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1) It improves the aerodynamics under the vehicle, improving your mileage slightly 2) It keeps the road/dirt crap off the engine and tranny 3) It keeps some heat in, reducing your restart warmup time 4) It (mostly) keeps the rocks from destroying your drivetrain

Ok, here we are 3 days after the announced changeover to 2024 ordering, and you still cannot order a 2024. This is a major fail on the part of Ford Canada.

My sympathy ran out when I re-read your post. So you leave your brass lying all over the garage, and then get upset because it picked up the brass and it acted like the hole-punch tool that you should fully expect? I doubt that the choice of Contis had anything to do with your poor control of...

We have great dealers around the area, responsive and only asking for MSRP. You might want to specify what area in future.

The Canadian shopping site is still showing the unobtainable 2023 unicorn Maverick. I assume that they laid off all the web devs or there has been a major screwup or something. Looking at the site source, it looks pretty simple and probably hand-coded, and a total F/E amateur could easily...

Not in Canada its not. It still shows 2023 everywhere

I suspect that it will need changing more often than you are used to, since it spends much longer lubricating a cold engine than in a more conventional ICE. Its going to be like a more normal engine running only 1-mile trips for its entire life. In a cold engine, the oil does not flow as well...

I guess you're lucky that you don't live in Toyota's home turf in Japan. We don't get their newer vehicles here until they have been sold to the unsuspecting public in Japan for several years and the kinks have been worked out. Unlike Ford, they don't admit to their design faults and don't fix...

Talk about making it easy for someone to steal your new truck! The RF amplifier is $180 on Amazon and every thief owns one today. At least lock the keyfob away in a safe somewhere and make sure its in a Faraday cage wallet or some other RF-blocking container.

Fuel dilution around 2% sounds like you're never getting the engine up to temperature and burning off the fuel load. I'd bet that you do lots of extremely short trips that are hard on any gasoline engine. Either that or you have a pretty bad misfire. The other interesting numbers are maybe...

Are you accounting for the variable size of a gallon at the pump? The pumps at almost all stations today will alter the size of a gallon depending upon the fuel temperature in the ground, so the amount of fuel in your refill can vary as much as +/-10%. Fuel expands on hot summer days, while in...

Bad fuel?

A ethanol/gasoline mixture higher than about 10% ethanol is corrosive to many common metals used in vehicle fuel systems. The longer that they are in contact, the more damage is caused. That's why you should not use ethanol fuels in lawn mowers for example. Your experiment is not reasonable...

A compressor is only useful for emergencies. Your tires are not filled with air. Just like race cars, aircraft, etc, they are filled with nitrogen, which does not vary the pressure as much with tire temperature changes.

Are they not the same as the Escape and Bronco rotors? The factory rotors seem to be of better quality and don't rust up like older Fords did. Anyways, the better aftermarket plated rotors for the escape have been readily available for many years now.

All vehicles from all manufacturers have been off by about 3% since the fifties. Its intentional to to account for the worst possible variation in tire size. You can change the revolution count per mile in the computer (I've done mine) if you know how to alter the settings.

Me too. I've had 7 windshields replaced and 3 paint jobs on 2 Rangers due to rock and sand hits. Trucks are aerodynamic bricks going down the road, picking up a hit from every grain of sand in the air. I wonder then if your vehicle has a defective or missing primer coat or oil under the paint...

The NHTSA has said there are 25 engines with incorrectly machined #4 bearing surface of the crankshaft, that may have been installed in 25 of 200 possible hybrid escapes, corsairs or mavericks. That's a statistically negligible number of engines that are maybe going to hand-grenade and be...

Here in Ontario, most insurance companies ding you a lot for not having winter tires in winter. They are mandatory in Quebec where they pull you off the road for not having them, and you are required to use winter tires or chains on mountain passes in B.C. In Maryland, you may want to consider...

Really? Every one of those look like stone hits from driving too close to the guy in front.