Latest (5/11) forScan has new features

[Andy]

As far as I know it's only really useful on an F150 with 4A (even then it's a novelty). Otherwise it's basically just telling you the status of the transfer case and diff locker.

I wasn’t attesting to the gauges validity as a useful instrument rather just that it should and could represent the wheels status. I’ll give you an example where I would like to see the data. Going up an incline with washouts that place one of the four wheels in the air. At this time it would be “cool” to see if the truck is still applying power to the free wheel or if it’s applying to the remaining three.

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[MT19RANGER]

I wouldn't expect wheel power distribution to do anything on a 4wd (not awd).

On my AWD 2015 Explorer, it would have 3-4 bars represented for each wheel for the power distribution.

 

[Arron]

I also turned on the Frost Tell tale and coincidentally it was just cold enough the other day for it to come on. So enabling that seems to work too.

 

[VAMike]

I wasn’t attesting to the gauges validity as a useful instrument rather just that it should and could represent the wheels status. I’ll give you an example where I would like to see the data. Going up an incline with washouts that place one of the four wheels in the air. At this time it would be “cool” to see if the truck is still applying power to the free wheel or if it’s applying to the remaining three.

I get that's what you want, but I wouldn't actually expect to see it on a truck that doesn't have clutch controlled diffs.

 

[RedlandRanger]

There are 2 ICP options in the list before you run the service procedure. Make sure you select the non-as-built option.

Note this extra option only started showing up in the latest version of forScan from 5/11.

That was the key - all the other instructions say to use the as built options. When choosing the non as built option for IPC, these options are available. I was able to enable these items now. Very cool. Thanks for posting!

 

[Andy]

Anyone know what the Parking Aid Menu is for? I enabled both but didn’t see anything changed or added. Also, the Silent Mode doesn’t seem to do anything either. Anyone else try these options?

 

[RCMUSTANG]

I did the front and rear parking aid. When you are backing up the parking aid graphic pops up on the left screen that tells it's working and gives you the option to turn it off. I have that on my Fusion stock. Haven't seen what it does for head in parking yet.

Dark mode means none of the lights come on when you unlock or lock the truck.

 

[RCMUSTANG]

Updated the Wiki with a bunch of the stuff I verified. I'm leaving the credit for the ones Arron did. Edit the post with stuff you verified.

On the drive to work the power distribution didn't seem to do anything in 2H or 4H.

 

[Arron]

Updated the Wiki with a bunch of the stuff I verified. I'm leaving the credit for the ones Arron did. Edit the post with stuff you verified.

On the drive to work the power distribution didn't seem to do anything in 2H or 4H.

I think the Power Distribution needs some additional changes somewhere else since all the data has to be flowing around to control the traction. Also if you notice the image itself is a Ranger so it works somehow I would assume.

I'm not giving up on the Power Distribution option yet (I'll still dig around for additional things to turn on) but I have a feeling the change is in the PCM and I am not confident enough to go digging around there yet.

 

[Andy]

I think the Power Distribution needs some additional changes somewhere else since all the data has to be flowing around to control the traction. Also if you notice the image itself is a Ranger so it works somehow I would assume.

I'm not giving up on the Power Distribution option yet (I'll still dig around for additional things to turn on) but I have a feeling the change is in the PCM and I am not confident enough to go digging around there yet.

I’d really like to see this working as well. Can we cross reference an f150 build data to try and enable the same values? If you know where to look I can dig around on my f150.

 

[Arron]

I’d really like to see this working as well. Can we cross reference an f150 build data to try and enable the same values? If you know where to look I can dig around on my f150.

One, I would just like to see a picture of the Power Distribution working in any vehicle

Two, If I can get the PCM or the BCM data for a vehicle where the Power Distribution is working I can probably start there and do some analysis.

 

[Andy]

One, I would just like to see a picture of the Power Distribution working in any vehicle

Two, If I can get the PCM or the BCM data for a vehicle where the Power Distribution is working I can probably start there and do some analysis.

I’ll get you a video of the gauge in action and I’ll get a few images of the data in both the PCM and BCM.

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