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The least expensive dwelling within 10 miles of my current residence is currently listed for $329K (it's a 1000 sq ft condo, with an "unspecified" HOA fee - I didn't ask). Second place is a $479K home that is 1200 sq ft on a roughly 3200 sq ft lot. But if you drive a good bit farther, you can...

Yeah, I get that, but the person I was responding to said they already had at least two cars... My first "loan" was to purchase a motorcycle to take with me to college. Worked overtime all summer to have it paid off before the school year started, and did. Three days later, it was stolen...

True, but at least you have free healthcare. Down here in the land of the "free" we don't believe in "free stuff," so most folks pay well over $1000 a month for health insurance. (Some have it partially or wholly subsidized by their employers, through.)

Darn few working people can afford to pay cash for a home. Nowadays, even "started homes" are over $200K... Within 80 miles of my present home, there are ZERO listings below $125K - and those are "fixer uppers" that need $50-$100K of work to be habitable. It's Nice that you're wealthy...

You've "never had a car payment before," so why the sudden "need" to finance one now? Since the Maverick is just about the least expensive vehicle you can purchase new these days, it makes no sense that you could afford to pay cash before, but suddenly need to finance a vehicle that is less...

Same here... Sold my 2015 C2500HD diesel for exactly $100 less than I had paid for it - out the door - when it was brand new. We owned it for 6 years and put about 48,000 miles on it, most of that pulling a large 5th wheel camper. Pretty amazing to drive 48K miles for only 0.2 cents per mile...

No one every truly got 0% car loans - Ford (and other manufacturers) were basically paying "points" on the normal 3-5% loans to lower the APR to 0%, 0.9%, or 1.9%... It works pretty much like a mortgage, where you can "buy down" the rate by paying up-front "points"... You can probably to the...

When I finally decided I was serious about retiring early, my wife and I took that same approach. The cars and truck were already paid off, so every surplus dollar above our living expenses went toward the mortgage. I got a huge bonus that year, and put it toward the loan principal. Got it...

Yeah, my wife does both, plus she brings her "driving with Jim" quilt. She's over there huddled under the blanket with her seat heater on, and I'm over on my side with the AC turned up to "barely tolerable" level to avoid freezing her out! But when she's not in the car, the AC is simply...

Well, the 12V battery gets recharged from the HVB, so it's kind of a moot point, isn't it? The hybrid doesn't have a separate engine-driven alternator to recharge the 12V battery - it gets recharged via the DC-to-DC converter from the HVB, which in turn gets recharged by the ICE through the...

Find how your dealer made that happen, post it here, and if it's verified as working, I'll give you $200 for finding the solution that thousands of MTC members have been pursuing for almost two years without success. I'll be more than happy to be proven wrong and pony up the money!

Sorry, but the Lariat is just like the other trims in this regard. Every time you start the engine, it resets the drive mode to "Normal"... It's well documented, and is the subject of many posts about how to defeat this annoying "feature." The only "reliable" solution I've seen involves...

Just an observation about "super soft brakes" in Slippery mode: That is entirely under your control. It requires more pedal travel to achieve higher braking force than you experience in Normal mode, but the power is there when you need it. Again, the "less grabby" brakes (to put a positive...

LOL, I'm pretty confident you didn't hear the engine "screaming" in slippery mode, and it's pretty unlikely for that to happen in Tow/Haul mode, either. Slippery mode effectively slows (calms) everything down to avoid sudden bursts of power or brakes. Tow/Haul mode will allow the engine to rev...

It's so strange that they supply ONE locking pin and one "straight" (non-locking) pin. Let's say you lock the "hitch" to the receiver, and use the "straight" pin to secure the "ball" portion of the hitch (which contains the weighing mechanism). Someone could easily remove the straight pin and...

I went with plain black raised letters on my Area 51 Maverick. It looks good, and the contrast is pretty sharp.

Ignoring the CarPlay for just a minute... You should be using Bluetooth to connect your phone to your truck for calls. Get that working BEFORE you even plug in to CarPlay. If you do it that way, it should work just fine. (And yes, you'll have two connections between your vehicle and your...

I ordered from a local dealer. When I learned that Ford took orders for more than 2X the number of hybrids they planned to produce, I started looking for "rejected orders" at various dealers. A dealer in my old home town (contacted because I often travel back there to visit my brother)...

I got a call from a dealer (Kileen Ford in Kileen, TX) telling me they had a Maverick waiting for me like I wanted - a Lariat Hybrid with CoPilot360 (for the ACC). And this one even had the First Edition package. They would sell it to me for MSRP. I was there as fast as I could legally...

I believe it is illegal in some states to impersonate an attorney. Sharks protecting sharks...