Ford Maverick Forum banner

What's your #1 complaint about your Maverick?

47K views 245 replies 104 participants last post by  Bigsarge  
#1 ·
Image


For the most part the vibes are pretty positive when it comes to Maverick ownership on here. So for those who've owned their Mavericks for a while now and are enjoying it, what, if any, is your stand-out complaint about your truck? What one little or big would you change if you could?
 
#2 ·
Interior rattles drive me crazy. I’m at 923 miles and the dash rattles regularly and if someone sits in the passenger seat something over there consistently rattles. Speakers rattle if you turn the volume up past 15. It’s a cheap vehicle, but not really. My xlt luxury cost over $30k msrp! Quality control and maybe better execution of a mostly plastic interior to minimize rattles. Really my only complaint so far.

Jeff
 
#16 ·
Clearing stupid seatbelt reminders and changing to tow mode or turning auto kill/start every time I get in. Technology working against me!
Body metal is awfully thin. Hope there is a good rust proofing research behind all of this…… HA! Yeah right. I guess my hood will never rust….
Clearing stupid seatbelt reminders and changing to tow mode or turning auto kill/start every time I get in. Technology working against me!
Body metal is awfully thin. Hope there is a good rust proofing research behind all of this…… HA! Yeah right. I guess my hood will never rust….
Clearing stupid seatbelt reminders you mean the chime sound for buckling up? I turned them off it in the manual
Image
 
#29 ·
Scratches at the bottom of the doors from getting into and out, the horrible hard grabbing of the braking system and the weird clicking sounds when I am not truck…. Otherwise she turns heads!!! ☺
Brakes grabbing? I coast to red lights, stop signs, and to turn, and when I need to brake a little, I do at almost always 100% regeneration or close to it, so not once have I had brake grabbing.
 
#38 ·
I wish it was just a bit wider than my 2000 Ranger.
The Maverick is indeed 2.3" wider. :cool:


 
#39 ·
I do not mind the overly plastic interior, however, it scratches way, way too easy. And really, there is no reason for that; designers choose a molded "pattern" that has "sharp edges" rather than a more rounded, pebble style finish. I understand they did not want to do a fake leather pattern, but I'm surprised no one did any testing with the pattern they did choose for durability. Again, I don't care if the door panels or dash are hard plastic (rather than soft touch materials) but it should not scratch and mark up so easily.
 
#49 ·
I don’t know what seat you guys are sitting in !! Front bar is x axis forward and back. Side horizontal lever is y axis up and down. And side vertical lever accomplishes seat recline Look in the manual or online or on you tube vids In the XL. Basically how most cars have worked for many many years. Let’s stop the insanity Try to look like fu@%#in know it alls in a more technological area of car performance. It will serve you better
 
#83 ·
I don’t know what seat you guys are sitting in !! Front bar is x axis forward and back. Side horizontal lever is y axis up and down. And side vertical lever accomplishes seat recline Look in the manual or online or on you tube vids In the XL. Basically how most cars have worked for many many years. Let’s stop the insanity Try to look like fu@%#in know it alls in a more technological area of car performance. It will serve you better
Z actually is up / down, Y is cross car.
 
#50 ·
The cap-less fuel filler system. I had some gas in a 5 gallon container and tried to pour into that tiny, ridiculous emergency funnel that Ford includes with the truck. Impossible. Plus none of my funnels (4 of them) fit in Ford's crazy filler neck. I think that in all of my years that I might have lost one cap. This is a case of over engineering something that didn't need it (I'm an engineer, by the way, and my wife has accused me of that occasionally). I might not have explained that very well, so take out that funnel, before you need it, and stick it in the filler tube. If you ever have to get a can of gas, make sure it comes with a spout and not just the open can to pour with.