tpchristian
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- 2011 Ford Explorer
I have read through many of the posts about the issues with MFT. I have only had mine for a couple weeks and have had many, many issues. I thought that they would have taken care of some of these already on later productions, but I guess not. So, I am considering taking it in to the dealer. However, I don't know if it is even worth it. Two of these are body -- A-pillar rattle and loud rain noise at top of windshield. The reset are MFT. I believe that some dealers have been taking care of the A-pillar rattle. I don't recall seeing anyone getting the rain noise fixed. I have 2.11 MFT so I am not sure that there is anything that they can even do. I see people getting the processing unit replaced, but don't recall anyone saying that fixed any of their issues. Perhaps they are all software issues. I would be interested in comment on whether it is worth taking in. I am pasting a rough log of my issues that I have encountered.
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- Will sometimes not connect to my phone at all.
- Will sometimes not connect media to my phone.
- Infotainment computer rebooted spontaneously. I started my car and the screen was just black. I thought, "no, the screen died". However about 30-60 seconds later it said it said something along the line of servicing or maintenance. I think this is code for reboot because it just had a progress bar. After this showed up, it took a while for it to get back to the home screen. It seemed like forever, but it was probably about 2 minutes. It was move in day for my son and in a very tight parking garage so I just had to wait while someone was waiting to take my spot to unload. There are too may blind spot to go without the backup cam and sensors.
- This computer takes a long time to startup.
[*] Music was loud and I was letting my daughter drive. I was going to power down the radio. It wouldn't respond until about 30-45 seconds after starting the car.
[*] I can't get the voice command button to respond for 30-60 seconds after starting the car. It may be longer. Since many navigation functions are locked out. I feel like an idiot having to pull over to wait for the computer to catch up so I can say my address.
- Map data seems to be out-of-date.
- I have a USB stick in the system for my music. The display is constantly saying that it is building voice commands. I only saw this work correctly twice. Once the very first time I used it after picking it up from the dealer. It worked one more about a week later. Had about a half dozen times where it didn't work. I would just have to guess that the first one was correct. Luckily, it was for all of them.
- Today, 9/6/11, It said that there was a USB error and didn't play my music. When I got in the car at lunch time, it started playing my music.
- On most occasions, The system will tell me to choose from a list and there is no list displayed.
- It was raining lightly the other night and the area above the windshield sounded like someone tapping on an empty drum.
- I have been hearing a strange noise at times. My daughter was driving this last time so I was able to concentrate on it a little more. While driving down the freeway, I can hear a sound somewhere around the windshield that sounds like a flag flapping in the wind. This only seem to happen under certain circumstances.
- Today, 9/9/11, my navigation says that it failed and that I should contact my dealer. I was also pressing the voice button and it would not react. Made a couple more stops and this continues to happen. I was not able to turn the radio off while my wife was on the phone either. Later it did allow me to turn it off.
[*] Problem continued the following day. I could hardly use anything because the navigation error pops up about every minute. So, I tried taking the card out. The message for that were just as bad. Now today it spontaneously rebooted as I was pulling into the driveway. I only had the car on for a few minutes, but it may be back to working.
- Put in a new USB flash drive today, 9/12/11. I put it in and it started indexing. It completed and then said building voice commands. I could not leave it running any longer so I shut it off. Every time I start the car, now, it will say indexing. Sometimes when I start the car it will play the track that it left off on. Other times it will switch to radio.
- Had a problem where the HD radio (AM620) would cut in and out. This has not happened before. In the past it would take a couple seconds to lock on and it would stay on HD.
- I have had this happen three times in the last day. The backup camera will just freeze-frame. It was very freaky the first time because I was moving slow backing up very close to a car behind me. It was hard to tell that it was frozen at first and I nearly backed up into the car. This has happened a few other times since then.
- I noticed that the 4.3 inch display said that there was a navigation error, but the main screen would show a map fine. After a few minutes the normal compass showed up on the 4.3 inch display.