Stop stressing. Just drive your Maverick and enjoy 😅

[h1k3rb]

I saw one of these out in the wild last year - I forgot how much glass that darn thing had

Yes, lots of glass with great visibility.

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[Tim d]

Bought a 72 Pinto (which was before the big, ugly 5mph bumper craze) with only 16K miles on it. The engine was German and it actually turned out to be a decent little car for the 6 months I had it.

My sister on the other hand bought a used Vega that eventually left a James Bond smokescreen behind it when accelerating. She was on a first name basis with all the local motor oil sellers.

One of my pintos was the wagon conversion with the bubble rear window and small bed in the back. Green with a white stripe, sharp for the day.

 

[h1k3rb]

The additional of side airbags has greatly reduced visibility by having wider pillars. I think the Maverick though has a fairly small blind spot area compared to other vehicles. The Ridgeline I test drove was awful and it was a 2023. My 2023 Silverado was terrible for blind spots.

Yeah, my 2019 RAM Promaster van was the worst I've ever seen. If you were on an uphill intersection stop sign trying to look right, the A pillar and side mirror blocked everything! A couple times I had to unbuckle the seat belt and stand up to see over the mirror.

 

[Escapologist]

Actually, I don't think I've been in a Ford that had problems with visibility, many many other makers are hit and miss. IF there's one I could pick fault with, I'd say 1st gen Fusion for not being super easy to see where front and back stop and start, but 3ft out you can see everything.

I have been car shopping before and sat in one and was "Nope" quickly because I couldn't see for shit.... and the salesman is trying to minimise it like "You don't really need to SEE when you're driving..."

 

[Darryl]

while I have enough tools and parts when I drive a classic for a surprising number of roadside emergency repairs, even I don't carry two sockets of the same size!

I'm the opposite. Usually I am missing the socket I need and have two or three of the same size of the one I don't need .

 

[Darryl]

The 351 Cleveland 4V were pretty rare most were 2V Cleveland's My sister had a light green 70 or 71 Torino with the 2V 351 Cleveland it was from down south and Very Clean.

My Brother had a 1974 cougar with a 351 Cobra jet. It was a 4V . I think it had 255 hp. That's probably what your sister had. But it probably had more power.because I think they lowered the compression in 1972 or 1973 for emissions. Also , the 1971 was lighter because it was a unibody vs the body on frame for 1972 up. It also wasn't saddled with the heavy 5 mph bumpers that were on the 1974. So it probably was noticably faster than my brother's which was also fast. He couldn't pass a gas station either. He got rid of it in 1980 when fuel prices spiked. Got a 1980 cougar. Much better on gas but not nearly as fast. Also not as stylish. It was based on the Box shaped Fairmont chassis and LOOKED like it

 

[BLUEOVALRACER]

My Brother had a 1974 cougar with a 351 Cobra jet. It was a 4V . I think it had 255 hp. That's probably what your sister had. But it probably had more power.because I think they lowered the compression in 1972 or 1973 for emissions. Also , the 1971 was lighter because it was a unibody vs the body on frame for 1972 up. It also wasn't saddled with the heavy 5 mph bumpers that were on the 1974. So it probably was noticably faster than my brother's which was also fast. He couldn't pass a gas station either. He got rid of it in 1980 when fuel prices spiked. Got a 1980 cougar. Much better on gas but not nearly as fast. Also not as stylish. It was based on the Box shaped Fairmont chassis and LOOKED like it

My sisters Torino had the 351 Cleveland with the 2V Heads and 2 barrel Carb not the 4V heads with the 4 barrel carb. Her boyfriend ended up Putting a Hotter Cam in it with Headers and Edelbrock 4 Barrel Intake for the 2V Heads and Holley 4 barrel My sister hated the car after he did those mods. The 351 Cobra Jets were 4 bolt main blocks with 4V Heads and carb and lower compression like you mentioned. My brother bought a 351 Cobra Jet Years ago from a guy that had it in his garage. My cousin still has that block today.

