Head over here to see all available SW updates for your modules. On the right hand side notice the SW Updates tab. The ones that responded positively will be marked green. On the left hand side you will see all modules detected on your truck.

Once completed a new tab called Toolbox will appear at the top of your FDRS screen: The icons at the bottom should be all green with battery voltage shown Once FDRS Device Manager pops up, make sure you select Other Device, in the drop-down dialog select VXDIAG – J2534.Īfter this you should be greeted with this screen, meaning you are ready to go! Make sure you select Non-Dealer Motorcraft as User TypeĦ) Connect your VXC Nano Scanner to your truck’s ODBII port and connect the USB cable to the PC running FDRS. Login using your credentials created on Motorcraft website. You will need a license to run this software and can be purchased here (2-day FDRS license cost $50)ĥ) Launch FDRS, you will be prompted to enter the license that you have just purchased. If there is a device firmware available, update the device firmwareĤ) Download and install FDRS software from here. Using this IDS emulation can brick your ECU during the update process (learned the hard way)ģ) Connect VCX Nano Ford device to your PC using the supplied USB cable and launch VX Manager. – Ford Diagnostic & Repair Software (commonly known as FDRS)ġ) Download the latest VX Manager installer from hereĢ) Start VX Manager installation, when prompted select PASSTHROUGH – J2534ĭO NOT SELECT FORD/MAZDA – IDS. – VX Manager (installs driver for your VXDIAG VCX Nano device) – 12V Automotive Battery Charger/Maintainer (can be purchased from Amazon) – USB Flash drive 64GB or larger (must be formatted to exFAT) – VXDIAG VCX Nano for Ford/Mazda interface – Windows PC with 4GB RAM or greater, running Windows 10 natively (Macs running Windows bootcamp or other VM based solutions are known to cause issues) The tutorial here is for educational purpose. You can use it to make quite a few changes on Ford truck (including the Glarefree lightning which involved updating multiple modules on the truck).Ĭredit to iceman77. ForScan is mostly used for module configuration, it cannot do module SW update (yet). In fact, its much faster than their official ELM327 interface. The VCX Nano works perfectly with ForScan as a J2534 pass-through device.

It can test (run diagnostics) on various modules, update module software, load/reload as-built configurations etc.Ĭheck: Ford and Lincoln vehicles by model year supported on FDRS. Here is the tutorial on Ford F-150 ECU module programming guide using vxdiag vcx nano Ford and FDRS software program.įDRS is the official dealer diagnostic and repair software used by technicians at your dealership.

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