This will be the last Ford I buy

[MaverRick]

I get you I'd do the same thing if I had a good set of wheel. Come to think of it I think it was 2002. Loosing my memory these days...

I think they brought the Hemi back in 2003? I had over 20k posts on Dodge Truck World!! Lol

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[MaverickDragon]

Loosing my memory these days...

Don't feel too bad - It happens to all of us.
It's called "Elder-Brain" which is a natural consequence as the years go by and you become ever more "extinguished".

 

[Suzukiridr14]

The truth is that I *wish* a better manufacturer was building something that checked as many boxes for me as the Maverick. Or at the very least, that there was *any* other model putting enough pressure on Ford in this segment that they'd need to step up their fit and finish game.

But there's not.

So I bought the Maverick and am hoping for the best. But stories like this one do worry me a little.

For the price, again there is nothing else out there. There are larger trucks, but the price goes up when the size goes up. True, the next size trucks have choices (Ranger, Canyon, Colorado, Frontier) then also if you want a convertible, the Mustang is still the lowest cost one around. Thank you Ford again!

 

[rtphokie]

This truck is a POS and I regret ever buying it, but am stuck with it

Each of the sensor, CV, and battery issues you mention are seen most in the 22 and 23 model year. This is clear when you look across the NHTSA complaint database. But that's true of every vehicle.

Buying the first two model years of a vehicle is inherently risky. It takes that long to judge the design and manufacturing choices made, especially on a vehicle designed to be lower cost.

I personally waited until 2024 because of the problems you mentioned, then I waited until 2025 for Sync 4.0.

Sync 3 and its underpowered hardware was used in 22-24 to keep the MSRP down. I've never had a Bluetooth problem or any other infotainment or instrument cluster problem across the 20k miles I've driven my 2025. It just works.

I have never gotten the magical 50 mpg that a lot of hybrid owners claim.

Your expectations were based on extreme outliers.
50 mpg is possible but very uncommon because it requires very specific conditions available to very few drivers.

The interior scratches if you just look at it wrong. I have two dogs and after just 3 months the interior looked worse than my Rav4 I traded in after 5 years.

The plastics across the Maverick interior do show wear more easily the texture of those plastics also holds dirt really really well.

My dog is also my most frequent passenger and he also drags in dirt, drags his nails across the sills, and rubs up against the trim with his collar and tags. But quick wipe down with a damp cloth and the truck looks damn near like it looked when I drove it off the lot 20k miles ago.

There is something wrong with the windshield design/material as it is not strong at all.

This is valid. I replaced my windshield at about 16k miles and chatting with the satellite guy, he says he replaces a lot of them on Mavericks but says it's not the material but the angle of the glass which makes rocks deflect less. F150's have the same problem. He says his biggest customer base is Jeep Wrangler owners, for the same reason.

When I sat in it for the first time, the backseat wasn't as roomy as everyone said,

This is why you don't spend 40k based on the opinion of random internet strangers

 

[rtphokie]

Not really. The bluetooth issue has been since day one and as far as I know there isn't a fix for it.

22-24 Mavericks use Sync 3 which has underpowered software and hardware compared to Sync 4 on the 25+ Mavericks. There is no simple fix to Sync 3 bluetooth problems.

The various B, A, Down, B, Up, Down, Down, Y, A cheat codes you'll find here and on YouTube are resets which can help temporarily but aren't fixes

 

[Suzukiridr14]

Understand your "hate" for this vehicle. Part of your resale dissatisfaction may be because you have added some expensive "stuff" to the vehicle for which most buyers are not going to fork over extra for on a used vehicle. Carvana just offered 29,600 on April 12rh for my 25 which I bought last July for 30,500 and has 8k miles. Location does also matter.

Owning a vehicle for almost a year, and selling it for less then a thousand dollar loss is only done on high end limited production special ordered super cars, never on every day cars. Another plus for the Maverick!

 

[Nuvolari]

2023 Lariat hybrid. Last Ford I will ever buy. Far too many little things. Rattles, Nav screen shows me in a field instead of on the hiway sometimes, voice controlled navigation is an absolute disaster. Have had to use the jump box on it twice. A couple of dozen other things.
I kept my 2017 RAV4, thankfully. When I 86 the Maverick, it will be replaced with another Toyota.

 

[Kenv24]

I'm old
I've owned more than 20 cars in my life.
I've found something I didn't like in every single car.

Lesson learned, it's a car. It's not my family or my friends or the people I love and care. It's a car, if the car doesn't make you happy, move on and get another one.

Everything you can buy with money is cheap. Everything.

I’d probably rephrase that last sentence. Boats aren’t cheap and neither are ex-wives.

 

[Meeka]

2023 Lariat hybrid. Last Ford I will ever buy. Far too many little things. Rattles, Nav screen shows me in a field instead of on the hiway sometimes, voice controlled navigation is an absolute disaster. Have had to use the jump box on it twice. A couple of dozen other things.
I kept my 2017 RAV4, thankfully. When I 86 the Maverick, it will be replaced with another Toyota.

Oh oh, you said 86!

 

[James K]

This will be a long post so feel free to skim through or skip.

I wanted to love the Maverick as Ford finally came out with a hybrid truck and it seemed too good to be true. It is. I was one of ones interested at the beginning and placed my order in September 2021. I joined this forum in November 2021 and was pretty active on here anxiously waiting for my truck. I was also a long-time viewer of Tim's weekly YT show.

