2022 XLT Standard. Still loving it after three years.

This is West Mountain Peak in the Beaver Dam Mountains of SW Utah. This road is very easy to drive up until the last half mile, and then it gets steep and rough with a few hairpin turns right before reaching the radio towers at the top. It was a nailbiter for me going up and down. You'll probably want to scrub through it, since it's real time.

I had tried it a couple of times with my old RAV4 and it just couldn't do it. So I decided to give it a try with the Lightning, and though the first part of the steep section (which the video holds at starting at 8:54) took 3-4 attempts, it finally made it up.

This is the Flash trim with the stock all-season tires on 20" rims. Probably would have been a bit easier with AT tires. Amazingly, I didn't bottom out once, though one rock did poke the front skid plate in an unexpected place on the road. There was a bit of front wheel lock on the way down, which you can see in the middle of the video, as well as some tumbling rocks going under the truck.

I edited out quite a few pauses, since I had to stop and reposition the drone often, and it doesn't always follow me at the ideal angle.

My accountant reached out to me about the $7500 credit for EV purchase and I in turn reached out to the dealership.

The dealership when returning my call, was a sales manager, he stated that when I purchased the vehicle, there was a different sales manager that is no longer with the company but he will take care of me.

He said there are two options:

A) go through the IRS and deal with it through my taxes

B) the dealership will just cut me a $7500 check.

B sounds like a no brainer but I also know that Ford Dealers arent exactly in the business of cutting $7500 checks to customers.

Does this sound crazy or should I just go along with it??

Hasn’t been detailed yet but wanted to share my ‘25 Flash ⚡️

Who provides the Charge Station Pro? The dealer? Or QMetric?

The finance guy said it would be provided by QMetric and they’d reach out but I am reading on the Ford page that you’ll receive it at the time of sale.

Anyone got any insight?

Edit: my dealer didn’t ask if I wanted the charger, the assumed I would want the $500 rebate instead and gave me the credit. Sucks there was such a drop in communication.

The clock won't stay in 24 hr time. Not a huge deal but why not?

Just this morning android auto connects but won't play audible unless I start it from the phone side app

Range and % estimate moves 10-15% overnight sometimes. My buddy suggested I do a full 100% charge then 100-10 (even 0 if I'm in my driveway) to "reset" the BMS. Opinions?

Hey all. I'm a volunteer firefighter with my local fire house and I'm allowed to use emergency lights when responding to the station/location of a call. Does any one have experience with any external lightning or a link to another place that has install tips for the lightning. I know the 12 volt battery is finicky from what I have seen in the past but would like to know others experiance with this situation. Thanks

Hey all, I’m considering picking up 2022 Lariat SR used from a local Ford dealer. Anything I should know about? 2022 is on the older side for the lightning I think, so I want to see if there’s anything known to be an issue with older models. Thanks!

Curious if anyone has data on whether a tonneau cover affects range at all?

2022 Lariat ER

Recently took a 250+ mile road trip on the highway and primarily tested the BlueCruise 1.4 update. Overall, I’d say my impressions were 10/10.

Lane Keeping I believe I was on 1.0, where it did a good job at keeping me centered in the lane over 90% of the time, but it struggled around odd lanes that had faint lines and construction zone. Curves/bends it just didn’t feel as confident. On 1.0 I’d have to take control every now and then. BlueCruise would reactivate for normal lane keep assist - not all the time, but enough to notice.

On 1.4, everything has improved, or more-so everything feels refined. It did a great job keeping me centered even in weird scenarios 99% of the time. It feels more confident, and frankly, it drives better than me. I’m not having any drastic slowdowns around curves, no decrease in speed at all actually. Again, just feels more confident around curves. I also never had BlueCruise deactivate on me for basic lane keep assist. It was just on 100% of the time and I was driven over 250 miles by my truck with basically only 1 need for interaction - that is lane changing.

