Add physical HVAC control unit alongside 15"

[Firn]

Thanks everyone for the feedback. One of my other main gripes is how slow the Infotainment system is. It takes 20 or seconds to become usable after booting up, so when it's freezing cold or scorching hot and you're dying to interact with the HVAC... you gotta wait for this dumb system to boot up. And if I'm using wireless Android auto, it adds probably another 15 seconds and the commands will be all glitchy until everything is fully booted up. The Ford mobile app to change climate settings is painfully slower though - I gave up on it.

If anybody comes up with a solution to add some sort of physical knobs/buttons, or how to re-map the few existing buttons we have, please let me know!

Fwiw your truck has automatic climate controls, you should not need to do anything with thr HVAC. The hvac system will start doing what it needs to as soon as it can. Since the hvac module is separate I don't think it will start running heat or ac sooner or later than a truck with physical controls.

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[invertedspear]

Fwiw your truck has automatic climate controls

I really dislike the auto controls. Feels like it's using both heat and AC simultaneously, which has to be terrible for the battery. It's also trying to maintain the cabin temps by changing the temp of what's coming out of the vents, which again, I dislike the feel of. I'm probably in the minority, but I want to control the temp of the air coming from the vents, not have the car try to get the right temp on a thermometer hidden somewhere in the cab.

 

[Firn]

I really dislike the auto controls. Feels like it's using both heat and AC simultaneously, which has to be terrible for the battery. It's also trying to maintain the cabin temps by changing the temp of what's coming out of the vents, which again, I dislike the feel of. I'm probably in the minority, but I want to control the temp of the air coming from the vents, not have the car try to get the right temp on a thermometer hidden somewhere in the cab.

As for the first point it won't needlessly use heat and ac together. It will use the AC to reduce fogging, but cars have done that for 50 years now.

Personal preference is just that, nothing wrong with it. That said, having had quite a few cars with auto hvac this one is pretty darn good. Gove it a chance, it works just like your house does. Set it and ignore it.

 

[jetfixr1]

Thats the one item I can say I dont like about the truck, I do wish the HVAC controls were physical. My reasoning is not because its digital, but rather Ford puts ALOT of trust on that display screen. Anything goes wrong, and you lose control of it.

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