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Parked car and opened door to get when I heard a load pop and realized the back window shattered. It was parked in a empty parking lot with no possibility of external impact
Wrench (check engine) comes on for unknown reason and vehicle looses all throttle ability! has come on 7 times. Has occurred driving at 25 up to 65 mph. Today I was in the fast lane wrench came on and shut down throttle. I managed to cross 3 lanes in traffic. Each time this has occurred I've stopped and shut off the engine. The restarted & runs fine. Taken to Ford as well as private mechanics but no codes saved. Has happened 6 times. Ford told me they cant fix without a code.
I just had this happen to me on my 2013 F150. Same scenario as everyone else. Windows were frosted and turned on rear defroster while warming the truck up. Noticed while driving that the rear windows never defrosted and the light on the rear defrost button would no longer light up. After the windows thawed from the cab heat, I noticed that the passenger side of the three piece window was shattered and only held together by the window tint.
My husband and I were driving down the road and suddenly our 2013 Ford F150 starts clunking noise and hard jerking making the nose of the truck will pull down really hard when it does this. We are driving 65mph down the highway when this happened almost causing us to crash. Suddenly after this occured the Ford F150 starts acting like the transmission was slipping with only 64,000 miles on it. Tempurature started going up so we pulled over and called a friend to come tow us home. We got home and the truck wont reverse off the trailor. We finally get it off the trailor and take it to the Ford buisness in my town on the way there it acts like its stuck in first gear. We get it back from the Ford dealership and they tell uhs that the transmission is stuck in reverse. That when they start fhe truck it wants to take off like its stuck in gear even in reverse and then tell us that we will have to replace the transmission that was recently put in mind you it ran fine before the loud noise and sudden changing of gears at 65 mph.. so why shouldnt Ford have to fix it.
- Fort Scott, KS, USA
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Left side of power sliding rear window shattered while driving. No other visible damage to vehicle, and no impact point apparent on glass. Co-worker with 2014 F150 was stopped at a light on the same day and exact same thing happened
Upon excellaration and while cruising at higher speed's my vehicle will down shift automatically from 6th gear to third gear causing my rear wheels to lock. I receive a wrench sign on the display the speedometer stops working, the drivers air bag light comes on and the vehicle stays in this gear until I stop and turn off the vehicle and turn it back on. Also at times while driving the vehicle will shift on it's own while driving a constant speed from 6th gear to 4th gear, to 5th gear and back to 6th all while driving at a constant speed.
2 months after purchasing my used 2013 F150 super crew I noticed the 'low pressure oil' flash at random times. It flashes for 2 secs and goes away. I started researching and found other owners like myself are having the same issue. Some cases involved the vehicle shutting down during their drive. My vehicle is only at 62K miles. Please help. This is my livelihood, thank you.
I started my truck and the wrench light came on. The truck was in limp mode and would not accelerate. I restarted the truck and was able to pull it back in the driveway. I plugged in an obd code reader and it gave a P2112 "throttle actuator control system stuck closed." Upon some research I found several models between 2011 through 2015 have had similar issues causing dangerous situations on the highway. The issue was moving when it first occurred, but thankfully it was just outside my driveway, I hadnt made it to the highway yet. I restarted the truck, and was able to park it in the driveway.
I have a 2013 Ford F-150 super white has 160,405. The timing chain needs to be replace I have seen plenty of comments online about people timing chain going out is there a recall on this problem.
Serious vibration at or around 45 to 70mph. Steering wheel vibration, front end vibration. Usually around the time the transmission temp hits the normal temp truck starts vibrating. Usually starts at 40mph and gets worst with higher mph. Bought the truck back in Nov of 2018 all was fine till about 2 months ago when the vibration started. Not very happy.
I was driving and made a right turn and the power steering gave out for a few seconds. Then once I straightened back out I could not reproduce the problem. This has happened several times but can happen when turning either way.
I was driving on a highway at 55 miles/H pulling a trailer with a light load. The truck suddenly went from normal engine sound to a louder and louder sound and it slowed down as if I was been dragged backward. The engine sound felt like the truck had down shifted from a higher to a lower gear and was braking on its own while I was trying to compensate by giving more gas so that I could pullover safely. Within a minute the truck stopped still, there was smoke and fire that spread rapidly through the cabine and engine. We nearly escaped. I was unable to completely clear the trailer off the road as the truck had completely stopped. The truck burned completely. Before reporting this incident I called Ford, provided my VIN number and asked whether there had been any recent recalls on my F150. Ford confirmed that a recall (# 19S07) that impacted my VIN was issued in Feb, 2019. However, I do not remember receiving any notification from my Ford dealership.
