It will dial but you can’t hear them and they can’t hear you. So, I try to call her back and the MF voice activation comes up on the screen but no voice. hit the button on the wheel to answer and can’t hear her hmm. So, I’m driving to an appointment later that morning and my wife calls. AND BONUS… the navigation that was off (I was bummed because I thought the apim was bad) is now spot on !!! I plug it in and low and behold it works!! I have audio, and Sirius is there and just needs to be activated from my old account (that’s a story for another time.) So, I get it activated and all is well. It takes a week to get here so I get to it this Saturday and I figure I’ll install it first to see if that was indeed it before I bug Dan anymore. I order another acm with satellite off of eBay a 2017 model. So, we figure that the 2019 acm not going to play nice with a 2018. So, I get around to doing it fire up forscan load the as built files he gives me and poof, nada, the acm still doesn’t work! so I reach out to Dan he has me check a few things and it still doesn’t work. Pay the man and he gets it out to me no muss no fuss. I put my order in on a Sunday morning figuring id here from him midweek with the files and I had them that afternoon! I give him my vin #, all the numbers off the apim, acm, and the fcim. So I figure it’s just me and maybe I need a pro at forscan to help and that’s when I turn to Dan at. But what the hell as apple car play works like a charm and can use that for navigation if I want to any ways. One other thing I notice is that driving around the Navigation is off! and by off I mean by like maybe 2-3 blocks! Oh man this keeps getting worse. So, I’m loving the 8 inch screen and don’t want to take it out so I put my old (2018 – 4 inch acm )to test it and it works, so I at least have audio for the next few days until I get this figured out. I hooked it all up and apim and fcim are fine but no audio ! forscan can’t find the acm either !!! luckily, I hacms’s here and they are both doing the same thing so it’s not that the first one was damaged. So that next weekend after the second set showed up, I went back at it. He had a second set out of 2019 and he crossed shipped it while waiting to see what the post office was going to do, mighty nice of him to do that. So, like I said the seller was great about the situation, this could have ended up being a long drawn out process and although it did take a while from start to finish, he did his best to mitigate it. Forscan wouldn’t even communicate with the acm it was dead… or so I thought. Not a deal breaker for me as I would probably never use it but just info I want to share as the 2018 and below have one on the face. It’s worth noting here that the 2019 acm (radio) has NO cd player in it anymore. So, the acm (radio portion) must have been damaged. The screen and apim came right up, The Fcim (heater panel) worked just fine considering it was had more options than mine. (had already installed the antennae, splitter cable and usb prior so all I had to do was install the major components) I put all the stuff in, and hooked up my laptop with forscan and fired it up. So while I waited for the seller and the post office of what was going to happen I figured one weekend to pop the stuff in and see if it works and maybe I’ll just keep it and make it work or at least let the seller know what works and what doesn’t. Ughhh ( only including this here as it will help explain a helpful detail later.) the box was partially crushed and partially ripped open. So, a week or so later the package arrived and my wife called me and said it was here but it looks like it came here via a warzone. I bought A 2019 apim, acm, and fcim on ebay for $550 My truck (2018 f150 screw) came stock with the 4 inch screen and no satellite and no nav(obviously). So, going to post about my 4 inch to 8 inch upgrade.
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