Terrain management upgrade?

[t4thfavor]

I have used it only on steep downhills and found it to be pretty smooth. No idea how it behaves in other situations?

It can be jerky, but isn’t always, and the braking feature isn’t what I would expect. When you brake it slows you down to your desired speed and leaves you there, I feel like it should slow you down and when you let off the brake it should resume your prior set speed. It’s only jerky when you lift a tire from my experience.

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[bentroia]

The feature provides some convenience. Your eyes brain hands and feet can do better than TC.

Ive spent plenty of time on rocky steep challenging terrain in toyota trucks and jeep cherokees. Our Rangers are quickly pushed to and beyond their limits on black diamond level trails. TC doesn't help in my opinion.

TC was smooth and made it so i could be lazy when picking my way down or up a fairly tight rocking mining road. It just makes it so you only have to steer. The bumps and drops and impacts still require sound judgements and inputs to negotiate. Relying too heavily on this automation could allow rough terrain to destroy your truck. Aim the truck at a super technical trail littered with piles of rocks and stumps and trees, set TC to 2 mph. Then watch what happens...

I would not pursue installing it. You can do better with your God given mind and body at negotiating tough terrain.

 

[Dangerdan85]

Some of the USB ELM327 cables do not have a switch. This fact is mentioned in several of the YT videos I've watched. Worst case is it won't work, best case is it does. If it doesn't work you'll be out about US$20 to buy one that does. I bought mine online from a link provided by FORScan (has the HS-CAN/MS-CAN) switch.

I just ordered a Vgate vLinker "desinged for Forscan" off Amazon, I guess my elm327 doesn't support ms-can. The reviews on the ones with switched seemed hit or miss on quality control. The Vgate one cost me $84 CDN, should have it next week.

 

[James Caper]

I have it and used it on my f150 no issue

 

[FunInTheSun]

I just ordered a Vgate vLinker "desinged for Forscan" off Amazon, I guess my elm327 doesn't support ms-can. The reviews on the ones with switched seemed hit or miss on quality control. The Vgate one cost me $84 CDN, should have it next week.

The FORSCAN site has a list of cables they have tested and know to be working. Your vLinker adapter is on the list. There are two versions, the USB (vLinker FS) and the BlueTooth (vLinker FD). The Bluetooth model only works with FORSCAN Lite, which is the Phone App (iOS or Android), which is great for reading live data and reading and resetting Trouble codes, but there are some things you can't do over Bluetooth, like changing configuration settings / programming, etc.. You can also use the Bluetooth model with other OBD2 Apps to do other interesting things with the live data feeds.

Writing to configuration registers and other programming functions can only be done over USB connection using FORSCAN for WIndows and a laptop. So if you got the USB cable, you are golden for programming and configuration stuff.

https://forscan.org/home.html

 

[Dangerdan85]

The FORSCAN site has a list of cables they have tested and know to be working. Your vLinker adapter is on the list. There are two versions, the USB (vLinker FS) and the BlueTooth (vLinker FD). The Bluetooth model only works with FORSCAN Lite, which is the Phone App (iOS or Android), which is great for reading live data and reading and resetting Trouble codes, but there are some things you can't do over Bluetooth, like changing configuration settings / programming, etc.. You can also use the Bluetooth model with other OBD2 Apps to do other interesting things with the live data feeds.

Writing to configuration registers and other programming functions can only be done over USB connection using FORSCAN for WIndows and a laptop. So if you got the USB cable, you are golden for programming and configuration stuff.

https://forscan.org/home.html

Ah Good too know. Thanks for that info. I did make sure to order the USB version as I was unsure about the Bluetooth model.

 

[t4thfavor]

Ah Good too know. Thanks for that info. I did make sure to order the USB version as I was unsure about the Bluetooth model.

My god! I spent <10$ on my elm device with the hs/ms switch pre installed. The 85$ one must be gold plated or something

 

[Dangerdan85]

My god! I spent <10$ on my elm device with the hs/ms switch pre installed. The 85$ one must be gold plated or something

Got my cable in yesterday and got everything hooked up. Since I'm on trial license I went ahead and enabled "select drive mode" in IPC, before license expires. So that's done, knob should be in tomorrow..
Does it reset some of the IPC stuff when it's done and asks you to cycle the ignition?
As I noticed my DTE was suddenly recalculated higher from 502km to E, to 622km to E when I turned the key back to on. I think my instant fuel economy is a little higher this morning too. Did it reset anything when I enabled dejected drive mode?

 

[t4thfavor]

Got my cable in yesterday and got everything hooked up. Since I'm on trial license I went ahead and enabled "select drive mode" in IPC, before license expires. So that's done, knob should be in tomorrow..
Does it reset some of the IPC stuff when it's done and asks you to cycle the ignition?
As I noticed my DTE was suddenly recalculated higher from 502km to E, to 622km to E when I turned the key back to on. I think my instant fuel economy is a little higher this morning too. Did it reset anything when I enabled dejected drive mode?

Shouldn’t have messed with the dte calc, but the trial license can be extended indefinitely, so don’t stress out on that.

 

[Dangerdan85]

Shouldn’t have messed with the dte calc, but the trial license can be extended indefinitely, so don’t stress out on that.

Ah OK.
However I just realized that I did not make a backup before I enabled select drive mode ..

 

[t4thfavor]

Ah OK.
However I just realized that I did not make a backup before I enabled select drive mode ..

Who makes backups?

 

[Dangerdan85]

Who makes backups?

Well i had read its a good practice backup the as-built's before changing any values in the module configuration sections.
Too late for that now I guess. I don't really plan on going back in to change anything else either though so probably doesn't matter much.

 

[Adamcarr]

Well i had read its a good practice backup the as-built's before changing any values in the module configuration sections.
Too late for that now I guess. I don't really plan on going back in to change anything else either though so probably doesn't matter much.

@t4thfavor read 1st post. Should be able to get your back ups though the website.

https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/forscan-crowdsourced-wiki.2008/

 

[t4thfavor]

@t4thfavor read 1st post. Should be able to get your back ups though the website.

https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/forscan-crowdsourced-wiki.2008/

I know, I’m one of the original ford Ranger “hackers” . I’m being funny as in “we don’t need no stinking backups “

 

[Dangerdan85]

@t4thfavor read 1st post. Should be able to get your back ups though the website.

https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/forscan-crowdsourced-wiki.2008/

Oh cool, that's good to know then just incase.
As this was the only setting I planned to change its unlikely i'll need to use a backup for anything but still handy just incase.
Thanks for that info.

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