Forscan, reprogramming ACM on 2015 Hybrid

[Bobo]

So I recently found 2gfusions.net. Last year, I installed an alpine head unit in the little cubby under the factory stereo in my 2015 Fusion Hybrid SE, thinking that I would be unable to add an amp to the factory head (I tried, using passive line out converters, and it sounded just terrible). Anyway, over at this other site, there was an article about it being possible to reprogram the ACM (audio control module I'm guessing?) to make the speakers output line-level instead of speaker-level.

This post mentions using something called Forscan, which I later found out is an unauthorized piece of software designed to basically be a reverse engineering of Ford's own IDS (two things I know NOTHING about).

The post goes into detail about how to reprogram the ACM using a compatible device to connect to the car's OBDII port (or whatever that's called). I DID buy an OBDII dongle last year, and it DOES have the little switch on it that allows it to read the MSCAN bus. But when I looked at the hex codes on my fusion hybrid, they did not match what the OP was saying I should see. I'm assuming the hybrid is a different beast and is programmed differently. Of course, over there, 99% of the people posting have non-hybrid fusions, so none of them are any help.

Has anyone over here ever heard of someone being able to "reprogram" their fusion hybrid to have line-level outputs from the factory stereo? I'd LOVE to have all the steering wheel controls and voice commands available to me and still have great sounding tunes!

BTW, here's the link to the thread over at 2gfusions that I was looking at. Again, FAIR WARNING, the numbers shown in this thread do NOT pertain to the hybrids apparently.

http://www.2gfusions.net/showthread.php?tid=3704

Edited April 16, 2019 by Bobo

[murphy]

I used the Windows version of Forscan to enable the DRLs in my 2013 Fusion Energi when my dealer refused to do it. That is the extent of my knowledge.