’s stock price will always lag because of their two-tiered stock structure where the Ford family controls the voting stock. That keeps out big investors, like institutional investors, because they can’t buy any control over the company—no matter how much Ford common stock you buy, you don’t get any say in how the company is run.
On the minus side it keeps the stock lower in price, but on the plus side it keeps the likes of Carl Icahn and other activist investors away.
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E10/87 was $2.51/gal when I filled up on Monday evening.
The winter storm that hit later that night sure did wonders for my gas expenditures this week.
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3 hours ago, Captainp4 said:
This seems like who is currently suing me/my company, obvious insurance fraud case and my lawyers are dumbfounded that anyone would pick up the case. Hoping it doesn't make it to court to waste more of my time on it, but at least it's only 30k and not 2.5B 🤣 Won't go into any more detail with it being an open case, but this video made me laugh about it and this thread made me realize it could be way worse.You ought to look up Steve Lehto’s “Crazy Town” miniseries on his YouTube channel. Lehto had been the successful plaintiff’s attorney in a civil case, and the defendant later tried to sue him to recover what he’d lost. Despite the fact that the suit was frivolous and there was no legal way for him to recover what he sought, he still found an attorney dumb enough to file it.
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56 minutes ago, 7Mary3 said:
The cab of the 2017 Super Duty is substantially stronger than the 1999-2016 cab despite it being manufactured out of aluminum.
IIRC, that’s when the Super Duty started sharing the F-150’s cab structure, which had been meeting rollover and crash protection standards since 2009.
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12 hours ago, tbone said:
So let me get this straight, the current styling is going to be around until mid 2028, so that means you’re looking at the same truck for a total of 4.5 years from the refresh. I’m sorry, that is a terrible fucking decision,
You realize that the 12th Gen F-150 was, style-wise, basically unchanged for six model years (2009-2014), right? It didn’t exactly hurt its sales any.
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1 hour ago, akirby said:
Boeing shit the bed when they merged with McConnell Douglas and the MD executives took over and started slashing costs with no regard to quality or safety just so they could pump and dump the stock.Mulally did nothing like this.
One aerospace commentator I heard recently said he had been hopeful that Boeing would infuse McDonnell-Douglas with some needed sanity when they merged, but he was horrified to see M-D infecting Boeing with their insanity instead.
Of course, when I saw the thread title, I was wondering if Ford actually had enough of a problem with whistleblowers to start seeing them die in mysterious plan crashes…
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9 hours ago, Sherminator98 said:
Why does a company have to plan on supporting a vehicle longer then 10 years? That is the law. It make no sense financially for a company to do so.
If you mean the “law” that they have to provide parts for ten years, that’s an urban legend, not a law.
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14 hours ago, Joe771476 said:
If either figure is true, Ford is doing something terribly wrong!
There’s more than just light bulbs in those taillight assemblies these days. They also have sensors (e.g, BLIS), and some have indicators to tell you what your payload/tongue weight is.
I’m guessing that those figures are all-in costs, though, which probably includes bodywork and harness replacement costs—it’s not like your local tweeker is going to take the time to unplug a connector when he can just cut the harness.
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8 minutes ago, jpd80 said:
What about a big ass V12 version of the Godzilla with say, 10 or 11 litres capacity to give 750-800 lb ft?
Aren’t V-12s normally 60-degree Vs? If so, it wouldn’t make sense to base it on a 90-degree V8; you’d want to build it off something that’s already 60-degrees, like the 35EB.
Also, it seems to me that the big V8s are already pretty well stuffed into the engine compartments of the Super Duties, so adding four extra cylinders to the length might present fitment problems.
‘Tis an interesting idea, though…
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14 hours ago, rmc523 said:
That makes sense - I was referring more to the frame, etc. They're not going to wildly recreate all of that just because it's an EREV - they're going to use it as a starting point and modify from there.
Look how long it took them to go to a boxed frame under the Super Duties, and even then, it’s only boxed under the nose/cab because so many upfitters build on those C-channel frames. If they wildly recreate the EREV truck, they’ll completely cut it off from that segment of the market, which Ford obviously sees as consequential.
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I had to run down to Norman this afternoon, so I filled up before heading back. $2.46/gal for E10/87.
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I paid $2.50/gal for E10/87 at the east side Sam’s in Tulsa this evening.
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6 hours ago, Rick73 said:
Perhaps an aluminum 6.8L V8 would make sense on lighter-duty vehicles if emissions and fuel-economy regulations are relaxed enough by current administration.
I wouldn’t expect the auto manufacturers to change course based on what this administration does, at least as far as CAFE targets go. Unless Congress acts, anything one administration does can be undone by the next, so they pretty much have to assume that current targets would come back if this administration alters them.
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4 hours ago, Rick73 said:
IMO a hybrid SD could attract buyers who drive mostly in cities/traffic, and rarely tow large trailers at highway speeds for long distances. It won’t be for everyone, but if done right I’d bet demand is there.
I thought all along that this was the killer application for the Baby Godzilla. With the hybrid powertrain, it would tow like a freight train in town, plus you could use it to power the job site when you get there.
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6 hours ago, Captainp4 said:
Would it make sense to expand cd6 with a 'halo' Continental
I think there’s a market there, but it’s probably not big enough to justify the investment. If it had been, we’d probably still have the last iteration of the Conti in the stable, so I don’t see them going back to it.
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5 hours ago, jpd80 said:
Not even close.
The two main profit earners for Ford just before Nasser left was F Series and Bronco, everything else was either break even or small profit.
Even with consolidating Panther production in Canada with cheaper Labor costs, the writing was on the wall. Ford could skip designing next Gen Panthers and RWD Explorer simply by rebranding the FWD/AWD D3s as Taurus and Explorer as their replacements.
Yeah, the word from Ford insiders was that DEW-98’s fate was sealed as soon as the LS was slated for assembly at Wixom, because it had no chance of becoming profitable. IIRC, Wixom was Ford’s highest rated plant in the US when it came to product quality, but I guess it was just a super expensive plant to run.
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3 hours ago, Sherminator98 said:
You’re actually wrong about that-the Panther was counted as an imported car to the US to get around CAFE.
I’m not wrong. The statement about the Escort being a CAFE offset for the Crown Vic was true when it was reported, and that was the joke at the time.
Ford to inject up to $4.76 billion into its German business
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Make it up in volume.