Intelligent AWD Gauge and Engine Hour Tracking Available

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gbriank

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

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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.
 

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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:
 

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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.
 

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

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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?
 

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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?
 

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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.
 

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

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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
 
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