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WInter tires and cold temperature definitely affects your mpg. When you initially start the car and If you don't mind freezing to death, don't turn on the heater. It helps with your mpg, because the engine will reach operating temperature much faster for the hybrid to work more efficently. After driving about 15-20 minutes, if you feel you the need to use the heater, you can turn it on. If you're on the highway sooner, then you can turn on the heater.

No, the car is all stock. My all seasons tires are over 6 years old. The tires probably have 4 or 3/32nd tread life left, so it seems to help alot with the MPG. My brand new winter tires, and also the cold, really affects my mpg, could only do 30-35 mpg. Sometimes less in extreme cold. My work shift is in the afternoons, where traffic is lighter on the main roads, and coming home at night with even lighter traffic. This way, it is a whole lot easier to hypermile and control the speed. Also, driving on the same roads for years going to work and back you start to get used to the roads terrain which makes it easier to anticipate coasting on the roads incline and slopes. If I go on the highway to work and back home, I can get 40-50 range mpg. Right now, my long term mpg is showing 46 mpg (was reset like a month ago) A couple of weeks ago, I achieved 61 mpg on a 13 mile drive. (0.2 gallons used)

I'm now at 4 years since I did the HVB reset, and the car still going strong! No issues at all. Still excellent MPG. Currently averaging 50-55 mpg in my commute in this weather. Never went to the dealer to do the update. Side skirts near the bottom of the door is rusting away. Also, rust pretty bad on my trunk lid next to the license plate. Touched it too hard and put a hole through lol. But, she still goes and seems to be mechanically sound. Next thing I'll do is change the coolant, the spark plugs, and maybe the transmission fluid. These have never been changed.

PM me your hardware ID of the forscan software you've downloaded. I can generate the activiation key file for you and email you it. You don't need to register on the forums, if you still can't.

I have the same problem. Car is almost 13 years old, and it has the same rims with the original sensors. I attribute it as being the battery dieing in the TPMS module. As long as it doesn't say low tire pressure, I just ignore the fault message. It has been happening almost 3 years now, only when it's cold it seems. Did not see the problem in late spring or summer. Yes the problems also occurs for me after 25 mins of driving, and it's gone when I start the car later or the next day.

You need an ELM327 ODBII device that works with Forscan software. ODBII are cheap on amazon around $20 to $30. Forscan is free to download, also, you can get a free 2 month trial code generated to use the programs advanced features, which is needed to do what you need to do. What you're trying to do is PATS programming. Here is the link on how to use it, when you only have 1 of the orginal keys. https://forscan.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=839

The symptons from what I remember your cars speed will be capped to 30-40 mph and will it feel noticably sluggish. The car is limp mode basically. This is when the yellow wrench appears. Yellow wrench won't give a code, as turning the car off and on clears the problem temporarily. You can deal with it for a little bit, but the problem will keep happening every 10-15 minutes or less of driving, which is not ideal as its just not fun driving a slow car and dangerous to you and pissing others off driving slow lol. I think after 5 or 6 more times of the wrench appearing, it eventually displays double yellow wrench ( 1 small and 1 big wrench icon). If you keep restarting the car to clear it, you will eventially get a check engine light will finally show up. That is when you can stick your ODBII to find out what the code is (I think mine finally showed up after the 10th time?) My trouble code was P2112 (throttle actuator stuck closed)

Cleaning it will be ok, if its regularly done, maybe if someone does it every year or so. When I first encountered the problem almost 3 years ago, which means mine that started to fail at 9 years old with no maintenance! Cleaning 9 years of caked on, stuck on dirt and carbon was not fun, but it was something I attempted to the best of my ability. Instructions I looked up on how to maintain it mentioned to be careful of the flap, gear mechanism and chip that it is delicate can be damaged, watching your fingers don't get caught, had me a little concerned lol. With almost the entire bottle of the throttle body cleaner gone, and settled for good enough, and stuck it back in. It only lasted a week until the problem persisted again. Decided to just finally look up the cost of the part. It was only $70! What the hell, I just drove up to the Ford parts department, bought the part, I changed it out right at their parking lot lol, then drove off. I have not seen an issue since (it's been almost 3 years now trouble free. Maybe I should clean it!!)

Buying a licence is a choice, to support the creator of the program. In a way it is good if you constantly are using the program. But, you really don't have to buy it, if for most people this is a one and done thing, and not having to use it anymore. You can generate a free 2 month license, over and over again everytime 2 months is up, or whenever you need to use it again. I asked that question a while back about the TSB details and what exactly are parameters of the fix. Unless you get a Ford tech that will spill the beans on the steps of how they fix it, no one will ever know. Or if you know a friend or family member or someone close that works at the Ford dealer, to see if they can ask the service dept and ask questions on how that TSB is done. But that might be against thier policies of disclosing company data. I don't know. Also realize this is Ford or any other car, or any name brand manufacturer of anything that will have any of our best interest at hand. Planned obsolescence is a thing thats been happening right under our noses whether we like it or not. They may have designed the fix to gradually make the car become more of a problem in the long run. Like you know, subtly make you think to stop driving your car in the next few years and time to get a new car. Who knows what else they could have modified? They could have made it better or worse than just the battery age reset. The choice is given to you. Take the car to the dealer to have the TSB done, or perform this reset on your own at your own risk. This brings up the Apple Iphone 6 battery and phone slow down software fiasco that they did which I was a victim of (From that point on, I never bought another Apple phone again after that) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/16/claim-for-750m-against-apple-launched-alleging-battery-throttling

It is now exactly 3 years to this date, since I've discovered and performed the battery age reset. The car is still going strong and the high voltage battery pack is still working just as well since i've bought it. I did an oil change, complete brake job replacement recently (new calipers, rotors, pads, new brake fluid), and with the warmer weather now, my MPG has skyrockted. Just did 975 km (600 miles) on full tank. Not bad for a 12 year old car I guess. Hopefully it can last a few more years (Which I think it can) when more options of EVs will flood the market from all the different auto manufacturers.

So now it has been 2 years now since I've discovered and applied this self-fix for the battery reset. The car is still going strong without any issues so far. Still getting get great mileage.

From their FAQ: What is Extended License, why and when do I need it? Extended License provides access to Configuration and Programming functions of FORScan, and also few Service functions (such as PATS programming). Base FORScan functionality (connection, retrieving vehicle information, reading parameters, read and reset diagnostic trouble codes, run tests and service functions etc) do NOT require Extended License. There is a free 2 month Extended License that can be issued for anyone who has account on our forum. Also there are paid longterm and lifelong licenses. Downloading the FORScan program is "standard" licensed by default. All it can do on Standard is retrieve vehicle information, reading parameters, read and reset diagnostic trouble codes, run tests and service functions. the "Configuration and Programming" tab functions are making changes and edits to the car's computer data. Yes, as you mentioned, programming keys or in this case you want to change the battery age. It falls within this category, which the Extended license is required. Since I was basically approved as a member of their forum within 1 hour of the request, generating the 2 month free trial license right after was the easiest thing to do and I had the program activated "extended" mode within minutes. So, I never really had a reason to try it out on "standard" mode. I've read a person here pages back, that they've tried to change the battery age on Standard and couldn't do it. I've also read some members here were taking a while to be approved by the FORScan mods, and they grew impatient. I helped a few on here by generating the trial extended keys for them, and emailed the key to them so they can activate it and use it. If this is the problem you're currently experiencing because of your member approval times at FORScan forums, I can make the Extended key for you if you want.