What Do You Wish Someone Had Told You?

[ScottyC]

..... 5. The stock tires suck. I'm getting ready to drop $1,000 on some Michelin Defender 2 tires because the stock tires are almost gone in two just years of gentle use (27,000 miles).

There's an old saying about factory fitted tires. The manufacturers want three things when it comes to tires, they want them round, black, and cheap but the first two doesn't count.

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[Fcnrwy]

What Do You Wish Someone Had Told You?.....

1.) The cast of "Charactors" you would find an the fourm...
2.) What $25,000 buys you, in 2022. In the form of a "Modern" vehicle. (None of my former vehicles, 3 Rangers were "Lariats") So, I was NOT Surprised there..
3.) That I could "Love Driving" so much Again!..

Being a "Diehard" Ford Ranger fanboy, (1st - 3rd Gen's). I surprise myself, in thinking that "FORD" should have built the "Maverick" 30 years ago... OR Atleast!! made it the Ranger revamp back in 2019...

Jerry G.

 

[Suzukiridr14]

OP, you will get mostly fanboy comments here, so I'll concentrate on the negatives. Don't misread that - I've had my 22 XLT AWD ECO LUX HPR for two years now and I'm satisfied with it. I don't kiss the bumpers each morning like some of the more rabid fanboys on MTC, but it's been an OK utility daily ride so far. And I use the bed plenty for a lot of gardener hauling.

What I wish I'd been told by reviewers...

1. It ain't small. It's 3 inches longer than a Kia Telluride. It has a boat-like turning radius compared to my old Ranger 2 door. Hint: there are whole threads on MTC where fanboys and skeptics have flame wars over whether or not the Maverick is a small truck.
2. The EcoBoost transmission hunts a lot. It really annoyed me the first month, and then I just tuned it out.
3. Stop-Start is the worst EPA compliance feature ever invented by man. It's another thing I tuned out.
4. Reliability is something you'll always be thinking about. Especially if you buy a hybrid.
5. The stock tires suck. I'm getting ready to drop $1,000 on some Michelin Defender 2 tires because the stock tires are almost gone in two just years of gentle use (27,000 miles).
6. The pre-2025 MY tech sucks. NA if you're getting a 2025 or later.
7. No passenger power seat.
8. I call the LUX the "not luxury basic modern car stuff they didn't put in to meet a price point".
9. The horrible quality control across the fleet. Massive recalls (I missed all but two, which I'll never have done). Just horror story after horror story by hybrid owners about their vehicles dying in the middle of interstates, multi-month visits to the shop, axles, etc). I'm not saying pass on the Maverick, I'm just saying I wish Ford had added to their advertising "It's cheap because it's cheap". And that they'd added to their "we developed it a year faster than usual" boasting back in 2022 the phrase "so you get to do that last year of development testing we skipped for us".

OK, that's what I wish somebody had told me before I bought mine. Just so I'd be expecting those things.

Reminder - none of this would have changed my decision to buy a Maverick. And I'm satisfied with the thing. I felt I got my money's worth for $30,500 OTD - I wasn't expecting reliability or high quality or content. But I do hope another automaker releases an even smaller trucklet before I replace mine.

I agree with you about the lux package. I was a early buyer of the Maverick (ordered 7/5/21) and with a Lariat with lux package, I excepted Co-pilot 360 to have front sensors like the Excapes have, both seat electric, and homelink. All available on older model Ford products.

 

[ianjay]

I don't find them hard to adjust and I have never had a vehicle with poser adjusting head rests. BTW the purpose of the head rest is to prevent whiplash not to recline. So it should be slightly away from your head.

Yes. I know about how the headrest is supposed to be. I'm not using it to recline. But if someone has tugged it forward and you haven't checked the angle of the headrest prior to driving, having to stop, get out, and move it back into position is ridiculous. You can't do it while sitting in the seat. You can pull it forward from the seated position, but then it is basically stuck there. My 23 XLT had the same issue, so it is not a Lariat thing.
Seat design on most North American cars pales in comparison to seats in European vehicles. The standard for rear seatback structure strength in rear collisions in NA cars could be met with a cardboard frame. If you look at wrecked cars that were in rear collisions, the seat back frame is often failed or twisted.

