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Let's define the meaning of the word "hacking" so that we understand and maybe even agree on its use here. Often, common usage of words, even such words which have a precise definition in professional usage, tends to both expand and to make fuzzy the intended meaning of the word. Then, people...

"Rust on brake rotors" is laughable. The better quality disc brake rotors have a higher iron content, for all kinds of thermal and heat dissipation reasons. Such higher quality rotors therefore do get a rust patina (slight surface rust). The oh-so-shiny chrome / stainless steel looking rotors...

...or perhaps, keeping the production line alive, even if barely ticking over preserves options for the business (people, facility, technicians, engineers, etc.). We shall see.

I love my truck. Mileage = just over 110 thousand miles. Many long road trips, towing, in all seasons and all across North America. Very few problems, none serious. This truck might well be a 10+-year vehicle for me... maybe longer. I see no reason to sell or trade... not even if / when...

We'll be on the lookout for an electric Silverado with Arizona plates on our next Newfoundland Canada trip!

My XLT has the permanent fixed Ford running boards. One lesson ( a "good" lesson haha) I learned with these running boards -- they actually protected my aluminum truck body without any damage to the running board. HOW: I was rounding a 90 degree turn into an airport cell phone lot a year+ ago...

It's hard to go wrong with Michelin Defenders.

Nice mileage Jeff! See You and Your Lightning on the open road!

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So I got the 6.14.0 app update overnight. I looked at it... and lo and behold, under VEHICLE/SOFTWARE UPDATES/AUTOMATIC UPDATES, the app (not/not the truck's Sync APIM) was set to OFF / "the vehicle will not receive any updates". Of course I immediately moved the slider selector to ON // 6...

Yes, we did. Climbing the long steep incline on the Interstate just outside of Wall, South Dakota. The charging stations were right on the top edge of the locally famous pretty high cliff (hence the town's name of "Wall"). I had hot-shoed the Lightning earlier that day for a good bit...

I like this idea... it's after all all about the axle weight of vehicles which use public roads, to pay their share. Additionally, this avoids the "in-state" vice "out-of-state" fairness of road use issues... some I'm sure never drive out of their state, while our Lightning for example has...

Folks, I just saw this in the paper (the Washington Post) today. Lead paragraph is quoted below. "The House Transportation Committee advanced a measure last week that would slap EV owners with what would become an annual $150 flat fee. Plug-in hybrids would wind up paying $50 a year. States...

A fob = an old-school, fail-safe method. In the pocket, in a Faraday bag, somewhere... anywhere on the truck. "Have fob, no problems".

A great EV tech is worth just so much!

For what it's worth: - I have found over many miles in all kinds of weather that the rear camera lens does get dirty quickly, and especially on snowy or rainy days. It might have something to do with the rolling air turbulence right behind the tailgate which will transport crud onto the rear...

Some years ago Sonny Boy and I went up Pike's Peak in Colorado in his former 2013 Ford Fusion Energi, a plug-in hybrid. On the way back down, the IPC showed a traction battery range of 36 miles, which greatly excited Sonny Boy. That fantastic range was of course an impossibility, as that car...

I'm a big Dometic fan.

Not a Ford tech nor a Dealership Advisor but just a customer like so many here... I have switched dealerships in the past when I sensed "games". Life has attuned my spidey-sense antennas to this. I'm sure most of us feel this way. What I also noticed is that a great dealer service department...

For what it's worth, I am a huge fan of the Decked Drawers 2nd Gen setup. Apart from carrying tools, the Decked Drawers are also for carrying and storing camping and emergency tow gear securely on the truck at all times. This lets our little teardrop trailer be just a double bed instead of a...