 

[Kenv24]

I changed my "Break in" oil at 9500k with 42% left on the OLM. I told my kids I changed it at 5,000. I told the guy coming to buy it I changed it at 3,000. My dog looked at me funny when I told him I taking the next one to 20,000 EVEN. Funny thing with these new, modern vehicles, buyer doesn't know it, dog or kids don't know it....AND the oil analysis showed my oil was GOLD. Like the OP said....don't stress it, step out of the box from how you used to think. Ice cream is on me (from my oil change...change....LOL)

 

[Darryl]

I changed my "Break in" oil at 9500k with 42% left on the OLM. I told my kids I changed it at 5,000. I told the guy coming to buy it I changed it at 3,000. My dog looked at me funny when I told him I taking the next one to 20,000 EVEN. Funny thing with these new, modern vehicles, buyer doesn't know it, dog or kids don't know it....AND the oil analysis showed my oil was GOLD. Like the OP said....don't stress it, step out of the box from how you used to think. Ice cream is on me (from my oil change...change....LOL)

Don't tell anybody. But I used full synthetic oil in my 2006 Town car and my 2011 Focus. And I REGULARLY went 10,000 miles between oil changes. Both vehicles had about 245,000 miles on them when I stopped driving them. A deer had a personal vendetta against my Town car. And MY CARELESSNESS caused me to total my Focus. But both engines were running perfectly. And I could look inside the oil fill and see there was no sludge in the engine. Keep in mind that most of my driving was the 90 mile daily round trip work commute. I'd have never done this if I drove primarily City or short trip driving or if I had used just to synthetic blend or if I had a turbo engine.

 

[Thoron99]

Late to the thread, but IRT older cars when I was growing up in the 70s/80s my dad kept a box in the trunk of both the cars; with bottles of oil and transmission fluid and full sets of belts and radiator hoses, because you never knew when something would break.

 

[Cancunbadlands]

Yup, iam 65 years old,remember those days. The vehicles needed much more maintenance. The engines needed a total rebuild at 80- 90,000 miles and most vehicles were ready for the junkyard at 100k miles. New vehicles are vastly superior. That said, I do have a 54 year old Plymouth cuda thats still going strong.

I'm wondering how the young people, or when, could work in their cars now...
Imagine, everything stays like it is now but the cars...
Social media, Netflix, Starbucks, long working periods, long driving distance, everything is like we know it now, 2025, but the car industry is like it was in 1950's... can you imagine?!

 

[Cancunbadlands]

Late to the thread, but IRT older cars when I was growing up in the 70s/80s my dad kept a box in the trunk of both the cars; with bottles of oil and transmission fluid and full sets of belts and radiator hoses, because you never knew when something would break.

I remember those days as well! I remember a fishing weekend with Pop's without the Overlander gear industry!

 

[dochawk]

I actually had 3 pintos while in college, cheap transportation!

I had one for a week in law school when my dying car went out two weeks before finals ended.

It was from rent-a-wreck or some such, and it showed.

But then it went halfway into an intersection in spite of attempted hard breaking.

I brought it in and demanded something else, and they tried to push back.

But if I had to leave there in it, I was going straight to the highway patrol, who would have impounded it, so they hand me something else.

Yeah, my 2019 RAM Promaster van was the worst I've ever seen. If

I have a 2006 Miata GT.

With the dust cover up, it doesn't have a blind spot. Rather, it has a of tiny peep hole through its 180 degree of blindness!


(I didn't buy it to drive like that, anyway. Of the 70 miles, onlywell under1k was with the top up. Which I kind of had to do, as the top was at the level of my forehead, leading to a very uncomfortabe driving position!)

I'm the opposite. Usually I am missing the socket I need and have two or three of the same size of the one I don't need .

I am so short on 8mm sockets, largely from attaching and reattaching side-post cadillac batteries, that I bought a bag of something like 10 of them to refill my sets!

