F150 Lightning FORscan thread

[ChippewaBarr]

I did this yesterday. First you need the dealer to update your BCM module. This alone will turn on WAL. Then to enable on/off buttons in Sync, you either need the latest APIM update or you can go in FORScan and make this change in the APIM:
7D0-09-05 xxxx Cxxx xx-- (see note)
(or you can use Easy Mode on the APIM, and enable Walk Away Lock and Walk Away Lock Feedback)

You can make the APIM changes now and the sliders will show up under Locks in Settings - but they won't do anything until the BCM is updated.

Note: Changing the 5th byte of 7D0-09-05 to "8" enables the WAL on/off slider and changing to "C" enables both the WAL on/off slider and the Feedback on/off slider (horn honk). You will want both sliders.

Ah dang, I should have been more clear - I was talking about the camera activation on blinker.

But thanks for this also, I will likely do it too when/if I get the BCM updated. Is the BCM update part of any CSP or anything? I don't suppose I can go in and just ask for it lol. I had the High Voltage Battery (23B57) update done at the dealer a while back.

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[rugedraw]

Tried it and it works! I used instructions from Mach-E forum:

783-01-01 xxXx xx - Add 1 to X  (this is DSP As Built)
7D0-01-01 xxxX xxxx xx - Add 8 to X  (this is APIM As Built)

On my truck for 783-01-01, it was a 0 so I made it 1.
For 7D0-01-01, it was an 1, so I made it a 9.
So just like you said for the 2024 ICE. I'm not an audiophile so didn't test it. For just radio, I couldn't tell a difference.

@vandy1981 : can you add this to your first post?

Sweet! Now if we can get someone with the 12" screen to try this and confirm it works there, too? Trying to figure out why this doesn't work on the ICE trucks; at least not this easily. Seems like only the EV's are taking this well.

 

[bmwhitetx]

Sweet! Now if we can get someone with the 12" screen to try this and confirm it works there, too? Trying to figure out why this doesn't work on the ICE trucks; at least not this easily. Seems like only the EV's are taking this well.

Unfortunately, I don't think this applies to the 12" screens. The B&O sound system (i.e., DSP) is only on the 22-23 Lariat and up and the '24 Flash and up. All have 15" screens. I would think the Beosonic screen requires the B&O sound system.

 

[Firn]

Just looked and no "DSP" module on my Pro (not exactly a big surprise)


On other notes...

Just spent a crap ton of time seeing if I could get lane centering to work without adaptive cruise and it was a big fat failure.

I do now get the "keep hands on wheel" alert though, so progress? Lol. I did realize that I had not enabled the menu in the apim so it quite literally might have just not been turned on. I'll try again tomorrow since I need to make all the changes by hand

 

[rugedraw]

Unfortunately, I don't think this applies to the 12" screens. The B&O sound system (i.e., DSP) is only on the 22-23 Lariat and up and the '24 Flash and up. All have 15" screens. I would think the Beosonic screen requires the B&O sound system.

Did not know that. Thanks.

 

[GDN]

Tried it and it works! I used instructions from Mach-E forum:

783-01-01 xxXx xx - Add 1 to X  (this is DSP As Built)
7D0-01-01 xxxX xxxx xx - Add 8 to X  (this is APIM As Built)

On my truck for 783-01-01, it was a 0 so I made it 1.
For 7D0-01-01, it was an 1, so I made it a 9.
So just like you said for the 2024 ICE. I'm not an audiophile so didn't test it. For just radio, I couldn't tell a difference.

@vandy1981 : can you add this to your first post?

Wow - that is some interesting sorcery. Who knew it existed and why does Ford hold back stuff like this. It likely isn't worth the time it takes to enable it, but they've invested trying to put something together, why not make it available. They want to add no extra value.

 

[astrand1]

Tried it and it works! I used instructions from Mach-E forum:

783-01-01 xxXx xx - Add 1 to X  (this is DSP As Built)
7D0-01-01 xxxX xxxx xx - Add 8 to X  (this is APIM As Built)

On my truck for 783-01-01, it was a 0 so I made it 1.
For 7D0-01-01, it was an 1, so I made it a 9.
So just like you said for the 2024 ICE. I'm not an audiophile so didn't test it. For just radio, I couldn't tell a difference.

@vandy1981 : can you add this to your first post?

I’ll have to try this tomorrow. See if I can hear any difference.

 

[flyin525]

I’ll have to try this tomorrow. See if I can hear any difference.

I couldnt tell a difference, it all sounded the same no matter what I chose or messed with,

 

[bmwhitetx]

I couldnt tell a difference, it all sounded the same no matter what I chose or messed with,

In reading the posts on the Mach-E forum, it appears to only really be noticeable with certain file types that one would play off a USB drive.

Here is the Ford PR on the tech:
https://media.ford.com/content/ford...ic-put-perfect-sound-at-your-fingertips-.html

 

[astrand1]

Well it says this. So maybe even though we can “enable it” it’s not really doing anything because we are missing something else.

 

[21st Century Truck]

There is only one video where the owner believes his light bar is brighter. I don't think there is much more confirmation or belief that this adjustment is really working. It works for the DRL's on an ICE truck, so it was attempted, but not sure you'll really get anything out of it.

I changed my DRL setting from the factory 10% to 75%. I can confirm the DRL lamps are much brighter in daytime. Counterintuitively, by indirect observation these same DRLs might now be a bit too bright at night, and work against the effect of the glare-free headlights when seen by opposing traffic.

