Follow this guide to easily and safely update your car to the latest version of SYNC 3, this is currently SYNC 3.4
If you car looks like the left side of this picture you are able to upgrade. otherwise you are out of luck!

Here are some of the benefits of upgrading

• Android Auto navigation on the small screen in the Dash Cluster / Speedo. (potentially car play aswell)
• Much snappier and more responsive user interface
• A nicer looking stock blue theme
• Newest map data for SatNav
• If you update your firmware (see our ford hub page) you can also get Radio logos and Calm Mode.
• There are probably others, if you know of any let me know and i will add them here.

• You will need 1 USB drive between 8-32GB, 8GB is fine for non navigation, 32gb is recommended for navigation.

If you are on Windows we highly recommend using the automated method

Please note that if you are already on SYNC 3.4.19274 or above you won’t be able to enter factory mode, please first downgrade using the downgrade guide.

Download the following 2 files

1. Make sure your USB is MBR not GPT – Click for instructions
2. Format the USB drive as exFAT in windows by right clicking the drive in This PC and pressing Format… and then make sure it’s set to exFAT and press Start.
   
3. Copy the downloaded autoinstall.lst to the root of your USB drive, make sure it’s named autoinstall.lst.
4. Create a folder called SyncMyRide in the root of your USB Drive.
5. Copy 1u5t-14g386-cb.tar.gz downloaded above to the newly created folder on your USB drive.
   Do not extract any TAR.GZ files!
6.  

Once you have downloaded all the files and placed them on your USB drive it should look like this with all your tar.gz files in the SyncMyRide folder.

Safely remove the USB Drive, go to your car and follow the Installing the update section below.

Installing the update

1. insert the USB drive in to your car with SYNC 3 and make sure the ignition/engine is on, you should see the following message.
   
2. You will see the following message, do not remove the USB at this point, it will restart automatically in a few moments.
   
3. Once the car has rebooted it will start the reformat process of SYNC 3 and will progress through the following screens, depending on the packages used it can take between 10-60 minutes.
   
4. Once the install is complete you will see this screen, remove the USB and the SYNC 3 system should start!
   If it doesn’t turn the ignition off, open the car door, then close the door and turn the ignition back on.
   
5. Once SYNC 3 is fully booted go to Settings > General > Master Reset, this will clear a lot of bugs and other incorrect information and will be the first thing i tell you to do if you have any issue.

If you want to get Radio Logos and Calm Screen you will need to upgrade your calibration firmware, please refer to Upgrading the APIM Calibration Firmware.