What is electrical architecture?
Every Ford vehicle is built upon an electrical architecture and this may have a big impact on converting your vehicle from base audio system or Sync 2 infotainment system. For a good majority of vehicles the programming will be adjusted to take this into account however there may be some issues converting from some older vehicles running CGEA 1.2.
The most common issue that some vehicles may have are pop up notifications for the fan speed and temperature for the climate controls.
| CGEA 1.2 2009-2014 F-150 2009-2014 Edge 2011-2014 Explorer 2019-2016 Super Duty 2009+ Flex 2010+ Taurus | CGEA 1.3 2015+ F-150 2015+ Edge 2015+ Explorer 2017+ Super Duty 2015+ Mustang | C1CMA Focus Escape S-Max C-Max |
For more information on electrical architecture, here's some good reading material: