airbusguy

Check your math.

I had the first one replaced under warranty. I immediately placed a strip of black electricians tape on - just about the width of the frame - and it has worked great ever since. Not very noticeable either.

Or turn the heater on hottest temperature.

Here's an update to the transmission failures thread. I have 2013 FFH. I winter in AZ from BC Canada. I tow the vehicle as per the RV towing procedure in the manual and have towed it back and forth 5 seasons now. The car has 65000 miles on it. The car started to make the knife sharpener noise while here down south and I took it AutoNation Ford in Scottsdale last week. The overzealous tech that reported the noise to the Ford hot line also told them I had a tow kit on the car. Ford cut and pasted the page from the manual that dealt with emergency towing, not bothering to turn to the next page that specifies the Ford procedure for being towed by an RV. They were trying to imply I had abused the car by towing it. They were trying to weasel out of warranty coverage because I didn't follow the emergency procedure - max 35mph for 50 miles?. The next section has the RV procedure - start ICE once before towing daily, run for 1 minute, max 70 mph. The 2018 manual now includes start once every 6 hours or less. The latest SB from Ford gets the dealer to tear down the tranny and the result of the inspection will either be replace just bearings or whole transmission. Still not 100% positive it will be warranty. Oh well, always wanted to learn about small claims court back home in Canada. Pretty hard to deny 5 years of owners manuals instructions in a court of law. This was just an FYI for any other "toweds" that might have a similar experience.

He could have braked easily but one news source said watching a DVD prevented him from seeing the problem! I like the FFH's use of radar to sense approaching objects but it is annoying when it starts to brake for a cyclist on the shoulder - along with the collision alert!

One of the items in the transmission leak TSB is a an alignment. I don't have the invoice here but you can check the TSB work order. Ford pays for the alignment as the front end has to be disassembled and reassembled.

I replaced a forward "pan" last year. Car was still under warranty. Pan wasn't. Figured it was rodent damage at the park we were staying at last winter. Not as bad as the guy with the Chevy Duramax 1 ton that had $2500 chewing done to his engine compartment wires. This year he has an electric fence mat underneath. He wants a critter cam for Christmas lol.

For all those that want the 3.8 update but cannot get it from the owners website. I called Ford In Vehicle Technology today. Canadian number 1-800-565-3673 (Select #1 for English, #2 for French, and then select 3 > 1) . They are aware of the owner.com screwup (confidence inspiring) and you have 2 choices. Wait til they manually add it to each owners website - no time frame or get the dealer to do it FREE for up to 12 months after the release date, Oct2015. Inspite of their tie in with Android Auto, no word on when they will do the same thing for Android phones "OK Google" -same as Siri- for those of us from the darkside. Their explanation of the updates on 3.8 are basically what has been floating around. Improved connectivity, auto reconnection with paired devices, improved bluetooth capabilities, faster execution of commands, Siri eyes free and the one we all have been demanding, navigation in China - if you spend the money on a Chinese map!

They utilise different satellites in different orbits. Thats why the dropouts. In the mountains on Highway 1 near where I live in BC, there are spots up to 20 miles long I had no reception on my XM Hyundai where both my Ranger and HyTi excel. http://www.n2yo.com/whats-up/?c=33

Just a WAG but have you disabled the stability control system to see if that has an effect on the symptoms?

Testing

How about Applink for MFT??

I think the lack of a transmission pump is more to do with cooling than oil starvation - otherwise my transmission would have dropped out on the side of the road while towing?. 5100 miles and counting and fingers crossed!

+1 Couldn't have put it better!

The only way I can get altitude info is via bezel diagnostics - the old eject and next preset simultaneously. Even though I have metric units set the readout is in feet, and lat and long is in decimal degrees as opposed to the DMS on the "where am I screen" on MFT.

Gary I had the baseplates installed by Roadmaster at their factory. I was the guinea pig for a FFH with ACC - was a slightly different fit than a non ACC. I had them wire in a harness for the tailights. Unfortunately I don't know where they spliced or ran the wires or diodes. They work great though. You might get information from them or if you live in WA, they're in Vancouver WA and the rates are really reasonable.

Back on thread, while in the Scottsdale Ford dealer AutoNation, I was in the car with the Service Manager when the MFT started doing weird things, a good minute after the car was push buttoned off. It started to go into energy save mode -battery save- even though everything had been off. End result, they tested the 12volt - just as they stated they did less than 2 weeks ago and "found it good"- and replaced the 12volt under warranty They used a new part number that only popped up in the system about a month ago. BXT99RT4 I guess that throws the theory of no 12volt problems in FFH out the window. It might even solve my tow problem. It looks like a lot of systems are adversely affected by low voltage and cause really unexpected results. Still waiting for a tow fix from Ford - thanks to forum members we can do it ourselves - but that's not what I paid for when I purchased the car!

In conjunction with my dead car problem on my way south, I went to the Ford dealer in La Grande OR thinking it might just be the battery. According to their computer there was a new part number, so new he couldn't find a price for it , yet alone get one for 14 hours. While at AutoNation in Scottsdale yesterday, they replaced my 12v with the new part. This is the new number they used BXT99RT4 Maybe this will solve other owners' 12V problems.

That was a Douglas thing. I flew the DC10 for a number of years and it had the turb mode on the autopilot. Without a/p engaged the bus would maintain the attitude you had set - unless it exceeded preprogrammed parameters - ie roll into a steep bank, say 60 degrees, let go of the stick, and it would go back to 33 degrees while maintaining the same pitch. So it always was in a pitch/bank hold state. The inertial reference units were always in the loop, as were the air data computers unless emergency procedures dictated otherwise. Multiple failures would make life interesting. I can't believe how much I've forgotten in just 5 years.

Thanks GrySql

What I can't figure out is how to delete a ghost quote due to my fat fingers on my phone's keyboard :)

Alolder, thanks for the part number B Yup, retired off the 330/340 5 years ago and in every sim session we did at least one Direct Law exercise. C Should be TRWs=lots, Stupid pilots=0

lolder I'll keep that in mind if Ford can't resolve this successfully. Too late about RS, they filed for bankruptcy protection today.

Thanks for your suggestions. All these are pretty good solutions but A) The weather on the way was not conducive to solar charging at all. B) The rv alternator charges the house batteries , 550 AHs worth, and would have to have a separate system to avoid cooking the car battery C) In the first thread I unfortunatly hijacked, I bought a booster pack which uses so little power to start, it still hasn't drained enough to recharge itself. I've also become quite adept at using the manual key? C) This never happened last year - ever I'm just warning those who might want to tow this vehicle 4 down, it's not like the manual says now. On the bright side, Meagan FordService has elevated my concerns and applied a case number to them so maybe this can be resolved on the next appointment. All the dealership requires is a drive in fridge to duplicate the problem??

Easyrider That too is a possibility, but a tow dolly is more of a pain for me. Besides adding more weight to drag around, there is a space problem where we camp. I'd have to rotate my tires more frequently too lol. But getting back to my original premise, the car didn't require anything before it was "fixed".