LED lights , interior lights and Drive-In
Just got back from the Drive-in in my new 2016 Explorer Sport. A nightmare. First I could not get the interior lights to turn off with the tailgate open. Finally had to use my fingers and turn the latching mechanism manually in the lift gate so it thought the tailgate was closed.
Then I opened the window so I could reach in and press the start button to get the radio on, but that also turned on the LED signature lights and the drive-in workers told me they had to be off. I found I could press the start button twice, this would leave just the radio on, but also turned on the interior lights for 10 seconds, and the radio would shut off every 10 mins and I had to keep doing this over and over with my car lighting up as every interior light came on for 10 seconds every time I did this.
Every other car I have owned had an interior light override, cannot believe this car does not.
I read thru all these posts. One mentioned the radio works without powering on the car, I will have to play around with that. Just wanted to mention the trick of manually tricking the tailgate into thinking it was closed. When the movie was over, I just hit the liftgate button on the key twice and it mechanism unlocked and the gate went the rest of the way up as if it had been closed.
I did not see anyone else having to do what I went thru, maybe they all have the dark mode or some other hack. I am sure there were other Explorers there.
I miss the old days of pulling the knob out for lights LOL so much simpler. Regardless, one should still be able to completely shut their lights off regardless of mode the car is in. IDK what Ford was thinking.
