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THE AUTHOR IS NOT asking about needing a programmed key. He is asking that: 1. If you tow your Maverick four down behind a motorhome (first requirement, if you don't tow four down with another vehicle, a motorhome, you can't answer the question). 2. Can you impose neutral tow and tow the...

The articles I have seen appear written by quite poor writers. These authors write with the sole purpose of filling columns with words. Here's the tipoff: "STOLEN IN DROVES!!!!!!!!!" If you see a line like "stolen in droves" followed by the use of some unexplained criminal voodoo, it's a...

Mine has sat in the garage with a trickle charger on it. I ran a socket out the back door and plugged it in when I was not using it for a few days. It worked great. There are a dozen or so rabbit holes so big that even Alice wouldn't fall in. I have managed to avoid them. For example, my...

Oh! Let's play that game. A Demco failure point is the single tab used on their towbars. Hard turns bend and pop the welds on their base plates. There have been a bunch. Choosing a towbar and baseplate is a lot like choosing a religion. You become heavily invested in your brand. You find...

I wouldn't tow a child's wagon with that little, stumpy aluminum tow bar. I wouldn't trust that bar with ANY baseplate on ANY vehicle. It even came with little, tiny cables. The forces on these bars can be tremendous. The forces acting on those joints had to be unbelievably high. This isn't...

Blue Ox plate, bar and Blue Ox Patriot brake. Works great.

I am very pleased I had a salesperson who explained these items and many other things on the truck that were not initially obvious. This makes me feel better about my dealership.

My cigarette lighter is, in fact, on after I turn the ignition off. The power is properly supplied from a fuse that goes off with removing the key. You don't have wires dopeying up the works. Everything is in the glove box. It is a much cleaner installation.

I wanted the power to be on to the charger only when the ignition was on. I believe the lighter jack is on all the time.

Wireless phone charging without much modification. Works great! I’ve lost the video, but a fellow put a video up describing how he mounted a cell phone charger below the tray to allow wireless charging. I ordered a wireless Qi charger to be installed this way, but it did not work on arrival...

We all bought major software packages called “Ford Maverick.” If you have programmed complex software, you know just what you were buying. If you have never programmed, you’re about to get schooled. Imagine you’re playing chess. There are about 10 to the 40th power games that could occur. A...

I keep the engine battery on my motorhome charged using the device shown in the link. It is a solar trickle charger and has worked extremely well. I monitored the voltage closely, and it is working. My Maverick is in the garage on a plug-in trickle charger, so I don't normally need it. However...

Any chance you can find the make and model of the bulb you picked?

I like this but in the northeast Ohio snow I/you/everyone else WILL back into a snowdrift. While I contemplate the purchase I am SURE that I would crack off the receiver tabs and install a locking hitch pin to hold it. I have lost any number of "cutesy" receiver covers. It will still be an...

I have a 2024 XLT. I have a Samsung 24 Ultra. I have a Samsung Galaxy Watch 5. If the watch is connected to the phone via Bluetooth, the calls in the Maverick are distorted. If I disconnect the watch, the calls in the Maverick are fine. Absolutely reproducible. I frigging hate Bluetooth.

I learned a lot when I topped off a 100+ gallon tank on a motorhome I had. The temperature went from about forty degrees to eighty plus that day. "Oh, the gasoline expanded. My motorhome is peeing gasoline. But it will stop soon." No, it won't. No, it didn't. I poked that bear once and...

You had me at the soldered connector. Anyone who has worked on a twenty or thirty year-old car knows those crimped on connectors are a very bad shortcut. Fast? Yes. Efficient? Yes. Corroded to poop in a decade or so? Guaranteed.

I used a Micro3 fuse tap into fuse 1 and 2 in the box located at the passenger's feet. I drove that to a three-way cigarette lighter plug adapter. I cut off the cigarette plug and wired the fuse tap direct to the three-way. I put that in the glove box and plugged in my GPS and dash cam. Now...

The issue is that a particular "brand" of dashcam is on the market for a short time and then disappears. Or, it morphs into another model. I bought Uniden for a number of vehicles and they work great. One saved my insurance history after an accident. But now, a year or two later, they don't...