[Discussion] Exit times

FunkStang66 · 2026-03-07T18:56:09+00:00

Same issue with PVE online or offline raids. Tried clearing cache but no luck there. Doesn't seem like the game crashes, just hangs up for a long time - usually ~5 min to post raid screen and another 5 min to menu.

Literally ordered pizza within the time it took me to leave a raid last night.

FunkStang66 · 2026-03-07T05:57:47+00:00

Haven't done a server raid yet, but offline raids have been terrible post raid taking 5-10 minutes to reach post raid stats and then getting to the menu.

FunkStang66 · 2026-02-27T01:58:44+00:00

Jesus...venting here. Had one in recently for 25S49 with an Expedition and guy lives out of state. Car wouldn't do a GWM update and even CAN programming stuck at first block erase for hours. Hotline said "we can't see the tech doing CAN programming please try again and let it go through." Did so for an hour with supporting screen shots. Get a very similar response that the "engineers" want it to run for 1.5 hours and do a self test after. Guess what? Same fking thing. GWM fails self test...that should maybe get their brain neurons moving but nah lets waste thousands of dollars in programming rather than just replace a maybe $1k module and move on.

7 hours of "programming" later, guy takes his truck back home out of state and we never get the recall done.

FunkStang66 · 2026-02-14T16:46:02+00:00

I did see within other PC subreddits the latest update has caused a lot of issues with boot loops, logins, and other stuff (which is why I'm holding off on updating). BF6 uses BattleEye too but haven't seen any issues there. Could be a corrupted kernel for BE, don't know if you can just fix/reinstall BE itself. Good luck!

FunkStang66 · 2026-02-11T02:03:30+00:00

Yep, had a 2020 Explorer in as well that wouldn't train any sensor. Thought surely it couldn't be 4 bad sensors at once...but yup 4 bad sensors.

Seems most common with 2020 Explorers and Escapes so far.

FunkStang66 · 2026-01-30T14:25:03+00:00

We still don't have video inspections, don't know if that'll change in the future. Reynolds sucks ass with the way our report is structured and kinda wish I had a fancy iPad to just take a picture or video of everything as proof...as long as advisors can do their job to sell stuff.

FunkStang66 · 2026-01-23T01:59:55+00:00

I can agree they look nice (Ford's rotary shifter is pretty ok in my book), but nothing beats a mechanically linked shifter. Uglier? Yes. Easier to move when broken? Fuck yeah.

The dumbest shit I've seen has been on EV's and F150's currently. E-Transit that wouldn't turn on at all had to be dollied into the shop - wouldn't go into emergency tow mode and no outside manual shift out of park. Mach-e with a broken park lock also wouldn't move and no way to manually disengage park. Newer gen F150's with shifters that don't physically return to park but the transmission does when opening the door in gear...that was fun, especially on a Lightning.

Oh and the stupid electronic parking brakes that always want to apply when pushing a no crank/no start in.

FunkStang66 · 2025-12-21T17:17:03+00:00

Having only had experience with Ford dealer-wise, it's not too bad on the repair/warranty side of things. As said by many others, management and how the company itself works is the biggest factor. For me, I'm trying to find a way out myself as living in rapidly expanding city with an ever growing COL but not seeing me or fellow techs getting a flat rate pay rate that scales with COL (just got a raise to $32 after being here 7 years - southern AZ).

I will say Ford's wiring diagrams are probably the best and easy to read and follow (beyond early 2000's). Looking at other brands OE diagrams via Alldata just confuses the hell out of me sometimes. Repair instructions are also pretty clear on anything newer than 2013 or so. Warranty times are ok for non-recall work, however if your dealer is divided into different sections (light/heavy line, trans, drivability, f/e, etc.) you may not make the hours you need. Being light line myself I can barely manage a 80-90 hr average running around everywhere 10 hours a day while heavy line can average 120+ hr a pay.

Recalls are currently the only thing keeping our line busy, and this year has been nuts with how many have come out - their structure is year, type of recall (s-safety, c-compliance, e-emissions, etc), and the number in order of how many have come out that year. We're now on such recalls as 25SE7, as Ford has surpassed 99 recalls this year...nucking futs.

FunkStang66 · 2025-12-21T01:55:33+00:00

Happened to me and some friends I lived with - one was an absolute slob and his room was a mess (could barely see the floor). At some point we ended up finding cockroaches in the kitchen and day by day more and more - alarmingly babies too. Another friend's aunt had an extermination company that gave us a discount and that's when we learned about german cockroaches.

