New Owner in NE Florida, bound for New York

[dmrogers99]

My wife and I have been getting by with one vehicle for about 8 years now. I'm retired, she works as a consultant. We live in a Florida golf cart community (not The Villages), so only having one car hasn't been a hardship.

After watching what Helene and Milton did to Florida last summer/fall I decided I didn't want to live in Florida anymore. Been here almost 40 years, but enough's enough.

We have a "summer place" in the Finger Lakes of New York that's pretty rural. It's not as convenient to only have one vehicle anymore. I decided that we could probably make good use of a small pickup so I "did my research" and decided a Maverick would be the right truck for me.

Looked around at prices of used Mavs going for near what they sold for new, with high mileage, and decided I'd be better off buying new. Of course, "my research" hadn't revealed the "do not deliver" backup camera recall. I was wondering why the dealer had so many new '24s on the lot when used ones were going for high dollar.

Well, long story short, only things I definitely wanted were the hybrid and the CoPilot 360 with BLIS and the rear crossing warning. There was a blue XL on the lot, but someone had put a deposit on it the day before I walked into the showroom. I put a deposit on a black one on January 1st. Apparently it was a special order that the buyer walked away from when it couldn't be delivered.

Fast forward ten weeks, sales guy texted on Tuesday that the fix was in hand. Dealer delivered it on Wednesday. Guy delivering it said that the computer indicated 60mpg on the 18 mile ride to our place. I took that with a grain of salt.

Took my wife to the airport on Friday and didn't notice the mileage when I dropped her off. But I did check when I got home, 51.2mpg on a 43 mile trip, 14 miles electric. I'm pretty amazed. Of course, there was a backup on 295, so some portion of that was stop-and-go, but still amazing.

Drove to the dealer on Friday to pick up some accessories I ordered, checked the mpg when I got home, 59.9mpg! So the delivery guy wasn't kidding. (This time the backup was on 95, so again, a few miles of stop-and-go).

So far, I'm impressed with the truck. We'll be headed up to New York in June. Our other car is a RAV4 plug-in hybrid (AWD), and we had it in NY in November when we went up for Thanksgiving. Snowed a lot while we were up there, and I mean A LOT. Went without power for over 30 hours (heavy wet snow on tree limbs). Drove to Albany on Thanksgiving Day and it was snowing like crazy. Three and a half hour trip took five hours. But the RAV4 didn't miss a beat. So I'm not worried about not having AWD on the Mav, got the RAV for backup. ("Mav and a RAV")

I think I'm going to enjoy this.

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[Dave O]

Very nice ride congratulations! Safe Travels

 

[RideSolo]

Welcome!

 

[Beast_31]

My wife and I have been getting by with one vehicle for about 8 years now. I'm retired, she works as a consultant. We live in a Florida golf cart community (not The Villages), so only having one car hasn't been a hardship.

After watching what Helene and Milton did to Florida last summer/fall I decided I didn't want to live in Florida anymore. Been here almost 40 years, but enough's enough.

We have a "summer place" in the Finger Lakes of New York that's pretty rural. It's not as convenient to only have one vehicle anymore. I decided that we could probably make good use of a small pickup so I "did my research" and decided a Maverick would be the right truck for me.

Looked around at prices of used Mavs going for near what they sold for new, with high mileage, and decided I'd be better off buying new. Of course, "my research" hadn't revealed the "do not deliver" backup camera recall. I was wondering why the dealer had so many new '24s on the lot when used ones were going for high dollar.

Well, long story short, only things I definitely wanted were the hybrid and the CoPilot 360 with BLIS and the rear crossing warning. There was a blue XL on the lot, but someone had put a deposit on it the day before I walked into the showroom. I put a deposit on a black one on January 1st. Apparently it was a special order that the buyer walked away from when it couldn't be delivered.

Fast forward ten weeks, sales guy texted on Tuesday that the fix was in hand. Dealer delivered it on Wednesday. Guy delivering it said that the computer indicated 60mpg on the 18 mile ride to our place. I took that with a grain of salt.

Took my wife to the airport on Friday and didn't notice the mileage when I dropped her off. But I did check when I got home, 51.2mpg on a 43 mile trip, 14 miles electric. I'm pretty amazed. Of course, there was a backup on 295, so some portion of that was stop-and-go, but still amazing.

Drove to the dealer on Friday to pick up some accessories I ordered, checked the mpg when I got home, 59.9mpg! So the delivery guy wasn't kidding. (This time the backup was on 95, so again, a few miles of stop-and-go).

