We "Hacked" Our Ford F150 Lightning With Forscan!
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Published 2022-11-21
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Every modern car on the market today has more computing power hidden behind the dash than most modern smartphones.
And that means that there's a lot of user-customizable tech to be tweaked from the car's infotainment system and menu system, as well as a whole host of extra things you can unlock if you know how.
In the case of the Ford F150 Lighting, that includes anti-glare headlights, tweaking window behavior on unlock or lock, and much more.
So today, in honor of the holiday that some of us are taking for Thanksgiving, we're heading out to Nikki's truck to play with Forscan, an app you can use to tweak the settings of your Ford EV beyond what's readily available from the touch-screen in the vehicle!
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Find out more about Forscan at Forscan.org/
Read background on Forscan here: www.f150gen14.com/2021/05/27/2021-f-150-forscan-da…
Read Forscan tutorial for the F150 lightning here:
www.f150lightningforum.com/forum/threads/f150-ligh…
The ODBII to PC adaptor we used: a.co/d/gppCx4Z
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Script, Presenter: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
Camera, Editor, Coloring: Michael Horton
Art and Animation: Erin Carlie
Audio and Producer: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
© Transport Evolved LLC, 2022
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All Comments (21)
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I'm happy to see you doing such nerdy things to your Lightening. Bravo!
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I love your disclaimer "don't come running to me if you screw it up" 🤣
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'..... NOT that Word ' !!! 😂😭💀⚰️
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This video makes me think fondly back to my 1955 Chevrolet with inline-6 engine and 3-speed manual transmission. It had none of the features of a modern car, but there were few things that could go wrong with it, they were predictable, they were easy to diagnose, and I could fix them myself with basic mechanical tools. It was capable of the most important function of a vehicle -- transportation. These days, every electronic device has hundreds of available functions because the hardware and software are capable, not because they're necessary.
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Please do a follow up after the next over air update and let us know if your changes get reset to factory and if you have to go back in and update your changes again.
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It would be great if OEMs put these kind of tweaks into the infotainment system's Settings menu (even if locked behind an admin password screen).
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This is awesome! I've watched a lot of Lightening videosand first time seeing this. Love how detailed and nerdy y'all get.
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Love the headlight tweak, that's handy. The reprogramming seems pretty straight forward and fun.
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Ford used to provide a way to turn off the seatbelt minder in the owners manual. For that, no need for FORScan, unless they removed that process.
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"No... Not that word." 🤣🤣🤣
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I do like that auto-dipping. I'm that jerk that tends to drive at night with the brights on (it's dark out there!), but occasionally forgets to turn them off when on traffic is oncoming.
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Transport Evolved goes hard-core! I love it!!!
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Good vid with info as usual. You have no idea how annoying that blinking light to your left behind the wheel is!
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Love ForScan, it’s made my 2019 STX f150 so much better. I added the keypad, trailer brakes, changed my aux 12v to always on, & removed a bunch of annoying chimes.
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Lol I love how you are increasing the safety features of the truck
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Love the video and have been tempted to play with my car but don't have the coding background to not brick it. Should the Sono Sion graphic be on this video or is it a hangover from a previous video?
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Great video. Everyone needs to support right to repair. Yes Yes Save the as built setting!
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Nice tweaks! These sort of videos are very helpful. Hopefully it helps F150 owners for some time to come. I've a Renault Zoe and similar videos helped me when I got my car. I was able to do similar tweaking and enable Android Auto. Absolute gamechanger as the cars mapping is worse than bad. I have abetterrouteplanner now with battery SOC (via OBD connection).
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Cool dive into the ForScan software.. what the heck were they thinking on that name? Do you know if there is an Ioniq 5 equivalent of this?
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Is that a violation of the terms of your warranty?