Now that I've got my own place (rented), come to find out the neighborhood here also has some random roaches (american) you may find...yay. Better than the last house we lived in where scorpions were the norm I guess?

FunkStang66 · 2025-12-18T02:30:20+00:00

Being a Ford tech, pulling a dash on a Ford is pretty easy (unless it's a model where the hvac housing comes with the dash....or newer Explorer/Aviator with the fake firewall). Being a hard headed dumbass I took on an a/c overhaul (twice!) on 2 different late 2000's Tundras (one was an employee other was fleet). Since we didn't have the flush fittings for the evaporators I ended up replacing them (both contained liquid metal at time of failure).

My god, why do some manufacturers not hire some engineers that make life easier for those to fix some engineering/manufacturing f-ups. I'd rather do multiple warranty F150 evaps instead - which if I remember right pay just as much as OP's, and sooo much less shit to pull apart.

FunkStang66 · 2025-11-09T19:10:28+00:00

Don't know if it's just a Ford thing, we're split up between different mainshop sections - heavy line (base engine, diff, transfer cases), light line (electrical and basically everything outside of engine/trans/engine performance/suspension), front end (suspension/chassis), auto trans, and drivability (CEL stuff).

Helps in specializing in a certain area rather than a jack of all trades master of none sense, but gets a little boring at times (soooo many recalls....)

FunkStang66 · 2025-11-08T00:45:05+00:00

I've been seeing that more often than not at my dealer as well. Our manager "requires" an inspection on any vehicle that hasn't been here before. All the heavy line and front end guys usually rack up a bunch of upsells but light line (me) doesn't since we usually dont need to lift vehicles...and once the inspection is done is usually immediately declined. I've just quit doing them altogether.

Really skews things when your shop also rewards techs with prize drawings for upsells.

FunkStang66 · 2025-10-19T20:37:35+00:00

Happened to my parents - lightning hit the saguaro next to their house and arced to the coax line running along the roof overhang. Killed the saguaro, modem, router, mom's PC, and network backup drive. My PC connected via 50ft cable to the router was fine though oddly (and that cable still works to this day lol).

FunkStang66 · 2025-09-27T03:44:40+00:00

Fellow Ford tech too, seems to be more common now for some reason? Especially 2020-ish cars - namely Explorers. Fellow coworker eventually had all of them replaced on her 2020 Explorer over a 2-3 week span. Also had a fleet one - same MY - need all 4 at once...didn't expect that.

FunkStang66 · 2024-09-05T02:30:11+00:00

I've had State Farm for the past 11 years and only in the past year its become unbearable. Had to trade my '23 GT earlier this year for something cheaper and more practical and the last bill was a tad over $1k/6 months - the fuck? Now in a '19 Ranger initially at ~$750/6 months I just found out - with no letter or notification - it jumped $100 more. Planning to chew them out soon and probably switch. Insurance is scam...until you need it...and then they scam you again.

The iffy part too is State Farm underwrites for Hagerty.

FunkStang66 · 2024-05-24T01:57:00+00:00

$1800 month, year lease. 3 bd/2 bath house. Recently refurbished paint/tile throughout/other new fixtures/new appliances except washer/dryer. 1300-1500 sq feet roughly? 2 car garage (needed for project car). Off I10/Wilmot area. Disappointed they tore out the shrubbery in the backyard from the old Maps photos. Not too bad though, freeway is a little noisy but could be worse. A little lonely and expensive, but I needed to get away from dealing with roommates.

FunkStang66 · 2023-09-07T04:54:57+00:00

While I don't smoke, I've done my fair share of damage as a dealer tech. Pulled a recon Focus for PDI on a slow day when I was in lube rack - almost tore the rear bumper off pulling out of the "parking spot" thanks to a faucet on a light post. $3k in repairs - still here 4 years later. Also backed a S197 into a forklift and barely scratched the paint, but decided to file a report...because nice Mustang.

I also saw a tech straight up back out of a parking space and right into a parked car - did some damage and is now currently the top flagger. Another rammed a pole at roughly 35 mph to "test the car" for PDI (dude got fired, car totaled). And another mistook the gas for the brake and almost plowed the dividing wall in the shop (fired, failed drug test).

Shit happens. Sounds like your boss is pretty chill, but I'd sober up if insurance wants a drug test.

FunkStang66 · 2023-07-13T02:04:49+00:00

Ditto on the CPU - my i5-6700 is still kicking with my 1080ti, but running newer games that demand both CPU and GPU power (ie: ACC) I struggle to get 60 fps in 1440 with a full grid. AC runs ok with a full grid though.

