2.0 supposed to tow up to 4K lbs. Not so!

[710-oil-614]

I was going to order that configuration as well, but I am waiting for reviews on towing performance. It seems with 191 combined system HP on tap, I'd be going exactly nowhere in a hurry towing 4000lbs.

I'm sure it'd be fine where it's flat, but I frequent LA to Las Vegas, and there are no fewer than three mountain passes in between, including something like a 17-mile, 5% uphill northbound out of Baker.

I've driven a Prius V with 3 big guys on that route and the hybrid battery depleted about 1/3 of the way up. With my foot in the carpet, we climbed the hill at less than 30mph with basically only the 99HP gas engine.



Good to hear that the Maverick EB does great with hills. My Nissan Frontier has plenty of steam to tow 4000lbs from LA to Vegas. My issue is cooling capacity. Towing 4000lbs uphill when its 115F just causes the water temperature to shoot past 230F and the trans temperature to shoot past 240F at 60mph. I slowed to 35mph and was able to keep both at under 220F.

If you think your frontier had plenty of steam then you shouldn’t worry about the hybrid drivetrain being able to tow 4K. Nor should you be trying to get anywhere in a hurry pulling that kind of load.

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[COY]

Yeah, Sorry to hear that this happened to you. I am hoping that you just had some bad luck unfortunately. Like a couple who have posted to your post on here already... (also if you do a quick search on this site) there are a handful of members who have towed well beyond the 4k threshold for some distance and have no issues at all. Not just like pulling a boat out of the water or anything, but like a car and trailer from city to city. I think there are a couple members who have towed upwards of like 7k with the Maverick already.

So I do not want to pull the trigger and say a vehicle that was engineered to tow 4k, cannot tow 4k, but I personally would rather say something like "towing any load could exacerbate any issues that the vehicle may already have"

Again sorry to hear this happen to you, I just hope it was bad luck, or the last service that was performed where they replaced the boots...maybe they did not do the repair correct or something.

I think you said it best in your quotes

 

[COY]

I think you said it best in your quotes

My post is a warning that this could happen. It happened to me. I love that there are other great towing experiences with the Maverick. I’ve liked every other aspect of mine. Just had a bad experience at the beginning of a long 5 day trip and want others to beware.

 

[COY]

I think that's a mighty acrobatic logical leap. But if it gives you closure, ok.

...It's just a shame to crap on the capabilities of the truck in general because you had an isolated issue. People around here regularly report towing more than 3,000 lbs a lot further than you did, and have had zero problems. Frankly a couple of locos around here tow twice that much and will admit to it.

The non-Tremor front axles are junk - for a lot of us; not just people who tow or put in lift kits...

I’m just posting my experience and warning that this can happen. So if you have 2 identical mavericks with weak front axles but one of them is towing 3000lbs I don’t think it’s that large a leap to assume the one towing would probably crap out first. Seems like common sense to me.

 

[710-oil-614]

My post is a warning that this could happen. It happened to me. I love that there are other great towing experiences with the Maverick. I’ve liked every other aspect of mine. Just had a bad experience at the beginning of a long 5 day trip and want others to beware.

But your bad experience began when you lifted your Maverick and already had issues with a leaking CV boot as a result.

Correlation (ie you were towing when the axle failed) is not causation (the reason it failed).

 

[Tim d]

Be careful out there when towing. I have a 2022 2.0L. I towed a 3000 lb camper about 300 miles then had to be towed. I think the engine can handle it just fine but its front legs cannot. Had to get a whole new front axle!

23 ecobooost 4k tow here.i have towed over 3000 lbs several times so far without issue.although my trips have all been 50-100 miles. 19,000 miles on our maverick so far.

 

[COY]

But your bad experience began when you lifted your Maverick and already had issues with a leaking CV boot as a result.

Correlation (ie you were towing when the axle failed) is not causation (the reason it failed).

I don’t see it that way. There are several posts on here about weak front axle and it being a problem with the Mavericks. It’s only common sense that if you put a load on top of that it will exacerbate the issue.

 

[710-oil-614]

I don’t see it that way. There are several posts on here about weak front axle and it being a problem with the Mavericks. It’s only common sense that if you put a load on top of that it will exacerbate the issue.

You did not put a load on your front axle at all. Unless you do some weird towing.

However by lifting your vehicle your changed the geometry in your front suspension and you put unnecessary stress on a known weak component.

But as someone else said, if believing towing 3k lbs caused your issues and brings you some closure - run with it bud.

 

[Snox801]

I’m just posting my experience and warning that this can happen. So if you have 2 identical mavericks with weak front axles but one of them is towing 3000lbs I don’t think it’s that large a leap to assume the one towing would probably crap out first. Seems like common sense to me.

I’m not sure how the towing would change anything. Our tunes have a trq based power output from the factory. So it would not add more trq to the axles than say a heavy throttle start. All these are well under the parameters that would damage the cv’s. Unfortunately as other stated. This is more of an axle issue than a towing. Now what may have made it worse is the fact that towing may have been a longer than normal trip causing more heat to build and break down grease. Similar to wheels bearings. Long trip can be killer.
I wouldn’t sweat the towing as the issue. Let’s just hope you new set is one of the good ones and you have many many more enjoyable towing miles

 

[todd92]

Lifts Maverick and installs heavy wheels and tires. CV joints fail. Blames towing.

 

[Carlitos_92]

So if you have 2 identical mavericks with weak front axles but one of them is towing 3000lbs I don’t think it’s that large a leap to assume the one towing would probably crap out first. Seems like common sense to me.

But it isn’t 2 identical Mavericks… It’s yours - and then dozens of others… literally hundreds of others, who are towing the same loads if not heavier ones with the same axles. With no issues.

But anyway… when you decide it was towing too heavy of a load that made your drivers side door lock on its own, the rest of us with no common sense will be here for you.

 

[Phimosis]

Tow/haul

That explains it. Your CV joint failed because you were using tow/haul mode.

 

[James K]

AWD with tow package. Not sure what else I have to say. I was towing a 3000lb camper dry and the Maverick started pulling to the right little as if I had a flat. I pulled over, got out and the driver front wheel well was smoking. It was the grease from the bearings being thrown out and the friction. When I turned to get off the highway heard a metal crunching sound. Had to be towed to Gene Messer Ford in Lubbock TX. They did a fantastic job but the trucks “legs” did not handle the towing, period!

Well I've done 3200 lbs from NY to FL and back, no problem. Probably had another 200-300 lbs in bed and the same in cab. I feel for you on this experience but think you had a bad part somewhere and it's not that the truck can't do it.

 

[Bohefus]

But your bad experience began when you lifted your Maverick and already had issues with a leaking CV boot as a result.

Correlation (ie you were towing when the axle failed) is not causation (the reason it failed).

Sorry to jump in on the conversation between you 2 but... IMHO, the axles should be able to withstand a lift like that and not go bad after 20-30,000 miles or sooner, regardless of towing or not. I believe Ford knows this but doesn't want to foot the bill for a recall. I wonder if Ford will make some modifications to the axle for 2025.

 

[wax87]

He fell asleep. Don't you see his profile pic?

Is that why he needed new axles, he fell asleep and ran off the road?

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