System Warning Messages

WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2011 Mercury Milan, 2011 Lincoln MKZ, and 2011 Ford Fusion. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.

System warnings alert the operator to possible problems or malfunctions in the vehicle operating system. When multiple warnings are displayed, the message center cycles all the warnings by displaying each one for several seconds. The system warning messages are displayed in the LH side of the IPC .

All warning messages are considered as active or non-active. Active warnings are those where the monitored system detects a current fault condition. Once the fault condition is corrected, the warning then becomes non-active. Both active and non-active warnings can be reset but if the warning is active, it continues to be displayed once it is reset.

All new warnings along with any associated message center warning indicators are displayed in a large format for 2 seconds and cannot be reset until the 2 second time has elapsed. Once the 2 seconds has elapsed, the warning can be reset by pressing the RESET button. Once the RESET button is pressed, the warning is considered an old warning and is displayed in a smaller format. If there are multiple warnings present, each warning displays (2 seconds for new warnings and 4 seconds for old warnings) in the order the message center received the warnings.

The message center displays the temperature gauge and PRNDL once all messages are reset and there are no more new warning messages. This allows full functionality of the message center by pressing the message center switch RESET button to clear the warning message. Warning messages that have been reset are divided into 2 categories where the message:

Returns every 10 minutes
Returns every key cycle

When the IPC receives a request to display an informational warning message or a fault condition warning message, the message center may display one of the following warning messages: