Just don’t lift the wipers up.. If you’re remote starting the truck, the defrosters will unstick the wipers from the windshield pretty quickly. If you’re not remote starting the truck, you can usually just pull up on the wipers and let them smack back down a couple times to shake off any ice that’s accumulated.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

That works great in an inch or so of snow. On those six inch days having the blades up makes clearing the shield that much easier.

@ryanb4533

7 ай бұрын

@@IllInformedHuman the wipers don’t really get in the way of the ice scraper/snow brush when they’re down. At least not in my experience.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

To each his own. My point was primarily that Ford added a silly feature. @@ryanb4533

@donaldredline975

7 ай бұрын

U might also crack the windshield. I had a friend do that once.

Yeah scared the crap out of me the first time it happened lol. Luckily it didn’t chip my paint but I know 3M makes some clear protective automotive tape that could help. Not sure it does this on the Ecoboost also.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

It's likely the same firmware so I would guess it does the same on the eco. Adding in rubber clear tape might be worthwhile...

If you read the manual you would know how the wipers work. I've driven in northern plains states for 55 years and have never put my wipers up from the windshield like that. Also, variant, not varient.

I bought on of those windshield covers at Walmart, flaps that are secured by the doors. I was driving home while everyone else was scraping and freezing.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

I get the appeal, I just don't know if I am one of those people that can be bothered to carry the cover with me and remember to put it in place 🤣

Not sure where you are. I'm in Wisconsin too, a but North of Madison. I have an XLT ecoboost AWD coming. Hopefully I'll take delivery around Christmas.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Same state! Don't get me wrong, I love the truck.

WOW, no big deal. I turn my key on, turn the wrappers on and as soon as it’s at the top I turn the key off and there they stay. I can remote start and they don’t move till I start with the key. I don’t lift them away from the glass, no problem.

thats crappy man, i dont like to leave mine up anyway because it wears out the spring in the wiper faster.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Maybe that was their plan all along... To keep us from having them up for prolonged periods of time!

How about a piece of door edge material to protect the edge ?? Use a tarp or better yet park it in a garage. Problem solved.

@IllInformedHuman

6 ай бұрын

I wish my office had a garage :( And a tarp? Now you are just pulling nonsense out of somewhere I would rather not mention.

I've driven in upper Midwest winters for over 30 years. There has not been one single time where I turned the wipers on when they were up. Never even crossed my mind to do so. Not a good idea to leave them up to begin with, since it stretches out the springs. Would much rather have this "issue" than the pop-out door handles many EVs are using, which are obviously designed by people who have never dealt with winter conditions. Those things are ridiculous.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

You missed most of the video if that was your takeaway friend. The wipers move as soon as the vehicle is turned on... My problem could easily be fixed with a firmware update. Fingers crossed ford reads my email! 🤣

So I have the XLT Hybrid with the Luxury Package and one of the features is a heater coil in the windshield for the wipers. To my mind, that should negate the need to raise your wipers and you can still remotely start your truck and defrost/melt around the wipers.

@crayrayc

7 ай бұрын

let him have his worst feature 😂

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

I have one of the first. The feature you describe is not in the wipers. They did claim that the lip shoves some heat over the wipers on the outside. That is not enough if I have any more than an inch of snow.

So the worst feature only occurs through user error.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

It would be an easy firmware fix to not send power to the wipers until the user activated them, but if that's what you want to call it, sure.

@cameranmanner4701

5 ай бұрын

Fanboys call it user error. The real world its a design flaw.

@Laststepp

5 ай бұрын

@@cameranmanner4701 triggered simps raging because they can't figure out simple processes

@cameranmanner4701

5 ай бұрын

@@Laststepp I certainly agree, by reading some Singleton's original post you tell he is triggered by the Creator of this video.

You can use clear nail polish you'll set in the wintertime and give me some protection till Spring. Then just use a little acetone in the springtime take the nail polish off and use your touch of pain that's what I do in New York

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Awesome tip!

Dumb question if you have auto start to warm up your truck then why would you need to leave them up anyway , wouldn't your defrost have things ready to go by the time you get to your truck?

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Not when I have a bunch of snow. Over an inch on the windshield freezes them to the windshield and I have to dig around them. The defrosters don't work well in that condition.

Very much agreed it happened to me as well

The easiest way to keep snow out of the windshield wiper valley is use a windshield cover it covers the opening and keeps the valley clean no worries of it getting filled with snow and you do not need to raise the wipers I have not had any problem with snow here in Ontario Canada

@IllInformedHuman

4 ай бұрын

Interesting concept, I have not hear of that. I will have to check it out!

