FRUNK failure issue will not close or open w/ "Frunk Malfunction See Manual" message

[LightningShow]

Those YouTube reviewers may want to reconsider their clever opening sequences where they first appear from inside the frunk.

Wow. That would have been a PR nightmare.

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[Rekoil]

Interesting, wasn’t there pictures of a lot of Lightnings parked with their frunks open in parking lots around Dearborn a couple of weeks ago…..?

Also, maybe why my FordPass app said my trunk was ajar for 3 weeks??

 

[RLXXI]

They probably had NOS of 1990's Lincoln Towncar trunk latches and decided to use them. Most likely the exact same mechanism as it operates identically. On the Lincolns, you press the button and the latch rises then releases, just the opposite when closing.

I changed a boat load of those damned things. Sometimes I had to pull the back seat to get at the latch when they locked up.

 

[Straussberg]

Wow. That would have been a PR nightmare.

My 8 year old son asked to do that when we test drove one last week... I told him when I own a truck, I'll let him try getting in the frunk. Not on a dealership mannequin!

 

[GDN]

@AZT9 - Any update on your truck? Did you get it in to the dealer?

 

[AZT9]

@AZT9 - Any update on your truck? Did you get it in to the dealer?

I get off shift in a couple days. Have an appointment on the 13th. I imagine they will have the truck for a while. Ford did reach out to me and basically said that they want the parts back to see why they failed so that’s promising. I will report back for sure

 

[F150ROD]

Any updates?

 

[AZT9]

Any updates?

I get off shift in a couple days. Appointment is the 13th. I’ll keep everyone posted on findings.

 

[jazzmanmonty]

Maybe we should all just boycott the frunk hood and remove it before one of our drunken selves gets trapped in a dare gone wrong. Just open the drain on rainy days and you'll be fine. It'll have a reverse Jeep effect. Might lose some range, but better than being trapped.

 

[FordTough98198]

My gut tells me that if it isn't fully latched the truck won't even drive.

Some guy posted a video of driving it in a parade with the frunk fully open. I do not recommend that since you can’t see anything but he said it was possible and posted a photo or a video, I don’t recall which.

 

[NCMike]

Some guy posted a video of driving it in a parade with the frunk fully open. I do not recommend that since you can’t see anything but he said it was possible and posted a photo or a video, I don’t recall which.

You have to manually disengage the parking brake but once you do that you can move the vehicle with the frunk open. I did it last night, I had the frunk open to get the mobile charger out. I needed to move the truck up 6 more inches to clear the garage door. The electronic parking brake was on and indicated on the dash with the truck in drive and frunk open. Once I manually turned it off, I was able to pull forward.

 

[Crilly]

I was playing with my dealers mannequin today. When the frunk is open there is a decent size gap you can see threw.

The dealer was keeping the frunk open and people were pushing the escape button. Of course this would make it so the frunk would not work. I played around with and got it to work. You have to have the tail gate closed. All the doors closed. Vehicle on. When it says on the drivers screen (frunk escape button was pushed) or some such thing then push the ok button.

At leased. That is what I think I did.

I plan to Velcro a piece of wood Or what ever is handy over the escape Button When I get mine in a couple weeks I hope.

 

[Roy2001]

Trust me. I’ve thought about it but one problem. The frunk will not open OR close so I can’t access the 12v battery.

Looks like we need to DIY a switch to disconnect/reconnect 12V battery.

 

[PV2EV]

Looks like we need to DIY a switch to disconnect/reconnect 12V battery.

They should have added jump points/disconnect under the fake charging door on the right side.

 

[Roy2001]

They should have added jump points/disconnect under the fake charging door on the right side.

Yeah. I will not use Frunk after picking up my truck until Ford has a solution.

Or maybe to have a cable so I can manually release the Frunk. This really makes me nervous as Tesla does not have any manual release for trunk and frunk.

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