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Good information. You are a computer tech, and you were able to make this work for you, without the very expensive OBD II hardware that some people believe is necessary. I also see an inexpensive kit which includes FORScan. I suppose a $100 investment into a cable is not always "must have". Roll over image to zoom in ELM327, Forscan ELM 327- HS-CAN and MS-CAN Modified ELM327 OBD Self Diagnostic Tool Compatible with Forscan Focccus ELMconfig FF2 Software for Focus Mondeo Kuga Edge Exploror F50 Taurus Everest Escort by OTKEFDI 4.1 out of 5 stars 8 customer reviews Price: $29.99 | FREE One-Day

In case it is relevant, these are the specs for the computer. Thus-far, without knowing what to expect, I haven't been able to do much. But then again, I don't have any problems to fix. So FORScan isn't going to tell me much of anything, except that nothing is wrong. So these screenshots are of little to no value to me. But for someone thinking about FORScan, this will give you an idea of what you might see.

Last time I was there, they said that the technician noticed my timing cover has a leak. Something I didn't see. But they found it. No worries. It's covered under warranty. I will be bringing the Transit Connect back in there in a few weeks for them to correct the issue. A lot of work that I won't have to stress over doing myself, or paying someone else to do it. Wow! You took the initiative to invest in a computer, to attempt what may or may not work. Beers to you. Take screen shots of every step along the way. Write it up, whether it works or not. That way, we can see what you did, or tried to do. FORScan is something we are all lacking knowledge using.

I'm sure that there are leftovers from last year. That's with every car. I can't think of any car where they don't have a few leftovers. Every car sold with lifetime fluid proved that there is no such thing as lifetime fluid. Everyone has heard of the Mercedes sealed, lifetime transmission.....which failed miserably. Just about every one of those developed problems once the fluid was contaminated. Yet, Mercedes, Toyota, Ford...they all sold cars with "lifetime transmission fluid". My 07 pickup truck came with the 4 speed Ford transmission, which was also suppose to be lifetime. A decade+ later, every "lifetime" 4RXXX transmission from Ford has proven that it's not lifetime, and requires service. Then they all eventually fail, and need to be rebuilt or replaced.

With Transit Connect, there will not be a shortage of used vehicles coming to the market. Ford sells 30,000 - 40,000 of these every year. Mostly fleet sales. Those fleet vehicles will be up for sale. If you really want to buy a used Transit Connect, have patience. Keep looking, and you will find 1 with reasonable pricing, decent maintenance record, and in a condition acceptable to you. Shopping online is your best resource. You can find something halfway across the country, and possibly negotiate transportation as a condition of sale. It's almost common practice these days for people to buy cars and ship them. carmax.com has a nationwide inventory. Lots of cars are sold on eBay. carguru.com , autotrader.com , https://www.enterprisecarsales.com A lot of resources. COMPARE SORT BY: LOWEST PRICE 2012 Ford Transit Connect XLT $10,599*115K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Hulen Mall$799 Transfer to your store - TX to CA Compare VIEW MORE 2011 Ford Transit Connect XLT $12,998*89K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Austin South$799 Transfer to your store - TX to CA Compare Single Owner Advanced Features VIEW MORE 2010 Ford Transit Connect XLT $13,499*69K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Laurel$949 Transfer to your store - MD to CA Compare Low Miles Per Year VIEW MORE 2013 Ford Transit Connect XLT $13,599*76K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Loveland$599 Transfer to your store - CO to CA Compare Advanced Features VIEW MORE See what you can afford Get pre-qualified to find cars that fit your budget. GET PRE-QUALIFIED 2014 Ford Transit Connect XL $13,998*77K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Schaumburg$899 Transfer to your store - IL to CA Compare Single Owner Advanced Features VIEW MORE 2014 Ford Transit Connect XLT $14,599*93K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Norcross$949 Transfer to your store - GA to CA Compare Single Owner VIEW MORE 2015 Ford Transit Connect XL $14,998*70K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax TampaAvailable in Tampa, FL Compare VIEW MORE 2015 Ford Transit Connect XLT $15,599*73K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Kansas City$949 Transfer to your store - KS to CA Compare All New Tires Advanced Features VIEW MORE Sell us your car Selling or trading in? We want your car. GET YOUR OFFER 2015 Ford Transit Connect XLT $15,998*60K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Kansas City$949 Transfer to your store - KS to CA Compare Advanced Features VIEW MORE 2015 Ford Transit Connect XLT $16,599*52K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Lithia Springs$949 Transfer to your store - GA to CA Compare Single Owner All New Tires Advanced Features VIEW MORE 2016 Ford Transit Connect XL $16,998*39K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax San Gabriel Valley/Duarte$149 Transfer to your store - CA to CA Compare Single Owner VIEW MORE 2015 Ford Transit Connect XLT $16,998*59K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Dayton$949 Transfer to your store - OH to CA Compare Advanced Features VIEW MORE 2015 Ford Transit Connect XLT $16,998*45K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Wilmington$999 Transfer to your store - NC to CA Compare All New Tires Advanced Features VIEW MORE 2015 Ford Transit Connect XLT $16,998*24K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Oklahoma City$799 Transfer to your store - OK to CA Compare Low Miles Per Year VIEW MORE 2015 Ford Transit Connect XLT $16,998*58K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Sacramento/RosevilleFree Transfer to your store - CA to CA Compare Single Owner Advanced Features VIEW MORE NEW ARRIVAL 2015 Ford Transit Connect XLT $16,998*45K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Southlake$949 Transfer to your store - GA to CA Compare Advanced Features VIEW MORE 2014 Ford Transit Connect XLT $17,998*36K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Plano$799 Transfer to your store - TX to CA Compare Single Owner All New Tires Low Miles Per Year VIEW MORE 2014 Ford Transit Connect XLT $17,998*42K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Louisville$949 Transfer to your store - KY to CA Compare Low Miles Per Year VIEW MORE 2016 Ford Transit Connect XL $18,599*24K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Ft. LauderdaleAvailable in Ft. Lauderdale, FL Compare Low Miles Per Year Advanced Features VIEW MORE 2016 Ford Transit Connect XLT $18,599*46K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Ft. Lauderdale$1099 Transfer to your store - FL to CA Compare Advanced Features VIEW MORE 2014 Ford Transit Connect Titanium $18,998*30K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Texas Stadium (Irving)$799 Transfer to your store - TX to CA Compare Single Owner Low Miles Per Year Advanced Features VIEW MORE 2017 Ford Transit Connect XL $18,998*15K MilesSee CarMax Price CarMax Southwest Freeway$799 Transfer to your store - TX to CA

