I have been trying to work with Ford for almost a year on what I believe is a real problem they have with their Navigation, but I am at the point that I think others just are not aware and if they were we might be able to get somewhere.
Ford has a setting in the MFT system called Breadcrumbs. By default it is off. If you turn it on it is supposed to track where you have been for so many miles. Pretty cool feature, especially for off road use and just even finding your way back the way you came; however, it's a crap system for those of use running the 13/14 MFT system.
Background - I have a 12' F150 Lariat with Sync, the breadcrumbs in that work just as they should. They track your location no matter what for approximately the last 140 miles and overwrite the oldest data. I also did the Vegas Off Road Experience with a 10 and a 12 Raptor and the guys there specifically took the time to show me the Breadcrumb feature and were bragging about how well that worked for off road. I put it to use on my 12' F150 and love it, no need to add GPS for offroad NAV, as that works pretty well. It could be better, but to just help you get back out of the woods/desert to your original location it works great.
Fast Forward - I buy a 14' Raptor and find that my 12' Lariat has a better factory off road NAV than my 14' Raptor. Frustrating my 14' Raptor off road truck has less capabilities than my Lariat that's 2 yrs older!
Here's the problems with the 13/14 MFT - I know it's both since my wife has a 13' Platinum, so I've done tests on both my Raptor and her Platinum. With a 13/14 here's the issues:
1. If you turn on breadcrumbs it only tracks you as long as you leave the map screen up. Change screens you lose your track unless you take it back to the map screen. So have the map up and realize you want to adjust you heated/cooled seat/radio/climate/other and take it off the map screen and forget to put it back you just lost your track from that point on. Arrgghh! The old system didn't matter what screen was up, it just constantly tracked in the background if breadcrumbs were enabled.
2. The new system the breadcrumbs only tracks 50 miles. Doesn't the new system have more memory than the old? Why can't it track further? Even if #1 was fixed at least I'd get 50 miles but many times I drive off road more than 50 miles. The 140 miles on the earlier system's was a more appropriate setting IMO, else allow us the option to set what we want it to 50/140.
I've done master reset's, had it into the Ford dealer (the dealer seemed to really try to get a resolution, but said it was software they couldn't do anything about and even tested another truck on their lot to verify it wasn't just my truck) been speaking with one of the Ford online reps on the F150 forum, (I believe this was before they were here), and updated software. I was told this was escalated to their engineering team. I'll be honest, I am about to just buy a Lowrance/something, which I am sure it'll be better, but it's frustrating Ford took such a step backwards on this feature, especially for the Raptor.
Possibly some feedback here might get the help, but maybe no one really cares about this feature but me so in that Ford doesn't want to fix it for one guy complaining.
Ford has a setting in the MFT system called Breadcrumbs. By default it is off. If you turn it on it is supposed to track where you have been for so many miles. Pretty cool feature, especially for off road use and just even finding your way back the way you came; however, it's a crap system for those of use running the 13/14 MFT system.
Background - I have a 12' F150 Lariat with Sync, the breadcrumbs in that work just as they should. They track your location no matter what for approximately the last 140 miles and overwrite the oldest data. I also did the Vegas Off Road Experience with a 10 and a 12 Raptor and the guys there specifically took the time to show me the Breadcrumb feature and were bragging about how well that worked for off road. I put it to use on my 12' F150 and love it, no need to add GPS for offroad NAV, as that works pretty well. It could be better, but to just help you get back out of the woods/desert to your original location it works great.
Fast Forward - I buy a 14' Raptor and find that my 12' Lariat has a better factory off road NAV than my 14' Raptor. Frustrating my 14' Raptor off road truck has less capabilities than my Lariat that's 2 yrs older!
Here's the problems with the 13/14 MFT - I know it's both since my wife has a 13' Platinum, so I've done tests on both my Raptor and her Platinum. With a 13/14 here's the issues:
1. If you turn on breadcrumbs it only tracks you as long as you leave the map screen up. Change screens you lose your track unless you take it back to the map screen. So have the map up and realize you want to adjust you heated/cooled seat/radio/climate/other and take it off the map screen and forget to put it back you just lost your track from that point on. Arrgghh! The old system didn't matter what screen was up, it just constantly tracked in the background if breadcrumbs were enabled.
2. The new system the breadcrumbs only tracks 50 miles. Doesn't the new system have more memory than the old? Why can't it track further? Even if #1 was fixed at least I'd get 50 miles but many times I drive off road more than 50 miles. The 140 miles on the earlier system's was a more appropriate setting IMO, else allow us the option to set what we want it to 50/140.
I've done master reset's, had it into the Ford dealer (the dealer seemed to really try to get a resolution, but said it was software they couldn't do anything about and even tested another truck on their lot to verify it wasn't just my truck) been speaking with one of the Ford online reps on the F150 forum, (I believe this was before they were here), and updated software. I was told this was escalated to their engineering team. I'll be honest, I am about to just buy a Lowrance/something, which I am sure it'll be better, but it's frustrating Ford took such a step backwards on this feature, especially for the Raptor.
Possibly some feedback here might get the help, but maybe no one really cares about this feature but me so in that Ford doesn't want to fix it for one guy complaining.
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