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  • Ford drivers. Can you turn that stupid green arrow off?
  • wrightyson
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    It may well be a great idea when tootling around the suburbs in your 1.1 fiesta to know when to change gear.
    But in a **** transit van with several hundred kilos in the back combined with Derbyshire hills its so far off the mark its ridiculous!
    Constantly catches my eye when it illuminates making me think I’ve left the indicator on or something is amiss!

    vintagewino
    Free Member

    I would also love to know the answer to this!

    kimbers
    Full Member

    wrightyson
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    Thanks kimbers. That is gonna happen if I don’t get a result!

    maccruiskeen
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    I’m not entirely sure thats the safest solution

    kimbers
    Full Member

    fwiw Ive removed my mk2 focus dash and theres no immediately obvious way to remove just one light apart from maybe just snapping off the LED

    but to do that you have to remove the dash then casing to get at the circuit board

    clubber
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    Kimbers has it in one…

    wrightyson
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    Eco bollox. Ill have no clutch left if I follow that stupid thing!

    vintagewino
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    I’ve got a Mk3 focus and the arrow is part of the display. I was wondering if there was a setting to turn it off somewhere.

    heisenberg
    Free Member

    What arrow?

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    That one down there

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    sorry. I mean that one up there

    retro83
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    I think I saw over on the FFOC or STOC website there is a little OBD2 dongle + software which can be used to switch that and various other things off and on.

    Mine lights up red at the redline, but not green. My dad’s otherwise identical car has the stupid eco shift green light as well.

    Edit; here you go, this should get you looking in the right area at least:

    ELMConfig – Enable/Disable Ford ECU Functions

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Can you do it through the OBD2 port, perhaps? Might be worth asking Ford when it’s in for a service.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Ha, simultaneous post. What he said ^^

    martinhutch
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    Alright, now you’ve sorted the arrow, how about the bit in my focus where it turns off the windscreen wipers when you’re stationary, even though it’s quite useful to see what’s approaching a junction before you move off…

    And the extra wipe it gives you five seconds after you’ve used the screenwash which spreads a nice smear over the clean windscreen.

    And the stupid ‘no seatbelt’ warning klaxon which goes off if you put something heavy on the passenger seat…

    edlong
    Free Member

    And the extra wipe it gives you five seconds after you’ve used the screenwash which spreads a nice smear over the clean windscreen.

    Yes, life would be a lot better without that.

    noskills
    Free Member

    The ‘no seatbelt’ klaxon can usually be turned off by pressing the seatbelt release button. Can’t help with the others though.

    molgrips
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    OP, you’re a builder.

    It may well be a great idea when tootling around the suburbs in your 1.1 fiesta to know when to change gear.
    But in a **** transit van with several hundred kilos in the back combined with Derbyshire hills being driven absolutley flat out everywhere its so far off the mark its ridiculous!

    allthepies
    Free Member

    Can’t you place the copy of The Sun on the dash over the light ?

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    I don’t have one in my S Max. I feel left out. 😥

    wrightyson
    Free Member

    Yes I’m a builder so why the **** has it also got cruise control, everyone knows a van must be driven from point a to point b as fast as possible. Cruising? **** off!

    br
    Free Member

    And the extra wipe it gives you five seconds after you’ve used the screenwash which spreads a nice smear over the clean windscreen.

    Renault added this ‘feature’ in about 1983/4 – my Dad worked for them and we use to get two new ones every six months. It was a PITA.

    Ewan
    Free Member

    And the extra wipe it gives you five seconds after you’ve used the screenwash which spreads a nice smear over the clean windscreen.

    This. The one thing I dislike about my car (mondeo).

    PePPeR
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    My Citroën Relay, has the stupid wipe delay, luckily it’s got canbus wiring which is so slow to react that you can give the washers another quick squirt before the delay wipe to make sure it doesn’t smear everywhere.

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