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Unsafe??? Not even close. Wouldn't want to use those in ice/snow or in extra-heavy rain, but those tires look perfectly fine for most freeway driving. Definitely look more than 3/32. At least here in Texas, 2/32 is still legal and passes inspection. On dry pavement, even a little less than 2/32...

Been here since near the beginning of this forum and have a topic that I don't think has been discussed before: how does one go about stopping all the clicking and clacking in order to actually sleep in the seat of a Hybrid Maverick? Today I loaded up the family at 2AM to go find a place to...

Just on this forum there has been over a half-dozen reports (and probably more that I missed). Statistically probably a small number but the consequences are pretty drastic. They all basically say the same thing: driving down the road at highway speed, the cluster lights up like a Christmas...

You seem to be the 4th or 5th person on here that has had this problem within a week or so of doing the recent programming recalls. My local Ford dealer contacted me and asked if I wanted their "driveway tech" to come out and do the recall. I told him "Hell, no. Not until Ford gets all the bugs...

In a side-wind, my Hybrid Maverick drives MUCH better than my wife's Ford Focus. There is a little sway but nothing I would ever feel uncomfortable with. The only time I get major sway is when stopped at a left-hand turn light and large SUVs/trucks/18-wheelers are passing me at 70MPH. Lots of...

If you do a search on "license plate cloning", you will find hundreds, if not thousands, of posts on the subject. In many (if not a majority) of these cases, the scammer got the license plate number off the Internet (for-sale sites seemed to be the biggest source). As a general rule, cloners are...

Yep. Happens maybe once every 10 or so trips taking my kids to school in the morning. Always tends to happen at a red-light that is 2 miles from my house (and between the light and my house is all 35 mph back-country road where I am about 70% on electric). Almost seems to be temperature related...

With the current HVB fully charged, you can probably go about 1.5 miles (at least that is as far as I could get on a flat road at about 20mph). As others have said, is it possible to convert to plug-in? Yes. There is even an open spot where you could add another small battery (which may get you...

There is only a loose correlation between electric miles and MPG. The mode you have the Maverick in will impact the amount of time you are in Electric (Normal/Eco/Slippery). The more energy generation you have, the more likely you will go into Electric mode. However, energy generation impacts...

Best bet is to just push and hold the OK button to reset the MPG. After about 5-10 miles you should have a decent baseline that will go up or down slowly based on driving conditions/speed. That will happen every time you reset the MPG after filling up. I drive like a granny and try to get the...

Roughly 3k miles on my hybrid and it has mostly been quite. Only time it has been noisy for me is occationally when I stop at a stop-light and the engine kicks on really loud for some reason (most of the time when the engine kicks on you can barely hear it). It is noisy and there is a little...

The "full charge to dead in a day" is definitely either a battery issue or an abnormal current draw issue. My guess is abnormal current draw assuming you are seeing at least 12.40V when checked at least an hour after a drive/charge (so minimal surface charge). I have everything turned off that I...

I drive lika a granny and generally have gotten 3-5 mpg higher than EPA estimates on all my vehicles over the last 30+ years. With 5k on my XL hybrid, I am averaging just north of 40mpg hand calculated (truck computer shows closer to 43 mpg). When I am doing long 250+ mile drives on back-country...

I looked at your spreadsheet and this bahavior is consistent with what others have reported. The BMS is designed to only charge the battery to 12.4V volts (roughly 80%) and not to 12.65V (100%). I can only assume this is due to some safety function that a lawyer is scared of (i.e., battery may...

Also used plumber's putty. Still getting water in somewhere but not a ton. I am 99% confident that whom-ever designed the original Ford cover screwed up and made it too short by about 1/2"-3/4". All the Chinese companies then copied this so are all short. On mine, I can have the "windshield...

Reading through this thread, there is a lot of mis-understood information that is leading people to the wrong conclusions. Just for "fun", I tested my battery basically twice a day for a little over a month. Here is what I learned: 1) When 100% charged, the OEM lead-acid battery has a max...

Not sure how Sames Bastrop made the "recommended litst". At best they are "neutral" (and I personally would put them as "avoid"). I live just a few miles from Sames Bastrop and would NOT recommend. I have yet to have anything even close to a good experience with them (including buying a new car...

I think you are confusing the 12V and the High Voltage battery. The 12V has nothing to do with the mileage (other than the 12V is not charging when you are using the HV battery). Where the 12V does come into play is the start-up and drive sequence. Every time you put in the key, it seems the...

I always lock via the key fob. I have the app totally turned off so never did that. My normal testing procedure is to unlock, get in the truck, lock via the key fob, wait for about 1 minute until all the internal lights go out, test voltage under the seat via volt-meter, wait about 2 more...

No, that should be normal. If you drive daily, you should be able to go about 1 week assuming you locked your doors but still have FordPass and tracking active. For folks that have everything on and don't lock their doors (so the truck "wakes up" frequently), should still go about 4 days in most...