Bob Blaylock
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- #21
My truck has an off switch for that auto start... or on a truck you can get an adapter to plug into your trailer electrical plug by the rear trailer hitch and the truck will think its towing and the auto start will shut off....
Back when I thought I was going to buy a Bronco, I followed several discussions on relevant forums about different ways to disable the ASS feature. That was one of them, basically tricking the vehicle into thinking it was towing a trailer. But that produces unwanted side effects, and likely would for your truck as well. At this level of supplication, the power train management adjusts various parameters according to such assumptions about how the vehicle is being used, and it is not a good thing for it to think you're pulling a trailer, when you are not.
The takeaway that I got from all the discussion is that the best solution, by far, is a device such as I linked to in my pervious post. Apparently, all the ASS-equipped vehicles do have a button on the dashboard that you can press, once you've started the engine, to disable ASS for that run.
This device connects in to that button, and has the effect of automatically pressing it, when you start your vehicle. As far as the vehicle itself knows, ASS is disabled because you pushed the button to disable it, completely in accordance with how the vehicle expects it to be disabled; so no false inputs while the vehicle is running, to confuse it about the parameter so how it is being used.