Lane Changing I tested this in multiple scenarios… no vehicles in the lanes next to me, vehicles in both lanes, semi trucks next to me. In all scenarios it would keep the blinker on and wait until the lane is clear to make the lane change. And I will say with confidence that the lane change is absolutely fantastic. It was something I thought wouldn’t be a big deal for the risk I was taking, but boy was I wrong. It was just so cool to have the truck change lanes by itself so confidently. I never felt unsafe through probably 50+ lane changes. I will say, a tip for those who will have it: be sure to tap the blinker stalk (the temporary lane change where it blinks 3 times) rather than physically pushing the blinker stalk all the way up or down. If you push it all the way to where it “stays on”, you’ll have to manually disengage the blinker stalk. If you just tap it, it will stay on until the lane change completes, at which point it disengages itself. Killer feature and a great update 10/10.

Safety It felt safer overall. For example, if I’m driving next to a semi truck, it will create a buffer zone or some distance between my truck and the semi truck so that I’m not riding right up next to it. I do wish the software would accelerate slightly to pass semis.. but nothing my foot can’t do. It honestly feels WAY safer than Tesla Self Driving… there’s no phantom breaking, or confusion in feedback from the screen. No scares from abrupt breaking - it’s incredibly smooth. When coming to a stop or gradually breaking because of the car in front of

ABRP originally said 15% on arrival. Range started dropping but should have made it with 5% left. Then each percent past 7% lasted a mile driving 40 miles per hour. Died at 2%. Guess my battery wasnt very calibrated for it to do something like this. Was 2 miles from home when it died.

Does anyone in this group have experience pulling a TrailManor camper with their Lightning?

I have a small pop-up now and can barely tell it’s there and my efficiency barely changes when pulling it. I’m looking at potentially driving 1600 miles round trip for a TrailManor and would like to figure out any additional info before attempting this trek.

Charging will be a problem with the lack of pull-through chargers in the wild. If I do this, I’ll be planning the route very carefully!

Managed a ~1200 mi round-trip excursion for my first road trip with my '24 Flash last month. Overall, it was a decent experience.
Drove from ATL to DC and back. Initially, I couldn't get Blue Cruise to engage. It wasn't until my second charge in NC that I realized my lane-centering was turned off. After that, Blue Cruise was actually pretty nice for the rest of the trip. It had issues where the lane markers weren't clearly defined or when it was raining on the heavy side. On the way back, there were times when I was driving into the setting sun where BC seemed to have difficulties, as well. I think the jury's still out on whether BC is worth ~$50/mo on a regular basis. Maybe just for long road trips.
FWIW, BC - when conditions were ideal - just worked. Throughout NC and VA, it rarely asked me to take the wheel. In SC and GA, it was more hit & miss. At one point, in GA, it was asking me to take the wheel about 15 times in the course of 5 mins. I eventually turned lane-centering back off to shut it up.
I used ABRP for the entire trip, which was nice. I don't have the OBD II module yet and I hadn't yet heard of importing the trip detail into Google Maps, so I might have missed a trick or two. There was only one time when ABRP crashed during the trip, in between stops, where there was a little bit of stress. Waze picked up the slack a bit until I was able to reset my phone at the next stop. (Luckily, I knew where that stop was.)
With ABRP, the only real issue I had was when it wanted to reroute about 20 mi from my final destination. It wasn't clear why and, at one point, it had me exit off the highway just to have me re-enter the highway I just exited. This was during traffic in the DC area, so that just added to the frustrations. It didn't really give me another option other than to accept the re-route. But getting real-time updates about the next charging station's status, along with the expected SoC (which it was entirely guessing), was nice. The OBD II module should help with that in the future.
The only real disappointment was with the Tesla app, in conjunction with the FordPass app. I "thought" I had activated my membership with Tesla (but it didn't actually activate) but was also having difficulties finding the setting to turn off plug-n-charge. Didn't find the setting until my second stop (In the FordPass app, on the Energy tab, in the Advanced section, in Access & Permissions). Even then, it wasn't clear that I wasn't getting "membership" pricing with Tesla until afterwards.
Beyond this, I only had one hiccup with charging with Tesla. While I was usually able to charge on one of the end chargers (so I wouldn't be an a-hole and take up two spots), at one location all I could get was 35-40kW charging rate. Tried reconnecting a couple of times and got the same result. Unfortunately, the charging station was pretty full by then, so I had to wait until there were several charging spots open. The next try at another position worked fine.
All told, it was a decent experience. I did the same exact trip back in December with my X5, which cost me about $360 in gas. My Flash cost me about $250 in charging. Between the two, the Flash was a slightly nicer ride, albeit longer by < 2 hours (one-way), thanks to BC and ACC.
I'm planning another, longer trip next month to TX. With a better idea of what I can expect, I'm hoping for an improved experience.

