Just got an email from Ford, new program for Ford Pass Reward points.
Says now you can use your points to pay for connected services, like navigation, and their new streaming service, which sounds suspiciously like rebranded siriusxm, which I was also notified by email that you can now pay for with Ford Pass points.
I asked about all of this way back when I first bought my truck and had 75,000 points, whether you could use them to pay for connected services, and they told me no.
I guess enough people have been asking for this that they finally got around to making it happen.
So, connected nav costs $80 a year, which adds up to 16,000 points, I have 32,440 points left, so could do 2 years of nav.
But, the only thing I really miss about connected nav is the weather radar, the rest of the nav really sucks.
Been using android auto with google maps, which is better than Ford nav, but really only because you can get satellite view, which I REALLY LIKE, but the rest of google maps isn't much better than Ford nav.
The rest of the changes to the rewards has to do with how new rewards are earned, very little of which I care much about.

What I would really like is if there was a simple way to mirror my phone screen, that would take care of most of what I want as far as infotainment on my truck's media screen.

 

My truck came w/ 3 years of Connected Nav; is this new for 2023s and onward?

 

Ford never gave me the points when I bought the truck in 22.

 

I don't know, in 2022 there was 2 different navigation types, high trims, KR and up has embedded and connected nav, and with that you got 3 years free updates for the embedded, don't know about the connected subscription.
On my Lariat, connected nav was a 3 month trial, then I paid for a year, but it isn't worth it, not doing it anymore.

 

Ford did, maybe your dealer didn't get it done for you, all new Super Duty's diesels got 75,000 points with the purchase, at least the 2022's did.

 

I blew all of my points on fuel filters

 

Got 40k points for each of the two 2022’s I bought. The local Ford/Ram/Jeep dealership will let me use my near 100k points on any service for any vehicle. So I’m going to use them to change trany fluid/filter and transfer case fluid on our Jeep. Two jobs I rather not do myself.

 

Only one year Nav on Superduties the past few years.

 

They also tried to stick me with a surprise mark up on a COVP retail order, and gave me a lot of grief for paying with cash and not buying any ESP from them at 3x the price I got from Ziegler.

Definitely not going back to that dealer again. Ford has them to thank for me buying a ~50k Toyota this year.

 

Yeah, gas engine trucks don't get as many reward points as diesels.
But, yeah, dealer gets their money back from Ford for any parts or service you buy from them, so they are happy to let you use the points for any vehicle they work on.
Trans fluid change is a good idea to use points for, my truck is coming up on fluid change time, guess I'll save my points to put against that.

 

On certain upper trims (Platinum and Limited) you got 3 years of connected built-in Nav, that's how it was 22MY. The trims with the 3 year connected it would revert to embedded/built-in nav when the connected expires. On the trims that only came with 90 days of connected nav (KR and Lariat) it does not revert to or include embedded nav when the connected expires. In other words, in those trucks you either pay or have no nav after that 90 days. For 2023+ it looks like Lariat and up include connected built-in navigation with 3 year trial, not just Platinum and Limited.

 

Same. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Heck of a “Thank you” after waiting for 54 weeks after ordering it.

 

I got 90 days on my ‘22.

 

With wireless apple car play and Google maps nav is basically useless anymore. Certainly not worth paying the annual fees

 

As I stated above.