Today I was about to take a trip and I pulled out my TomTom 920, about a year old. It wouldn't switch on. Tried all kind of things , called tec support but couldn't get it to work. TomTom won't repair it as it is over 1 year old. They told me to buy a new one!

So I programed my destination in SYNC on the web site and used SYNC to navigate to my destination. Worked great. Saved me alot of trouble. I may not get the TomTom replaced as the SYNC is doing it for free.

Joe

 

yup..and doing it for free for 3 years.. Gotta love it

 

This happens without the nav package? Can you elaborate on exactly how this works? Could you use a bb/web enabled mobile phone to access this site?

 

all the info is at the www.syncmyride.com website...... if you have the 2010 with Sync you have to download and install the new software version

 

YEAH!

 

<Sigh> Always wanted to work for Ford since I was in highschool but ended up with another big company you may have heard of..... General Electric Company.... I work with heavy duty gas turbines but mustangs would ahve been alot more fun!!

 

I don't know. Work has its good days and its bad days, but I guess you get that everywhere. A lot of my time is spent arguing with managers about why they shouldn't kill a good idea just because they wouldn't use it.

...then again, I think all my ideas are good, so I guess I'm biased.

And I don't get to work on just Mustangs. I work across vehicle lines. In fact, most vehicles I take out for testing are Fusions, Flexes, Edges, Escapes, or F-150s. All the cool cars (Mustangs, Taurus/Taurus SHOs, MKS's, SVT Raptors, Fiestas) are hoarded by the marketing people. ::shaking fist angrily::

But anyway--I studied GE a lot in school. Lots of case studies, lots of papers on Jack Welch. I think Ford is definitely going in the right direction, but GE pioneered a lot of that for the manufacturing sector.

 

More info on how it works in this post: https://mustangforums.com/forum/6443662-post11.html

syncmyride.com is where you can get the update to install in your car (if it wasn't factory installed--they started installing SYNC v3 (Traffic, Directions, and Information) at the factory a little while back). But the people who made that website decided to do nearly all of it in Flash, so phones don't really work with it. That was marketing's decision to allow that. ::shaking fist angrily::

 

At least it's automobiles...but like they always say...the grass LOOKS greener on the other side of the fence. I met Jack at one of our engineering conferences.... That man cuss' like no other. I was taken aback being that he was a CEO of such a major company. My stocks miss him dearly

 

Yeah, I know what you mean about the grass looking greener... back in December of last year/January-March of this year, the grass looked greener pretty much everywhere else. In fact, so many people were getting laid off/walked out by security, I'm not sure Ford had much grass left. Lots of tumbleweeds, though.

The layoffs are slowing down, but it'll be a long recovery. I'm not sure we'll ever have same the number of people we used to.