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This thread encouraged me to go and look under the cap on my truck as well. I drive ~25 mins to work each way; we’ve had a cold winter here in Michigan this year. Oil changed last November, it probably has ~600 miles on it since then (was at the dealer for a fuel tank issue for about a month.)...

Agree with you. Pressure wise, would think in the summer things would be worse. But in the winter, the rubber contracts, and that causes it to leak/weep worse than it normally would. Initially the dealer told me that the house clamp on the fill pipe connecting to the nipple on the tank was...

It was worse for me when it was cold outside, like it is right now. I would get the leak running down from that seal all the way down the side of the tank. Would never notice it when it was warm outside.

I need to get the truck up on the lift to see it a little easier and I can post back here with what I can find out. But it has a new part number and has many visual differences that the dealership shared with me when I picked it back up. I did not see the inside of the tank as has been talked...

Best of luck to you, please post back here on what you find out. Exact same leak in the exact same location as mine. It took me about a month to get it all sorted, and when it was all said and done I got a new tank that has a new part number and a totally different design.

Adding a (poor) pic of my new tank. I’ll add a better one when I have my car lift available to put my truck on.

Posting an update on this one, finally got my vehicle back on 01/12, I dropped it off to them on 12/11 so they had it for a whole month. I had to go through ford financial assistance, which I was told will never cover 100% of the cost. After getting a few different figures from them (they...

I ended up getting financial assistance from ford. Not 100% covered, but paying $100 was a lot better than $1100.

That’s what I’ve always thought. Just makes things easier when I need to get change, either I don’t have to go and get it or don’t need a pocketful of coins. Merry Christmas to you too!

I sort of wish I had a 23. I ordered July of 21 and waited until March 22 for delivery, so I have a very Mav. I’ve certainly learned my lesson of “don’t buy the first model year.”

Sounds like what I and a few others in this thread were seeing. I take it that was a 2022?

Totally agree. I’ve never had fuel spill out on the ground while filling up with the method I mentioned, have done it for years on different cars but won’t do it anymore on the maverick.

Interesting, thanks for sharing! I thought they were different since the hybrid (I thought) had a smaller fuel capacity than the ecoboost. If they use the same design just with a different capacity, would make sense from an engineering perspective.

I fill the tank until it clicks, and if I say put $21 on my pump and it clicks off at $20.75, I put the last $.25 in the tank. Probably shouldn’t do that (especially going forward) but it’s a hassle to go back in for the quarter and if I click off at some random amount, I don’t want to go and...

If you do run into any fuel leaking, please report it on NHTSA site. I reported mine after the dealer called me yesterday to update me on this. The more people report, the better likelihood that we have to get a formal recall.

Awesome video that I had not seen before. Many thanks for sharing!

I wouldn’t doubt it. I’m not 100% sure but I think that the ecoboost also has the fill come in from the top, not the side like the hybrid. I could be wrong on that but I believe that’s what I saw on the ford parts catalog. Dealer also tells me that the condition worsens in cold weather, which...

You are spot on, I have the same leak coming from the exact same location. I noticed it last fall running down from that area and down the side of the tank, you could easily smell fuel in my garage. I think other people that park outside like you mentioned may not notice this so easily. I tried...

You’re correct, mine was built just after that window ended. I think that was for mavericks built in late 2021, mine is a feb 2022 build.

Thanks for the reply - this is helpful! I did get an acknowledgment when I first brought it in, they could see the staining running down the side but a bit worse than what I showed in the pic above. I do have a documented service record of my concern and that they verified it, but that the smoke...