I spent years of my career in engineering doing hardware (logic) design for complex hardware/software systems. There’s an old saying among engineers working on hardware/software systems like these trucks: “it’s never the hardware”.
The inclination is always to assume that the hardware is broken, but somehow that turns out to almost never be the case.
Yes, it DOES happen, but nine times out of ten it’s an underlying programming error of some sort.

On a related note, it’s sort of amusing to watch a major company, like Ford, try to figure out how to do software engineering - including how you go about updating the code, and crucially how you test and release those updates.
These are lessons that major software companies, like Apple, who’s very existence depends on its ability to develop and release software updates without breaking everything else, have sort of learned over the past few decades. It’s a bit unrealistic to assume that Ford, which is really good at building cars but just plain awful at software, is going to suddenly and automatically figure it all out virtually overnight.
Not letting Ford off the hook … not by a long shot. Just making an observation about what we can expect from Ford (and Dodge, and GMC, and Chevy, and every other automaker on the planet) over the next few years/decades.

 

Ford hired Doug Field from Apple last year. He also worked at Tesla. I’ll give him until the end of the year to get their act together.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-s-car-project

 

Thank You for all the help you have given to the people in this forum. I donated in the name Livnitup

 

I’m just going by what another member told me and what the dealer is telling my now. I also had the greyed out update fixed in a couple hours. I was now told this afternoon that if you have had the APIM reprogrammed to fix the update issue and have also had the trailer brake controller recall done prior to OTA 2.8.1 then you will have issues. I have zero in faith in what any dealer tells me either but I don’t have any other points at this point. I’m ready to trade this truck and hope that the 2022’s don’t have these issues.

 

Interesting! I didn’t know that about Doug Field. Thanks for sending the Bloomberg link along.
There are two things about it that I find troubling.
First, it doesn’t seem likely that Doug will get his hands dirty solving (relatively) low level configuration and testing issues such as those being reported here. Clearly, Ford sees him as a big picture strategy guy. Hopefully I’m wrong, but it all depends on how he sees his portfolio. If it turns out that Ford’s difficulties in managing software development/testing/deployment are seriously impacting its revenue and future prospects, then perhaps he’ll get involved. But my guess is that he has much bigger fish to fry. I dunno, maybe he’ll bring some talent along with him from the software world to work on these problems, we’ll see.
Second, and much more troubling, are the references in the article to monetizing features as the route to steady profitability for Ford (and other auto makers). That does not bode well for us as consumers. We should expect to see everything from soup to nuts being offered as a subscription a la BMW which apparently offers heated seats as a subscription service. If they’re not yet doing so, expect them to do so soon. BlueCruise, for example, is already a subscription service albeit one currently dominated by “free trial periods”.

 

rugedraw could you check my vin please 1FTFW1E89NKD76690
TIA

 

No OTA history on your truck in the past 60 days. The system only stores info for 60 days, so I cannot see anything that happened before then.

 

Thanks rugedraw,
Anyone know what the current sync version and revision is for a 2022 F150 xlt 302a is? Build date 03/2022.

 

Did you get yours in on Monday? Any Success?

 

got it in, and they did not call and let me know anything. Will be calling when I leave work in a few to get some sort of update. I am guessing things did not go well though...