. I think it had 255 hp. That's probably what your sister had. But it probably had more power.because I think they lowered the compression in 1972 or 1973 for emissions.

GM dropped compression in 1971, for about a 10% power loss, in order to allow them to run on the upcoming unleaded (older engines relied on the lead to lubricate and avoid micro welds on the heads each cycle). Ford & Chrysler followed in 1972.

If you review the reported horsepower, it looks at first glance like the industry had a huge power drop (about 1/3!0 in 1972, but that's an illusion. 1971 and earlier report gross horsepower, while 1972 an later report net horsepower. Where you can find both gross & net for GM, you find no difference between 1971 & 1972 (and I'd expect about 10% for ford & Chrysler). anyway, 71-74 GM are practically identical, with '72 & '73 Ford having about a 10% drop from '71 (but some small block models may have done the compression drop for '71).

The big drops start in 1975 when emissions tightened enough to require catalytic converters.

Cadillac actually had to use the Eldorado only 500 for it's entire line for 1975-76, as the 472 couldn't be convinced produce enough power. (downsized in 1977, except for Eldorado).

power then got worse every couple of years during the Great Castration, up until the 1991 Ford triton 4.6 (190 ho) and the 1993 Cadillac Northstar, also 4.6, at 295 hp (soon increased to 300).

 

[Darryl]

I had one for a week in law school when my dying car went out two weeks before finals ended.

It was from rent-a-wreck or some such, and it showed.

But then it went halfway into an intersection in spite of attempted hard breaking.

I brought it in and demanded something else, and they tried to push back.

But if I had to leave there in it, I was going straight to the highway patrol, who would have impounded it, so they hand me something else.




I have a 2006 Miata GT.

With the dust cover up, it doesn't have a blind spot. Rather, it has a of tiny peep hole through its 180 degree of blindness!


(I didn't buy it to drive like that, anyway. Of the 70 miles, onlywell under1k was with the top up. Which I kind of had to do, as the top was at the level of my forehead, leading to a very uncomfortabe driving position!)





I am so short on 8mm sockets, largely from attaching and reattaching side-post cadillac batteries, that I bought a bag of something like 10 of them to refill my sets!



GM dropped compression in 1971, for about a 10% power loss, in order to allow them to run on the upcoming unleaded (older engines relied on the lead to lubricate and avoid micro welds on the heads each cycle). Ford & Chrysler followed in 1972.

If you review the reported horsepower, it looks at first glance like the industry had a huge power drop (about 1/3!0 in 1972, but that's an illusion. 1971 and earlier report gross horsepower, while 1972 an later report net horsepower. Where you can find both gross & net for GM, you find no difference between 1971 & 1972 (and I'd expect about 10% for ford & Chrysler). anyway, 71-74 GM are practically identical, with '72 & '73 Ford having about a 10% drop from '71 (but some small block models may have done the compression drop for '71).

The big drops start in 1975 when emissions tightened enough to require catalytic converters.

Cadillac actually had to use the Eldorado only 500 for it's entire line for 1975-76, as the 472 couldn't be convinced produce enough power. (downsized in 1977, except for Eldorado).

power then got worse every couple of years during the Great Castration, up until the 1991 Ford triton 4.6 (190 ho) and the 1993 Cadillac Northstar, also 4.6, at 295 hp (soon increased to 300).

Yes, the change from gross to net made it appear as if power had dropped even when it hadn't . I usually see if there was a compression ratio drop from 1971 to 1972. in order to see if the power drop was actual or just a gross to net measurement drop.

 

[North Coast Joe]

There are WAH! WAH"s!
There are TROLLS!
There are FOOLS!
There are the curious!
A few with genuine concerns!
My reasoning is that most problems come from tinkering with things, replacing electrical bulbs, lights and other items that screw up the computer. Also add-ons that mess things up.
But considering there are over a million Mavs out now, the problem children are few.

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