with a 2016 Platinum you will follow these instructions too.

 

For those of you going to the trouble of adding it, I have to ask: Do you enjoy the feature?

I just got a truck that came with it and I turned it off within a week. Even on the lowest setting, it feels like it keeps a football field of space between the car in front of you. Inevitably, someone fills in the space and then truck is forced to slow down to maintain that ridiculous spacing.

Is it more the act of adding it because you can, or do some of really truly enjoy the feature? Truly just curious...

I respect the amount of research and work it takes to pull it off.

 

I appreciate and use the feature in my 2018, and particularly value the stop and go.
I find the contrary, that the range of gap settings are acceptable at lower speed but max distance is far too short at higher 65+ speed. I don't want a ton of rock chips on my front end. Although I'm sure the truck is mathematically calculating, the distance seems proportionally shorter than low speed.
And I agree, if a car moves in the truck brakes rather than coasting to allow the gap to increase. Or accelerates quickly if a car moves out. Generally needs to be more human like.
It's OK but not great.

I think the emergency braking is also a great safety feature that is not "actively" used but valuable to have. Think about how many rear ending or car vs pedestrian accidents there are!

 

For me I thought it was a gomick. Then, I drove a car that had it and immediately wished I had a higher trim truck than my semi-peasant XLT. Thankfully I ran across this thread and have been enjoying it on my tuck for a couple years now. Going forward, I will not have another vehicle without it.

 

Had it on my wife’s ‘18 Explorer Sport and wanted it on my truck. I totally use it and enjoy the feature. Yes, there are instances where I override it but most of the time I let it work the way it was intended.

 

Absolutely enjoy it. City streets, I leave it on the closest settings, then bump the following distance out a bit at highway speeds. Collision warning on Medium sensitivity works well.

 

Im thinking of doing this, my wife has a 16 king ranch that has it on it and I was going to snag the parts off it to put on my 16 f150. Its a work truck, her boses old KR and he bought a new 24 KR and gave her that one to drive for a work vehicle. Its had the door lock popped before and its kinda beat up so they wont miss it if I steal it off the truck lol.

Im just gonna pull the radar off the front bumper and the mounting bracket, it should bolt on my 16 lariat 501A, it basically has everything the KR has minus the lane keeping, 360 cameras and multi contour seats. Just thinking out loud lol

 

I think you need to look closely at the wiring with a 501a instead of 502a. Also, windshield?

I don't recall details for the 16 but if you start at the beginning of the thread it's been discussed.

 

You need the 502a wiring behind the dashboard.

 

I've done this exact mod on my 2017 501A Lariat. You'll also need to pull both bumpers and swap the fog light harnesses. That's the harness that connects to the radar unit. Your stock 501A doesn't have the correct harness. And, you'll need to pull the center steering wheel pod (the airbag) to get to the steering wheel control pad for the cruise control that will need swapped. Your stock cruise control pad will not function with the adaptive cruise control hardware and settings.

That's all I can recall at the moment.

EDIT: You might not have the harness behind the dash for the "head-up display" in the top of the dash. It's not required for the system to run properly, and I didn't even bother to order the display even though my 2017 501a has the harness. Just bells and whistles. it still beeps at you if you get too close to someone going xx slower than you are. (Collision Avoidance settings)