GEN 2 2018 SCrew: Early Experience

[jaz13]

jaz, there is a simple mod on you tube to enable the mirror LEDs to stay on above 5mph. Don't have the link handy, but did this in about 20 mins and they work all the time now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFcJvDikVxY

try this...

Looks easy enough! Now I need to find a similar fix for the forward camera.

 

[rtmozingo]

No, actually, I wont. Start/stop not as intrusive as I expected it to be, just pointless; no meaningful benefits plus additional unnecessary wear & tear, complexity.

If it didn't make noticeable changes to fuel economy (spoiler alert: it does, I can maintain 17 mpg in stop and go traffic) they wouldn't add it. As for added wear and tear, the starting components are all beefed up to handle the load. In fact, the entire circuitry is different and improved.

It defaults to on because in order for it to count for EPA standards it must be the default setting once the truck is on. If you could default it to off, then Ford couldn't take credit for it in the estimates.