I use the OBD Fusion (on Car Play) to show the ICE RPM, ICE Temp, HV Battery % of charge. I really only look at the RPM to see if it is running or at 0 RPM and I watch the HV Battery % of charge as I helps me decide if I can keep using the electric or give up and let the ICE run for a while...
I thought about getting a set of snow tires, but I only have to get through this winter and I will be retiring. Once retired I will have more flexibility to just stay home if I wish. It has been such a mild winter that I just kept putting it off. With all of the driving I have done over the...
I have to say I was happy with how my 24 FWD did today. I am across the water in the Lower Mainland, and I have not had any issues over the last couple of days. I have the Continentals, and they have been doing fine so far. I do have a set of chains in the truck just in case, but I hope to never...
Well, you don't really crank it per say. When the start button is pressed (or ignition is switched to Run), the 12v starts powering all of the needed electronics and the DC / DC inverter kicks in and then it takes over supplying the power for the truck using the HV battery and starts charging...
Well, no new battery, they apparently did the SSM process and said the battery tested fine. I could see my truck in the app while I was waiting to pick it up and the location showed it in the dealer parking lot, but 5 mins after parking it in my garage I got a deep sleep message again. Oh, well...
The problem is he kicked the can down the road. Until he takes it off the table it is going to have repercussions. As someone is very close to retirement I am wondering if I should pull all of my stocks and get very conservative with my investments in the next few weeks (quit while I am ahead)?
I dropped my truck off at the local Ford dealership (first time there for service). I bought my truck from a dealer closer to where I used to live.
Interesting but not unusual - a few days after setting up my service appointment I received a text from a salesperson at the dealership telling me...
Yeah, my Stang was a '91, no side airbag and the one in the steering wheel did not deploy because it was a side impact. The driver's door was pushed in over a foot and the door frame bent up into an "A" shape buckling the roof right over to the opposite side. They had to cut out the door and...
This was my first thought too. My 20 year old mustang was put down after keeping me alive in a t-bone accident after some bozzo ran a red light. I was heartbroken to loose it but thankful it held together just enough to keep me from being killed. I had to be cut out of it because I was pinned...
If you use the specified oil the wear at start would be minimal and consistent with any ICE, The ICE does not stay off very long when "Ready" so subsequent starts would not have any additional "start" wear as the oil is already distributed. The HV Battery is much smaller in the Maverick than a...
I decided to get one on my build because I passed on the sunroof. I used it almost daily in the summer. It's works great eliminating the pulsing air (Helmholtz Resonance) when you roll down a window or two and it helps cool the truck quickly when you start out on a hot day.
I do plan on sharing this data with the service department of my Ford dealership. I recently moved so I will probably have to take my truck to a dealership closer to me. I really hope their service department is better than their sales department because I walked off their lot and bought a...
So far our winter has been mild barely dropping below zero (Celsius) a few times so far. I tend to not set the heat above 17.5 and I don't turn it on until the windows start to fog and turn it off almost immediately after the windows clear up. If I can I try to turn it on when I expect the ICE...
<Sarcasm ON> When you look at all of the data I have on my 12v battery since installing the monitor, I am not entirely sure, but there might be a trend starting to show? <Sarcasm OFF>
Maybe I should start taking bets on when I will have to pull out the jump box & jump start it for the first...
I am 6' 2" and I don't have any issues unless my wife does not park correctly in the garage. I find it a little more difficult to exit with the door only slightly opened and knowing how easy it is to scuff the interior plastic panels.
Thank you for your advice - if just a tad tardy. I did in fact revised my order and add the remote start. 11 months later I took delivery of my truck. Fast forward to today and the Ford app is absolutely useless and only works when my truck is running (using the app to lock/unlock and remote...
Has anyone pulled the battery from their truck for an extended period of time? I was thinking of putting the battery through the desulfation mode on my battery charger? I have had vehicles in the past that doing something like this could lock the radio requiring a service call to put in some...
Being on the Wet Coast of Canada means our temps are usually mild. Here are the temps at the battery (obviously under the back seat) for the same time period. My truck is stored in a slightly heated garage at night but sits outside at work 5 days a week.