Kn7ght Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 Hi. Just purchased 62 plate s-max Titanium x sport powershift 163 2.0 tdci automatic. Lovely car however a fault I have found and starting to pull my hair out now after watching youtube videos and reading through owners manual, cannot connect my phone to bluetooth. Done everything by the book but the cars not coming up on my bluetooth search on my phone. Any ideas? Much appreciated. TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unofix Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 Are sure your car actually has bluetooth ? just because it has a button for Phone doesn't prove it has. It used to be an option on a lot of models, I remember back in 2010 when I bought a Kuga Titanium X AWD that I had to pay extra for the bluetooth phone option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kn7ght Posted March 23, 2021 Author Share Posted March 23, 2021 When going through settings on the stereo it’s says bluetooth on, gives you the option to turn bluetooth off. By this I would say it has bluetooth. Also the advert from the garage we brought it from stated Bluetooth. I’m lead to believe from these 2 things alone that the car has Bluetooth but not sending a signal out to pick up on a phone and connect.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unofix Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 Hi, well it sounds like it probably has bluetooth. There should be an option to show all phones bonded with the car, have they all been cleared ? Those radio units only allow something like a maximum of 7 phones at any one time. In someways it would be good if all previous phones were still bonded as it would sure prove the bluetooth did work in the past Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kn7ght Posted March 23, 2021 Author Share Posted March 23, 2021 No bonded devices. Looks as though they have all been cleared, I think i might have to take it into Ford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Bradley Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 I have the same problem with 2012 Smax. How did you resolve your issue? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unofix Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 5 hours ago, Nigel Bradley said: I have the same problem with 2012 Smax. How did you resolve your issue? How do you know that your car has the bluetooth option fitted ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenjen79 Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 Hi I also have this problem shows on my phone when I try pairing it.dose come up on my.phones bluetooth list gives a bonding number then says can't bond There is no devises connected either been driving me nuts Also the digital radio is always losing signal 😑 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonelwai Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 My 2011 S-Max 1.5 Ecoboost had very old version of bluetooth, and this version don't pair with modern smartphones. In theory, the current bluetooth version(5.0) should be able to connect older versions. But that's theory... Probably these the old version are not compatible with the newer versions. You might need to update your old device... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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