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I'll have to have them check everything mentioned here when I take it back in. I'm not sure if I'm imagining this or not, but it seemed to me that initially after the recharge, when I started the vehicle with just the blower going (not A/C on), I could detect a faint scent of refrigerant coming...

I have a copy of a notice to dealers from Ford Canada on April 20 this year on the Customer Satisfaction Program 21B09 and it has the following text: NOTE for Focus Electric Owners Only: Certain charge scheduling functionality (Preferred Charge Times) through the FordPass App is now available...

I was wondering just what needed updating. When I was at a dealer for servicing and explained I needed an update for the Value Charging/Go Time problem, they immediately said they would check the Sync version. When I asked if it was Sync or something else, they were convinced that Sync was the...

My FFE says "SYNC 3, Software Version: 3.0 Build 20204_PRODUCT". owner.ford.com tells me it is up to date and so does a dealership I checked with. Yet, I still don't have Value Charging or Go Times working which stopped when I got the 4G modem installed in March 2022. The estimate in the dash...

Took it into dealership and after recharging with dye, none is showing up. They have a sniffing unit that isn't detecting refrigerant either. The technician said one possible leak that can't easily be seen that happens maybe 15% of the time is with the condenser. The easiest way to look for...

The next day, I found the pressures to be about 100 kPa lower, and the ambient temperature was about 10 degrees higher, so it didn't look good. The second day, the resting pressure was low enough that the compressor wouldn't turn on, so I booked an appointment to have it looked at to find and...

I figured that would be the case, even though it has been over four decades since high-school chemistry and physics. :lol: For each day, I'm recording: Ambient temperature, High and Low pressure before starting A/C, and High and Low pressure after running A/C for three minutes.

I picked up a recharge/sealant kit today. It came with a 4 oz canister of refrigerant with leak sealer and another 8 oz canister of just refrigerant. After the 4 oz can, it took about a third to a half of the larger can to bring it up to the proper pressure. I found when running, the high...

Thanks for the explanation - the more I look at this, the more I'm inclined to agree it is likely low refrigerant. I'm thinking of recharging it myself - I can get a recharge kit by AC Pro that has the R-1234YF refrigerant that my 2017 FFE uses. It also contains a leak sealer which would be...

So just as the weather is finally getting warmer, I went out yesterday on a short (1-1.5 hour away) road trip. It wasn't super hot (about 24C/75F), but I thought using the A/C with windows shut would be better for range and no A/C with the drag of open windows. The air blowing was just not...

I never could adjust the Value Charge and Go Times through the app - not even with the old MyFord app. When the modem got replaced, I noticed when I got home that the display in the dash said it was in Value Charge mode and would start at 11:00 pm but finish at 11:01 - and it should have taken...

What does "Use IDS level 128 or higher is now required to address various programming issues encountered" mean? I had the modem upgrade done in March 2022 and ever since then I have not been able to use Value Charging or Go Times, plus the estimated "time to full charge" has been a bogus value...

It took three weeks, but it finally cleared on it's own. No reason why it remained nor why it disappeared. Just an annoying feature of FordPass.

Does anyone know how to clear a no longer existing alert in FordPass? Almost two weeks ago I got a low tire pressure alert when my wife was out with the FFE. She added air to the tires and the dash light cleared, but the FordPass alert remained. After she was home I checked the pressure on all...

Glad it helped with understanding. I never thought the train geek side of me would translate to an EV issue. 😉

Long before we routinely had electric cars, the railway industry started using motors to move trains in diesel-electric locomotives. They used a diesel prime mover to generate electricity used to operate the traction motors. It was found that motors have speed range that they can safely operate...

Sometime today (03-Feb-2023), the Oil Change Required alert disappeared from FordPass. It was still being displayed this morning, but by 5 pm it was gone. We'll see if it ever returns again. Now if I can only get the OTA update to fix value charging and go times.

As I live just outside of Toronto, winter tires are a good thing, not only for better traction in slow, but for better traction on dry pavement colder than 7C (about 45F). My FFE came with winter tires when I received it in November 2017, but since that time, I have done ten changes between the...

I just got this alert about a week ago, and I can't find a way to dismiss or delete it. I wrote about it in the "Oil Change Required Alert in FordPass" thread.

LOL - except for the fact that everything under the hood is almost as clean as the day I got the vehicle, it just might be an ICE, but after 127,000 km (79,000 miles) it's gone a long way on the dealer's initial fill up! I don't recall seeing that in the menus, but I'll check again. It was...