No sport Mode

[Ricks Lightning]

Been reading about the benefits of Sport mode.. problem is I can't get it to stay in sport mode once I park and restart.

But yesterday I couldn't even find sport mode.
Stopped the truck and when I went to choose all I had was normal mode.

Rick

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[RickLightning]

Known glitch. Reboot Sync or restart vehicle.

Each time you restart you need to tell it to stay in Sport Mode.

 

[Ricks Lightning]

Known glitch. Reboot Sync or restart vehicle.

Each time you restart you need to tell it to stay in Sport Mode.

Yes after 2 restarts the 4 different modes appeared.

What update will allow it to stay / default to sport mode so I don't have to do it 5 times a day in my travels?

Rick

 

[brewski]

Yes after 2 restarts the 4 different modes appeared.

What update will allow it to stay / default to sport mode so I don't have to do it 5 times a day in my travels?

Rick

I've had that happen, it went away after a reboot.
I keep hearing there is/will be an update that enables long term selection, but I'm not aware of it yet.

 

[Heliian]

They had to drop the feature because of off road mode staying enabled with no traction control. It was a regulatory recall.

 

[RickLightning]

Yes after 2 restarts the 4 different modes appeared.

What update will allow it to stay / default to sport mode so I don't have to do it 5 times a day in my travels?

Rick

They had to drop the feature because of off road mode staying enabled with no traction control. It was a regulatory recall.

My Mach-E retains the driving mode last used. The Lightning used to. Then it was realized that Off-Road mode had the above issue. So, instead of programming it so that all modes stay locked EXCEPT Off-Road mode, it always reverts back unless you catch the prompt quick enough. Very annoying.

 

[TaxmanHog]

Just a few lines of exceptions coding and we ~COULD~ have the best of both worlds, ain't @Ford Motor Company

 

[techmatters]

Just a few lines of exceptions coding and we ~COULD~ have the best of both worlds, ain't @Ford Motor Company

This is the annoying part to me. It's like the NHTSA regulation that requires ABS/Traction Control be active upon vehicle startup only really is against Off-Road mode. So it should only default back to Normal if you were in Off-Road when you turned the vehicle off. I'm not positive but I also feel like it stays in tow haul mode if you have a trailer connected.

It's may be achievable but not publicized that you can make some forscan changes to get sport mode to stick. I imagine if you compare an as-built file with that specific update that leaves sport mode against the later updates that defaults it to normal, you can find the respective lines of code. I remember have the sport mode feature with an update and it was somewhat quickly patched, I wish I'd of grabbed of backup with forscan at the time.

It sucks we don't have more control to fine tune the driving preference. My brother had a GTI that he can independently set suspension, throttle response, steering level effort.. and that was like a 2015 maybe? I just want the throttle response and braking level of sport mode and the steering level of normal mode, that's be ideal preference.

 

[bmwhitetx]

It's may be achievable but not publicized that you can make some forscan changes to get sport mode to stick. I imagine if you compare an as-built file with that specific update that leaves sport mode against the later updates that defaults it to normal, you can find the respective lines of code. I remember have the sport mode feature with an update and it was somewhat quickly patched, I wish I'd of grabbed of backup with forscan at the time.

It was an APIM module update that allowed stickiness (6.3.0) and a month later another APIM update that reverted to original behavior (23-PU1103-NAT-VCE aka 6.2 re-release).

I have as-builts before and after each of those updates. There were no APIM settings that were reversed to a prior setting, just a couple of small changes that stayed. The only other as-built changes during this period were for the IPMA and GWM modules.

FORScan is only changing a parameter table that the module firmware references when executing it's code. Based on the above, my bet is Ford changed firmware code each time and there is not a controlling parameter (or if there is a parameter the firmware code ignores it).

 

[Ricks Lightning]

I guess I spoke too soon.
Upon starting up the lightning Flash, I've got 3 seconds to push ok on the steering wheel and allow the Sport mode to remain. If you're slow and don't confirm it, you'll default to normal mode.

Rick

 

[DXD]

,check your vehicle settingsto see if Sport mode can be set as the default.

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