Great video! Are those the stock continental tires?? Keep in mind too that the 2022-2023 mavericks have windshield wiper deicers. There are vents in the windshield that direct warm air onto the blades to melt ice. If you run the truck for 10 min from remote start, the wipers are always unstuck by the time I get out unless it’s inches of snow.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Yea, stock tires. The wipers do alright if it is just ice, however its the inches of snow part that happens fairly frequently around here. Digging the snow out of that gap is a pain in the butt! I should have mentioned that in the video 🥲

@qkopp279

7 ай бұрын

@@IllInformedHuman yea the windshield design as a whole was some cost cutting measures.

@Lonesomedoveloves

7 ай бұрын

Living in Houston means no driving during snow and ice. A rare event here.

@theshop5331

7 ай бұрын

3 peak snowflake? Continental tires are mostly a very very poor choice, if they are the stock tire.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

must be nice... @@Lonesomedoveloves

If that is the worst, I feel for you. That was pathetic.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

I am not entirely sure if you are sympathizing or being mean... so... thank you?

I clicked on this vid cause I wanted to see how it would fare New England winters and you made that clear by trying to back up a 2 degree hill with less than an inch of snow and not being able to w/o having to do something the make it work. I would love the hybrid, but we have 6 months of winter here and it just wouldn't make sense, unfortunately.

@IllInformedHuman

4 ай бұрын

That was the worst snow storm we had here this year. Sorry bud. Not every solution works for everybody.

My Maverick has a deicing element for the wiper blades which quickly melts the blades and ice. I heard ford was only including them in the Canadian models af the 2023 model year. They work great.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

No heating element in the blades themselves with my 2022 here in the USA. Everyone tells me that there is a small amount of heat that gets radiated to them though. Not as quick of a solution but I suppose it's something!

@craigcraigster5605

7 ай бұрын

@@IllInformedHuman the element in my truck is built into the windshield where the wipers sit. When I turn on the max defrost and heated mirrors it melts ice/snow pretty fast around the wipers.. rear window should have standard defrosting elements. Pretty dumb not having as standard safety feature.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Yea, I agree. I have gotten used to "USA" products not meeting the needs of the entire country. They seem to focus only on a handful of states. @@craigcraigster5605

My wiper motor recently broke. Use caution. Spent a week in the dealership waiting to locate a replacement motor ( they barely found one in OKC)

@MikeJBlues

7 ай бұрын

You could put a strip of door lip molding on you hood if you like to leave them up . Or just cover it all up with a big hefty yard bag

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

🤣@@MikeJBlues

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

oof, that does not sound fun. I will be careful!

@driver6844

3 ай бұрын

Or how about a strip of door molding on the wiper arm?@@IllInformedHuman

Wondering how the Maverick transformed from a car into a truck. What is the deal?

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

I just refer to it as a truck since that is what your wife called it the last time I dropper her off.

I have been driving for about 60 years and have lived in places where it gets to MINUS 40 and a foot or more of snow in a single night. I have never even heard of leaving wipers up like you show here. Your method is guaranteed to burn out the wiper motor if you have an inch of ice on the arms with the blades up.

The immediate slamming down is called returning to the park position. This is NORMAL Putting the wipers up is not something Ford would recommend or expect an owner to do. The windshield may also get damaged if your raised wipers happen to slam down due to high winds. It is a case of "Doctor, it hurts when I hit my thumb with this hammer" Thumbs were not designed to be hit with a hammer. Hammers are meant to be used to drive nails. Use a windshield cover or, better yet, keep an ice scraper in the vehicle. Since the damage has already occurred and it is winter and touch up paint may not adhere well, dab a little Vaseline on the spot until the weather warms up.

Leaving the wipers up is convenient but the loss of it isn’t the end of the world. You can have your wipers up or remote start but not both. The wiper spring isn’t designed for long term extension. They will stretch over time. There is a wiper park procedure in the manual that you’re not using and should be used if you’re leaving your wipers up. What you’re doing isn’t recommended. Read your manual. I’m sure the Maverick Hybrid handles like other FWD cars in the snow. Tires for both FWD and AWD make the difference. More so on the FWD as far as getting started and maintaining forward movement.

@IllInformedHuman

Ай бұрын

I assume you are talking about what the manual refers to as the "service position". They say to run the wipers while in accessory mode until they are in the middle of the windshield unless obstructed with snow and ice. For "wiper park" it states that the mode will be active whenever you switch on the side mirror heat. The only precautions for wipers are to leave them off when going through a car wash and to not run them on a dry windshield. It does not state that they cannot be left in the service position. It also does not bring up that you can leave them in service position, thus the debate. I will assume you don't actually own a maverick since you have clearly not READ YOUR MANUAL!

