FG X, The Last EVER Falcon - Picture & Discussion Thread

[turbo4]

Originally Posted by Tbm1121

It's probably the side of their office, or somewhere that was very cheap to rent, no way they would spend decent money..... Lol

It's at the Geelong factory according to facebook

[Tbm1121]

Originally Posted by turbo4

It's at the Geelong factory according to facebook

Free space, probably trying to convince the employees to buy some.....

[BrendanSM]

Originally Posted by Pilko FNQ

How good are the lights on the FGX for unlit highway driving? Can you sit on 100 kph and feel comfortable that forward vision is adequate or does high beam need an upgrade. Cheers Chris.

I do most of my driving on the highway, especially at night. I found they are really good, similar to the original FG's which is a good thing.

[335JET]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

I also found the sound level to quite low. What I have found is if you are using music from a devise, either streamed or connected via cable, the sound is weak. When I loaded a CD into the player, it was like night and day, much more base and volume.

Have you tried music from a usb stick or SD card? Id be keen to know what the volume will be like from those sources.
come mid July & I wont have to ask these questions, thankfully.

[DannyB]

Originally Posted by 335JET

Have you tried music from a usb stick or SD card? Id be keen to know what the volume will be like from those sources.
come mid July & I wont have to ask these questions, thankfully.

I find FM and Dab not loud either. I've got car coming up for it 3000 km dealership check, I'll ask them the question.

[asagaai]

Originally Posted by DannyB

I find FM and Dab not loud either. I've got car coming up for it 3000 km dealership check, I'll ask them the question.

Was driving to the gym today for a workout- loaded my pre workout cd Royal Blood, favourite song track 3, turned up full and was about 30% less volume than my prior Honda Euro at about 70%...wtf. Ford needs to bring in a fix to increase volume some 30%.......

Anyway, shut it off, opened the driver window, and made my own music in the wet short shifting 1st, 2nd and 3rd to about 3,800 and made my own music while doing my own sideways tapdancing to the tunes I was making with each gearchange of that short stubby manual gearlever.

Anyways, got to the gym in the right frame of mind.

This thing is seriously good fun in the wet, but I have not had the gonads to boot it in the wet on corners between 4,000 to 6250 yet...

[DK30RB]

Agreed, the sound system is mediocre. Had a FG loan car at my 3000km service, it had the standard sound system and left the premium one in the FGX for dead.

I would gladly sacrifice a lot of the SYNC 2 features for better sound!!

[bernbo]

Originally Posted by DK30RB

Agreed, the sound system is mediocre. Had a FG loan car at my 3000km service, it had the standard sound system and left the premium one in the FGX for dead.

I would gladly sacrifice a lot of the SYNC 2 features for better sound!!

Still makes me think they have left a preamp style setting turned down in the icc if the rest of the hardware hadn't changed. I have put mine into service mode but there doesn't appear to be anything that i can tweak.

[DK30RB]

Originally Posted by bernbo

Still makes me think they have left a preamp style setting turned down in the icc if the rest of the hardware hadn't changed. I have put mine into service mode but there doesn't appear to be anything that i can tweak.

Agreed its a software setting. I was experimenting with volume while listening to DAB+.

Its definitely a software limiter, if you turn the volume up to say 95% and listen for a while, then turn it up to 100%, it actually gets quieter. I think the limiter cuts in the louder you go and then reduces the volume.

Had a Volvo V60 with premium sound which sounded awesome, until the dealer did a software update. The update induced severe volume power limiting which hobbled the amp to the point that it now sounded crap.

It was a Sh$%fight to get Volvo to reverse the update until they found a fix.

Same thing is going on here. I think software adjustment could fix it.

How do you get into service mode?

[Sorted]

[Iggle Piggle]

Love the numberplate

[FGX335]

Great numberplate, almost wondering if it is better than mine? I love my plate, but that is very accurate!

[bernbo]

Originally Posted by DK30RB

Agreed its a software setting. I was experimenting with volume while listening to DAB+.

