Intelligent AWD Gauge and Engine Hour Tracking Available

[jmr061]

For those of you that may be interested:

http://www.fordpimods.com/taurus-awd-engine-hours.html

This does require your dealer to program it once I make the programming changes to your vehicle file.

Jason

 

[gbriank]

Nice. I'd love to see a video of the AWD gauge in action. Does it show percentages or bars revealing power distribution?

 

[gbriank]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWcYbWCKpK8

 

[rcryniak]

Now I'm jealous having "only" a 2012. That's just cool.

 

[jmr061]

I will take a video of it in my 2013 SHO and post it on the FB page tomorrow. So check in the late morning/early afternoon.

 

[bpd1151]

Jason, you continue to amaze all with your talents as it relates to the entire Ecoboost platform.

If no one's said it before, thank you! :thankyou:

 

[jmr061]

Short demo video is now posted at www.facebook.com/fordpimods

 

[gbriank]

Short demo video is now posted at www.facebook.com/fordpimods

I also see the following on your page:
Dark Car
​Daytime Running Lights (DRL)

What is "Dark car" and DRL's are an option in USA?

I spoke to my dealer and quoted me 1 hour of labor for installation. Is this average?

 

[jmr061]

Dark Car is disabling the "interior" lighting when opening a door or unlocking via the FOB. On cars equipped with puddle lights it kills them too.

Yes you can enable DRL on cars in the USA. Halogen equipped 13+Taurus do reduced lowbeam or turn signals and HID equipped do turn signals.

What a dealer charges is up to them. Some charge minimums of an hour, a half hour or a 1/4 hour. Frankly charging a min. of an hour is a rip off but the OEM diagnostic tool needed to program does cost them $1400 plus the software is $700 a year.

 

[Bosscav]

I wonder if LME would be able to sneak something to those of us who have programmers to turn DRLs on....?

 

[jmr061]

I wonder if LME would be able to sneak something to those of us who have programmers to turn DRLs on....?

No....as I have stated before the tuners that I have spoken with don't know how to do that kind of stuff.

 

[gbriank]

Dark Car is disabling the "interior" lighting when opening a door or unlocking via the FOB. On cars equipped with puddle lights it kills them too.

Yes you can enable DRL on cars in the USA. Halogen equipped 13+Taurus do reduced lowbeam or turn signals and HID equipped do turn signals.

What a dealer charges is up to them. Some charge minimums of an hour, a half hour or a 1/4 hour. Frankly charging a min. of an hour is a rip off but the OEM diagnostic tool needed to program does cost them $1400 plus the software is $700 a year.

Thx. I'm looking at around $100/hour.

 

[jmr061]

The min charge of an hour is BS. I can see 1/2 hr min but seriously....if a customer wants DRL turned on are you going to charge them an hour for a 5 minute actual hands on car service?

 

[gbriank]

The min charge of an hour is BS. I can see 1/2 hr min but seriously....if a customer wants DRL turned on are you going to charge them an hour for a 5 minute actual hands on car service?

I agree...

 

[RichInMich]

Jason, great job on the AWD cluster modification. Anyone have experience with a dealer doing this?

I'm wondering if I can get them to piggy back two requests and charge me once instead of for two hours of labor. I love the AWD gauge (wife's ecoboost Explorer has it and I've always been jealous of it), but I also want the DRL flag enabled as well. Are they both done using the VCM process (which I would assume they could do both at once), or will they tell me it's two separate hours of work?

 

[jmr061]

They can do it all in one session. Take a look at the videos on my facebook page. I have a 7 minute video that shows how to make multiple of my changes and a short video the demonstrates DRL activation (an Explorer is shown but the process is the same) and that takes a couple minutes.

 

[RichInMich]

Fantastic - I'll be sending you some money shortly. Thanks again for your work, Jason!

 

[jmr061]

Fantastic - I'll be sending you some money shortly. Thanks again for your work, Jason!

Were you still interested...don't recall seeing anything come across.

Thanks

Jason

 

[Fxfordguy]

If anyone in the WA area wants this done I will do it for $75 programming fee if you come to me with all the info. Located in the Puyallup area at a Ford dealer. FYI I also own a 2013 SHO