 

[icegradner]

My dad told me a long, long, long time ago never buy a 1 year old or 2 year old vehicle with low miles on it. Good indications it is a POS and they dumped it before the warranty ran out. So I dumped my Silverado at just over 36k for some sucker to deal with the clunk in the transmission that Chevy said is "normal".

Yeah I never did that thankfully. I usually went for vehicles that were 4-8 years old. Never had an issue. 2022 was a crappy year to need a new vehicle, so in that case getting a year one brand new Maverick was the best option.

 

[BlueMav43]

How prone to interior rattles they are.
My 24 Lariat had multiple rattles in the dash as well as above the headliner in front & rear.
My 24 XLT, LUX, FX4, 4K TOW, has dash rattle that sounds like the defroster duct hitting something. Very annoying.

 

[Cancunbadlands]

Don't cheap out and get the #Tremor

 

[Darryl]

I wish they'd told me that the great fuel economy in the hybrid would cause me to drive unnecessarily and put an inordinate amount of miles on it

 

[RR - All the way]

Wish someone had told me to get an ugly girl to marry me.............

 

[RussCantrell]

Biggest surprise for me? This isn't the "baby twuk" everyone likes to tease about.

I haven't had a pickup since my '79 Silverado. I also have ridden around in my dad's '85 S-10 quite a bit, and borrowed his 2000 GMC from time to time.

This feels more like my old full-size than the cramped mini-trucks I remembered. Some of that might be my poor memory....it has been a while. Some might be how large the Mav feels compared to the two Mustangs that were my daily drivers before this. But it feels like an actual truck. Only small part is the bed, and that's only because I'm not used to trucks having four doors.

(I'm also a little surprised by how much I love my new truck. Though that's probably not a surprise to any of the folks here.)

 

[MaverickDragon]

Biggest surprise for me? This isn't the "baby twuk" everyone likes to tease about.

Compared to every other US market truck on the road, it's a trucklett.
Park next to an F350 and it will look a lot like a "baby twuk" .
Compare it to an average Japanese market car, it's huge.
Size is always relative.

 

[RussCantrell]

Compared to every other US market truck on the road, it's a trucklett.
Park next to an F350 and it will look a lot like a "baby twuk" .
Compare it to an average Japanese market car, it's huge.
Size is always relative.

Absolutely. I can't begin to tell you how often I've "lost" my truck in a parking lot, simply because two F-150s pulled in on either side of me.

At the same time? This isn't exactly the Kei truck that people like to tease.

It's just...a truck. Probably all the truck that most folks need. Nothing "baby" about it.

 

[MaverickDragon]

@RussCantrell - No argument there.
It is a truck, and I agree it's more "right sized" than diminutive.
I assume that was your point.

It's looks like a truck, drives more like a car and it has a short bed that is well engineered.
For me, this hybrid is just what I need and the mpg's are outstanding for any type of vehicle, let alone one that can also haul construction materials, a refrigerator or a 4,000 pound trailer.

 

[Darryl]

Biggest surprise for me? This isn't the "baby twuk" everyone likes to tease about.

I haven't had a pickup since my '79 Silverado. I also have ridden around in my dad's '85 S-10 quite a bit, and borrowed his 2000 GMC from time to time.

This feels more like my old full-size than the cramped mini-trucks I remembered. Some of that might be my poor memory....it has been a while. Some might be how large the Mav feels compared to the two Mustangs that were my daily drivers before this. But it feels like an actual truck. Only small part is the bed, and that's only because I'm not used to trucks having four doors.

(I'm also a little surprised by how much I love my new truck. Though that's probably not a surprise to any of the folks here.)

My nephew has an F-150. And as he was driving my Maverick, he described it as driving and feeling like his f150 , just smaller. He said it as a compliment. Yes it's lighter and smaller. And it feels like it. Yet it still manages to have the familiar Ford truck feel

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