Its definitely a software limiter, if you turn the volume up to say 95% and listen for a while, then turn it up to 100%, it actually gets quieter. I think the limiter cuts in the louder you go and then reduces the volume.

Had a Volvo V60 with premium sound which sounded awesome, until the dealer did a software update. The update induced severe volume power limiting which hobbled the amp to the point that it now sounded crap.

It was a Sh$%fight to get Volvo to reverse the update until they found a fix.

Same thing is going on here. I think software adjustment could fix it.

How do you get into service mode?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jtOn-7eDFxo

Link is a youtube video from someone in America on one of they're yanky focus i think. Has a Sony icc but had sync 2 or Mytouch as they call it there.

[CQB-241]

On the subject of plates......

"Kick it in the guts, Barry.
She's the last of the V8s.
You can shut the gate on this one. It's the duck's guts.
Yeah, she's the last of the V8s......"



A pair of dark carpark shots I'm afraid but I'm too busy driving.
And yes, she still looks as great as below.



PS: Hi Callum, if you are watching, I don't want my plates or location on Facebook (ie, the images above are for the A.F.Forum alone).
I don't want them shared elsewhere either.
Here is a pair of clean images of my car without plates if you are looking for XR8 images (with sources in the links following):


This is off the Diamond Paint Protection FB page and that page should be acknowledged as the source of this shot:
https://www.facebook.com/DiamondPain...e=3&permPage=1


This is off the Diamond Paint Protection FB page and that page should be acknowledged as the source of this shot:
https://www.facebook.com/DiamondPain...e=3&permPage=1


Interesting just how much blue metallic is in Silhouette also, with the daylight shots hinting at it compared to the "shots in the dark".

[Bobman]

Got an email today talking about "MkII Falcon", but on the link and Ford website it's still all FG MkII!

As for dipping mirrors, I have this on my BF Fairlane and love it. Makes for easy parking to line-up with the kerb.

[Road_Warrior]

Originally Posted by CQB-241

On the subject of plates......

"Kick it in the guts, Barry.
She's the last of the V8s.
You can shut the gate on this one. It's the duck's guts.
Yeah, she's the last of the V8s......"

image
image
A pair of dark carpark shots I'm afraid but I'm too busy driving.
And yes, she still looks as great as below.



PS: Hi Callum, if you are watching, I don't want my plates or location on Facebook (ie, the images above are for the A.F.Forum alone).
I don't want them shared elsewhere either.
Here is a pair of clean images of my car without plates if you are looking for XR8 images (with sources in the links following):

image
This is off the Diamond Paint Protection FB page and that page should be acknowledged as the source of this shot:
https://www.facebook.com/DiamondPain...e=3&permPage=1

image
This is off the Diamond Paint Protection FB page and that page should be acknowledged as the source of this shot:
https://www.facebook.com/DiamondPain...e=3&permPage=1


Interesting just how much blue metallic is in Silhouette also, with the daylight shots hinting at it compared to the "shots in the dark".

Hol-eee sheet

That is tough. I'll take mine in manual.

[CQB-241]

Originally Posted by Road_Warrior

Hol-eee sheet

That is tough. I'll take mine in manual.

I did.

[asagaai]

Originally Posted by CQB-241

I did.

Yeah- that manual box is a thing of beauty when the car is being belted, I find it very quick, slick -chirp, slick-chirp....

The BMW M3 4 litre had a lighter box, the Porsche boxter had a lighter box which I actually felt was less precise, and although this box has a weight, it is a nice weight and when at speed is precise-downchanges with rev matching at high speed is precise and feels soo good...

But- then again I did grow up on those agricultural Borg Warners in the Cortina TE 4.1s...

Ironically, feels slow and cumbersome at slow/parking speeds, but comes into its own at speed.

[335JET]

Hows the clutch, is it light?
Wonder if its still the same twin plate as fom the FPV's & I think the GT500 Mustang.

