Ya, watching the FB groups on the mavericks for problems is not pretty. Like I believe a car made in NK might have less issues. Makes me less on the fence about flipping mine if it ever came in and still high $$$, to fund getting something better.
Maverick is trash? Ford has pretty big issues with product quality right now. I looked at their new Explorer and the exterior bits were misaligned as was the dash. The big Lincoln was similar but not as bad, but the driver door was wavy. Brand new. Youtube auto journalist was driving a new Explorer and the transmission deadlocked on the highway doing 65 MPH. All tires locked tight. New, too.
Engine fires, randomly dying because the cable from the hybrid battery to the rest of the car gets loose, oddball electrical infotainment stuff, other catastrophic wierd failures. Dash getting sticky in the sun, outright assembled missing bits and pieces and not the to be installed later kinda thing. One overheating issue is being handled by removing some material and drilling holes in skid plate as the official ford fix. FX4 decals coming off in light car washes, bubbling paint, many complaining of rust within months. Etc etc.
Fuck Ford, ever price the Rangers? Plain Jane Ranger runs the same as Ram 1500 with plenty bells and whistles.
My personal favorite is the recall on vehicles with a spray-in bedliner because they were drilling through the gas tank. My opinion on Ford for a few years now is they are killing it from a conceptual design standpoint (Maverick, Hybrid/EV F150, Bronco), but have completely bungled the execution. I was planning to wait a model year for them to clean up their messes, but I'm kind of leaning towards waiting two years at this point.
Does your state have a lemon law or something like a 3 day refund requirement that such problems would be covered? Hopefully you didn't have to just eat that shit sandwich.
I walked away - that lead to the decision to get another Defender instead (which has its own funky problems being a Rover). The Defender is so much better than the Bronco in build quality it's crazy. I should have bought the Bronco and drove it straight to Carmax in hindsight....
I'm pretty sure they aren't doing QC on them at the factory. They are leaving that to the dealers, and dealers are saying fuck it, not my problem.
Obvious question being why would you need to drill holes for a spray in bedliner. Ford has top deck engineers.
i'm sure they work but you gotta drive 150miles before you see a difference cuz youre dililuting it through your gas tank, you can take out your cat and soak it to clean, it there was a vid i saw a guy used something else w/o removing the cap
