Toggles

[leftywayn]

Another thing is on a hot summer day the metal pieces will be hot to the touch.

I had a billet aluminum shift knob that would hold the heat in a closed car.

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[JimmyTwoTimes]

Another thing is on a hot summer day the metal pieces will be hot to the touch.

I had a billet aluminum shift knob that would hold the heat in a closed car.

Thankfully, this car (at least when equipped with an automatic transmission) has remote start so you can start the car and let the air conditioning and the seat coolers run for a while before getting in it.

 

[rwickens]

Thankfully, this car (at least when equipped with an automatic transmission) has remote start so you can start the car and let the air conditioning and the seat coolers run for a while before getting in it.

I could be wrong but I am pretty sure that each time you start the car you will have to physically turn on the seat coolers/warmers.

 

[tbonez3858]

Dave Pericak told me the toggle switches were made from unobtainuim when we were cruising around drinking beer in his 6,000 hp grabber blue EB last weekend. He did mention they had a chrome coating on the EB PP model. The LE model gets plasti-dip and the GT PP model gets an aluminum covering....Hopefully that sets everyone straight.

 

[kulfyur]

Doesn't matter one way or another all that silver shit is too much. The base interior switch gear is smarter and better looking.

Well I figured someone would like that base interiors. Do you dislike aluminum so much you leaped for the v6 interior?

I've never driven a "high end" car, but the v6's interior is just so ridiculously hideous (especially come pared to the others) i was actually taken aback. Total turn off form me, it actually saddened me that a mustang could make me feel that way. It's so ugly there is no way ford wants the average consumer to buy that.... no way...

(not attacking just disagreeing lol)

In my reading on this site it seems the general consensus is that the toggle switches in the premium are aluminium. I am pretty certain they are chrome-plated plastic. Firstly they look like chrome-plated plastic, and secondly they have the button function image on them, that I seem to remember also being back-lit with interior lighting.

I'd like to hear thoughts on this. I'd LOVE for them to be metal, but I just don't see it. The cost, the weight, etc, etc. just doesn't make sense for Ford to go that way.

Like you said, most of what you read will tell you it's aluminum. Like others have said there is a debate on here already about what they are made of. Not to be dragged into Spartan and Goe's battle of wits, I sat in the car also and deliberately check the material. Just hear me out. Disagree or agree as you please... But just read the following as my earnest experience unbiased.

When i checked the toggle switches the first time, I simply grab the switch between my thumb and index to feel the material. It was odd, I couldnt determine form that. Metal tends to feel cool, but this didnt. Also plastic tends to feel warmer. Again it didnt match there either (thermal conductivity is what I feeling of course). So I moved to test the hardness by trying to flex the switch and see how much "give" it had. It didnt. At all. But I was still skeptical cause of the thermal conductivity still has me thinking something is off. I thought i cold be a little metal underneath 1/4 layer of plastic maybe... So i moved to the universal nail tap (:lol. That confirmed it was pretty freaking hard throughout but the impact still seemed slightly off from being metal. Honestly i was baffled I left pretty sure it wasn't plastic but what exactly it was.

Ok that my experience with the car. Unbiased. Now here is my opinion as of now having read the these posts and reconsidering my experience:

They are aluminum with a coating. Why? They are ridged throughout no doubt. As for the thermal conductivity under the impact nail test, take a tshirt, and lay it on a plate at home (kitchen ware). How the plate bare with one had and covered with the tshirt in the other. You will likely still feel the covered side still feels slightly warmer. Tap both sides with your nail now... obviously the shirt absorbs the impact. To me there is definitely a coating on aluminum toggles.

Last part, making sense for Ford and having back-lighting:
Easy part. Ford buys these parts from a supplier most likely. It comes already in the radio assembly from the supplier so it may cost them a little more, but it's not like they are manufacturing it themselves so the dont lose on R&D or anything. Maybe a higher premium for the aluminum but i doubt significant.

So how do you get the back-lighting? Again easy, You make all the toggle switches exactly the same. Then you drill a hole in the top in all of them. In that hole you put the little plastic masks you want for the image they will produce. Kind of like a cookie cutter (the literal one). When you coat the whole thing with w/e that material is. Boom, aluminum toggle switch with back-lighting. Glue holds them in place and the coating helps to make everything look and feel flush.

Ok guys.... tear me down happy to take criticism if this sounds impractical/improbable

 

[OppoLock]

Thankfully, this car (at least when equipped with an automatic transmission) has remote start so you can start the car and let the air conditioning and the seat coolers run for a while before getting in it.

I'll gladly the branded palm instead. H-patterns are pretty attractive I hear.

 

[Malikona]

Ok if you say so.
They are obviously forged and assembled aluminum pieces.

It has been confirmed by Ford in multiple places that the toggle switches are NOT aluminum (I assume you are talking about the toggle switches) - they are a chrome alloy. Not plastic, not aluminum. Edit: they may be plastic underneath the chrome coating, but the surface is definitely not aluminum, that has been confirmed.

 

[kulfyur]

link to one of the many sources?

 

[Grimace427]

I'll gladly the branded palm instead. H-patterns are pretty attractive I hear.

 

[Malikona]

link to one of the many sources?

http://www.tflcar.com/2014/09/2015-ford-mustang-almost-everything-you-wanted-to-know-video/ Start watching at about 5:00

 

[souprmage]

Someone needs to take a drill with them next time and I want to see shavings.

 

[Rickycardo]

Start watching at about 5:00

Well, he definitely says they are not aluminum. Chrome plated pot metal perhaps?

 

[Rickycardo]

Pot metal = Die cast for those who might not know.

 

[OppoLock]

Someone needs to take a drill with them next time and I want to see shavings.

This is amazing lol.

 

[geokots]

It has been confirmed by Ford in multiple places that the toggle switches are NOT aluminum (I assume you are talking about the toggle switches) - they are a chrome alloy. Not plastic, not aluminum. Edit: they may be plastic underneath the chrome coating, but the surface is definitely not aluminum, that has been confirmed.

Not sure if you quoted me because I'm giving the aluminum claimers a hard time of if you didn't sense my sarcasm.

What you are saying is what I believe to be true.

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