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The factory setting for all Mavericks seem to over-estimate mileage by about 2 mpg (I am sure this is intentional on Ford's). Updating the bias in engineering mode gets me to within .5 mpg for about 2/3 of my fill-ups over the last 10k+ miles. I have found that if I take a bunch of short trips...

My '23 does it as well. Figured there was some rational reason why (temperature too far out of range? Keep coils from freezing? etc.). Doesn't seem to harm anything and don't see any difference in engine power draw when it happens.

Sorry, but "deal with it" IS the answer at least from a Ford perspective. As you should have read many times on the many, many posts on the subject, there are basically 3 primary things you can do: 1) Turn EVERYTHING off (remote start, app, etc.) which will get you about twice as long (battery...

By my calculations you save about 10 cents per minute (Texas gas prices) to 20 cents per minute (Cali gas prices). Thus if you are driving 60 miles round-trip to work every day, you are saving $1-$2 in gas each day. So potentially $20-$40 per month (so roughly about a half tank of gas worth)...

All I can say is that this is amazingly impressive. I do back-country driving taking my kids to school (about 18 miles round trip on 35 MPH blacktop road) and 54 MPG is the most I have ever seen for a single trip. This is with 100% regen, no A/C, super-light foot, slowing to 25MPH as I am going...

709 days from order to pick-up. Long but not the longest. I think the longest I have seen here is around 760 days.

Unless you are a "dead to the world" sleeper, your absolute biggest issue is going to be "truck wake up". Basically all the clicking and clacking as the truck gets ready to turn on when-ever someone moves. Then a minute or two later the same clicking and clacking as it turns itself back off. I...

Not something you can do yourself. However, most dealerships have a "mobile tech" that will come to your home to do the update. Supposedly will take an hour or two. The better ones will put a battery charger on your vehicle to make sure it does not go into battery-saver mode half-way into the...

I am pretty much MPG obsessed and do what-ever I can to maximize the fuel/distance ratio. The absolute largest impact on fuel economy is "speed relative to the wind" (10-20 mpg difference), second is running the AC (about a 2-4 mpg difference while driving and more if stop/go), third seems to be...

When we had the big hail here in Texas a few weeks ago I put down a blanket (to protect the paint), then put down an uninflated air matress (a little shock absorption), and then a couple of pre-cut 3/8" plywood (made sure they did not over-lap enough to catch much wind). I put weighs on top of...

This was very common 1-2 years ago when Mavericks where pretty rare and dealers where getting $5k+ over MSRP for them. The Maverick is still a hot commodity but don't hear about it as much. Really not a lot you can do other than raise a stink. They will probably tell you "we tried to call" even...

Nope. Only one time I "thought" the AWD would have been nice to have but ended up not needed it. No regrets in getting the Hybrid vs the other options. I have a long list of things I think Ford should do better (larger 12V battery, stop all the damn interior cabin squeakes, etc.) but that does...

There is pretty much nothing on a car/truck that I have not trouble-shooted, pulled-out, and rebuilt over the last 40 years: engines, transmisssions, fuel pumps, axles, turbos, stearing column, etc. I have pretty much gone over 200k miles on every vehicle I have ever owned (including 4 other...

I live in Texas and bought my Maverick for dual (opposite) purposes: taking my kids to school and going on long trips. For one kid, it is all back-street country driving (9 miles each way) at 35 miles per hour. I average around 48 MPG on this. For other child I have to get on a highway where the...

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...