Anyone know what this is ?

[rlhdweman]

Does yours have the better sound system with the subwoofer? if so might prevent some sort of vibration, or protect the speaker.

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[altomav]

With the seat upright that pad looks to cover the cab vent. Probably used to deaden sound to quiet the cab.

 

[Woody27]

Yes, it has the upgraded sound system. That's as good a guess as any, but it's not in a place that would appear to have much of any acoustic benefit. I could go with a storage space for gloves and such but why stuff it with felt?

 

[Woody27]

With the seat upright that pad looks to cover the cab vent. Probably used to deaden sound to quiet the cab.

That's another interesting idea. Hadn't
noticed the vent, which is at the bottom of the rear wall behind where the jack is mounted. Really doesn't appear that such a small pad mounted above and not in contact with the vent would have much acoustic benefit. Any sound engineers here with a Maverick that has the pad that could weigh in on this puzzle?

 

[MakinDoForNow]

I pulled the rear seat back down to check on the jack location and noticed a weird bulge on the back side of the seat back stuffed with felt like material. This has no obvious purpose. Anyone know what it's there for? Emergency pillow? There are no dents in it that would indicate that it's pressing against something on the rear wall. Near as I can tell the only thing in that area of the wall is a couple of wire bundles. I'm stumped.

Is that a high voltage orange covered wire. If so maybe it's there to trap stray phardtzzz from getting near that wire?

 

[altomav]

That's another interesting idea. Hadn't
noticed the vent, which is at the bottom of the rear wall behind where the jack is mounted. Really doesn't appear that such a small pad mounted above and not in contact with the vent would have much acoustic benefit. Any sound engineers here with a Maverick that has the pad that could weigh in on this puzzle?

If not acoustic then maybe allowing better in-cab air recirculation.

 

[Row Jimmy]

MyMaverickPillow

 

[LineNoise]

With the seat upright that pad looks to cover the cab vent. Probably used to deaden sound to quiet the cab.

This was my second guess (after I saw the vent) Don't know if it's for sound or air or both but, why not? Can tell you one thing, if it didn't have some effect, Ford wouldn't have spent the money to put it in.

 

[Fred27]

Is that a high voltage orange covered wire. If so maybe it's there to trap stray phardtzzz from getting near that wire?

This is an ecoboost, so no high voltages. Besides, phardtzzz are a strictly a tropical species. They wouldn't need traps in Mavericks headed north of the border.

 

[Fred27]

This was my second guess (after I saw the vent) Don't know if it's for sound or air or both but, why not? Can tell you one thing, if it didn't have some effect, Ford wouldn't have spent the money to put it in.

Can't argue with that.

 

[Mabcim]

@fordvideoguy Tim, any ideas? Figured you could use a distraction from all the “why did my order move”, “can I change my order”, “is it true” stuff.

BTW - you call your new segment “Tim is it True?“ You can use it royalty free

 

[Mabcim]

@fordvideoguy Tim, any ideas? Figured you could use a distraction from all the “why did my order move”, “can I change my order”, “did builds stop” stuff.

BTW - you should call your new segment “Tim is it True?“ You can use it royalty free

 

[TSAINTS1115]

If we were non Ford fans we could joke that it's the pillow to take a nap after pushing our truck off the road.

 

[Red Ryder]

Can tell you one thing, if it didn't have some effect, Ford wouldn't have spent the money to put it in.

Exactly. By it's composition and positioning, it appears Ford is deploying a classic HEVI acoustic dampener to implement a horizontally explicit vertically implicit (HEVI) and split-explicit time integration scheme.
With this approach, a divergence damping term is added as a final adjustment to the horizontal velocity at the new time level after completing the vertically implicit portion of the time step. In this manner, the divergence used in the filter term has exactly the same numerical form as that used in the discrete pressure equation. Analysis of the dispersion equation for this form of the filter documents its stability characteristics and confirms that it effectively damps acoustic modes with little artificial influence on the amplitude or propagation of the gravity wave modes that are of physical interest. Some specific aspects of the implementation of the filter in the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) are discussed, and results are presented to illustrate some of the beneficial aspects of suppressing acoustic noise.

 

[Gconk]

Exactly. By it's composition and positioning, it appears Ford is deploying a classic HEVI acoustic dampener to implement a horizontally explicit vertically implicit (HEVI) and split-explicit time integration scheme.
With this approach, a divergence damping term is added as a final adjustment to the horizontal velocity at the new time level after completing the vertically implicit portion of the time step. In this manner, the divergence used in the filter term has exactly the same numerical form as that used in the discrete pressure equation. Analysis of the dispersion equation for this form of the filter documents its stability characteristics and confirms that it effectively damps acoustic modes with little artificial influence on the amplitude or propagation of the gravity wave modes that are of physical interest. Some specific aspects of the implementation of the filter in the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) are discussed, and results are presented to illustrate some of the beneficial aspects of suppressing acoustic noise.

So you mean pillow?

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