CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2016 Edge is starting to show a similar trend to the prior model year of the engine stalling while driving, which owners report is typically caused by low-mileage problems with the throttle body. This is typically considered a safety defect.
10.0
really awful
Crashes / Fires:
2 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
1 / 0
Average Mileage:
30,340 miles
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Stopped at a red light in 2016 Ford Edge. When light turned green, attempted to make left turn. Vehicle would not accelerate through the intersection and appeared to stall. Turned vehicle off, restarted and again vehicle would not accelerate. With vehicle barely moving, was able to get out of way of three lanes of oncoming traffic but now stuck in the middle of the intersection. When traffic cleared, was able to make left turn and crawled at about 2-3mph with hazard lights on. At this time, wrench yellow warning light was displayed. Drove at that extremely slow speed until reached the left turn lane at the next intersection where could safely pull over and park. Tried several times to restart but continued to receive wrench warning light. That was then replaced with a check engine yellow warning light. Vehicle would still not accelerate. Vehicle was towed to dealer. An eec test was run and had code P2111. The throttle body was replaced with part at4Z-9E926-B. this was under warranty since just 17,276 miles on the vehicle. It is unnerving when gas pedal could be pushed all the way to the floor and still barely move. This incident was very scary and fortunate vehicle was not hit and there were no injuries.
Car has died multiple times at high rate of speed. Dealer says no codes thrown. Used 3 quarts oil before 5000 miles. Exhaust smoked horribly. Deceleration issues constantly. Last time it died on freeway dealer said throwing codes and engine needs replacing. They have had vehicle since December 14 2016. They tried to replace heads and it blew up engine. Car has less than 9000 miles. Vehicle died multiple times on freeway. Deceleration issues occurred both from full stop and acceleration on freeway entrance ramp. Vehicle has been in shop 3-4 times since purchased in late August 2016.
While driving on rte. 95 at a high speed, the vehicle without warning just stopped. The next day while driving on a street about 40 miles per hour, the engine stopped without warning.
While driving at a high rate of speed (70mph) on a major highway, my car lost power. I tried pressing the gas pedal, but there was no response. It was a very dangerous situation, since the care lost speed quickly, and I was driving in the far left lane and had to navigate to the right shoulder in rush hour traffic. It was also very dangerous because the car broke down in detroit. I was able to get to the shoulder, and restart the vehicle to try to get off the highway. While trying to get to a better location, the car lost power two more times, while in street traffic. Again, very dangerous. Since this is a brand new Ford Edge (2016), with under 10,000 miles, it was taken to the dealer, who found a defective throttle body assembly. They replaced the throttle body assembly, and because there is still no recall on that part, it could very well have been replaced with another defective part, leaving me at risk again for injury, or worse. While investigating the issue, I found that several other people have experienced the same issue, dating back to over a year ago. Here are links to other throttle body complaints: www.carcomplaints.com/Ford/Explorer/2016/engine/loss_of_power_while_driving.shtmlwww.aboutautomobile.com/complaint/2015/Ford/Edge/engine
The vehicle was in motion in moderate traffic going approximately 45mph when the engine unexpectedly shutoff and the accelerator became non-responsive. Was able to carefully coast the vehicle to the shoulder, put in park, and restart the vehicle. Extremely concerned that this happened as I'm traveling out of state with my family on vacation. We purchased this vehicle brand new within the last 60 days and it has less than 2,000 miles on it. We thought we were getting rid of a lemon vehicle when we traded in for this, but although our last vehicle had a lot of issues it wasn't nearly as concerning or dangerous as this 1 issue with the Ford Edge. There should be an immediate nationwide recall.
- Newark, OH, USA
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Driving down the road and the vehicle suddenly went to idle. Had to coast to a stop on the side of the road. The car was still idling but when I tried to give it gas, nothing happened. I shut the car off, restarted and it worked fine. Approx. 10 miles later, did the same thing. Car only has 9,200 miles. I drive the interstate daily and this is going to be very dangerous if it happens there. Will be at the dealer at 9:00am sharp tomorrow.
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- Normal, IL, USA