May I ask, how much do you drive it? My dealer blames my battery issues due to not driving it enough. I think that is Ford's stock answer for low mileage vehicles.
My wife drives it to work and back Mon-Fri, five miles each way. We run errands on the weekend. But yeah, I was told by the service dept that we don’t drive it enough.
I knew it! Ford cop out answer. I am going to start replying "Ford does not hire enough qualified people including apparently this service department!"
I’ve had my Maverick since 26 Oct 22 and have just over 30K miles on it. I’ve had the battery replaced twice along with six recalls on it. My wife and I are exploring options. We are leaning on selling the Maverick. Neither one are confident that the Maverick will be trouble free. We don’t believe in buying extended warranties. They aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. We are leaning toward a hybrid Toyota, Honda , or Subaru. With the purchase prices outrageous as they are, we may just lease one rather than buy one. Payments are lower and we can get a new vehicle every 2-3 years. I talked to a few people and they said they love leasing as opposed to buying.
I agree. I love the Maverick other than the battery issue and Ford's lack of concern to me and the issue as a whole.
This is the first Ford I’ve owned since the mid ‘90’s. They aren’t any better now than they were before.
Ford CS is correct - warranty of replaced (under warranty terms) is only covered for remainder of the warranty period.
Tell the service department that they are full of crap. No reason we need to "drive more" to make up for a design defect by Ford.
If it is "easy to fix" then Ford must have some really dork-headed engineers and/or some pin-headed bean counter accountants watching over their shoulders at all times making sure not a dime extra is spent, even if it is to fix a design defect.
Since fixing the undercharging issue would be a pretty major cost reduction, the only other explanation that I can think of for not releasing the fix would be Ford waiting until everybody is out of warranty, making it somebody else's problem. Perhaps that's why they are putting AGM batteries in the 25s, so that most of them make it out of warranty before failing. I doubt that Ford cares about their reputation if that's the case.
You need about 3hp to run the typical small car alternator, about 5hp to run an older model, and up to 50hp to run some of the F150 ones. Assuming that you use the smallest alternator, that's about a 5mpg hit while cruising, and obviously less when accelerating. Clearly you want to eliminate the alternator on the Hybrid.
Maybe I'm lucky, my Hybrid Lariat delivered on 3/9/22, going on 4 years old, still has the original battery in it. It spends most of it's time in "sleep mode", but always starts when I hit the start button. I have very low mileage (under 11K at this time) so not driving enough is not the problem. Most of the time the interior lights are off when I open the door, but turn on when I hit start.
I think you are right. Their bean counters and attorneys probably think that if they actually announce anymore about problems with the Maverick it will immediately be reported on the evening news and directly affect sales and their bottom line. Ford has had more recalls and bad news that they had their worst loss in years. They can claim falsely that it was from tarrifs when it most assuredly was from lower sales as people pay attention to bad news about recalls.
