Digital cluster on "song name" bar, SYNC issues

[Bit_the_Bullitt]

Hello all,

I've gotten my 2019 Bullitt in Feb 2020. So far so good, just the occasional annoying bug, mostly electric.
There are two main ones that are driving me nuts:
1) On the digital cluster, no matter the mode, for about a week now I've had that little grey bar stuck on top that shows the name of the song/station when you change stations (or sometimes it gives you the update on random basis). Has anyone ever seen this? I've tried to change cluster styles (from normal to sport, drag, etc.), doesn't help. Short of removing the battery cable, not sure how to fix this, any ideas? See my picture for that.

2) Recently my SYNC has been spotty to say the least. There's been drives and days when the screen is either black or stuck on the shiny pony logo, I can't change stations/songs/input from the steering wheel nor the unit itself, essentially all commands (with the exception of volume) are non-responsive, even the power button doesn't work. I've gotten it to restart by holding power+skip, but it's rather inconvenient. I've ran updates.

If anyone has ran into these issues, please let me know, gets frustrating...

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[Ecoboosted]

Have you disconnected the battery and let it sit for a while then reconnect it? Sometimes it will fix these types of issues.

 

[Bit_the_Bullitt]

Have you disconnected the battery and let it sit for a while then reconnect it? Sometimes it will fix these types of issues.

That's my plan to do when I get home today, I kind of always forget before the drive and after the drive the engine bay is really hot to be fiddling with stuff under the hood...

 

[Dadillac]

I think I remember reading that the song title only shows up on the normal screen.

Don

 

[opengl]

I think I remember reading that the song title only shows up on the normal screen.

Don

Its only there persistently on Normal, but will drop down briefly in Sport or Track when the song changes. You can see the blank bar where the song name would normally appear in OP's picture.

 

[Temovic55]

Any idea how to change the whole speedometer into KM/H ?? I'm talking about the speed gauges and not just the one displayed on the middle of it! I've looked everywhere on the Youtube but failed to point one!

 

[Elp_jc]

The option to change to KPH is right on the first page when you click on settings (the 2 gears on the steering wheel). And on advanced settings you can also change language, tire pressure units, and temperature units.

The bar that shows songs and other stuff is supposed to retract after a second or so. Did you play with FORScan by any chance? You might have inadvertently changed a setting while changing something else. If not, then remove the battery, or reset the IPC module with FORScan.

Finally, removing the battery is supposed to clear issues, but in my case, it created them. Ha ha. Car was functioning perfectly, and when I replaced the battery, the gremlins began. I was going to order another V1 mirror power cable, since it stopped working. I connected it to the 12V cable today, and disconnected it at my destination to put the sunshield in place. When returning home, just for the heck of it reconnected the 'bad' cable, and it freaking worked now, and didn't do anything. And messing with the wires doesn't even cause a hiccup in power. My digital dash also stays black until two or three seconds after starting the car (or turning ignition on), and the Mustang picture only shows up for a fraction of a second. Is that the way other Bullitts start up? Don't remember how it was before, since I never paid attention. Ha ha. The reverse light being on turned out to be the stupid LED bulb, which is not CANbus compatible. Put back the stock, and no light. And when engaging R, it lights up, so that wasn't an issue with the car.

 

[opengl]

The option to change to KPH is right on the first page when you click on settings (the 2 gears on the steering wheel). And on advanced settings you can also change language, tire pressure units, and temperature units.

That just adds a smaller KPH readout below the current MPH one.

Any idea how to change the whole speedometer into KM/H ?? I'm talking about the speed gauges and not just the one displayed on the middle of it! I've looked everywhere on the Youtube but failed to point one!

There's no way to change the whole scale to KPH, thats determined by the firmware on your cluster.

 

[Temovic55]

That just adds a smaller KPH readout below the current MPH one.



There's no way to change the whole scale to KPH, thats determined by the firmware on your cluster.

That is exactly what I figured! I've read somewhere a software would do the trick but it's not going to be cheap almost 500-700 US for reprogramming the whole cluster and the only odometer of 300KPH top speed you will get is the Bullitt!

 

[AceS550]

Hello all,

I've gotten my 2019 Bullitt in Feb 2020. So far so good, just the occasional annoying bug, mostly electric.
There are two main ones that are driving me nuts:
1) On the digital cluster, no matter the mode, for about a week now I've had that little grey bar stuck on top that shows the name of the song/station when you change stations (or sometimes it gives you the update on random basis). Has anyone ever seen this? I've tried to change cluster styles (from normal to sport, drag, etc.), doesn't help. Short of removing the battery cable, not sure how to fix this, any ideas? See my picture for that.

2) Recently my SYNC has been spotty to say the least. There's been drives and days when the screen is either black or stuck on the shiny pony logo, I can't change stations/songs/input from the steering wheel nor the unit itself, essentially all commands (with the exception of volume) are non-responsive, even the power button doesn't work. I've gotten it to restart by holding power+skip, but it's rather inconvenient. I've ran updates.

If anyone has ran into these issues, please let me know, gets frustrating...

Do you have the shift light setting on track mode? If so the gray bar stays displayed all the time and will not show song titles. Try changing the shift light settings.

 

[Elp_jc]

Hey, good catch. Just saw his shift light yellow line at 5,200, so he has it obviously activated, and probably in track mode indeed. I use the dash in sport and track modes, but lately left it at sport. I hated having those yellow lines, so deactivated the shift light; now it's nice and clean all the way to redline . I'm not going to redline it often anyway. For track it must be great, but I'm not going to do that. Hopefully that's the end of the 'problem' for the OP .

 

[Bit_the_Bullitt]

I did have shift lights on and those "shine through" the stuck grey bar.
I ended up taking off negative battery cable for about 15min, that fixed it.

In Normal gauge setting (not necessarily Normal mode as you can have gauges and actual car/steering/exhaust in different mode), the song stays.

I do wish there was a setting to show constantly the song, title, artist, or let you scroll through your list, like most modern cars have :(
I feel like it should be in the Fuel/Trip setting, make it Fuel/Trip/Audio and you could then toggle on it instead of the tire pressure etc.

 

[Emilbadal]

I’d suggest to turn off the Wifi in the settings of your Sync3 and also turn off the automatic updates. My sync3 was choppy and audio would even cutoff on bluetooth. As soon as I turned wifi off all problems were resolved. Seems like wifi occupies major bandwidth in the apim.

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