John H Haley
New Member
I'd like to know if anyone shares my desire to choke (only a desire, sensitive folks, and deserved) someone at Ford or in the bureaucracy of our government for these idiotic unnecessary aggravations. Features I had to buy, behavior I detest, making me feel as if Ford has retained some ownership in the truck. In no particular order.:
1. The double honk. Maybe I'm in the woods checking a game camera, just pulling the card. Would like to be low profile. Maybe going into a gas station store to get a drink leaving passengers or my dog inside, or in my garage just remembered my cellphone. I get out, leave it running, take two steps to the front of the truck and . . . HONK HONK. I'm maybe two feet from the horn. Game is spooked. People turn and stare at the rudeness. Especially in the closed space that is my garage, I want to retaliate against the truck. The explanations I have heard for this hold no water, so spare me. This is some arrogant busybody environmentalist saving the world from my exhaust, and he needs to be slapped up side the head.
2. Truck turning off when truck stopped. Enough said. What does this feature, an unnecessary mechanical complication, cost?
3. The foot operated liftgate. It has closed on me several times, and I have never had success using it intentionally.
4. The engine shutoff when parked and left running for 15 minutes or so. If it's hot (I'm in south Georgia) and granny or my dog (pretty much always along) is with me, I leave the truck running when I go into Lowe's, etc., not knowing how long I'll be gone. This feature can only be defeated on a one-time basis, which means you must remember to do it every single time you park. Forget once, as you will, and the result could be gastly.
5. The interior feature of the alarm that sets when the truck is turned off. I'm in the woods, headed to my deer stand, being "vewy, vewy quiet," and 100 yards from the truck the alarm goes off. Or I'm in the grocery store and a customer tells me my alarm is going off. The dog moved. This, too, must be defeated on an every time basis. Can't wait for this to happen during a funeral, at the cemetery.
6. The castration of the keypad. The first thing I noticed is that it is now under glass, no tactile feedback, much harder to operate. Then I found it wasn't me not touching it right, it was Ford rendering it useless. It only works if the key is within two feet, meaning it only works if you have the key on you, meaning somebody at Ford needs . . . a good talking to?
I probably forgot something, and other than these great aggravations and a screwy head unit (random happenings), it is a great truck. The kicker to me is not that these aggravations are so aggravating, but that Ford did not allow the customer to defeat them, turn them off, other than on a one-time basis. That really gets in my face, it seems very personal and intentional. You will comply . . ..
1. The double honk. Maybe I'm in the woods checking a game camera, just pulling the card. Would like to be low profile. Maybe going into a gas station store to get a drink leaving passengers or my dog inside, or in my garage just remembered my cellphone. I get out, leave it running, take two steps to the front of the truck and . . . HONK HONK. I'm maybe two feet from the horn. Game is spooked. People turn and stare at the rudeness. Especially in the closed space that is my garage, I want to retaliate against the truck. The explanations I have heard for this hold no water, so spare me. This is some arrogant busybody environmentalist saving the world from my exhaust, and he needs to be slapped up side the head.
2. Truck turning off when truck stopped. Enough said. What does this feature, an unnecessary mechanical complication, cost?
3. The foot operated liftgate. It has closed on me several times, and I have never had success using it intentionally.
4. The engine shutoff when parked and left running for 15 minutes or so. If it's hot (I'm in south Georgia) and granny or my dog (pretty much always along) is with me, I leave the truck running when I go into Lowe's, etc., not knowing how long I'll be gone. This feature can only be defeated on a one-time basis, which means you must remember to do it every single time you park. Forget once, as you will, and the result could be gastly.
5. The interior feature of the alarm that sets when the truck is turned off. I'm in the woods, headed to my deer stand, being "vewy, vewy quiet," and 100 yards from the truck the alarm goes off. Or I'm in the grocery store and a customer tells me my alarm is going off. The dog moved. This, too, must be defeated on an every time basis. Can't wait for this to happen during a funeral, at the cemetery.
6. The castration of the keypad. The first thing I noticed is that it is now under glass, no tactile feedback, much harder to operate. Then I found it wasn't me not touching it right, it was Ford rendering it useless. It only works if the key is within two feet, meaning it only works if you have the key on you, meaning somebody at Ford needs . . . a good talking to?
I probably forgot something, and other than these great aggravations and a screwy head unit (random happenings), it is a great truck. The kicker to me is not that these aggravations are so aggravating, but that Ford did not allow the customer to defeat them, turn them off, other than on a one-time basis. That really gets in my face, it seems very personal and intentional. You will comply . . ..