Do you know how hard that would be, to capture three wild dingo, bandage them completely like a mummy so that they don't move, kick, scratch, or bite, then cuddle with them in a shallow grave?

Those rubber wire boots do remove, and you can run new wiring alongside OEM wiring. I did it with my lift gate to install the backup camera. But with a door, it may be easier to run wiring once you remove the door interior panel. You should have enough access to run your wiring using "fish tape" and lubricant. through that rubber boot, without removing the rubber boot.. Yes, there really is a special lubricant used for pulling wires. With the right tools, the job is much easier. Only problem is that if you're not an electrician, you wonder if you want to send $$$XXX for those tools to do a simple small job.

In the Mustangs and Explorers, some guys were known to pull the seat, peel back the carpet kit, and cut into the floorboard. Make an easy access opening to the fuel pump, so that you don't have to drop the tank.

There was another thread about that part. I recall someone mention that it's not included with cars sold in USA. But what I did get, and you should have it in your car, is the funnel. Part No. 8U5A-17B068-AD, 8U5Z-17B068-B Which appears as if the part is interchangeable with a "SheWee"

For whatever it's worth, this is what I am using with my "netbook". A small, underpowered computing device, like a mini-laptop. As the name implies, it was only meant for surfing the web, while you were sitting in a cafe. This is what we had before tablet computers with touchscreens. 12 years old. A lot less expensive & less sophisticated than whatever it is that they recommend that you buy for $75. But it works.

"Dude, your tow truck smells like weed!" "Uh, yeah......uh, you want some?"

As long as you are happy, that's all that matters.

Or less. You could always search on Amazon. A lot of OBD II devices cost less, and will work. I'm using a simple cable with USB on one end, and USB II on the other end. I bought it 12 years ago, and spent about $12. I suspect a lot of the lower priced cables won't work. But you could get lucky. I found 1 that worked. Good thing about amazon.com is the easy returns.

Did you have to pay Discount Tire for the service?

It doesn't look like anyone has this figured out yet. I want to tell you that there may be a solution if the dealer has a tech guy who can get into the programming of the body control module. This is where the perimeter lights can be turned off, fog lights can be reprogrammed to work with the high beams, keys can be reprogrammed, et cetera. Allegedly FORScan is a program that has been able to do a lot with different models of Ford cars. One of the forum members installed a different steering wheel, and was able to activate cruise control, on a Transit Connect which did not come from the factory with cruise control. I just downloaded FORScan, but really haven't had time to play with it, figure it out, figure out what can or can't be done with the free version, et cetera. But for you, it may be worth your time to download it and try it. Worst case scenario is that you only use it for turning off your check engine light.

