My Maverick (EB with 4K tow package) and I picked up our new Rove Lite 16RB trailer on Thursday from Camp Oaks RV in Dahlonega, Ga. It’s about 100 miles from our home in Rome, Ga, on two-lane roads through the Appalachian foothills. I checked the mpg on the way over. The dash display showed...
Is Ford’s 4000 lb tow rating conservative? I certainly hope so. Good engineering practice would be to specify usage that is not close to a failure mode. That means you can almost certainly get away with towing heavier than 4000 pounds. How much more? Ten pounds? Certainly. Four hundred pounds...
Look at the Rove Lite 14BH. It’s a bunkhouse model that is supposed to sleep four, and the dry weight is under 2000 lb. I am considering one for my EB 4K.
Are you sure about the weight of your rig? I can’t tell which model you have, but I think the UVW of those trailers starts at a little under 3000 pounds for the smallest and goes up over 3500 as the trailers get longer. It would be easy to push 4000 pounds with a full load. Maybe a combination...
The claim that wind turbine blades shed micro plastics is not true. The blades have negligible amounts of plastics that can be emitted or eroded by UV or other types of weathering.
I have been seeing a bunch of Facebook ads for floor mats that provide great coverage. There are at least three (usaseatcover.com, indymats.us, manicci.com) that all look alike. I suspect they are all from China, and I know people who have had trouble with orders delivered directly from China...
I got my Maverick this week, and I’m considering just that trailer. How level is the trailer with the new ball height? And how does the interior height feel when you’re in the camper?
I have a friend who in his younger days worked as an independent contractor in Rochester NY but still lived in New Mexico. He often drove straight through back and forth, around 1800 miles one way. When he got older, he said he couldn’t do it any more, and, in fact he realized that he could...
Ford’s email told me last month my truck was scheduled for production the week of June 26. When I just checked the Ford site, it said it’s in production now, the week before. That’s a pleasant surprise. What have your experiences been with how long delivery takes after your truck is completed?
The Magliozzi brothers from Car Talk radio (a very funny car-related show that was on NPR) used to talk about the idea of buying American cars. They said as long as a car is made in the US by US workers, they didn’t care where the top executives lived.
My wife was in a car wreck in 1981. She was not wearing her seatbelt, and was thrown from the car. She was not breathing at the scene, but a passing driver happened to be a doctor. He stopped and saved her life. Unfortunately, she had suffered a serious brain injury and is still feeling the...
I just did a calculation for Georgia, which has a 29.1 cent per gallon tax. If you drive 10,000 miles at 30 mpg, you pay just under $100 on gas taxes. At 20 mpg you would pay about $145 in gas tax. That makes an annual fee of $100 to $150 reasonable for a full EV.
I ordered a Ranger earlier this year, mainly because of the uncertainty in when I might get a Maverick. After thinking long and hard, I canceled the Ranger and ordered a Maverick as soon as the order banks opened. But I kept getting status reports on the Ranger. When the email said it was being...