It’s always a risk but highly unlikely this will happen. I have never bricked one.
No you will not. The maps you bought will be specific to the earlier version of SYNC. Usually though you will get the map update from Cyanlabs months before Ford releases it to you. That may not always be the case though.
Thank you both for the reply. One additional question, if necessary, is reverting back to the old system as easy as simply restoring factory defaults or resetting off the battery?
Haha, makes sense, but keep in mind that’s how you break things
Either process is well documented and as Bill said there’s always a risk, which is greatly increased by not reading/researching: Not reading or not following well documented instructions is the top reason (I would say) as to why users brick their units.
True enough. I’m mostly now just checking to see and make sure it plays nice with what’s loaded in the car too. I had looked into this all a couple years back, but just never got around to it. Now that the car is paid off I’m coming back around to it - looks like I forgot a few more things than I thought.
Syn3updater and the knowledge base had come a long way since then.
If you are the first owner of the car and the unit has not been serviced, you should be good to go.
And if you have doubts, Syn3updater will have you run some checks before proceeding.
Thanks for the information! I’m the original owner, yeah. I just ran an OTA update on a 2019 Edge I have to 3.4 - since for some reason Ford thinks that system is somehow vastly different from the 2018 Fusion. It looks good and functions well, so I will do some more reading and prep work to go through the Syn3 update materials. Thank you again for the help!
Having a 2018 Fusion Hybrid I can say that one you have checked the APIM with the interrogator and verified that you don’t have MY2020 hardware due to a previous repair that reformatting is the way to go if you can.
Take the car for a drive if you don’t have a good battery charger to hook it up to.