When entering onto the interstate I felt the truck was not getting up to speed. I then noticed on my dashboard a big wrench. I felt my truck continue to not gain speed even though I was stepping on the gas.the screen then went black and and when the dashboard came back on I had nothing showing. No mph, fuel economy, etc and I was stuck in 5th gear.I could not increase speed but only decrease if I stepped on the break.I don't know how fast I was going but it was not fast at all since everyone was passing me(maybe 40 mph).I also noticed my airbag light was on. I had to pull over on the interstate and restart my truck.once I did that everything came back on and worked for the rest of the ride. I was recently part of a Ford recall but had that fixed.I had the automatic downshifting happen to me 3 times before the first recall was in place. I just got a letter last week that they need to redo the recall, I had the downshifting happen to me and this was not it. This is a entirely different safety issue that is making me afraid to drive my own truck since most of my time is on the interstate. Photos are attached of what was happening to me on the interstate.
I was on my way home from mt on the interstate and heard a loud pop and then saw a small black piece in the rear view mirror. I then heard noise from the moon roof, I pulled over and discovered that the moon roof exploded, nothing hit it!
I received notice of recall to schedule repair (software) upgrade. I contacted the dealer several times to only be told to keep calling back to see if they have received the software upgrade from Ford. They said there is no problem with continuing to drive the truck until the problem is repaired.
My vehicle was in motion on the interstate traveling at about 65 mph and my vehicle did an unintended downshift to first gear almost costing me my life. Cars managed to miss me and I narrowly made it to the shoulder to a safe place to recover. The car continued to jerk in similar fashion as attempt to exit the interstate to get to a service center. The vehicle was unable to safely make it to the nearest Ford service center so I called a tow through geico roadside assistance. The tow took me to auto nation Ford and there they explained to me that the issue I experienced was due to a recall that they are currently fixing; however, when they saw that I had a 2013 Ford F150 model, he immediately apprised me of the fact that Ford did not have the software yet to reprogram the powertrain control module to prevent the unintended downshift. The representative then told me there was another recall in the system for this vehicle that he could do, but it would not remedy the initial situation. My vehicle is not drivable and I asked when Ford would have a remedy for this. He stated that it was supposed to be this current quarter, but they had not received the information to do the reprogram. Now, I am without a vehicle due to no fault of my own. I think they should give me a loaner or pay for a rental car, because they have no timeline as to when this recall remedy will be available.
NHTSA recall 19V-075. Recall caused failure in transmission. Problem did not exist prior to recall update. Supplement #1 issued 5/15/2019 indicated my 5-liter engine with a 6R80 transmission should not have been upgraded with recall 19so7. Each time I use my truck tow /haul and brake on a grade, the transmission downshifts to second gear and will not exit until I turn off the tow/haul function. Dealer marshall Ford O'fallon mo, tells me don't use function. I find this most inconvenient, considering I have driven this vehicle five years towing my boat without a prior incident. Now it happens every time. I am getting no response from Ford corporate or dealer since first communique. They have assigned me a case #2170, but that is all. My fear at this point I will damage this transmission and be left with the repairs.
Reported this problem before and now it getting worse it was just the transimission shifting from high gear 6 at 70 mpg in cruise and when I tap the breake peddle to disengage the cruise it dowm shifted to low 1 and the RPM went from 2500 to 6500 and stay in low until I came to a stop then everything went back to normal it now also blown transimission lines and when I take off from a side street of stop light it will take off ok then about the time I reach the center of the street it will sfift into nuteral I can step or pump the gas peddle but nothing happens it just goes into a slow role after 3 to 5 sec it then jumps into gear and takes off normal again also at slow speeds you can hear and feel it clunking into and out of gear and with a metallic sound some times once in the snow had it in 4X4 at parked it and turned it off the next day I back it out of the drive then shifted it into drive then the transfer case shifted it out of 4X4 and it sounded like 2- 8 lbs sledge hammers smashing together and jarring the hole truck this in the beginning has only happen a few times but I was on the freeways at hi speeds I dont drive it on the freeways now and because the dealer ships want a $100 each time I take it in for the same problem and they dont do anything and plus I paid eatra for the platinum warrenty so if I have to leave it I get a loner and I have even been able to get a loner even when it took them over a week to install the transmission lines after they blow out from stop and going in on residential streets also when the trucks shift from high to low you can hear the solenoids shifting all overe under the dash floor infront of the seat along with the dash light flashing even one with a eng with a trans attached
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- Brooksville, FL, USA