Not that it really matters, but the latest article in 2018, in The Washington Post, creates a different impression. The only thing that is really important is that for the time being, Transit Connect is still retailed at a competitive price point. Otherwise, we would be in the $30K base price market. And if production is shifted to The USA, who knows how much higher. If Mercedes begins assembly in USA, and their price drops, as Ford Transit Connect price climbs........a lot of us will be on the Mercedes forum. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-strange-case-of-fords-attempt-to-avoid-thechicken-tax/2018/07/06/643624fa-796a-11e8-8df3-007495a78738_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f3bcef32d989 It sounds as if Ford still imports passenger vans, strips them, and pays the import tariff. The case is still going through the courts. Ford expects a refund of all tariff paid, if & when they win the final verdict after the case has exhausted all appeals. But the most interesting thing that I read was from: http://1stclasseconomics.com/ford-beat-usas-chicken-tax-tariffs/ "Customs officials claimed that Ford because so efficient reassembling a passenger truck into a cargo truck that the sneaky task took them less than 11 minutes."

As with every law, you have the letter of the law vs the spirit of the law. Then you have all of the various opinions on how effective the application of the law is. The intent may be to protect the US market from a flood of lower cost imports, at the same time, preserving manufacturing jobs for Americans. Does it work? With a pickup truck or van, almost all sales are Ford, GMC, & Ram. But that's because most of those are fleet sales. Government agencies, utility companies, large construction companies, all buy American trucks and vans. Sometimes there are ordinances which require purchase orders to be Made in USA, unless otherwise unavailable. We all know that Toyota Tundra is a very well engineered truck. It lacks the 8' full bed length which most commercial users want. And it's always sold with a higher trim level, as opposed to something like Ford's XL basic package for commercial use. Only Mercedes sells a full size Sprinter to compete with Ford Transit, Chevy Express, & Ram. For me, the pricing is why I have a F-150 and Transit Connect. I'm not spending double to ride in a Tundra. And the extra $10K is not an incentive for me to buy a Mercedes mini van. I suspect price fixing has also protected the American manufacturers with discounted fleet sales. Does The Chicken Tax work? Yes & no. Who do you blame? The manufacturers' lawyers & accountants who figured out how to circumvent it by importing a passenger van & stripping it down? The labor unions who want so much for their workers, that the cost of labor is what throws the balance sheet off? Congress or The President for keeping an import tariff from 1964 intact? The oil industry whose interest is in us not being able to buy more efficient vehicles. Big 3 greed buying off politicians to protect their monopoly on commercial sales? The consumer, you & I, benefit from a free market. It forces sellers to be competitive in pricing. But that free market is what has driven manufacturing to other countries. It's simply less expensive to produce everything in another country, bear the cost of shipping & import, and still sell at lower retail w/ a higher margin. I'm no expert on global economics. I'm just like the next guy who wants to save a little money. I eat a bucket of chicken, without any thought as to how The USA is still using farm bills, subsidizing chickens and eggs, to leverage trade with other nations. When you start thinking about how The USA subsidizes farming, to flood the global food supply with below cost food staples, then leverages that against foreign governments with trade agreements..........I'm just a fat American, driving a large truck, eating a bucket of chicken.

We need to start a post for everyone to post their moving violations in a Transit Connect. I want to see all of those "exhibition of speed" citations.

That's how it's done. It's called "The Chicken Tax". Politics. Not even Donald Trump politics. But exactly the same thing. Import tariff to protect American auto manufacturers. This goes back to The Johnson Administration. Before most of us were born, and for some of the older guys, before they were old enough to drive. The Chicken Tax is what killed the VW Scooby Do Mystery Machine and gave us the stupid looking Subaru Brat.

Depending on how much you're willing to spend, there is always a local vendor who will sell and install the correct product. No guess work. Then they deal with offering you a warranty on their parts & labor. And you can go back there when it starts to leak.

It actually took him a whole year.

A lot of us suffer from range anxiety. The fear of running out of fuel at a point where there is no fuel available. All that anyone has to do is what you are doing. Refuel to a full tank, before it is needed. But in my daily life, I still talk to knuckleheads who have no clue in regards to mileage, tank range, cost per mile, et cetera. They say things like: "I can get $20 of gas on Monday, and drive until Thursday. Then add $20 on Friday for the weekend. It never runs out. How much do you spend?" I like when they tell me, "your truck is big, does gas cost more?" Nope. I pay exactly the same price per gallon as you do. Your commute is different than mine, so there's no relevant comparison to how much you spend vs how much I spend. But I suppose there's heavenly bliss to not filling up your tank to full, and just handing $20 bills to the cashier every few days.

Now that is a good story.

With the Torque app, I was able to use a $7 OBD II reader w/ bluetooth. One of those that you buy on Amazon. FORScan will not work with that reader. With FORScan, you actually need a more expensive unit. So for the penny pinchers like me, FORScan will cost a little bit more out of pocket.

Sounds like the kind of dealership I would do business with.