Tag: Maverick

My Vehicles — Comparative Fuel Statistics

Here is a chart detail­ing var­i­ous fuel sta­tis­tics for vehi­cles owned

It is to be not­ed that the cars were dri­ven dif­fer­ent from each oth­er. Also to be not­ed is that some of this data (miles, gal­lons, total $, aver­age mpg, & aver­age $/gal) was tak­en direct­ly off the data col­lec­tion app (same app for all cars), which accounts for some of the slight cal­cu­la­tion dis­par­i­ty, but the right-most 3 columns are my own cal­cu­la­tions.

The 2012 Out­back 2.5i was the longest stand­ing car at a total of 112 months owned, but record­ings only start­ed in 2016. It was dri­ven most­ly in rou­tine com­mut­ing traf­fic in a city-dri­ving envi­ron­ment.

The 2020 Out­back XT was dri­ven dur­ing pan­dem­ic times, used pre­mi­um gas, and nev­er took an extend­ed high­way trip. Traf­fic was nonex­is­tent dur­ing pan­dem­ic time. Despite pre­mi­um gas usage, price of gas was still cheap­er than today’s more cur­rent gas prices. Dri­ving sta­tis­tics should have been much worse than it looks because I also drove this car very aggres­sive­ly.

The 2022 Ford Mav­er­ick XL is the only hybrid pow­er­train here. With that, it shows a sav­ings of $471.35 over the 2012 Out­back 2.5i whose pow­er sta­tis­tics best match out of the group, as well as the type of traf­fic dri­ven through and dai­ly route. Now, if the aver­age price of gas per year were matched (to the cur­rent $3.99) while keep­ing the gas consumption/year the same, then the dis­par­i­ty is $1911.21. Wow. That’s almost $2,000 in sav­ings! Both in amount of gas con­sump­tion (479 gal vs. 215 gal — 44% decrease in amount used) per year and in dol­lars. $2k in my pocket…for friv­o­lous things I don’t need.

How To Change Install 2022 Ford Maverick Cabin Air Filter

10/09/2022

Cost: $20.65 + tax & $9.97 ship­ping from here (end­ed up being a tiny but less expen­sive than buy­ing from Ford which is, at this writ­ing, out of stock any­ways)

Time: Under ide­al con­di­tions, about 5 min­utes.

Mate­ri­als: Motor­craft Cab­in Air Fil­ter (FP99)

Installation

The glove box

On the side of the glove box when opened, is a plas­tic stop arm. You need to pull it off…This was, by far, the most dif­fi­cult part of this instal­la­tion because the car is new, and all of the plas­tic is very stiff. The nor­mal method would be to just hook your fin­ger in there and pull. In this case, I need­ed pli­ers but also a microfiber cloth to give it more con­tact (bonus, that reduces dam­age to the piece).

Plas­tic arm
Nor­mal method would be to just slide in a fin­ger and pull

So, if you’re hav­ing trou­ble, brace the glove com­part­ment with your knees, wrap the lit­tle top of the split head with the microfiber (or what­ev­er), squeeze with the pli­ers, and slide the arm off. Geez. Here’s a clos­er look at the offend­ing mech­a­nism. Now that it’s been done once, it is much eas­i­er to do for the future.

On either side of the glove com­part­ment are nice, use­ful tabs. Just depress on both sides and pull the glove com­part­ment out.

Two tabs on either side
Close up
Just push in on both sides and pull the glove com­part­ment out

The rec­tan­gu­lar box is what we’re look­ing for. To the left and the right are 2 tabs that hold the lid in place over the hous­ing open­ing. Push them apart to free the tabs being held there. Nor­mal­ly, you would just pull the two tabs on top, and it would come out, but the plas­tic is extreme­ly stiff hav­ing nev­er been used, so be care­ful not to break the pieces (I did that in my old car D:) and pull the cov­er down.

An up close of the side tab

Ta da!

Here is a side by side of the new and old. Mim­ic the direc­tion of the air­flow on the orig­i­nal fil­ter. Ford has the labeled on the plas­tic for you, also.

Mhmm. It was time.

From here on out, just go back­wards to replace every­thing: close the fil­ter lid, hook the hinges into their slots, push the glove com­part­ment up until the tabs lock in place, and then replace the stop arm.

Make sure those hinges are placed in prop­er­ly!

The one impor­tant thing to remem­ber is to make sure that the 3 hinges are prop­er­ly seat­ed. If they’re not, then the com­part­ment won’t close smooth­ly. One of mine weren’t clicked in right and clos­ing the com­part­ment was dif­fi­cult and rough.

You are DONE and breath­ing much clean­er air.