when pressing button on dash while holding foot on brake it takes 1-2 seconds and if its below 45 its says pending to start 1-3 sec then starts

 

my delay is about the same as my 16, about 2 sec depending on hot cold the 6.7 is, the motor stays nice and warm a lot longer tho with the hood pad, so after a few hours its normally still warm enough to instant start!

 

The folks that kind of get screwed are those with the pushbutton start. I commented on this when I got my truck back in the beginning of October. Remote start function has always waited a minimum of 2 seconds before starting ever since you could get remote start on a diesel Ford. This truck is no better or worse.

However, with the key start, you could simply ignore the 'wait to start' lamp and just immediately crank. Unless the temp was very cold, the truck would pretty much start immediately with no fanfare. I imagine those 2017 trucks that still have an ignition key can still take advantage of this 'override.'

If you have pushbutton start, you have to push the brake pedal, push the start button, and wait with your foot on the brake until 'wait to start' goes out. You will see 'engine start pending' or similar message. If the truck is fully warmed up or it is hot out, it starts pretty immediately. If it is 3F outside in the morning and the truck has sat all night, like mine did, you can pretty much count on holding your foot on the brake for 6 seconds. If you release the brake, it will display 'start cancelled' and you have to do it all again.

For this reason, I typically use the remote start - no waiting with your foot on the brake.

 

#pushbuttonstartproblems

I don't have push button start but I do have remote start. Can't find where I read it, but the Fast Start glow plugs heat up to some crazy temp incredibly fast.

 

The Pending Start message comes up on mine too, with Push to Start. What does the screen say for you guys that still have a keyed ignition?

 

To throw a little curve into all these theories and real world operations.
I just went out it's 6:30pm ..15 degrees all day. Truck is covered in a thick layer of ice from last nights ice storm.
I jumped in, put my foot on the brake, and pressed the button. Pending to start (I forget the exact wording now) came up, but it certainly wasn't more then 1 second before the truck started. I would say .75 seconds.
Not even worthy of a complaint.

 

Wait to start light comes on, no message. Barely have to wait for it to go out.

Of course if I start it with the key I can just wait longer before starting to give the glow plugs more time. Coming from a 6.0, that's what a lot of us would do. But it would take a lot longer for the wait to start light to go out on the 6.0. Sure it is not needed, this truck starts so fast regardless of outside temp (so far anyway with temps in the teens). I can't plug the truck in during the day at work anymore but always plug it in at home on a timer. Left work the other day and oil temp was 23. Wait to start light went out after a second and she fired up fast.

 

What's a key?

 

If you have remote start and it's 3 degrees out, why in the world would you NOT use the remote start? Even just to give the truck more time to get up to operating temp?

And BTW, my salesman told me that they no longer use glowplugs. Take that for what it's worth. But he also told me lots of other things that I'm pretty sure he just made up along the way.

 

It's what us poor folk use.


At work my truck is out of range, not in view and I have to walk out to it. Sometimes I'll hit the remote start as I'm walking to it, other times not, as I'm right there anyway. And in cold temps the truck is not going to get to operating temp by idling it. I like to get her to 70 - 80 degress EOT before driving though.

Your salesman is an idiot.