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To your question-- I rarely drive offroad. But the debris is clearly coming from above. I just ordered the guards. The "Mabett hood water barrier"

I think so too. I will try them. Thank you!

That idea appeals to me. The Ford clips holding on the rocker panel are weird. Easily damaged. Overly complicated. If we could pop out the panel quickly this would be an easy detailing chore.

I have a 22 XL hybrid. I park it outdoors. Periodically I vacuum out leaves that fall from the windshield down the side channels and accumulate in front of the door hinges. But I noticed today that there is a small gap that extends under the plastic rocker panel. I pulled the first three clips...

This is great detective work! I think it potentially explains a lot. When you add it to the (theory) that a lot of early mav hybrids were shipped with FOMOCO battery that was probably fairly shit It explains even more because almost everyone who swapped it out for a good AGM battery says that...

This looks great and I will definitely be checking mine for debris. Probably too much to ask but I don't suppose you've looked at the other issue with debris collection behind rocker panels? I'm referring to the situation where anything that slides off the front windshield ends up behind the...

Wouldn't the savings be double what you calculated? Are you really going to replace the battery pack after 10 years and then immediately throw away the truck? No. You're going to drive it for another 10 years. That's one battery pack replacement over 20 years of driving.

This answer seems to be consistent with my own experience and OP. My 22 hybrid with 26k miles does the same thing. At or under 5 mph there is a noticeable release of braking immediately followed by a hard stop. It's usually pretty mild barely noticeable but under certain conditions more...

Okay but now I want that tent! Or something like it

Many good points here. One correction-- you can absolutely run a full size refrigerator with a 2000 watt inverter. My fridge pulls 3.8 amps or about 450 watts. I have the same setup as op. 2000 w inverter. I have tested it but I have the same idea about use. I will use it as a backup power...

#3 I think the octane recommendations apply to EcoBoost only.

Okay thanks! This seems like one of those ideas that is too good to be true. I mean, instead of having a small gas generator rattling along at your driveway, just use this hybrid truck with it's excellent BMS and efficient ICE which will only cut on about half the time at most if you only need a...

Can we get an update on your inverter? How's it worked out? What have you used it for? I'm considering adding a 1200 w inverter to my XL hybrid and using it as an emergency generator to power the fridge and a couple of lights in the case of another power outage from a storm. We just experienced...

You may know this already but those leaves work their way down the sides along the door hinges. I take my shop vac periodically and pull out wads of them with the door open down near the kick plate

I just did mine. 22 XL hybrid. I followed the instructions on the YouTube video from the "Cuban Redneck" posted elsewhere. I did purchase the wrong OBD adapter and had to return it. I then purchased the one listed on the forscan website and it worked perfectly. It took me about 30 minutes to...

Pretty sure the high octane recommendation is for the EcoBoost engine only.

Thomasville Ford, in Thomasville Georgia. Very up front about everything and answered all my questions and delivered exactly as promised. MSRP plus $799.

You're right that I'm not happy they lied but if that's what you're taking from my post you have misunderstood the intent. I'm detailing my experience to try to help you or anyone else navigate this process or at least understand some of the things to pay attention to: Be persistent. Get...

I have one of the hybrids with the faulty wiring harness. Mine died after 2500 miles. The dealership had it for 67 days. At least 30 days of that seems to be the dealer not pinpointing the problem even though I told them to look at the wiring harness the day it was towed in, and then Ford being...