Already an issue - bad window seal

[Cubsfan24]

Truck buzzes at 50 mph and over from the wind. It's a bad window seal/weatherstrip.

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[James St. Patrick]

Please provide more details. Is it loose? Bad fit? Poor material or poor design?

 

[Cubsfan24]

Please provide more details. Is it loose? Bad fit? Poor material or poor design?

It's loose, you can see in picture 2

 

[James St. Patrick]

It's loose, you can see in picture 2

Thank you. What is your plan? Adhesive? Is it a simple fix or will the entire window seal/strip needs to be remove to fix it? I do not have my Maverick yet, and trying to understand what to expect, if I have this problem.

 

[Cubsfan24]

Truck buzzes at 50 mph and over from the wind. It's a bad window seal/weatherstrip.

Any correcting

Thank you. What is your plan? Adhesive? Is it a simple fix or will the entire window seal/strip needs to be remove to fix it? I do not have my Maverick yet, and trying to understand what to expect, if I have this problem.

I'm not DIYing something that is brand new. They need to fix this, but it's such a hassle for me to drive back out to where I got it.

 

[fourwheelsandadream]

Any correcting

I'm not DIYing something that is brand new. They need to fix this, but it's such a hassle for me to drive back out to where I got it.

If you have a dealer closer to you than the one you originally bought it from they have to honor your warranty. You don’t have to go through your original dealer

 

[Cubsfan24]

If you have a dealer closer to you than the one you originally bought it from they have to honor your warranty. You don’t have to go through your original dealer

Okay thanks, I was going to tint my windows tomorrow. Should I hold off? I don't want the tint to get messed up or them to blame the tint on the problem.

 

[Dman]

If it were me I would definitely hold off window tinting... I would not want any possible reason for Ford to point the finger at someone else for this mistake.

 

[fourwheelsandadream]

Okay thanks, I was going to tint my windows tomorrow. Should I hold off? I don't want the tint to get messed up or them to blame the tint on the problem.

Definitely hold off. They could very easily blame the tint for that and not honor it

 

[abjbrtd]

Okay thanks, I was going to tint my windows tomorrow. Should I hold off? I don't want the tint to get messed up or them to blame the tint on the problem.

New tint might/could cause warranty problems, as it should.
Don't do it OR get the tint shop to straighten the gasket and smack it into place.

 

[JASmith]

I sure hope we don't have another repeat of the Escape and Bronco Sport launch, both had so many initial quality issues that they were given the "worst predicted reliability" rating and the first year Escape even put on their "worst used cars of all time" list for 2020 specifically.

At least this is minor though, the worst are when its electrical as those are harder to diagnose.

 

[rp2s]

That trim piece looks like an easy fix with a thin nylon tool.

 

[JASmith]

My 2020 Escape provided me with 18,000 trouble-free miles over the past 14 months and per the amount that CarMax just wrote me a check for last week, it appreciated in value $2,000 vs. original out-the-door price I originally paid. Glad I don't follow whatever "rating" source you've quoted.

Consumer Reports, its the world's largest non-profit consumer product advocacy group with millions of subscribers that fill out surveys at the end of the year answering specific questions about their experience in the last 12 months of ownership for the product in question.

What confuses a lot of people is the very concept of what high vs low reliability means. All vehicles being complex machines have a chance of a problem arising from just a bad component to assembly issues and so forth, but what separates a high reliability vehicle from a low one is merely probability.

So for example with a low reliability vehicle say 6 out of 100 would have a major problem and 22 out of 100 would have a minor problem the first year of ownership, whereas with a high reliability vehicle 1 out of 100 would have a major problem and 8 out of 100 would have a minor problem. People then say "well I bought a high reliability vehicle but I had a problem!!!" or "I bought a low reliability vehicle and I had no problem!!!" and think the statistics collected are wrong, when their individual experience doesn't invalidate anything at all. Think of it more like being given dice and hoping for a high number, where with a low reliability vehicle you are given one dice, and with a high reliability vehicle three dice. It doesn't mean you can't roll a 6 with your one dice roll, and three 1s with your three dice roll just being an unlucky statistic as even Toyotas have lemons just fewer of them statistically.

https://fordauthority.com/2021/08/2021-ford-escape-should-be-avoided-says-consumer-reports/

 

[FloodingdowninTX]

Consumer Reports, its the world's largest non-profit consumer product advocacy group with millions of subscribers that fill out surveys at the end of the year answering specific questions about their experience in the last 12 months of ownership for the product in question.

What confuses a lot of people is the very concept of what high vs low reliability means. All vehicles being complex machines have a chance of a problem arising from just a bad component to assembly issues and so forth, but what separates a high reliability vehicle from a low one is merely probability.

So for example with a low reliability vehicle say 6 out of 100 would have a major problem and 22 out of 100 would have a minor problem the first year of ownership, whereas with a high reliability vehicle 1 out of 100 would have a major problem and 8 out of 100 would have a minor problem. People then say "well I bought a high reliability vehicle but I had a problem!!!" or "I bought a low reliability vehicle and I had no problem!!!" and think the statistics collected are wrong, when their individual experience doesn't invalidate anything at all. Think of it more like being given dice and hoping for a high number, where with a low reliability vehicle you are given one dice, and with a high reliability vehicle three dice. It doesn't mean you can't roll a 6 with your one dice roll, and three 1s with your three dice roll just being an unlucky statistic as even Toyotas have lemons just fewer of them statistically.

https://fordauthority.com/2021/08/2021-ford-escape-should-be-avoided-says-consumer-reports/

Consumer Reports has their agenda. Critical of the Ford Ranger/Mazda B series for their entire run because "the seats are too low"(?) while gushing over any Toyota, Honda, etc.

 

[Rob Cactus Gray]

Consumer Reports has their agenda. Critical of the Ford Ranger/Mazda B series for their entire run because "the seats are too low"(?) while gushing over any Toyota, Honda, etc.

they also rank a lot of non issues as problematic. Like the issue for this thread. I’m not sorry this could have been fixed in less time than taking a picture.

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