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2025 Hybrid FWD, 112K, (purchased 2025-07-01), obviously I work it, and it has had the HV battery replaced under warranty, but I think only because the contactor went bad. I ran a Prius to 396K, never replaced the rear brakes, and replaced the front at 250K, so I am expecting the same out of...

Why estimate when you can know? CAT scale is $15 most places, and then you have verified bragging rights

I wouldn’t, cooling really only comes into if you’re pushing hard in the desert, and the hitch can physically handle it. No major hills around? Just drive like a loaded semi. Slow starts, keep the speed down. It’s not a Faberge egg.

A ScanGauge would be handy to have in this case, as the clunk is known to be part of the AWD system (if you have it), but the lurching comes from the hybrid system very suddenly deactivating due to HV battery weirdness, and that you can see in HVB voltage and amperage readings. My theory (I...

Pro tip for anyone extending their load length with these hitch extender doo-dads, those tie-down points on top can be ratchet-strapped to any high point on the bed (tie-downs, or the gate latching pegs, but those could slip), thus stabilizing the end of the load. Bonus stability if you cross...

The Maverick is not made with either a class-I or class-II hitch, it is made with an underrated class-III hitch, and that is common to both the 2K and 4K tow packages. Class-I and class-II both are distinguished by being 1-1/4” receiver size. I can’t speak as to the cooling, that may become a...

It takes towing 6300 pounds uphill on an ice slick road to overpower the FWD traction-wise. ask me how I know. 😃

My next reset came at 110,396 miles, on 5–22. So I seem to be resetting it about every two weeks and 6K miles. 😂

Listening to Slick Talk, a podcast run by a Blackstone employee, the owner of Blackstone ran 70s oil in a 70s/80s engine, and it worked fine. I suspect if the lighter 0w20 the Maverick calls for was available in 1960, they may have made the engines tighter at that time, and the oil change...

You mean the Hybrid that doesn't have a transmission? ;) If anything, that was easier on the "transmission" than my regular haul of 7x14 cargo trailers. Sure, they're 4,100 lbs lighter, but they're a giant wind sail, and fuel economy is significantly worse.

I posted in another page of this thread, but 2 weeks and less than 5k total miles, around 1,800 of which was deadhead, from OLM reset at oil change to 0% “change oil now!”. I won’t be changing it again until about 30k on the oil.

Now I just need to figure out a Gooseneck/5th wheel hitch setup for mine. I mean, if a Prius can tow 16,000 lbs, so can a Maverick.

Given the last report, I think I'll start with 30k oil changes. Maybe I'll make it to 100k oil changes eventually, if Blackstone doesn't get skittish. :D I got 120k miles from the 70k-rated Bridgestone Ecopia's I ran on my Prius, I wonder how the 80k-rated Turanza's will fare, they're already...

Ehh, incorrect, I changed at less than 2 months. The header shows, and Blackstone accepts, 2 fields, the unit total mileage, and the mileage on that particular oil sample, which I forgot to put in, as I've done once before. They know the oil can't be more long-lived than 99,177 - 72,451, which...

In 1885, with tolerances and oil being what they were, 3,000 miles between oil changes was likely to result in a severely damaged engine, if it lasted that long. By the 1950s, 3k miles was standard, as engine tolerances decreased, the oil became less polluted by blow-by, and advances in oil...

On trailer, this center console weighs 6,300 lbs. I did run out of traction on my ‘25 FWD Hybrid when I started going uphill on ice during the storm in Feb this year… ETA: Because I was dragging my feet trying to avoid the storm (pickup was kinda fixed in time, I was picking up from a grass lot...

I didn't, I must've forgotten to write down the delta, but it was changed at 99,177.

Does the EB report oil temp or turbo temp, or anything else useful on ScanGauge? EGT?

That would get both expensive, and time consuming if I had to do that… (does math) every 2 weeks. 😂 You also forgot that the Mavbrid is asked to perform at reasonably high load all the time, whereas the EB gets to laze around at least some of the time. 😉