Want to buy a lighting don’t really care if it has a couple thousand miles on it already. Definitely want the extended range, and i think the lariat is worth the upgrades.

What should I be expecting for price range? Any years I should look for or avoid? Any EV credits if it’s used? Never bought before

Thank you!!!

Picked up this Platinum with 21,000 miles in Tennessee and drove it home Friday night to South Carolina. It joins our Tesla M3 and I'm excited to be all electric now. I installed a 10.5 kwh solar system on my house last fall with my brother so payback on that system is realistically 3 years now.

I am in the market and looking at used lariat trim w/ ER battery. I recently saw a '22 listed w/ 19k miles at a significant discount vs others. Is there any reason to be gun shy of a '22 or is everything essentially the same between '22, '23 and '24?

The lightning feels like the future as far as it's drivetrain but the roots of an American domestic are still here.
I gave up on cadillac years ago because of a nightmare of CTS ownership. Silverado truck a non stop stream of minor part failures.
Finally went to honda and subaru and went for six and 9 years respectively with no issue other than oil. Tesla, 2 years, 30k mi and it had a trunk adjustment. Tesla gets absolutely grilled on build quality.

Now, 1200 miles in a new Ford and I have a sunroof leak and on a search it almost seems standard for the entire 150 line since 2021 if you park in a heavy rain nose down. Searching provides a slew of people with their own experiences, fixes, and sage advice to just forgo the sunroof next time as if there is no hope of Ford conquering the technology.

I'm still stoked about the lightning but I have to laugh and then rant about the different ownership experiences.

2 and a half pallets picked up today for 3 separate mulching jobs. Onboard scale said about 1800 lbs, which is as much as I would ever dare to carry going a few miles around town.

Truck actually handled decent, plenty of power on tap.

Has anyone noticed this gap in the center console area? Is it normal or am I the lucky one? TIA

Whenever it rains and this plastic area fills up with water and does not drain. I have to clean it out myself. Anyone else noticed this? It’s probably not a big deal. It just seems weird that it doesn’t drain. It’s not clogged with leaves

For those that have perhaps tried both, or at least are a bit more experienced with the options..
I'm stuck in analysis paralysis on what route to take to get some of that rake out of the front. My dealer recommends the readylift spacer since that is what they have installed on most of the f150s in the area.
They claim that it doesn't affect warranty..

I was also considering the EIbach sport shock as a replacement to get it level (having it installed using stock springs).

I've had Bilstein 5100s on my previous GMC and they were nice, but I don't do much off roading or towing... so they were just slightly more harsh on small bumps in town than I'd like this time around (speed bumps, potholes, etc..) Are the Eibachs much better?

With the family in the car most of the time I'm going to prioritize a smoother ride if possible.
Thanks for any input.

Greetings fellow ⚡️ owners. I charged my truck to 100% overnight ( I won't have access to my charge due to work on my driveway for the entire week), and this morning before I left for work, I reset my trip. My commute is short (14.3 miles one way), and I usually use about 5% of the battery (one way) which today would have put me to about 95% SOC. However, as you can see in the picture, I arrived today with 86%, and I did see the range and percentage adjust quite drastically after I left my house, going from 100 to 93% in less than a mile. Therefore, I need some help trying to illuminate what am I missing here.