Ford sync stores “breadcrumbs” of your cars telemetry data in the APIM module. This data is downloaded when connected to the ford IDS system. Ford then aggregat

Ford sync stores “breadcrumbs” of your cars telemetry data in the APIM module. This data is downloaded when connected to the ford IDS system. Ford then aggregates your data with your customer information. You can find this information in fords service documentation and from public comments from the ford ceo. I primarily work with Ford vehicles (comma.ai, self driving addons) so this is a personal knowledge dump from various service manuals, car hacking forums and the like