Rotary Shifter not Idiot Proof (I'm an Idiot).

[BradnChristine]

I confess, I hit the off button when I park. I guess I’m lazy because I like shortcuts sometimes

If it was the only vehicle I drove, I would do that too.

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[K5Blazer]

I like it and would never want to go back to gross arm movements to change gears when a simple turn of my wrist accomplishes the same thing.

Like it or not, better get used to it, the console lever is going away.

 

[OneAlienBoi]

Lol I think this is the first time I've heard this. Don't have the truck yet so I can't give an opinion but my gut feeling is that I won't hate it nor love it

It really depends on how quickly your mind adapts to small changes. My father, who's 67 and very tech adverse, hates it. But everyone else in my family likes it.

 

[maybemav]

Same as I don't like the electronic parking brake because I can't change my own rear brake pads since the stupid thing won't go into brake service mode and FORD has no fix other than an SSM advising servicers to use FDRS to force it.

Your software is fully updated and your brake service mode still does not work? Seems like a basic function.

 

[Montana]

Your software is fully updated and your brake service mode still does not work? Seems like a basic function.

Yep. Very annoying.

 

[maybemav]

Can you imagine the complaints we'd hear if Ford built the Maverick with only a manual transmission?

Demand would be so much lower, no one would be waiting for their truck!

 

[BradnChristine]

It really depends on how quickly your mind adapts to small changes. My father, who's 67 and very tech adverse, hates it. But everyone else in my family likes it.

At 74, it took me a whole day to adapt to it.

 

[maybemav]

Yep. Very annoying.

That's unfortunate. Just did brakes on my much older, much cheaper vehicle and brake service mode was a ten-second process to have the solenoid fully retract. Does your lane centering and adaptive cruise control function flawlessly? One of the main reasons I want to replace that vehicle with a Maverick LARIAT.

 

[dadd75]

I have a question: The manual states when I close the driver door, shift into gear, press the accelerator pedal and pull away in a normal manner, the parking brake is supposed to automatically release (page 195).
Yet, when I put my truck into drive, press the gas pedal, nothing happens, I have to manually release the parking brake. My driveway is on a slight incline, so I always set the parking brake.
What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?

 

[Sembazuru]

I like the rotary shifter, and am coming from driving standard transmissions mostly exclusively for the past several decades. Though, I'm not sure how a standard transmission would even work for a multi energy source powerplant as I have in my hybrid.

As others have mentioned, I'm not bothered by the lack of hard stops below park and above drive. If I dial past park or drive then I know it is in either park or drive. And as I think about it, having the hard stops would add complexity to retain the auto-park feature. As it currently is, the absolute position of the dial doesn't matter. If you have the car in drive and then trigger the auto-park (turn off the "ignition", open a door, etc) then the dial doesn't have to actually rotate back to the park position.

I do agree, however, that the detents should be a little stronger to make them easier to feel the "clicks". But I suppose they had to balance the strength of the detents to not exclude people with poor grip strength from being able to drive the car.

 

[Maverickman74]

My late best friend had a 71 F-150 short bed with a 390 and a granny 4 speed with a shift lever that would go round and round He was the only one that could drive it.
We fixed it by replacing the granny with a good old C6. A couple of weeks later some dirty bastard stole it. Should have left that rotary shift granny in it

I also had a 79 E150 with an overdrive 4 speed on the floor. It was located against the side of my captains chair but all the way back so 2nd gear was behind my seatbelt mount! Not alot of people were willing to even try to drive drive it. Its such a quirky van that I paid $20 a month since 2006 for storage! Just moved it to my sisters house last year. One day I may do something with its drivetrain.

 

[Maverickman74]

At gun point I wouldn't take a manual. I enjoyed driving them in my youth, but as you age remembering brake and gas is good enough, all that other motion, even if deeply embedded muscle memory, is a waste. Let the tech do it.

I would totally buy a EV manual just for the fun of it. Even if it wasnt at all needed.

 

[Montana]

That's unfortunate. Just did brakes on my much older, much cheaper vehicle and brake service mode was a ten-second process to have the solenoid fully retract. Does your lane centering and adaptive cruise control function flawlessly? One of the main reasons I want to replace that vehicle with a Maverick LARIAT.

That is one thing I never had an issue with in the previous Escape Hybrid or the Maverick. Lane centering works just fine.

Pretty much any chance I get to mention the brake issue I bring it up in full force. There is a thread with others that have the same issue. It will never be fixed because majority of people sadly do not even service their own brakes. Here is the thread:

https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/f...tronic-parking-brake-into-service-mode.30247/

and my posting of the "how to" via the manual:

https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/forum/threads/brake-pad-replacement-process.33381/

The fact that FORD charges people for the service manual with what should be basic stuff in it should tell you enough World we live in now days. People would rather pay $300 for a $60 job.

 

[sprubs]

With electronic shift, the computer won't actually make the change until it can safely do so without breaking anything.

I usually have that hand on the steering wheel, with the other one. Most of the roads around this hilly area are quite crooked & steep. Lotsa curves!

not only that but it's not actually "shifting". there is a thread that explains how the transmission works around here somewhere......

 

[Howard]

Over the years I have driven cars with all sorts of shifter set ups. Early 60's Chrysler's products with push buttons on the dash along with a dash mounted park lever were among the strangest I encountered.

Four speed manual column shifter on a 1962 Mercedes was a bit different. I bet a lot people would have a problem driving that today.

I'll see your 4 on the column and raise you one. For a time IH had a 5 on the column.

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