Jason Some had success with dealers some did not from what I read.īottom line is YOU would have to do all the research and then try to convince your dealer to do it. Basically get the car with the things you want as you probably won't be able to add it in later. I may have confused more people now who knows. Some things that can be done by modifying as built data enabling keyless entry on police interceptor Sedans and SUVs, adding the abilitity to turn off advance trac on SHO models without the performance package, stuff like that. If the wiring exists or can be added you would have to change out the steering wheel add the heated steering wheel module and then modify as built data for the instrument cluster if the car has remote start and modify the as built data in the APIM as the only way to manually turn on the heated steering wheel is through touching the heated steering wheel icon on the MFT MyFord Touch display. As an example a member wanted to consider adding a heated steering wheel to his Taurus. You can download your vehicle ABD from this link that way you can see what I am talking about. ABD data is in the form of bits and checksums basically. Depending on what the exact module is, it can tell the car what options to enable, how to perform, etc. Ford vehicles have many electronic modules within the vehicle that all communicate with each other. I am going to try to give a little explanation of as built data. If the change or add on has anything to do electronically with the vehicle it probably will involve as built data changes.

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How to read ford as built data