Touch screen climate controls

[Tom 71 Maverick 24]

When I drive, I drive and concentrate on the road.
I want to be able to reach a control and change it without having to look at it.
So I am glad for the controls on my '24.

Agree 100%.
Touch screen controls are big on "whiz/bang" but offer NO tactile feel. The same as the knob shifter. Anything that can distract you from looking down the road should be something you can operate mostly by feel.

But there's kids designing cars these days and they want them to operate like an iPad.

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[Ryom]

But there's kids designing cars these days and they want them to operate like an iPad.

I assure you it's not the engineers pushing for touchscreen controls. It's executives looking for cost reductions. Techy people like their battlestation buttons.

 

[BigLog7]

I've noticed that a lot of people complaining about the lack of physical climate control knobs or buttons on the 2025 Maverick. They primarily come from those who don't own a 2025. Am I the only one that was pleasantly surprised at how simple the touch screen controls are? The fact that they are always visible seems to make all the difference. I like the fact that I don't have to scroll through a menu. What do you guys think concerning the touch screen only climate controls? Were you pleasantly surprised too?

Not a big fan because if the motherboard goes, so goes everything else. I'm a fan of knobs and old school overall.

 

[Carlitos_92]

Not a big fan because if the motherboard goes, so goes everything else. I'm a fan of knobs and old school overall.

Man, you are going to hate the fact that most knobs and seemingly old school controls on the Mav do nothing but send a digital signal to a "motherboard."

 

[Kilonen]

I've noticed that a lot of people complaining about the lack of physical climate control knobs or buttons on the 2025 Maverick. They primarily come from those who don't own a 2025. Am I the only one that was pleasantly surprised at how simple the touch screen controls are? The fact that they are always visible seems to make all the difference. I like the fact that I don't have to scroll through a menu. What do you guys think concerning the touch screen only climate controls? Were you pleasantly surprised too?

i have exactly the same experience and thoughts as you on my 2025 Lariat. Concerned about it when I ordered it after reading concerns. 3700 miles in with 3-4 months of Upper Peninsula winter I like the touch controls. The auto control works very well. Used the three led setting on auto. Never had to do anything other than tweak temp - and I did that with voice command. Once spring hit in May found that the one led setting suited me better. Those leds limit fan speed in auto and on the rare day when it uses the AC I found the lower fan speed more comfortable.

 

[Bluebeard22]

My biggest issue is what do you do when the screen fails or freezes? what Are your recovery options?. With the physical controls, the screen can fail, and I can still access the climate controls. So not a fan of everything being on a screen, or even the truck capacitive buttons on the cadillac.

 

[heady]

When the manual blend door control failed on my '07 F-250 XL (electric stepper motors type gizmos are used for those things for a long while now), we drove home 3 hours in cool, damp 50 degree weather after getting soaked at a concert in Detroit. It was unpleasant having no heat and having to roll the windows down every so often to defrost the windshield. When I got home I fixed it, I imagine I would do the same with digital controls if/when they ever failed, too.

 

[Gullzway]

Man, you are going to hate the fact that most knobs and seemingly old school controls on the Mav do nothing but send a digital signal to a "motherboard."

I personally haven't seen any threads on here about HVAC controls becoming unresponsive.

Plenty on here about the infotainment screens freezing/locking up.

 

[Darryl]

My biggest issue is what do you do when the screen fails or freezes? what Are your recovery options?. With the physical controls, the screen can fail, and I can still access the climate controls. So not a fan of everything being on a screen, or even the truck capacitive buttons on the cadillac.

Many don’t realize That the physical controls are just electronic pulses going to an electronic module. It’s still all electronic. .The module is the likely failure point on these new vehicles. We had an f150 where the knobs turned. But the fan speed wouldn’t change. Had to replace the entire control head. I agree about the the capacitive controls. They are less reliable than the touch screen

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