Please explain Forscan to an idiot

[SSuperDave]

Then you are older than the average!

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[AZ_Ryan]

I really wonder how you grew up and who taught you how to communicate with others. Are you reflecting on how others treated you in your childhood?

Can you also try to not be a dickhead for once? You act like the all knowledgeble one who knows everything, but you really have to tone down a bit since you made many false claims yourself and really had difficulties in acknowleding your own mistakes.

Really tired of people who think they can uplift themselves by putting others down.

Thats kinda rich coming from a guy who has a well known reputation of condescension and snarky posts toward other people here.

 

[ZXMustang]

Thats kinda rich coming from a guy who has a well known reputation of condescension and snarky posts toward other people here.

100%. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

 

[rugedraw]

FORScan is an awesome tool that every Ford owner should have. It is mostly known for being able to make configuration changes to enable and disable features, but it is also full of service procedures found in FDRS that allow you to troubleshoot and fix many issues. You can recalibrate the IPMA, camera(s), cruise control module, reset modules, pull & clear codes, run LIN procedures to initiate modules that get replaced, fix the speedometer if you put on different sized wheels/tires or swap gears in the rear end and so much more. With the right guidance and resources, it is a VERY powerful diagnostic and repair tool. The abillity to enable/disable features is a bonus.

 

[SSuperDave]

^^^ and it does things that FDRS will not do. The only issue I see with it that if you miss a digit on the numerical location, you can cause problems that are difficult to fix. We get about one vehicle a month towed in where this has happened.

 

[Neggytive]

I have not updated my snap on scanners in a year, and I need to do the one in FL because that is where the Mustang lives but the software revision I have in that machine does not have a lot of the 24 Mustang stuff in it

There are a lot of things you can change with a bi directional scanner if the option to do so is there, turn options on and off, make the windows go down with a push of the remote, and such

There is also a certain level of safety when using a scanner rather than changing lines of code.

I think once I start learning more about forscan I'd like to turn off the piped in noise they do thru the audio system and just have the radio be a radio.

TY for all the answers, I appreciate you taking the time to give me a Forscan 101 course.

 

[rugedraw]

^^^ and it does things that FDRS will not do. The only issue I see with it that if you miss a digit on the numerical location, you can cause problems that are difficult to fix. We get about one vehicle a month towed in where this has happened.

Changes you make to a module do not reflect on the server right away. It can take weeks for vehicle to sync up to the cloud. If you ever mess up the config and failed to make a back up first, you can always pull the ab file from Ford here and reflash the module back to what is was.

https://www.motorcraftservice.com/AsBuilt

 

[LouG]

When you're in the motor trade you do meet a lot of idiots. They pay to come to you as supplicants begging you to fix what they just f**ked.
i believe it's much worse since the dawn of the internet.

 

[SSuperDave]

We do see idiots at the dealer level, always have. Most of it is not idiocy, just people over estimating their ability to do something, and being embarrassed when they have to tow the car in and admit they've messed up. And yes, the internet makes it worse, especially when it comes to what's warrantable and what's not.
I'll do anything under warranty that I can justify, but I won't cheat Ford or the customer either one.

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