Anyone here got SYNC3 without NAV/Shaker?

[yomamma219]

Hahaha was just wondering what your thoughts on it were and you didn't disapoint. I am quite jealous, I wish I had magnaride in my 2016. Also glad to hear the magnaride is considered quality. The only active suspension I have ridden on/driven is my cousin's Nissan GTR. That car rides rough regardless, but I was very impressed by how noticable of a difference there was between "comfort" and "track" modes. Went from feeling every pebble on the road in track to actually being able to navigate a speedbump without feeling like you snapped an axle like I thought he did when going over a speed bump in track mode.

I am curious if ford will have suspension modes tied to throttle response modes or if they will be independent. I think it would be great fun to emulate the focus RS's drift mode by turning the suspension to soft and putting the car in the current equivalent of track mode.

Yes absolutely magneride and yes it will add weight because you have the wiring harness and ECU module for the magneride, but probably talking 2-5kg for the wiring/ECU.

For me I want the flexibility of being able to go from soft and squishy to firm and flat by toggling buttons, its a nice feature and the system Ford use is actually one of the better ones on the market.

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[Gibbo205]

Also by not choosing nav, does that mean I won't get that horrible nipple/bubble they put on the roof of the new cars?

 

[Gibbo205]

Hahaha was just wondering what your thoughts on it were and you didn't disapoint. I am quite jealous, I wish I had magnaride in my 2016. Also glad to hear the magnaride is considered quality. The only active suspension I have ridden on/driven is my cousin's Nissan GTR. That car rides rough regardless, but I was very impressed by how noticable of a difference there was between "comfort" and "track" modes. Went from feeling every pebble on the road in track to actually being able to navigate a speedbump without feeling like you snapped an axle like I thought he did when going over a speed bump in track mode.

I am curious if ford will have suspension modes tied to throttle response modes or if they will be independent. I think it would be great fun to emulate the focus RS's drift mode by turning the suspension to soft and putting the car in the current equivalent of track mode.

To my knowledge the modes work as follows:
Wet: Softest on suspension as you need best compliance to give grip in wet.
Normal: Auto, car will be sedate but if you push it the necessary dampers will stiffen or loosen to keep car flat or from diving under braking.
Sport: Auto but with firmer base.
Track: Defaults to stiffest, no auto, just FIRM.
Drag: Rear firm, front soft to aid weight transfer.

It should function as above or similar, you can also on MY18 independently setup your car using the Pony button so you for instance could have normal suspension, track throttle/traction and normal steering or saving just by pressing the Pony button. Basically hence being named "MyMode" you setup the throttle, suspension, traction, exhaust in one click.

GTR pre 2012 is firm, very firm and rock hard. 2013-2015 they revised the module settings and dampers which made it much better with comfort being more complaint and still a touch firm.

2016 onwards the GTR got really soft however, still firm by most car standards but a but too soft for what is a near two tonne car.

 

[Gibbo205]

I'm going for tan seats with my Oxford White GT. This makes life easy as I don't have to have the Shaker Pro and Ford Nav as part of a pack that adds leather to the centre tunnel and removes the tan choice.
I never listen to music so for me the extra speakers would not be of any use. I also don't want the Ford Nav. I've found car makers built in Nav systems to be quite costly and bothersome to keep up to date.
However after asking the GT350 boys their opinion on Magneride I do want that, oh yessir.

I forgot about custom pack adding in that new centre console with the leather, I don't need it, but I'd quite like it.

 

[Manders Mustang]

Also by not choosing nav, does that mean I won't get that horrible nipple/bubble they put on the roof of the new cars?

no you're getting a nipple regardless, it houses the xfm radio signal too.... so, you're getting a titty roof!

 

[yomamma219]

Unfortunately I still have the pimple on the top of my car. I have a black car though so I don't notice it much and had to find a picture of the rear of my car to remember if I had it or not. I believe it is the radio antenna.

Those settings make sense to me. I forgot about my mode addition too, that is something I wish they already had, though with the current car remembering the last steering mode I guess its not a huge deal. I generally drive in normal mode with sport steering, so its nice the car will keep the sport steering next time I start it up even if i turn the car off in sport or track mode.

So basically I was thinking the equivalent of "drift mode" would be "Wet" suspension, "Track" Throttle, and "Track" (or less to the drivers liking) TCS/ESC.

Yea can't remember what year my cousin's GTR is exactly, somewhere 2012-14 and I think its the 2012. Definitely was overall the stiffest car I've ridden is but that isn't saying much. It is just my only experience in a active suspension car.

 

[McDan1el]

I'm struggling to get waze or gmaps to work on sync3. Spotify via applink is fine, what do I do for the other apps?

 

[yomamma219]

Have you updated to at least software version 2.2? There are other posts on here for how to do that, or just google sync, and log into the ford website (create an account if you don't have one) then you can download the sync update right from ford.

This will give you access to android auto, assuming you have a droid, which just requires you downloading the android auto app on your phone then plugging the phone into the usb port in your car. Make sure android auto is enabled in your Sync settings. Then android auto should just pop up on the sync screen. Personally I have only used the front usb port so I can't attest if the armrest port works for android auto.

If you don't see a setting in the sync menus for android auto, you likely either dont have the right software version or are mistaken which hardware you have.

To further clarify this is not that silly applink stuff. This will run a (simplified) variation of your phone screen through your car screen.


***Sorry to aid/abet in the hijacking of this thread, just have a hard time ignoring another human in need. :cheers:

I'm struggling to get waze or gmaps to work on sync3. Spotify via applink is fine, what do I do for the other apps?

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