Lpetters84
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Does anyone know if the Ford Pass App will start your truck without the AT&T hotspot service or do you have to subscribe to the monthly service in order for this feature to work?
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Thank you for the information. Would my WiFi hotspot on my phone do the job or do you truly need the Att service? Trying to avoid spending another $20 per month haha.You do not need to subscribe to any service for remote start, lock, and unlock capability. Beyond that you would need a data plan from AT&T.
Do you mean as it pertains to your original question or other things/services?Thank you for the information. Would my WiFi hotspot on my phone do the job or do you truly need the Att service? Trying to avoid spending another $20 per month haha.
It would be more for the other services.Do you mean as it pertains to your original question or other things/services?
I'm no AT&T rep so I think they would be the ones to ask which services your current plan would support without the extra $20 monthly impactIt would be more for the other services.
Perfect. That’s exactly what I needed to know. Thank you sir.All the Navigation services work with FordPass not the Truck's Hotspot. All the functions of FordPass are done with the modem in the truck but this is separate from the hotspot. I have all this capability on my truck and don't have a hotspot plan activated at this time.
To enable the truck's hotspot you need to create an account on the displayed website, not the same as your AT&T consumer account website. The website is just for vehicle hotspot accounts and the plans are specific to that alone. This is not an addon to your consumer account. I did this on my 2018 for 1 year to experience it.
Why do this vs use your smartphone. Remember when you activate the hotspot on your smartphone you can no longer use Wi-Fi yourself. Second, if you are providing your smartphone as a hotspot it uses your bandwidth therefore anything you do on your smartphone will be slower since you are sharing your data bandwidth.
Thanks! I didn’t realize the modem was separate from the hot spot. Makes sense because the modem is going to be the way over the air updates are done.It’s all Ford app, all the time. No data plan required.
From what I’ve read it’s pretty reliable. I would test it at home just to make sure In the rare event your phone messed up the truck would still shut off after the 15 minutes or whatever the time limit is.Has anyone used this? I leave my truck at the airport months sometimes and the thought about using this every other day to keep the battery charged up a little.