I was finally given a VIN number and build date for October 2022 and ended up being one of the vehicles whose VIN was canceled and had to re-order a 2023. I eventually got my truck in March 2023, 18 months after I ordered. When I sat in it for the first time, the backseat wasn't as roomy as everyone said, but it looked good and I already waited long enough for it so I ended up buying it. I did get a great deal on it as I had the rollover rebate and X-Plan so I ended up paying about $32k for a truck with a $38k sticker price and a mark-up value of around $45k at the time.

My initial plan was that this truck would hold its value and I could trade it in after 2-3 years and move up to an F150 which is what I always wanted. Well, I was disappointed pretty early on and tried to trade it in after only 3-4 monhts and,at least in Florida they certainly do not hold their value. I was offered $29k for the truck. I decided to hold onto it and try enjoy it. I did ceramic tint all around, added a ceramic coat to it since everyone was doing it (that was a waste of money), added PFF on the hood and front, did a spray-in bed liner, and added some accessories to it to make it my own. The truck looks badass, I will give it that, especially when done right. However, it has had nothing but problems for me.

*Here are the problems if you want to skip*

• FIrst of all, I have never gotten the magical 50 mpg that a lot of hybrid owners claim. I usually only average about 35-37 mpg which is great, but not what I was expecting. Still for a truck, I can't complain too much. The rest of the problems though are inexcusable.
• The interior scratches if you just look at it wrong. I have two dogs and after just 3 months the interior looked worse than my Rav4 I traded in after 5 years.
• There is something wrong with the windshield design/material as it is not strong at all. I have replaced my windshield twice in the first year from rocks and I currently have a crack that I've just been living with for the last year as I don't feel like paying or taking another insurance ding.
• My windshield wiper tank was cracked or something as it was emptying out within a week of filling it up and the dealer couldn't find the problem, just ended up replacing it.
• My CV axles ended up needing replaced after only 30k miles. Luckily this was under the warranty, but they had my truck for a month waiting on parts.
• I had water getting into my cabin behind the center console and was getting my floorboards wet and moldy. I believe they said it was something with the evaporator and they replaced my entire carpet and whatever else they did. This was also under the warranty.
• The water is coming back into the cabin, but is out of warranty and they want an additional charge to diagnose again.
• The ambient air sensor broke and caused the HVAC system to stop working. Had to get that replaced, not under warranty $700
• The Bluetooth randomly decides to not recognize my phone and I have to restart the truck or remember the reset sequence for the info screen, which is annoying as it happened frequently.
• The truck will sometimes go into Deep Sleep mode and the headlights will start strobing for no reason.
• The latest issue is I am now getting a System Shift Fault when I start the truck and it won't let me out of Park. I have to turn the truck off and restart it after a few seconds.
• In the Ford app, I can't do see anything because it says the truck is in Battery Saver Mode. I did it previously, but it went away after I took it in for the air sensor issue. It's back now, probably because of the System Shift issue.

This truck has just had so many issues and many of them like the Bluetooth and Deep Sleep don't really seem to have a solution. The dealer said they can't do anything if they can't duplicate it and/or it doesn't trigger an error code and since it happens randomly, I'm shit out of luck. I wish I could get rid of it as a lemon, but in Florida, it has to be the same issue four times and since it has just been a bunch of different ones, nothing can be done.

This was my first Ford vehicle and while I was hoping to stay in the Ford family and move up to a bigger vehicle, between the problems I have had with this truck and with my dealer, I want nothing more to do with them. Because the resale value is shit, I have to hold onto the truck for another year or so to at least have enough trade-in value to get something else. I will be going back to Honda or Toyota where I have never had a problem outside of a Civic that needed a new header after 200k miles on it.

/tldr This truck is a POS and I regret ever buying it, but am stuck with it

You did seem to get a problem and hope whatever you end up with in the future is easier to live with. The sad news is that all companies are putting out the same issues. Remember when a lot of people would never buy a first year of a model hoping and glitches would get worked out? Well, with all the electronics, just about every year of every make becomes a first year. I've read so many articles on automotive tech that is problematic. I mean 5 years ago I would have never thought critics would be making the warning to stay away from a Toyota truck.

 

[Sheff]

My 2024 AWD Lariat ECOBOOST !
Is a cream puff, old term.
17,500 flawless miles,
On the flat lands on the interstate around 85-90 mph I average 31 mpg, at 75 mph only 30.
And at 70 about 29 mpg. It’s a turbo thing.

In my Appalachian mountains 27 mpg and I haul ass but I’m smooth as Tennessee Whiskey.

I dig the way varying light changes the Hot Pepper Red’s look.

Absolutely love the colour. My 2024 is something called Azure grey. Its nice but not like that red. My first Toyota truck back in the late 80's was a nice red. I miss that colour

 

[babytruk]

Oh oh, you said 86!

We are car folk and this is an “86”.

 

[OleFordGuy]

We are car folk and this is an “86”.

Oh the AE86

 

[Geo8866]

"My initial plan was that this truck would hold its value and I could trade it in after 2-3 years and move up to an F150 which is what I always wanted. "
This statement is why you weren't happy with it. Buying something hoping to "hold" value until you can trade for what you really want is a bad financial model. I've had a 71 F100, 73 Chevy 3/4 ton, 92 Ranger (bought new), 2014 F150, 2023 Silverado, and a 2024 Maverick. Each truck had different issues, some major, some minor but ALL of them were what I wanted to buy at the time.

Exactly what I was about to say. I knew if I kept reading, someone would have said it before me. When you drive a car off the lot, in most cases, it has already lost some of its value.

 

[Carlitos_92]

22-24 Mavericks use Sync 3

OP has a Lariat, but for clarification, XLs and XLTs do not use Sync 3; it is an even less sophisticated system with less power than the B&O/Sync 3 systems in the 22-24 Lariats.

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