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I had a crazy and awful experience with my Maverick Lariat Hybrid today. At one point smoke started filling the cabin.
I left work early this afternoon to finish up some last minute Christmas shopping. When I started the truck there was a very loud ear piercing crackle that came out of the speakers. It was quick but so lout that it startled me. Then I noticed there was no sound coming from the radio. I tried turning the radio off and back on and then performed the soft reset and still no sound. At that point I figured I have a lot to do the next few days so I'll have to make an appointment at the dealership for next week. I had no idea what I was in for just a few minutes later.
I then merged onto the highway and right at that time all four speakers started blaring a jackhammer like sound at an unbelievably high decibel. It literally was painful to my ears. I've been to a lot of rock concerts and this was worse. It wouldn't stop. I put a video below of the sound. I pulled over on the shoulder and turned the truck off and it still didn't stop. So I opened the driver door to get the radio to turn off completely and although the radio screen went blank the sound was still happening at a deafening level.
The local dealership was probably roughly 7 miles from where I was and it was right off one of the highway exits so I decided to drive straight to the dealership The sound was so bad that I was trying to steer with my knee so I could hold my fingers over my ears. I got off the highway exit for the dealership and as I was doing that I started to smell a strong smell of smoke. It smelled like something electronic was burning. I guess over heating is a better way to describe the smell. I would say imagine if a TV or DVD player started severely over heating. Some light smoke started filling the cabin and this point I was less than a minute from the dealership so sped there. I parked the truck and ran inside and asked for a tech to come right out because the truck might catch on fire. One guy ran out and yelled "It's a Hybrid and I'm not trained on how to safely work on them". He then ran to get someone else who popped the hood and unplugged something. I was standing off to the side so I'm not sure what he unplugged but it finally stopped.
Both of the techs were bewildered and said they had never seen anything like that themselves. One of them thought it might be a stuck module but he wasn't sure. I obviously had to leave them the truck and now I have no idea when they'll get to it. I'm definitely worried about what kind of damage has been done. I wonder if the speakers are even damaged at this point.
I took the video when I pulled over on the highway to turn the truck off. I wanted to have something to show the dealership in case it stopped doing that before I got there. Keep in mind the sound in the video below does not even do justice to how loud the sound actually was. I was seriously worried about hearing damage after a few minutes of it doing that.
I left work early this afternoon to finish up some last minute Christmas shopping. When I started the truck there was a very loud ear piercing crackle that came out of the speakers. It was quick but so lout that it startled me. Then I noticed there was no sound coming from the radio. I tried turning the radio off and back on and then performed the soft reset and still no sound. At that point I figured I have a lot to do the next few days so I'll have to make an appointment at the dealership for next week. I had no idea what I was in for just a few minutes later.
I then merged onto the highway and right at that time all four speakers started blaring a jackhammer like sound at an unbelievably high decibel. It literally was painful to my ears. I've been to a lot of rock concerts and this was worse. It wouldn't stop. I put a video below of the sound. I pulled over on the shoulder and turned the truck off and it still didn't stop. So I opened the driver door to get the radio to turn off completely and although the radio screen went blank the sound was still happening at a deafening level.
The local dealership was probably roughly 7 miles from where I was and it was right off one of the highway exits so I decided to drive straight to the dealership The sound was so bad that I was trying to steer with my knee so I could hold my fingers over my ears. I got off the highway exit for the dealership and as I was doing that I started to smell a strong smell of smoke. It smelled like something electronic was burning. I guess over heating is a better way to describe the smell. I would say imagine if a TV or DVD player started severely over heating. Some light smoke started filling the cabin and this point I was less than a minute from the dealership so sped there. I parked the truck and ran inside and asked for a tech to come right out because the truck might catch on fire. One guy ran out and yelled "It's a Hybrid and I'm not trained on how to safely work on them". He then ran to get someone else who popped the hood and unplugged something. I was standing off to the side so I'm not sure what he unplugged but it finally stopped.
Both of the techs were bewildered and said they had never seen anything like that themselves. One of them thought it might be a stuck module but he wasn't sure. I obviously had to leave them the truck and now I have no idea when they'll get to it. I'm definitely worried about what kind of damage has been done. I wonder if the speakers are even damaged at this point.
I took the video when I pulled over on the highway to turn the truck off. I wanted to have something to show the dealership in case it stopped doing that before I got there. Keep in mind the sound in the video below does not even do justice to how loud the sound actually was. I was seriously worried about hearing damage after a few minutes of it doing that.
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