There are two different ways to program your truck with FORScan. Go back to the list of modules and save the rest of the “AS-BUILT format” modules using the same procedure. Now click the square button at the bottom left of this module that will stop this module. Click the “save all” button at the bottom and name this file something like APIM-original. You should now be inside the APIM module and see addresses & values.
Start at the top (but don’t do the one called PCM Relearn) with APIM (AS-BUILT format) by clicking it to highlight it and then click the button at the bottom of the screen noted by the green arrow. All of the modules with “AS-BUILT format” after them (the black arrows show three of them) are what you’re going to enter 1 by 1 and save. Connect to FORscan and click the Programming icon noted by the red arrow and you should see all the modules FORScan found in your truck. When connecting to FORScan, the safest method is with the key on, engine off.
How to Use FORScan to Backup Module Data File
The default location where FORScan saves the files you create below is in the \documents\Forscan\ folder. After you complete all the module backups I highly recommend you copy the backed-up module files to a secondary location such as a usb drive just in case your computer ever crashes. When you connect to your truck for the first time with FORScan, it is absolutely essential that you perform a backup of your modules before making any changes so you have an easy way to revert changes in the future. FORScan only allow us to enable/disable certain functions that Ford already built into these modules we cannot program them to do anything we want. You may not have all the same modules as someone else with a higher trim package and while FORScan allows us to modify these module parameters, it cannot enable a feature that your truck’s current hardware cannot support. For example: the APIM module controls the parameters of your Sync 2/3 system whereas the IPC module will control your instrument panel cluster display. Your truck is composed of many computer modules that control how different hardware components of your truck operate.
** Note: A Bluetooth adapter must be paired to your computer and, a USB adapter must have the correct driver (usually included with the adapter) installed in Windows prior to connecting with FORScan.
How to Install & Configure FORScan for OHP ELMconfig ** If your laptop doesn’t have bluetooth you can add it with this dongle that works well.Ģ. All of the adapters below are confirmed to work. FORScan License:Generate/Renew Extended FORScan LicenseĪ Compatible Adapter (the adapter needs to be able to access both HS-CAN & MS-CAN for access to all of the vehicle’s modules). FORScan will restart after this and should then show you have an extended license in the steering wheel icon page in FORScan and you’re ready to program.
After you download the license file go back into FORScan to the steering wheel icon and push button at the top to point FORScan to wherever you downloaded the license file to on your computer. When generating a license file from the link above, it will ask for Hardware ID this can be found in FORScan under the steering wheel icon. Here’s cheap refurbished laptops that will run FORScanĪ FORScan extended license (you must make an account on their forums and be approved) you’ll need to download a new license every few months once the old one expires. Here’s an inexpensive tablet that will run FORScan (The iOS/Android Lite versions WILL NOT let you make any changes). The FORScan beta for Windows (not the Wine edition):