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Until the engine temp is in running temp, it's running the electric heater. It's a substantial drain on the HV battery and the ICE engine will come on much more often. That and the initial warm up time is increased as it goes down below the 40s. These are just my observations. Don't run the heat...

I have been in journalism for over 4 decades. When I started pretty much everything was a serious accident with injuries. Now seriously injury is the exception..

The cold is really hard on hybrid mpg. If you are a diehard, wait until you get some engine temp to run the heater, otherwise it runs the electric heater and the EV only cycles are much shorter.

Had this happen after it was topped off with a maintainer over night. Drove it 4. MI shut it off, battery saver mode. It was just an interesting observation I thought. A Faraday box really did help for most of my issues. I just stuck it on the maintainer because it was sitting in the garage for...

I've heard the clicking in all different scenarios. The one that annoys me the most is when I have the key out of the ignition and just sitting in the car working on a laptop. Everything with the car is shut off and you can still here something random clicking from front maybe transmission...

I have the original flooded battery from a April 22 delivery hybrid. I found that when I store it for a week it goes into preservation mode. Now that I'm using it a lot, I tried something which worked 100%. It's parked out front of my house so my keys are probably about 15 ft away all the time...

Try all the normal things you would do with phone and app troubleshooting. Android auto mirrors what's on your phone. Boot the phone, You can try uninstalling and reinstalling Android auto on your phone. And you can do a factory reset of the head unit. First check to make sure your cable is good...

Why not forgo taking delivery on the order and place the order again a couple months before you return? And get a fresh one. Won't change much for '26. That way you won't eat into the warranty, deal with stabilizing gas (use non-ethanol and a good 2-year stabilizer) or have to pull the 12-volt...

My dealership doesn't do a markup on ordered Mavericks. And I know they definitely don't get them in for allotment retail like they do everything else that doesn't sell as well, So like other people have noted here they are probably hoping to claim it as an order and then mark it up or add it to...

It's worth noting that when when the vehicle is started (ready light on and not accessory) The 12 volt is charging off the high voltage battery. But I suspect that charging rate is lower like when you're running both heated seats and heated steering wheel. I have the original 12-volt battery in...

Doubt other manufacturers are embarrassed. More smug and satisfied they aren't cannibalizing their profitable larger trucks as it's been.... Until someone comes along and steals a customer. The acquisition rate from other manufacturers to Maverick is pretty high. It works for Ford because they...

Why would you want to keep the F-150? You're going to burn at least twice the gas. Every time I look at a full-size truck I can't understand why people drive these things. I park them at the dealership and it just seems like such an awkward mess to own on a daily basis. I mean I get it if you...

It sort of follows the general popular, dumb trend of big blocky flat front ends that plow through the air and kill pedestrians. This one is tiny compared to the full-size GM and Ram offerings which have gotten almost grotesque in looks. Can they be bigger next time? Personally, I'd like...

17 months and no issues here. I received the recall for the wiring harness a couple months ago and was going to do it at the next oil change.

A very profitable "mistake". More business for dealers who have a reputation of honoring retail orders.

Out of habit after an oil change, i check to see if it's been reset and pull the dipstick for level and condition (I know what it looked like before it went in). Doesn't matter how good the garage/dealer is, the master mechanics are generally not doing the oil changes and humans can make errors...

The oil change graph on the app is useful if your too lazy to scroll in the dash. It gives you estimated miles and month it's expected to be changed. If it sits in the garage for a week, it moves down a percentage points drive a lot it moves down quicker. I feel pretty confident in the factory...

I've been following this since the first recall. I received delivery for my truck in April of 2022. I'm a pretty voracious news site reader and I have yet to hear of one of these engines failing. I mean if you were Kia owner and you did some research they would be blowing up right and left. And...

Does anyone actually heard of an engine failure during the first and now second recalls? You would think with all that prevention measures that would be because there was a large number of failures or you would even hear of one?

Keep the hybrid... Burn less money going forward, plenty of power and the other is just some trim with a name.