[asagaai]

Originally Posted by 335JET

Hows the clutch, is it light?
Wonder if its still the same twin plate as fom the FPV's & I think the GT500 Mustang.

Yeah- I find the clutch light.

I just find at parking speeds it as a fair bit of travel before it bites- stalled it a few times at pull off until I got used to it.

So all up- for me- clutch and gearbox bit cumbersome at very slow speeds/pull offs like parking, changing gear from 1st to 2nd at low speed especially when cold, but the clutch/gearbox are a thing of joy at speed.

Off topic- but maybe someone else can shed some light on this. Last night I passed a current model HSV bright blue, either an R8 or GTS based on the exhausts and shape at rear-blasted past him and then slowed down for speed limits- too fast to see if GTS or R8 based on badges.

Next lights he pulled up on my left, pull off I held back not wanting to be the knob going for it, he went for it and had a jump, I then went as well, he was very fast, but I right there with him, and then suddenly I think at third gear was pulling ever so slightly on him and he was to my left when I heard what sounded like a massive Pffffvvttt of air or something coming from his engine, and he dropped out like he dropped a set of sea anchors behind him...he then sat behind me for some time some 25 metres behind while going along the highway before pulling off left to go to his destination along another road.

Any ideas what happened- if he had a super is there some bypass valve that drops pressure or any clues as to what caused the HSV to make such a Pffftvvvt sound and then be blown away like this?

[Perko]

Originally Posted by CQB-241

On the subject of plates......

"Kick it in the guts, Barry.
She's the last of the V8s.
You can shut the gate on this one. It's the duck's guts.
Yeah, she's the last of the V8s......"

image
image
A pair of dark carpark shots I'm afraid but I'm too busy driving.
And yes, she still looks as great as below.



PS: Hi Callum, if you are watching, I don't want my plates or location on Facebook (ie, the images above are for the A.F.Forum alone).
I don't want them shared elsewhere either.
Here is a pair of clean images of my car without plates if you are looking for XR8 images (with sources in the links following):

image
This is off the Diamond Paint Protection FB page and that page should be acknowledged as the source of this shot:
https://www.facebook.com/DiamondPain...e=3&permPage=1

image
This is off the Diamond Paint Protection FB page and that page should be acknowledged as the source of this shot:
https://www.facebook.com/DiamondPain...e=3&permPage=1


Interesting just how much blue metallic is in Silhouette also, with the daylight shots hinting at it compared to the "shots in the dark".

These shots just justify my colour choice. Can't wait for my manual beast to arrive in October.

[CQB-241]

Originally Posted by 335JET

Hows the clutch, is it light?
Wonder if its still the same twin plate as fom the FPV's & I think the GT500 Mustang.

Clutch is light with a fair bit of travel, not at all hard to use.

[Pilko FNQ]

Originally Posted by Perko

These shots just justify my colour choice. Can't wait for my manual beast to arrive in October.

Ditto in 26 sleeps.

[asagaai]

Originally Posted by Pilko FNQ

Ditto in 26 sleeps.

Ha Ha- I actually had a dream about driving the car before I got it- it was a good dream about power and fun and then I woke up and was disappointed to realise it was a dream.

I have had the car a week now- and the reality is FAR better than the experience in the dream

You are going to love it, but you may want to stump up for an intercooler where you live.

[DJR David]

Changed my lights tonight . Before after with LEDs

[DJR David]

Also had my xr6 in for the 3000km check. No issues of course!! On the floor though was a black xr8 , asked about it and the dealer said it was About to get picked up. Factory stickers and all. This was at trinity ford cairns

[Nz xr8]

Are you happy with the new colour light?


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[DJR David]

Yep, looks a lot more modern

[DJR David]

Looks whiter than the photo , not so blue

[Pilko FNQ]

Originally Posted by DJR David

Also had my xr6 in for the 3000km check. No issues of course!! On the floor though was a black xr8 , asked about it and the dealer said it was About to get picked up. Factory stickers and all. This was at trinity ford cairns

That's mine. Pick it up on the 29th June.....