A lot of vehicles have wipers that do that now

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

But does that make it a good feature?

@meagain2898

7 ай бұрын

@@IllInformedHuman no. It is a bad feature. I’m stating that this is not only just the Maverick. Makes it very hard to change wiper blades. Auto engineers make things harder than they should be

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

oh, that makes sense. Yea, wholeheartedly agree! @@meagain2898 They must be part of some club where they get together and just copy each other's ideas

BTW ,, I AM ENVIOUS OF YER BLUE MAVERICK TRUCK VERY NICE LOOKIN GOOD..

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I feel pretty lucky since they don't offer that color anymore with the maverick.

Any car in the world resets the wipers when you turn it on. Also if you're remote starting, just have the defrost on high, that will take care of the windshield so you dont have to leave the wipers up. Or, just get in and drive, and forget the remote start.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Not "any car" has that silly lip. The lip with the auto reset at startup is a bad combo.

@ifixthings86

7 ай бұрын

@@IllInformedHuman I didn’t say lip, I was referring to how they all go back to “home” when you turn on the car. But if youre going to remote start it, it isnt really necessary to flip them up, just blast the defrost.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Ive been leaving more time to allow for that now, When I get my car started I usually need to leave ASAP! lol@@ifixthings86

Use a door edge guard on the hood lip. Problem solved.

@IllInformedHuman

6 ай бұрын

The force at which this hits the lip is intense! It might last a little while :)

The wiper issue is user error not the vehicle

@IllInformedHuman

4 ай бұрын

Falling off a staircase without a railing is user error, that doesn't mean the staircase should remain without railings.

If that is your biggest problem then it must be a pretty good vehiche!

@IllInformedHuman

6 ай бұрын

Oh yea, You would have to offer 5X sticker for me to even consider trading it in!

All vehicles go to the park position when turned on. I have 4 ford's and they all do that.

@IllInformedHuman

6 ай бұрын

so... because a bunch of vehicles from the same manufacturer act the same way, it makes this a good feature?

Sarcasm.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

😮

Problem solved, I park inside.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

😁

@rodneysherwin4489

7 ай бұрын

​@@IllInformedHumanLUCKY YOU TO HAVE A G E E R A G E. !!

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

I don't have a G E E R A G E ate work though...@@rodneysherwin4489

JUST PARK IT FOR DAA VINTER LIKE YER TRACTOR,, NO PROBLEM EHH ??

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

What about when I am at work? I don't have access to a garage at work.

@davefish9296

6 ай бұрын

Haul that "more crap" windshield canvas around with you in the winter. Get rid of all your extra summer junk to make room. I change from summer to winter stuff every 6 months.

@IllInformedHuman

6 ай бұрын

I don't have summer junk either? I keep my spaces neat and tidy @@davefish9296 👼

Buy a windshield SNOW cover

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

And lug more junk around with me? No thanks

Never leave your wiper blades fully up like that at any time on any vehicle, regardless if you can. The springs are not built for that and that's a gust of wind away from a broken windshield. Just leave them down. Lift them up, slightly, to clean the snow away in the cowl, so your windows don't fog, and then put them back in place. This way if your wipers are iced up, it'll give them a chance to get heat on them to melt. Use your defrost and A/C, together, if possible, as the A/C acts as a defogger if your vehicle doesn't have an auto defog feature. If you can't do both the A/C and defrost together, crack a window open a bit. This creates equal air pressure and can help clear your fogged up windows faster.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Tell all of the Midwest that it is a bad idea to leave the wiper blades fully erect. I feel like you are being a bit of an alarmist in regards to your cracked windshield comment, but you do you. And, of course, there are a ton of solutions, I just wanted to vent... and maybe get ford to send a firmware update 🤣

@theshop5331

7 ай бұрын

Learned to leave ‘em up my first year in Chicago. 35 years ago sonny.

@jdgolf499

7 ай бұрын

The wipers are not raised for "snow," they are left up only if freezing rain is predicted.

@IllInformedHuman

7 ай бұрын

Its been my experience that when the temp is 31ish the first layer of snow that falls on the hood melts and then freezes. Freezing rain is also a good reason to raise the wipers@@jdgolf499

@Killbot754

7 ай бұрын

There have been studies done on this. There’s nothing wrong with leaving wipers up.