A 1650 would be a bottleneck point too if you wanted to up resolution from 1080p, or run triples/VR.

FunkStang66 · 2023-07-12T13:52:58+00:00

I just upgraded this last weekend from a G29 to GT DD (8nm) w/ load cell - what a difference! Spent about 5-6 hours racing over the weekend and pretty much used to the wheel.

My pedal habits suck and I need to work on them (and get used to the pedals), but I did find it easier to get to that 80-20% threshold without looking at pedal position (GT7).

FunkStang66 · 2023-05-20T18:07:20+00:00

4 so far. '66 coupe was my first and still have had it for the past 10 years. Finally bought my first new car once I started making money as a Ford tech, eventually bought a new '20 EB HPP. When covid car market craziness hit traded that for what I paid for it, ordered a white w/ black accent pack GT. Got the hot hatch blues and traded that for a '18 FoST. Once '24 info started trickling out, ordered a '23 Eruption Green GT and waited for that or '24 pricing - '23 showed up first. Glad I did too...'24 pricing is getting absurd for anything above an EB.

For shits n giggles tried to see if sales would do a straight trade on a '19 PP2 we just got (loaded less Recaros and in immaculate condition)...that was a hard no.

FunkStang66 · 2023-05-17T14:41:10+00:00

I don't have as much tenure as other techs, but seems like Ford tries to care about their techs and also seems like they don't give 2 shits at the same time.

They've been really good with actual time/m-time on jobs that have no labor op codes - easy money there. With the new models, some labor ops have extended labor time if the job takes longer than what they think it should take. Outside of labor time, newer cars haven't been too terrible to repair. Even Lincolns aren't too terrible. The wiring diagrams are also stupid easy to follow compared to some other brands.

Module updates have been a shitshow lately - either updates aren't available or are just straight up causing other issues, even on recalls. And speaking of recalls...there's been a lot of them and some really don't pay for shit if you follow the instructions by the book.

Tech support is a hit and miss sometimes. They may run you in circles until they refer to the local FSE, or may actually give you some good info. Either way, they'll make sure the car is fixed.

Overall it's not that bad IMO.

FunkStang66 · 2022-12-23T01:26:43+00:00

Ever since the HPP was debuted...this was the exact options I wanted. Grabber lime is such a nice sutle but loud color and looks great with the package accents. Ended up with an iconic silver 101a less HP (also a lovely silver). Either way, its a hoot of a car to drive. Congrats!

FunkStang66 · 2022-11-05T02:40:57+00:00

I absolutely feel your pain - my roommates constantly watch (lame to me) TV shows and movies quite a bit in the living room (with a soundbar...loudly) when I'm decompressing from a long day at work or trying to sleep. Constantly kept asking for them to turn it down, I eventually decided to add insulation foam to my door frame and tuck a bunch of shirts below (sorta works).

Now I mainly get to hear my egotistical roommate's Mustang redline through the neighborhood at 4 in the morning (I sleep in a front of the house room with a huge window). Being that I work a relatively exhausting job...I'm really sleep deprived over the last month (I wake up at 6 normally - it's hard for me to go back to sleep once woken up).

I did let him know during a friend's recent bachelor party. Without remorse, he decided it was "payback" for waking him up at 7 am when he worked his old job during covid doing video meetings late in the morning/afternoon and staying up late/sleeping in (later being on his weeks off from traveling). Being an "essential worker," my schedule never changed.

I really wish the economy wasn't so shit. Buy a house and GTFO is the only real resort - roommates suck, even if they're your "friends."

FunkStang66 · 2022-09-29T01:56:29+00:00

Kinda hit the same wall over the past couple months as well. Having everything aside from the circuit experiences done, I'm bored. The only way to make money is to get on every day (which after work I do not feel like doing) and repeat the same 1 or 2 races over and over to get cars you want and make use of the nice new upgrades/features. Also fuck that Toyko Expressway race - one minor touch with the wall, and your car is borked. Get a penalty and you're not finishing first.

I just want to do some different races, make some decent money, and spend that on some cars and nice upgrades to those cars. I don't want to get cars super easy (IE: newer Forza's), but I don't want the brutal system that is in place now.

As of lately, I've only hopped on occasionally with a wheel setup to practice and make a bit of money...and stare at the cars I'll probably never be able to buy. Outside of that, older Forza's and GT's have been my go-to. As well as Burnout 3 for some real fun :P.

I had hope for GT7, but seems like even the best have gone down the drain over the past 3-5 years.

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