I did a search and didn't see anything recent, so I apologize if it is here somewhere already.
Is there a map of As Built data for the different modules or a tutorial (anywhere) on the different settings? Like why you use a number sometimes or a letter and why they do what they do for the different modules? I have made some changes on my car and it is great, but I'd like to learn more.
I asked a Ford engineer and he says they have that but won't/can't release that. We have to experiment. All he said after that is there is software and there is hardware and sometimes you can make changes to As Built and sometimes you can't. Hmmm. Not sure why they are so secretive on this.
Any help or direction would be appreciated.
As Built Mapping
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Todd Ector
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Re: As Built Mapping
Welcome to the jungle!
To the best of my knowledge the best way to accomplish what you are asking is to find vin numbers for various models of the vehicle you wish to work on. In my case I pulled multiple Lincoln Town Cars, Crown Victoria's and Grand Marquis VIN's from various places on the web, some from wreckers, some from dealers selling the cars.
What you do is go the the Ford ETIS web site, click on the vehicle tab at the top of the page, enter the VIN into the form and click search. It will then tell you what options that vehicle was equipped with at the factory, save that list, repeat until you find all the options you are looking for saving each one with descriptive name or even in a spreadsheet.
Next you goto the Ford service website and find the as-built page, again enter the vin's and record the information it gives you in such a way that you can remember what vin matches the data.
Somewhere there is a as-built explorer program that can import the data, it allows you to load up to 4 vehicles at a time I believe, personally I concentrate on two vehicles at a time, first one being the one that I am working with and another comparing the various options between the two.
The As-Built explorer makes your life much easier as the codes are stored in hexadecimal, it takes those numbers and converts them into binary. Binary if you don't know is 0's and 1's, 0=off, 1=on. From that data you can now figure out how to turn options on and off, be aware even though you can enable and disable things you might need more wiring or hardware to make things function. For example I enabled the hourmeter in the Town Car easy enough, I also turned on the Air Suspension in the Instrument Cluster. The Air suspension instantly through up a couple errors (DTC's) and a warning on the dash. (2009-2011 standard wheel base Town Cars don't have air springs or the computer to control them so it obviously can't)
To the best of my knowledge the best way to accomplish what you are asking is to find vin numbers for various models of the vehicle you wish to work on. In my case I pulled multiple Lincoln Town Cars, Crown Victoria's and Grand Marquis VIN's from various places on the web, some from wreckers, some from dealers selling the cars.
What you do is go the the Ford ETIS web site, click on the vehicle tab at the top of the page, enter the VIN into the form and click search. It will then tell you what options that vehicle was equipped with at the factory, save that list, repeat until you find all the options you are looking for saving each one with descriptive name or even in a spreadsheet.
Next you goto the Ford service website and find the as-built page, again enter the vin's and record the information it gives you in such a way that you can remember what vin matches the data.
Somewhere there is a as-built explorer program that can import the data, it allows you to load up to 4 vehicles at a time I believe, personally I concentrate on two vehicles at a time, first one being the one that I am working with and another comparing the various options between the two.
The As-Built explorer makes your life much easier as the codes are stored in hexadecimal, it takes those numbers and converts them into binary. Binary if you don't know is 0's and 1's, 0=off, 1=on. From that data you can now figure out how to turn options on and off, be aware even though you can enable and disable things you might need more wiring or hardware to make things function. For example I enabled the hourmeter in the Town Car easy enough, I also turned on the Air Suspension in the Instrument Cluster. The Air suspension instantly through up a couple errors (DTC's) and a warning on the dash. (2009-2011 standard wheel base Town Cars don't have air springs or the computer to control them so it obviously can't)
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Re: As Built Mapping
Thank you. I am doing that with the other post I have here (parking/reverse sensors). I appreciate the thoughts!