Having read thru the past 39 pages of this fascinating very useful thread, and focusing only on the DRL brightness adjustment issue, I now think that there might be two understandings of what the DRLs actually are on our Lightning trucks (my truck = 2023 XLT ER Option 312A).

As I understand things, the DRLs on my Lightning (LED matrix headlights) are the small rectangular lights in between the top and the bottom LED headlight. This pair of lights is now much brighter after the adjustment from 10% to 75%.

Of course, the truck has to be in DRIVE for this small pair of headlights to be lit up. I tested their increased brightness by checking my frontal reflection in plate glass storefront windows in daylight at a local car dealership.

As I read the comments on adjusting DRLs here, I see that some members understand our DRL to be the Lightning's big unibrow lightbar across the front. Although I might be wrong here, IMHO the unibrow lightbar is not the "DRL". My factual proof which supports this is the observed increased brightness of those two central small headlights on my truck after "DRL adjustment".

Matter of fact, these are now so bright (and also appear to be on whether it's day or night) that they work counter to the glare-free headlights I turned on. I got several flashing headlights tonight from approaching cars on a dark winding country road... this is after I adjusted these DRLs to 75% brightness in the past 24 hours. Meaning, when the two DRLs are too bright at night, they might well appear as high beams to oncoming traffic, even though the main headlights "dip" when their glare-free function sees the same oncoming traffic... so I might turn the DRL setting down to 50% to mitigate this.

 

[Scorpio3d]

Well it says this. So maybe even though we can “enable it” it’s not really doing anything because we are missing something else.

Yes but…
The article is dated April 7, 2021 so I would assume that this would have been prior to the existence of the Lightning?
Regardless, that is a pretty cool looking screen-LOL

 

[GDN]

I changed my DRL setting from the factory 10% to 75%. I can confirm the DRL lamps are much brighter in daytime. Counterintuitively, by indirect observation these same DRLs might now be a bit too bright at night, and work against the effect of the glare-free headlights when seen by opposing traffic.

Having read thru the past 39 pages of this fascinating very useful thread, and focusing only on the DRL brightness adjustment issue, I now think that there might be two understandings of what the DRLs actually are on our Lightning trucks (my truck = 2023 XLT ER Option 312A).

As I understand things, the DRLs on my Lightning (LED matrix headlights) are the small rectangular lights in between the top and the bottom LED headlight. This pair of lights is now much brighter after the adjustment from 10% to 75%.

Of course, the truck has to be in DRIVE for this small pair of headlights to be lit up. I tested their increased brightness by checking my frontal reflection in plate glass storefront windows in daylight at a local car dealership.

As I read the comments on adjusting DRLs here, I see that some members understand our DRL to be the Lightning's big unibrow lightbar across the front. Although I might be wrong here, IMHO the unibrow lightbar is not the "DRL". My factual proof which supports this is the observed increased brightness of those two central small headlights on my truck after "DRL adjustment".

Matter of fact, these are now so bright (and also appear to be on whether it's day or night) that they work counter to the glare-free headlights I turned on. I got several flashing headlights tonight from approaching cars on a dark winding country road... this is after I adjusted these DRLs to 75% brightness in the past 24 hours. Meaning, when the two DRLs are too bright at night, they might well appear as high beams to oncoming traffic, even though the main headlights "dip" when their glare-free function sees the same oncoming traffic... so I might turn the DRL setting down to 50% to mitigate this.

You may be right about something in the headlight itself changing brightness, but none of the threads or conversations nor even your reply to me talk about those. We are all trying to make the lighter brighter, which we've learned enough about is now likely impossible. Each half of the light bar gets its power from the headlight on that side of the truck. If you don't have a light bar and add it, there is a thread that notes what you have to do to turn the power on for it. Doesn't seem any way to adjust that power.

Could care less about adjusting any other light on the truck, but no one has ever capture picture of nor shared what you have, at least that I recall.

 

[Firn]

For the light bar I might suggest checking out the Lighting Driver Control Module LDCM-A/B module. There are a LOT of settings in there and some of them look darn cool.

 

[21st Century Truck]

You may be right about something in the headlight itself changing brightness, but none of the threads or conversations nor even your reply to me talk about those. We are all trying to make the lighter brighter, which we've learned enough about is now likely impossible. Each half of the light bar gets its power from the headlight on that side of the truck. If you don't have a light bar and add it, there is a thread that notes what you have to do to turn the power on for it. Doesn't seem any way to adjust that power.

Could care less about adjusting any other light on the truck, but no one has ever capture picture of nor shared what you have, at least that I recall.

Actually, I think the issue I am writing about is "adjusting the Daytime Running Lights" which are a safety / visibility item. If the DRL is not the unibrow light, then I in turn do not care about how bright the unibrow can be made. I understand that some others are focused on how bright the Lightning's unibrow can be.

If the DRL on our Lightnings = the small central rectangles in our headlights, then It can definitely be done.

If this be so, the unibrow light bar is not the DRL and that is not what "DRL intensity adjustment" does.

Therefore, the unibrow intensity seems a separate issue from Daytime Running Lights intensity.

Perhaps the confusion stems from using the same function name, i.e. "Daytime Running Lights" for two separate elements on the front of our Lightnings.

Perhaps our hive mind can find some hard-to-find Ford Corporate picture or written description of the Lightning's (not the ICE F150's) official Daytime Running Lights. I couldn't locate one in the PDF Owner's Manual, not that I tried for long.

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