The Ultimate in Convenience: The Best Features of FordPass Connect

Think about everything your smartphone does for you during a single day. From serving as your alarm clock and delivering the morning headlines to streaming your favorite music and giving you a platform to share a funny meme with friends, your smartphone is your lifeline to everyone and everything imaginable. Here at The Faricy Boys Automotive, your Fremont County Ford dealership, we’ll be the first to admit that we wouldn’t get very far without smartphones, and that’s exactly what inspired Ford to launch tools like FordPass Connect.

Knowing that drivers rely on their smartphones to navigate almost every aspect of their daily lives, Ford integrates this level of connectivity with its extensive lineup of cars, trucks, and SUVs. Through FordPass Connect, Ford gives you remote access to your Ford vehicle. Whether you’re relaxing on the couch at home, sitting in your office at work, or shopping for dinner at your local grocery store, you have access to your Ford in the palm of your hand. What does this access look like? Here’s some of the best of what FordPass Connect has to offer.

#1 Compatible With Apple and Android Users

What good is a remote feature like FordPass Connect if it isn’t compatible with your smartphone? Just as Henry Ford wanted everyone to benefit from the Model T, the Ford Motor Company ensures that even modern features like FordPass Connect are available to all. Whether you use an iPhone or Android, downloading the app is easy via the App Store or Google Play.

#2 Vehicle-Specific, Safe, and Secure

To truly enjoy everything FordPass Connect has to offer means adding your vehicle to the app. While many people might be hesitant about sharing sensitive information with an app, Ford ensures the tool is safe, secure, and specific to your vehicle. How does this work? The only way to add your Ford to the app is by using its vehicle identification number or VIN, which is like a thumbprint and is specific only to your vehicle.

#3 Vehicle Details at a Glance

FordPass Connect takes the guesswork out of your Ford’s health and well-being by giving you all the details you need in one place. Wondering if you can hold off on getting gas until after work? Use the app to check your Ford’s fuel level. While you’re there, you’ll also see details on your Ford’s oil life and approximate mileage.

The app also makes your responsibilities as a vehicle owner even easier, thanks to Vehicle Health Alerts and recommended maintenance intervals. Regardless of whether you’re behind the wheel or your teen borrowed your vehicle for a few hours, the app can alert you to potential problems like an engine that’s overheating or a new warning light on the dashboard. With this information, you can proactively maintain your Ford and ensure its longevity for many miles down the road.

#4 Remote Control at Your Fingertips

Colorado’s frigid winters are no joking matter, but with FordPass Connect, they’re much easier to endure. Instead of bundling up in the morning just to go outside to start your Ford so that it’s warm when you head into work, you can use the FordPass Connect app on your smartphone to start the engine from the comfort of your home. You can select “Auto” to set your vehicle’s climate control system to the optimal temperature based on the conditions outside, or you can select “Last Setting,” and the system will revert to the last climate setting used.

Once started, the app ensures your Ford’s doors are locked as another way to safeguard your vehicle and your belongings inside. You can, of course, use the app to lock and unlock the doors at any time, which is another impressive convenience. Let’s say that you and the kids are rushing out of the house in the morning, and you’ve got your coffee in one hand and your phone, lunch bag, and backpack in the other. Instead of putting everything down to dig for your keys at the bottom of your bag, use the app to unlock the doors and continue your morning routine without missing a beat.

#5 Comfort on a Schedule

While starting your Ford remotely is a huge perk that maximizes your comfort and your time behind the wheel, Ford makes the feature even more convenient with the remote start calendar. If you work Monday through Friday and leave for work every morning at 7:00 am, you can set the schedule to remotely start your Ford every morning at 6:45 am.

What if you work odd hours and odd days of the week like Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays? What if something comes up and you don’t have to go to work? Since the calendar is completely customizable, you can schedule your Ford’s remote start exactly when you need it. Ford makes the system foolproof for those days when you miss work or don’t leave the house by turning off the remote start calendar if you haven’t driven your vehicle between scheduled starts. When this happens, you’ll receive a notification via the FordPass app.

#6 Find Your Vehicle

How many times have you forgotten where you parked? With the size of parking lots and the hustle and bustle of our lives, it’s easy to forget where we parked. But, instead of walking around the parking lot hoping to rekindle your memory or repeatedly pressing the lock/unlock button to see the lights flashing, you can turn to the FordPass Connect app and the Vehicle Locator. Using an onboard GPS, the feature saves the location of your vehicle once the engine is off.

#7 A Mobile Office and Entertainment Venue

With FordPass Connect, you and your passengers will always be connected thanks to the available WiFi hotspot. The app allows you to use the modem to transform your Ford into a traveling office or entertainment venue. Capable of supporting up to 10 devices, this keeps you and your passengers connected whether you’re reading over important documents for work, surfing the web, streaming music, watching a movie, or perusing social media.

#8 Peace of Mind on the Road

Beyond the advanced safety and driver-assist tools that you’ll find on your Ford, the automaker engineers even more confidence when you’re behind the wheel with tools like FordPass Connect. Through the app, you have access to roadside assistance in times of need. This gives you peace of mind when the unthinkable happens, whether that means you’ve run out of fuel, locked your keys inside the vehicle, need a tow, have a flat tire, or need a jump-start. With FordPass Connect, help is always minutes away.

Ford Delivers the VIP Treatment: Rolling Out the Blue Carpet

Since its beginnings in the early 1900s, Ford has always put its customers first. Henry Ford designed the Model T to put the world on wheels and continuously improved that design to give American drivers exactly what they needed–a reliable way of getting from Point A to Point B. Today, Ford continues this tradition of meeting and exceeding the expectations and needs of its customers with modern innovations like FordPass Connect.

With FordPass Connect, every driver gets the VIP treatment. The mobile platform puts all the information and control you need in the palm of your hand and, more importantly, without any additional cost to you. It’s simply another way Ford rolls out the blue carpet for its loyal customers and proves why it remains one of the most innovative and customer-oriented automakers in the world.