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This isn't quite how I experience it. I have no door chime (because I haven't done the recall update), but the car does honk at me. Steps to reproduce. 1) Key in pocket, start car normally. 2) Drive car.* 3) Put car in park, but leave car running. 4) Get out of car (key still in pocket)...

I absolutely think this feature is necessary, and it's not for trying to manage the battery health. Ford's engineers have already taken care of that. I live up a large hill, over 1000 feet above the valley where most people live and work. The first 6 miles of my morning commute are entirely...

FYI, Both of these are standard features on the OpenEVSE Plus v2 board. It will automatically detect 120/240V, and you can use any button (i.e. momentary switch) to toggle through the menu and select the amperage you want advertise. No customization needed! WP

You have just described what OpenEVSE already does. I built one of these units and can adjust the pilot signal to whatever my outlet is rated for. With a few pigtail adapters I can take any outlet 110V or 220V from 6A to 30A and charge my car. This is exactly what the J1772 spec is designed...

Well it wasn't broken when I posted it 2 months ago. :-) It was a diagram of the car showing all the subsystems with brief descriptions of each. There may be a newer one out there if you search for it. EDIT: Here's a copy that still exists. WP

Nope. Climate system was off entirely. I did have the door open in an effort to make sure the car stayed "awake" during the update, so both interior overhead lights were on the entire time. I'd imagine they draw about 10watts each, max. Nowhere near what I saw consumed, so that doesn't...

My 3.5.1 update definitely involved updating other components (via the OBDII interface) including the power control unit and engine control unit. I did the update last night and it was painless, although it did take quite some time. This was typical Microsoft update stuff, lots of reboots...

My photo was white-balanced and calibrated using an ICC profile so it should be very accurate, and indeed it looks correct to my eyes on my ICC profiled and calibrated monitor. Having said that, your mileage may vary, depending on the accuracy of your monitor in re-creating the image. Not all...

For my 3 yr / 31.5k mile lease, I plan on changing the wiper blades. That's it. Don'tcha love EVs? WP

Still not working for me at of ~11:30AM EDT. If anyone's talked to Ford and been able to get anything *useful* out of them re: this, please post it for the rest of us. WP

Actually we do know quite a bit about this, but still don't have a complete understanding. If you take the electrical diagrams from the modifier's guide and combine them with the overall system description, we can learn very well how much current each system draws. What we don't know is the...

I posted on this here. WP

This is covered in the manual too. Page 258 (of the PDF version) says: These issues get covered a lot. We need a FAQ sticky thread for items like this. WP

I don't find this entirely strange. 120V is moving a relatively small amount of current (12A) through the battery, so there isn't nearly as much heat generated by this as opposed to when you're driving and drawing much more. Also, you were at a very low state of charge so the internal...

The VIN decoder has been posted here before. It's located here. And gives you results like this: VIN: [your VIN number] World Manufacturer Identifier - 1st, 2nd, 3rd Positions VIN Code: 1FA Assembly Country: United States Make: Ford Body Style: Hatchback...