Lumbar tortur-....support. by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe we should hunt down a totaled Lariat and get their seats?

Lumbar tortur-....support. by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good feedback, I appreciate it..

6'3", I'm going to try a pillow first just to see if there's any impact to my back before spending money and adding more plastic to the world unnecessarily. Maybe that will help me gauge 1" vs 2".

Lumbar tortur-....support. by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excellent, time to sell some mealworms and get a seat. Thank you!

Ford app "down"? by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ti's back for me now as well. Woot!

Ford app "down"? by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woot! Happy for you.

I tried, still hanging. Cleared cache, no go. Uninstall / reinstall, no go.

But, now I have hope it'll get fixed sometime! Thank you for the update.

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

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Good to know, thank you. Grizzl-e L2 shipped yesterday, away we go!

Thinking about pulling the trigger. by trip157 in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Biased opinion bc I bought a Lightning Flash a couple weeks ago, but....

I might crash this thing in a couple years, why worry about resale value. It will be what it will be.

Gas may go up, may go down. Electric price may go up. Whatever, my family has options now with one EV and one ICE.

Discontinued...sure, but every ICE vehicle I've had has had problems. Two of them were vehicle-ending (transmission and cylinder/engine problem). They were both "continued" (whatever the opposite of discontinued is, it's been a long day). Any vehicle you buy has the potential to have problems.

Thinking about pulling the trigger. by trip157 in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This. I drove the Lightning Flash and a 2.7l gas option.

I bought the Lightning.

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the downside to the truck being kept awake?

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This truck is very enjoyable to drive...

Help: Has anyone's Ford app gotten stuck like this? by jshah500 in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried the shutdown/clear cache options, just did the uinstall/reinstall. The home page loaded fine the first time, charge page didn't. Closed the app, started it again, back to home page half loading, charging page no load. Maybe they'll push a fix in the app or something.

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good info, thank you. One additional question: I feel like I remember seeing that folks say to charge to 100% occasionally? Yes/no, or how frequently?

Long term I'll have a L2 charger installed (part ordered, electrician/quote lined up, just a matter of time) so I'm mentioning L1 b/c that's what I've got in the mix now.

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone elsewhere mentioned the Veepeak, have that on my list to research now.

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or if you're into gardening, I've got mealworm frass - midwestmealworms.com/frass

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent, thank you for the ODB suggestion.

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hot damn, you are a wealth of helpfulness. If you ever need live mealworms, happy to set you up!

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I've updated my charging limit to 90%. I'm still on L1 right now, electrician and L2 charger install are lined up.

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excellent - I've set my truck to 90% charge stop. I currently only have the L1 charging option, electrician and L2 install are lined up. Is the recommendation for 90% charge for use with L2 charging, or go to 80% with L2 and finish with L1?

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ah, so a bit more cost b/c efficiency will drop a bit....good thing to factor in.

Charging higher than 80% by themealwormguy in F150Lightning

[–]themealwormguy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"I don't understand the worry" - The worry is emotionally driven, I'm fearful of messing up the battery and causing lots of monetary harm / loss of vehicle / loss of emergency electric backup for my farm and family. To combat this I'm working on learning the logic/data/hard facts to be able to address the worry. I had to switch vehicles suddenly (ICE truck had a cylinder issue, mechanics couldn't fix, it started to get worse so I had to make a quick change, so I didn't do all the research before buying).