So far, I'm impressed with the truck. We'll be headed up to New York in June. Our other car is a RAV4 plug-in hybrid (AWD), and we had it in NY in November when we went up for Thanksgiving. Snowed a lot while we were up there, and I mean A LOT. Went without power for over 30 hours (heavy wet snow on tree limbs). Drove to Albany on Thanksgiving Day and it was snowing like crazy. Three and a half hour trip took five hours. But the RAV4 didn't miss a beat. So I'm not worried about not having AWD on the Mav, got the RAV for backup. ("Mav and a RAV")

I think I'm going to enjoy this.

Congrats! Get that bed liner to avoid rust in our NY snow and rain!

 

[Hunters Edge]

Hello and welcome to MTC. Congratulations on your new Maverick. Best wishes on your move to New York. Yes I think you are going to like it. A spray in bed liner may interest you but I highly advise to consider a hard trifold tonneau cover. Unless you want to shovel snow out of the bed everytime you need to use it in the winter. It also helps conceal items you carry or keep them from blowing away down the road if you plan on grocery bags ?

Anyhow thanks for posting and the pictures. Highly recommend a standby generator especially if you are rural relying on electricity for water, furnace in the winter and AC in the summer, or any medical devices.

 

[CurtisB]

My wife and I have been getting by with one vehicle for about 8 years now. I'm retired, she works as a consultant. We live in a Florida golf cart community (not The Villages), so only having one car hasn't been a hardship.

After watching what Helene and Milton did to Florida last summer/fall I decided I didn't want to live in Florida anymore. Been here almost 40 years, but enough's enough.

We have a "summer place" in the Finger Lakes of New York that's pretty rural. It's not as convenient to only have one vehicle anymore. I decided that we could probably make good use of a small pickup so I "did my research" and decided a Maverick would be the right truck for me.

Looked around at prices of used Mavs going for near what they sold for new, with high mileage, and decided I'd be better off buying new. Of course, "my research" hadn't revealed the "do not deliver" backup camera recall. I was wondering why the dealer had so many new '24s on the lot when used ones were going for high dollar.

Well, long story short, only things I definitely wanted were the hybrid and the CoPilot 360 with BLIS and the rear crossing warning. There was a blue XL on the lot, but someone had put a deposit on it the day before I walked into the showroom. I put a deposit on a black one on January 1st. Apparently it was a special order that the buyer walked away from when it couldn't be delivered.

Fast forward ten weeks, sales guy texted on Tuesday that the fix was in hand. Dealer delivered it on Wednesday. Guy delivering it said that the computer indicated 60mpg on the 18 mile ride to our place. I took that with a grain of salt.

Took my wife to the airport on Friday and didn't notice the mileage when I dropped her off. But I did check when I got home, 51.2mpg on a 43 mile trip, 14 miles electric. I'm pretty amazed. Of course, there was a backup on 295, so some portion of that was stop-and-go, but still amazing.

Drove to the dealer on Friday to pick up some accessories I ordered, checked the mpg when I got home, 59.9mpg! So the delivery guy wasn't kidding. (This time the backup was on 95, so again, a few miles of stop-and-go).

So far, I'm impressed with the truck. We'll be headed up to New York in June. Our other car is a RAV4 plug-in hybrid (AWD), and we had it in NY in November when we went up for Thanksgiving. Snowed a lot while we were up there, and I mean A LOT. Went without power for over 30 hours (heavy wet snow on tree limbs). Drove to Albany on Thanksgiving Day and it was snowing like crazy. Three and a half hour trip took five hours. But the RAV4 didn't miss a beat. So I'm not worried about not having AWD on the Mav, got the RAV for backup. ("Mav and a RAV")

I think I'm going to enjoy this.

You're going to love this truck.

 

[dmrogers99]

Hello and welcome to MTC. Congratulations on your new Maverick. Best wishes on your move to New York. Yes I think you are going to like it. A spray in bed liner may interest you but I highly advise to consider a hard trifold tonneau cover. Unless you want to shovel snow out of the bed everytime you need to use it in the winter. It also helps conceal items you carry or keep them from blowing away down the road if you plan on grocery bags ?

Anyhow thanks for posting and the pictures. Highly recommend a standby generator especially if you are rural relying on electricity for water, furnace in the winter and AC in the summer, or any medical devices.

Roger all. Already planning on a generator, because we are on a well and it's nice to be able to flush the toilet.

Two of my brothers are truck owners, and one lives in Syracuse (I have family from Albany to Buffalo). He's already told me to get a tonneau cover because of the snow. I will. They both recommended SIBL, but I'm holding off for the moment. Ordered a Rough Country bed mat in the mean time.

We'll have to haul our trash and recyclables to the transfer station every week. Doing that with the RAV4 in November made me wish for a pickup!

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