Water leak into cabin from Cowl

[ARDU]

You can go to NHTSA.GOV to file complaints for investigation on safety issues with your Maverick.

Tried that, my VIN was not recognized and could not get any further on their website

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[Farming4Life]

I've read about many other owners experiencing a leak from the cowl into the front cabin, usually on the passenger side. Thank you to those who have posted about this.

I normally park my truck in a garage so I suspect that a slow leak was already present and mold growth was occurring for a while. Over the past several months I did smell mildew. I thought it was the floor mats getting wet from going in and out of the car or a window left down during a brief rain squall. Luckily I parked my truck outside for a week and we had thunder storms. The leak was this exposed as there was enough water in the front passenger floor that you could hear it like squeezing a sponge. I got on the forum and learned that I potentially was a leak from the cowl area.

My truck has been at the dealership going on 3 weeks. The entire cabin is gutted and they bagged the truck to treat the extreme amount of mold that was growing on the carpets, fire wall padding etc. It will be at least 4 weeks I will be without my truck.

Please check your trucks after a strong rain. The thought of driving around with mold in my cabin with my family exposed to it is concerning. I already reported this to the national transportation safety [888)327-4236. I hope anyone else that experiences this will do so as well. We can help the maverick community avoid a potential health hazard by prompting a recall or at least bringing attention to the water intrusion.

At this point, there is still no recall on this black mold issue.
Ford Corporate moved our 2022 Maverick up to Michigan lot and it smells worse than ever.
When the rollback came to collect this Maverick, the driver gagged from the strong mold smell.

 

[HeyBales]

At this point, there is still no recall on this black mold issue.
Ford Corporate moved our 2022 Maverick up to Michigan lot and it smells worse than ever.
When the rollback came to collect this Maverick, the driver gagged from the strong mold smell.

Probably likely never will become a recall - because it doesn't effect a range of built trucks like a hardware problem that has a manufacturing defect.

This is an installation problem that effects some trucks. Unless they can discover the machine doing the job malfunctioned for like a range of dates before it was noticed. Or the glue was made wrong for a batch.
But seems more random than that.

Best it could likely become is a TSB - so if anyone ever presented with the issue, it would be taken care of under a known issue.

 

[Jackpot2-200]

I could not find a video with camerawork that did not make me seasick until I found this one. Here is the culprit of the cowl water leaks on the passenger side. It is raining here for several days but I will open the cowl and check the cover for the cabin filter fresh air intake. I may put silicone sealer around the edges to insure water tight seal and definitely replace the cabin air filter. I just purchased this great little vehicle and found about pint of water on the passenger floor mat after gully washing rain. I found many small water or willow oak leaves in the drain pocket just in front of the front doors and removed enough to clog the drain from the cowl area.. Nobody has mentioned this but the prior owner must have parked it under an oak tree. Check the video - the last part shows the cowl vent.

 

[Jackpot2-200]

I removed the cowl cover and found that the fresh air vent was not totally snapped in place. The bottom on the outside of the vent had been not snapped so long that the vent was slightly bowed and hard to get totally in place. My windshield had been replaced before I bought the vehicle so I do not know if it came from the factory this way or it was sloppy windshield install. The gasket around the vent was wrinkled in several places so i removed it, cleaned the remaining adhesive with WD40 then used alcohol to remove any remaining film. I installed a new 3/8" wide gasket made from a weather seal rubber tape from Home Depot around the entire cover bottom. It was a continuous run with a small overlap on a side of the cover opening. I then cleaned the opening in the firewall with alcohol and snapped the cover back in place. it took several tries to get it snapped in place using a rod between the firewall and the covet to push against the bottom of the cover to get it securely snapped in place. I also cleaned the remnants of the seal along the bottom of the main cowl cover and installed a new gasket with the same rubber tape. When reinstalled we have had several 5" per hour rains, and drove in one with no sign of water in the passenger floorboard or the cabin air filter. Easy repair. My rubber floor mats saved the carpet but I plan to hit it with Lysol spray as a precaution.

 

[TN2025]

Remember reading about 2 in the past. Definitely recall

not a recall at this moment

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