Ford Mustang Mach-E Recalled Because Battery Can’t Handle Owners Flooring It
Ford Mustang Mach-E Recalled Because Battery Can't Handle Owners Flooring It
Maybe if they didn’t make the Mustang a goddamned SUV it wouldn’t torch itself trying to haul its fat ass around
Car manufacturers love the SUV/crossover format for EVs because they find it easier to fit the batteries in with the higher clearance.
There's a reason why they're all going for it, despite middling enthusiasm from buyers.
Utterly irrelevant blathering. It weighs roughly the same as any EV you want to name, and is more than TWO THOUSAND POUNDS LIGHTER than the EV Lightning.
But you know... don't let facts get in the way of you car guy squealing about how the Mustang name is a precious thing and has never been used in any controversial manner ever.
runs away laughing in Fox body
Maybe I just hate SUVs
lighter than a pickup truck? impressive engineering that must have taken
Speaking of irrelevant blathering...
Same weight as a tesla plaid with none of the proformance? Sounds like a all that is mostly dead SUV weight. Also the lightning is 20000 lbs lighter than the Tesla Semi! CHECKMATE!
This is hilarious. They obviously didn’t realize their target audience was drivers who don’t know how to handle a muscle car 😂
The newer mustangs are not muscle cars. They are suvs pretending to be muscle cars
All the bulk of an SUV without the ease of getting in and out.
Mustang just got a dad body
I have no idea why they called this entirely different car a mustang.
Sure, but the mach e had a 0 to 60 time that matches the mustang GT so comparing this relevant stat, it might as well be. Plus, they need even more power because it's so heavy
Far from any overlap. Over 70% of buyers are first time Ford customers.
How do you fuck up your battery design by under-specing high voltage connections in an EV of all things?
JFC, Ford, can you try to sabotage the EV conversion more?
"Well you see, making those conductors undersized saved us $1 per unit, which allowed us to get the lower bid, and increase shareholder value at the time. Now, of course, is a different financial quarter and what we did before doesn't matter."
The battery is fine, problem is the isolation contactors in the HV electricity distribution junction box. Contactors overheat, most likely melting their electromagnet windings. No more electromagnet pulling the contactor closed, springs push it open, isolating the battery as designed for a fail safe condition, no more power. Though the fail conditions are supposed to be "control system is not happy, cuts pilot voltage to contactors". Instead of the contactor itself being the failing part.
But hey still, atleast it's not welding the contactor closed, that would be way worse.
So Ford didn't know their mustang owners tend to drive a bit recklessly? The analogies here are plentiful. Smith & Wesson knowing their weapons are used in crimes... McDonald's knowing their food will turn you fat...
If the gas pedal goes down X-inches, a mustang drive will press the pedal down X-inches +1
"Stick shift is better because when you push all three pedals to the floor, the car sounds real fast!"
Mustang Drivers, probably
The mental image this creates is just fantastic. 😂
Why would they? It's not a Mustang. It's a hatchback EV with extra ground clearance to pretend it's an SUV.
Over 70% of buyers are first time Ford customers. There isn't much of any overlap in buyers between an actual Mustang and the Mach E.
Which begs the question, why the fuck did they sully the Mustang name on that POS?
I was just driving around my city to make some extra cash on uber, and there is too many mach e owners here who spin the tires from stop and around corners, accelerate to 90s on the bridges even the ones that go up vertically and curves, which takes a lot of power and tire grip to do. These men and women are worse than bmw, porsche or sports car owners.
I tried to get my wife to pick a Mach E over the Ioniq 5 and failed. The Ioniq 5 has its issues but now I'm getting like we dodged a bullet.
Buying a new model year of a new car has always been a massive risk. The risk of recall maintenance is pretty high.
My preference is 3-5 years old but my wife really REALLY wanted this car and it was the right price. She loves it.
FYI, when driving the Ioniq 5 in one-pedal mode, the brake lights don't come on until the car is almost at a complete stop.
Supposedly the latest software update fixes that but we haven't done the patch yet.
That’s not true at all. It was one of the first things we tested out when we got ours in January. You have to let off at a specific rate, essentially it was trying to replicate engine braking since that also does not result in your brake lights come on. A later software update has also made it come on earlier if you’re braking lighter.
Hyundai slaps ford these days. The ionic is a better car in every area.
Aw, I was looking into the Ioniq 5 and decided to just wait and spend my extra cash on a different green thing (Hvac). It looks so... Interesting, was it worth the price tag?
I was feeling like I was getting strong armed into Tesla because of fed tax credit, too; hoping the choices open up a bit more...
I was looking at the Ioniq 5 but ultimately went for the ID.4
Any big issues aside from the whole 12v battery dying thing?
We haven't had that issue yet. We couldn't charge the car at home because the port on the car got too hot. The fix was software the slowed down the charge which works for us because my wife doesn't drive far but it still sucks.
My biggest complaint is no rear wiper, the rear glass gets so dirty so fast and we don't go to gas stations with it to clean it. Next year's model will have one. Otherwise it's really nice in traffic, far easier than my manual car is.
I haven’t encountered that and they have a recall out for it so you can go get it fixed for free at your service center.
To be fair, the people buying these crossovers are not the same people buying ICE Mustangs.
To give Mustang drivers some credit, at least they're not Charger drivers.
The flaw does not exist in models 2022 and newer. Older models are getting fixed. From the pictures, the unit is directly attached to the battery right in the front. It should be trivial for mechanics to get to.
Yeah. The fix is simply to switch the contactors to beefier ones, which presumably they did for 2022 model already. Hence new model years aren't affected.
Well switching out the junction box, since not like they are going to have repair mechanics muck in the junction box. Just ship the never model junction box with beefier contactors inside and switch out the whole box.
This is Elon's fault and is why you shouldn't buy a Tesla.
Is that some of that innovation Bill Ford was talking about the other day?
If you bought this, you deserve this.
