Good day, hivemind,

I've had my Mach e for about 2 months give or take. On Thursday I had the title warning. It was immediately diagnosed as the high voltage battery coolant bypass valve. The specific issue may be determined by Tuesday.

For those in Canada, specifically the east coast, what is the turn around on parts for something like this?

Of note: this is the first time this shop has seen this.

My MachE: 2023 GT (white). Have owned the car for about 2 months.

I know the adapter is connected to the Telsa cable correctly, the lock is on and it's impossible to get the adapter off unless I slide the lock off.

Most recent Power-Up is 6.3.0

I tried just plug and pay (didn't use any app) and got an error. Tried 2 other stations, same thing.

I opened the Tesla app and the charging station I was at did not even appear on the map! Granted I'm in a rural area (this was Roscoe in upstate NY).

I tried the FordPass app but didn't see any obvious thing to press or do.

I have registered on the Tesla app and it has my credit card.

I've tried at 2 different locations, errors both times.

Next time I will go to a Tesla charging location that shows up on the map.

Any thoughts?

This happened. It's about 4 km to the dealer/tire place. Drive flat seems a poor choice to me. What would YOU do? Potholes where I live eat small cars.

Still loving it. Driving the heck out of it. 10/10 would buy again.

How long is the learning curve coming from an ICE car to MME? I am considering purchasing the MME this week but I have a 1200 mile road trip from Florida to Maine coming up in 3 weeks. I will be in Maine for a month and will need the car while there.

Is three weeks long enough to get over the hump or am I better off waiting to buy until I’m back in late June? I know no one can answer this “for me”, just looking for opinions or pitfalls that I may be overlooking. I do realize the trip itself will take longer due to needing to stop to charge but that alone doesn’t bother me and my wife is up for it if that’s what I decide to do.

Thanks!

Over 250 miles. Ride was smooth & probably the most comfortable long distance drive I’ve had. Usually, my legs hurt or under my knee does from long drives, but nothing beats these comfortable seats.

Only thing is, you really need to plan your charges especially if you’re going to state parks or national parks. And ESPECIALLY rural areas. You’re going to drive quite a bit for any fast charging stations. You get lucky to find L2 chargers in local spots, but the closest fast charger was over 50 miles away. So make sure you charge your cars properly and manage the distance the right way. Otherwise you’re going to find yourself charger hopping around until you can get yourself to a fast charger. ( that happened to me ha)

Other than that, one of the easiest of smoothiest road trip drives

Traveled out of state today, bought a MME GT PE.

I’d been searching for a few weeks. Drove a Premium, liked it. Drove a GT, decided that’s what I wanted. Was tough to find GT in preferred colors/Night Pony, and if I did, the price was high. Expanded my search, found one out of state, the price was right, and 0%. So I drove it home.

The ride was about 90 minutes. I wasn’t concerned with battery charge, I drove it off the lot at full charge. I was so confused with some of the controls, like syncing music off my phone - for some reason the music wouldn’t play with the nav on. I decided to ignore all the unlearned controls and just enjoy the drive. I did. It’s fun to drive!

Of course it started to rain, cancelling the fresh detail from the dealer.

After some time in front of the tv at home, I decided to go sit in the car. Play around with controls, learn some stuff. Decided to take a drive to a charging station, because I needed to charge, and I figured while charging I could continue figuring some things out inside the car.

I pulled up to 4 chargers in a shopping plaza at 11pm. One car was there charging, another MME!

I pulled up to the charger, exited, and approached the gentleman in the MME. He rolled down his window, pleasantries exchanged, “Nice car”. “Nice car.”

I asked how long he’d had the car, he said “we’ve been together for a year”. And I thought that was awesome.

I explained that I literally just purchased the car earlier today. “If you could provide some pointers, that would be great”.

My fellow MME brother was more than helpful. Really, at 11pm in a random empty parking lot, I would understand any disinterest.

The exact opposite - his assistance and advice really helped me. There were connection issues with the station. Connection issues with the app. Credit card issues. He gave me tons of advice, provided many suggestions and solutions. Even after his car had finished charging, he stayed until I was all plugged in and charging.

Of course it started raining again, somehow forming a swamp of mud underneath both our cars.

There are good people still out there in this world. Shout out to the good human I met tonight.

After charging, I took the long way home, down an industrial road, just so I could open the throttle a little bit. It sure is fun to drive. And I’m already much more comfortable with the controls and where everything is.

I’d been lurking on here for some time, reading and learning. Thanks for the education. Happy to be here.

Finally found another owner but was too shy to say hi as they had just parked and still in the car (hence the blur for privacy). Also shootout to the orange who gave the thumbs up as he passed and the red who flagged me while it today. Ottawa location. A lot of sightings in one day :)

Right hand drive 23.75 Select in Grabber Blue

Hi All,

Looking to join the team, we've just come back from a test drive on this and loved it. Just want to make sure I'm not missing anything I should know about.

This is the car: http://www.autotrader.ca/go/5-62134713

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Obviously we're in in Ontario.

Thanks in advance!

Electrician installed my connected charger and it is powered up. It is connected to my wifi and linked to my ford pass app. But when it plug in it to the car it does not charge. App says “plugged in not charging”. Car says “charging station not detected”. No error lights on the charger.

Powered off at the breaker for a few hours but nothing changed. Works fine on mobile charge cord and on the two public chargers I have used, although neither was high kWh.

Any ideas. On the phone with ford support now.

I’ve had the car since January and we have never charged away from home. Planning a long trip in a few weeks. It was suggested to use better planner and it had lots of chargers on the route but, how does it work? Can I go to any as long as I don’t need an adapter? Some are at dealerships. How does that work? I have the ford app and Chargepoint but do I need any other apps to be ready to pay?

