Hey Scotty,
I recently purchased a Ford Maverick XL - as a fellow Houston upgrading from a sedan (Sonic LT 2017), I was pretty pleased with the ride quality and having a bed. Overall, I'm impressed.
Sadly, I'm noticing a lot of recall notices. My 24 model is only impacted by the turn signal recall so far, which was an easy software update that Ford did within a day. But my larger problem is quality control and concerns of reliability down the road. I'd like to keep this thing for a decade or more, but since it's a hybrid, naturally I have concerns.
I was featured on your livestream yesterday posing a similar question about long term thoughts on the Maverick and if your thoughts had changed from being mostly positive but cautiously optimistic. You seemed to indicate that yes, you wouldn't advise buying them, and that a customer of yours had bought a Tacoma to replace his instead. Figured I'd chime back in to see if you'd be willing to give a more lengthy take on the Mav - also, I'm willing to let you check mine out if you're ever down in Houston again (I'm more on the Pearland side/south).
This post is half-question and half-entertainment, because since then, I posted a similar question in a Maverick Facebook group and got roasted to hell for daring to question the truck's quality. Just mentioning your name had everyone in a tailspin, so much so that I was personally berated, and my job threatened, for merely starting a discussion about the Maverick and its recall issues.
I thought you might find it entertaining that Ford fanatics can be so defensive of a truck that they'd take any mild criticism as personal slights, and figured there's no better "revenge" of sorts on their crude behavior than getting featured on one of your episodes. Feel free to use this post as ammunition for anyone who is so stuck to the Ford brand that they'd rather threaten people online than question poor quality control.
As a fan of yours, and a fan of the Mav, I have to say I found the entire situation hilarious; the blind hate people have for you, and the blind love they have for Ford, is almost parallel in its intensity.
Be well, take care, and thanks for your thoughts.
-Kyle
I've heard of people having to sell their new Mavericks out of disappointment with the shockingly poor quality. And yeah, of course they're getting a lot of hate for it online. Mob mentality is real and car owners can be downright cultish.
My step dad is in a bit of a cult, he worships Ford, and he has a Maverick. He used to worship GM.
@justin-shepherd what did they ever do for him?
@imperator - Maybe he worked for them? A late friend of mine used to design Ford assembly lines and he was always pretty bullish for them.
@chucktobias
Ford laid off 2,500 workers off the Lightning assembly line. I wonder if he'd feel the same were he one of them.
@imperator - Probably not, but we're talking about decades ago. If he were still alive he might well be appalled at the crapfest that company has turned into. (While at Ford my friend also developed the first version of Windows networking which was then adopted by Microsoft.)
@chucktobias
well that was a little while back! 😆
I'd say a bit has changed since THEN
He's an IT director, never was employed by car companies, lol.
@justin-shepherd - Sometimes there's an overlap. Without getting deep into off-topic details my friend was a boyhood friend of Bill Gates and one of Microsoft's original team of programmers when it was still a small company. He wound up leaving to pursue other opportunities and wound up being employed by Ford where he designed assembly lines and also worked on software development. So sometimes those fields do converge.
He used to be a GM fan until he met my mom, who likes Ford, lol.
wow. I sure hope my vehicle choices don't become a matter of family loyalty.
"Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man." -- Jean Shepard's "A Christmas Story"
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Scotty lives in Tennessee, for a couple of years now. Sorry to hear you encountered the adolescent behavior.
Couple of thoughts came to my mind; "Haters are gonna hate" + "You can't fix stupid" 🙁
I've been a Ford guy pretty much my entire life, and I'm beginning to change that. My 2017 Mustang I bought brand new and its check engine light trip twice because of a purge valve (P1450). I replaced it once around 18 months ago, and it came back again a couple weeks ago. Even in the USA, quality control is horrible. The Maverick is Mexican made.
My 1999 Ford Ranger with a 3.0 has almost 300k miles on it and it still runs like a scaled ape. I've never seen a check engine light come on in that truck. When I bought it 4 years ago, it had 251k miles on it. It still works, too. It was produced at Ford's New Jersey plant, which has closed. I had to rebuild the transmission shortly after I bought it, not unusual for a Ford with at thetime 251k miles. Everything else has been wear and tear.
