I purchased a Ford Maverick ecoboost AWD Lariat in May of last year. I have a question on maintenance. Basically in the 10 months I have owned it, due to various reasons I have only put 2,000 miles on it. Would it be a good idea to have it serviced even though from what I have read service intervals are 10,000 miles for this car. It seems like I should, but I have never run into this situation. I like this car a lot and don't want to cause issues with the warranty.
Not sure it'd affect the warranty any but with Evelynes stuff she never comes close to hitting the mileage - her last one got traded with like 12k on the clock after 7 years - so we do oil changes yearly just to be sure it's all good.
probably more important to make sure you get a decently long drive in and let that engine get up to temp and everything else moving.
Agreed. I have had an interesting year and since Halloween have been unable to drive. To date longest trip was to a car show, about 50 miles each way. It has been interesting watching the average MPG rise from new as things break in. Mostly surface streets and city driving. Once I am back driving I plan to make a long drive, maybe to a race weekend.
I would dump whatever is in the engine and figure out which synth youre gona use, change it, and send it. The OLM counts time based on 12 months as well as usage...my 150 gets changed at 50-60% on the life monitor it barely sees a few hundred miles a month on avg.
Not a fan of the 10,000 mile oil changes, and if you do some research, many point to this is "sufficient" to get you through your warranty time/miles, for the manufacturer, and not good for long term retention of the auto for the end consumer. For me with new cars, first oil and filter change is 1500-2000 miles to get out all of the "manufacturing" impurities. The second change is at about 3500-4000, next is at about 6500-8000 with a tire rotation. Then I go 5-6000 per change, and rotate then too. Oil and filters are cheap, having the dealership rats need to rebuild your motor in or out of warranty, doesnt excite me. TLDR, 3 oil changes by 10,000 miles, then every 5-6000. Dont forget to rotate yo tyres. Ski
Agree with the more frequent oil changes. I don't have a Ford but a Ford tech I trust said he recommends 6mo or 5,000 mile changes on the EcoBoosts. He has worked on many sludged up ones that went for the 10K changes.
Change it. Change it once a year or every 5k miles. Going 10K is just asking for issues with an already risky power plant.
Yup this is what I do with our vehicles too... the commuters are every 5k, the toy cars are ever year between Xmas and New Years. Easy schedule!
