We 'Hacked' Our Ford F150 Lightning With Forscan!

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Every modern car on the market today has more computing power hidden behind the dash than most modern smartphones.

And that means that there's a lot of user-customizable tech to be tweaked from the car's infotainment system and menu system, as well as a whole host of extra things you can unlock if you know how.
In the case of the Ford F150 Lighting, that includes anti-glare headlights, tweaking window behavior on unlock or lock, and much more.
So today, in honor of the holiday that some of us are taking for Thanksgiving, we're heading out to Nikki's truck to play with Forscan, an app you can use to tweak the settings of your Ford EV beyond what's readily available from the touch-screen in the vehicle!

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Read Forscan tutorial for the F150 lightning here:

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Script, Presenter: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
Camera, Editor, Coloring: Michael Horton
Art and Animation: Erin Carlie
Audio and Producer: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
© Transport Evolved LLC, 2022
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[jamiewomack]

I'm happy to see you doing such nerdy things to your Lightening. Bravo!

[ElliebotConstruction]

I love your disclaimer "don't come running to me if you screw it up" 🤣

[heathwirt]

Love the headlight tweak, that's handy. The reprogramming seems pretty straight forward and fun.

[olebloom]

This is awesome! I've watched a lot of Lightening videosand first time seeing this. Love how detailed and nerdy y'all get.

[kevinpolito]

This video makes me think fondly back to my 1955 Chevrolet with inline-6 engine and 3-speed manual transmission. It had none of the features of a modern car, but there were few things that could go wrong with it, they were predictable, they were easy to diagnose, and I could fix them myself with basic mechanical tools. It was capable of the most important function of a vehicle -- transportation. These days, every electronic device has hundreds of available functions because the hardware and software are capable, not because they're necessary.

[dragonlair]

Please do a follow up after the next over air update and let us know if your changes get reset to factory and if you have to go back in and update your changes again.

[dougkippen]

It would be great if OEMs put these kind of tweaks into the infotainment system's Settings menu (even if locked behind an admin password screen).

[jtr]

Love ForScan, it’s made my 2019 STX f150 so much better. I added the keypad, trailer brakes, changed my aux 12v to always on, & removed a bunch of annoying chimes.

[dolari]

I do like that auto-dipping. I'm that jerk that tends to drive at night with the brights on (it's dark out there!), but occasionally forgets to turn them off when on traffic is oncoming.

[vipercrazy]

Ford used to provide a way to turn off the seatbelt minder in the owners manual. For that, no need for FORScan, unless they removed that process.

[jambay]

Good vid with info as usual. You have no idea how annoying that blinking light to your left behind the wheel is!

[rklauco]

Transport Evolved goes hard-core! I love it!!!

[briandowling]

Nice tweaks! These sort of videos are very helpful. Hopefully it helps F150 owners for some time to come.

I've a Renault Zoe and similar videos helped me when I got my car. I was able to do similar tweaking and enable Android Auto. Absolute gamechanger as the cars mapping is worse than bad. I have abetterrouteplanner now with battery SOC (via OBD connection).

[danharold]

Great video. Everyone needs to support right to repair.
Yes Yes Save the as built setting!

[JackJackninja]

"No... Not that word."

🤣🤣🤣

[jesusnieto]

Absolute favorite part is the Mac running windows was not expecting 😂😂

[Mr-eGolf]

Lol I love how you are increasing the safety features of the truck

[TruWrecks]

Very nice tweaks! - My solar system gets commissioned tomorrow morning!

[ouch]

Just to comment on one of the questions that’s been asked multiple times. Ford uses the same “body module” for their cars in multiple markets, sometimes multiple vehicle models. The software gets programmed depending on the particular vehicle, market, purchased options, etc. That’s what the “as built data” is. When you replace body modules in any Ford, these options have to be programmed to the vehicle. The ForSkin, I mean Scan, software just does the exact same thing the Ford factory scan tool does. So, it’s safe. This software is just changing the options that Ford has already provided.

Matrix headlamps are one of the biggest things I’m looking forward to regarding vehicle technology in the US. It’s such a brilliant (heh) idea that many cars are capable of, but restricted from doing in the US. Lighting law changes are so, so far overdue in the US, including huge improvements to minimum lighting standards, improvements to the required (auto) aiming of headlamps, required amber turn signals front and rear, and matrix headlamps. The only vehicle I own that could make use of that is my Model 3, since Model 3/Y headlamps have been matrix since 2021, but Tesla hasn’t enabled it yet. That’s really the only complaint I have about Tesla headlights. The headlights in my Ioniq5 are abysmal. Truly awful given the price of the car. Seems to be common among Hyundai/Kia since the 3 Hyundai/Kias that we’ve owned (all with the highest option headlights we could get on the vehicle) have been horrible. I’m already looking for aftermarket options.

[jenkinseric]

that should be stock for all vehicles. I use a seatbelt extension to stop my belt warnings. I ALWAYS use my seat belt but I don't need to be forced to put it on while warming the seat or programming the map etc. I would shut off the commitment to follow the rules too. thanks again.