Roveer1
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- February 21, 2021
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- City, State
- Morristown, NJ
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2013 Ford Explorer XLT
I recently bought a 2021 Explorer ST with the larger portrait screen. What a stupid decision on Ford's part to produce such a thing. Cell phone mentality gone wrong.
Using it with Android Auto you end up with a terribly small image and basically duplicated information below (when in radio mode). They really didn't think this through.
I was wondering if it's possible to switch back to the more landscape type screen. From watching a video from an upgrade service, it's a fairly simple switch to go from the landscape to the portrait. Plastic Bezel's, the screen itself, a small wiring harness and some programming (could probably be done in forscan).
I'd at least like to consider this or do it just to see if I like the landscape screen better. I've nobody has any concrete info, I'll try contacting the company the sells the portrait upgrades and see what they can tell me. For all those folks who did this upgrade, they have the landscape bezels and screens left over from their upgrades. Probably find them on eBay.
Roveer
Using it with Android Auto you end up with a terribly small image and basically duplicated information below (when in radio mode). They really didn't think this through.
I was wondering if it's possible to switch back to the more landscape type screen. From watching a video from an upgrade service, it's a fairly simple switch to go from the landscape to the portrait. Plastic Bezel's, the screen itself, a small wiring harness and some programming (could probably be done in forscan).
I'd at least like to consider this or do it just to see if I like the landscape screen better. I've nobody has any concrete info, I'll try contacting the company the sells the portrait upgrades and see what they can tell me. For all those folks who did this upgrade, they have the landscape bezels and screens left over from their upgrades. Probably find them on eBay.
Roveer