Sorry for the barage of questions.

PFA

I did search before y’all come for me lol. I have an iPhone and Android, I like to use android auto since it’s less cumbersome than Apple CarPlay and Google maps is just superior with android auto than CarPlay. My iPhone is my primary phone so I just like to take calls and use my android for media, nav, etc. I read you can make a phone a “primary” phone in Sync 4 but I can’t find that setting. Anyone has this setup? Am I being extra? 😂😂😂 TIA!

About to charge my car but the typical blue light the slowly blinks when you open up the charge door isn’t showing. It’s show a full white ring. Is this something to worr about? There’s zero warnings or anything on my dash that shows anything wrong. Will the car still charge

Do you think this could be retroactive to the start of 2024? https://electrek.co/2024/05/03/us-updates-ev-tax-credit-rules-enabling-more-electric-cars-eligble/

I bought my premium extended range mach-e in July of 2021, and they only gave me one key. I am seeing people on here who got a 2nd one.

I want to contact my dealer but I want to proceed with concrete information/documentation.

So as the title says, I’ve been wanting to take my GT to the track for a while now, but I’m not sure how well it’ll go and how the performance will be. If anyone has any experience at the track I would appreciate any insight you have. TIA!

Is there a way to reorganize how the apps display? My preference is to just have Spotify showing as a bigger display vs the splitting of the navigation and Spotify. Lol hopefully I'm making sense.

Hello,

I was wondering what you guys experience is with the ford service centers.

Overall mine was great.

Had the dreaded hvjb issue and they guided me through all the steps to get it fixed.

I called them on Monday afternoon. They advised me to get it towed via ford assistance so ford has an official notification of the issue.

They also advised me to get the car towed to a different service center which is their official BEV center.

After doing this and contacting the FSC it got towed to on Tuesday, I asked if they got updated and received the car they confirmed that they were informed by ford and the other FSC and received the car.

Then the service manager said straight away I shouldn’t get my hopes up and that the fix is probably going to take a while which got me kinda nervous. Especially because of the horror stories I’ve read on Reddit.

On Wednesday they called again and informed me that they took a Quick Look and there was a battery module fault which requires a special tech to preform the tests and repairs needed and they need to find space in his schedule, repair time unknown.

Then suddenly I get a call on Friday afternoon telling me the car is partially fixed and drivable again, Hvjb replaced.

He informed they are still waiting on a update from ford to fix the issue at hand completely. But this update is TBA and when it comes in I needed to come back to complete the repair.

Turnaround was about a week which surprised me.

The tech also thanked me for handling things the way I did because it made his job easier. Everything was set in place and he could complete his job within a day. They also could claim warranty without a hassle because of this.

Sorry about the long post, I would really like to read your experience with your FSC.

I got the service error related to the HVBJB recall.

I took it to the dealership for the fix. The service associate told me that they have the part in stock, but they aren’t allowed to fix it until Ford lifts some sort of hold.

Has anyone heard of this?

Hello everyone, new owner here, just picked up my Pony last weekend! Absolutely loving it so far, it's a real pleasure to drive

I ordered my charging adapter via Ford, and it has an expected ship time of October 2024 (!). I don't think I'll need it right away since there seem to be plenty of ElectrifyAmerica DC Fast Chargers along the West Coast - I live in Seattle and usually road trip up to Vancouver, BC in Canada or down to Oregon or California

That said, I did have a few questions:

1. Will the adapter I ordered from Ford work for Tesla destination chargers or just for superchargers?

2. If it won't work for destination chargers, does anyone have a recommendation on an adapter for Telsa destination chargers? The dealership recommended this one, is anyone familiar with it? https://www.amazon.com/Westsaim-Charging-Adapter-Chevrolet-Volkswagen/dp/B0CR1D2HMP/ref=pd_ci_mcx_mh_mcx_views_1?pd_rd_w=RyyNU&content-id=amzn1.sym.8b590b55-908d-4829-9f90-4c8752768e8b%3Aamzn1.symc.40e6a10e-cbc4-4fa5-81e3-4435ff64d03b&pf_rd_p=8b590b55-908d-4829-9f90-4c8752768e8b&pf_rd_r=95BXDYCVA167JK7YW7VZ&pd_rd_wg=FXDky&pd_rd_r=1f5d1645-e8b4-4a26-a0fb-b8696bab6d2f&pd_rd_i=B0CR1D2HMP&th=1

3. For home charging, I am planning on getting a charging station, probably the Emporia EV charger. Is it recommended to hardwire this or to install a 240V socket and plug it in? My home is newly built and already prewired for an EV charger in the garage, all I need is a breaker box and a charger, and possibly a NEMA 15-40 socket if I want to plug it in

4. Finally, for home charging, should I get a charger with the J1772 connector or NACS? Since EVs after 2025 will all be NACS, does it make sense to get an NACS one and always use the destination charger adapter at home or to stick with J1772 and worry about upgrading my charger if/when I swap out my vehicle? I usually drive my vehicles for 10+ years, but also my wife doesn't have an EV at the moment and one we get for her in the future might be NACS, unless that happens before 2025

I planning a long weekend drive. Nj to somewhere in New England. Any tips for charge stops or other tips?

I found this video below that covers some situations we never hope to need, but should all know. The info includes:

• How to pop the hood if the low voltage battery is dead
• How to reach the connection points to jump the low voltage battery
• Proper attachment order to jump low voltage battery.
• If the charge plug gets locked, how to disconnect battery and manually un-lock charge plug.
• The only 2 safe points to attach towing hooks
• 3 ways to put the car in Neutral for towing

Know Before You Tow - Mustang Mach E