This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
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While driving down the highway the truck shifted from 5th gear to 1st gear... the wheels seemed to have locked up as we did leave a skid mark on the highway. Nearly sent us through the windshield... thank goodness for seat belts. Wrench symbol appeared on the console. Pulled over... turned off vechicle, turned back on and showed in 1st gear.. started driving and would not shift out of first gear and wrench reappeared... powered off again and back on wrench disappeared... seemed to drive normal after a couple miles wrench appeared again and we had no gauges on the dashboard operational except RPM. Dealership performed recall 19S07 for this known issue... on test drive it was still not resolved so they said they needed to do 19N01 but that this was only allowed as a warranty repair up to 150000 miles. I had 151866 when brought to the dealership. So I now have an unsafe truck with a known recall issue that Ford will not repair because I had 1866 miles more than their warranty. They want 800 for me to fix it myself which I must do and there is no guarantee that this will fix the issue. Ford should be obligated to fix issues tied to known safety problems with the vehicle. Who knows next time it does it someone could rear end me and be seriously injured.
The contact owns a 2013 Ford F-150. The contact stated while his daughter was driving 70 mph, the vehicle downshifted from 6th gear to 1st gear. An unstated warning light was illuminated. The driver pulled over, restarted the vehicle, and continued to drive to her destination. The contact called bird kultgen Ford located at 1701 w loop 340, waco, tx 76712, (254) 666-2473, to notify the dealer of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was not informed of failure. Upon investigation, the contact associated the failure with NHTSA campaign number: 19V433000 (power train) however, the VIN was not included. The failure mileage was approximately 92,500.
The contact's wife owns a 2013 Ford F-150. The contact stated that his wife received notification of NHTSA campaign number: 19V433000 (power train). The contact's wife took the vehicle to griffin Ford-Lincoln, Inc (511 7th St w, tifton, ga 31794) to have the recall repair performed. The contact stated that immediately after having the vehicle repaired, the rear tires would lock up without warning while down shifting. The contact would pull over and restart the vehicle to resume normal driving. The contact also stated that while slowing down at various speeds, the vehicle independently switch into a higher gear with the check engine light illuminated intermittently. The contact's wife took the vehicle back to the same dealer where she was informed that the transmission needed to be replaced. The contact then called the manufacturer and was offered no further assistance. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 150,000.
While traveling on the open highway at 65mph, a yellow wrench appeared in my dash information panel and the vehicle entered "limp mode". the engine shut down and I had to make an emergency transition onto the shoulder in heavy traffic. The vehicle was able to restart, however, it had the same problem two additional times on the way to the nearest Ford dealership. The obd diagnostic code was P2112
- Knoxville, TN, USA
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Truck was recalled for downshifting while driving. Truck was taken to classic Ford in shelby, nc where the recall problem was taken care of. Lately I have been having problems with truck where truck will not shift out of 1st gear. Have to stop, turn off ignition and truck works fine. Today while driving, speedometer starts going crazy and truck downshifts to 1st gear, luckily I was only going 35 mph. I would hate to think what would happen if I was on interstate going 65 mph. Called classic Ford to schedule service, cannot see me until next week. When I described what was going on, they said they haven't heard of this problem. Have been researching on internet and I am not the only one having this problem.
Re: 19N01 transmission molded leadframe. The recalls that Ford did provide for my vehicle only included software updates that did not prevent the issue. When this failed my truck went from travelling 45 mph in 6th gear to suddenly shifting to 1st gear. I had my family in the vehicle and I was barely able to avoid having an accident. The issue was not covered by for because I was outside of the warranty coverage. This is unaccceptable because the software updates provided did not prevent this from happening.
While driving vehicle suddenly shifted into 1st gear and flashed a wrench symbol and check engine light for code P0720. The vehicle lurched coming from a hugh rate of speed to shifting to first gear which almost caused a wreck. The vehicle would not shift out of first gear.
Had recall done last year for speed sensor automatically down shifting. Starting June 16th 2020 the vehicle started hard shifting between 3rd and 4th gear. It jerks the trucks it up shifts. Seems like there would be some warranty on parts from a recall. I?M at about 154000 miles, so we were told we just missed the warranty. Being the sensor was replaced seems like there should be some kind of warranty at least for that part.
The contact owns a 2013 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving approximately 40 mph, the vehicle independently decelerated to 5 mph. The vehicle was turned off and restarted and operated as intended. The maintenance required light was displayed on the instrument panel. The contact contacted trotter Ford Lincoln (3801 bobo rd, pine bluff, ar 71603, (870) 535-4321) however, the mechanic was unable to provide a cause for the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 65,000.
When I?M driving the car 60 mph the car is done shifting my service keys, I cannot see how fast I'm driving I cannot see the mileage in my car and my airbag light is come on I have to stop the car started again and everything come back to normal.
The contact owns a 2013 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving at 55 mph, the transmission downshifted to first gear and the vehicle decelerated abruptly. The contact pulled over, restarted the vehicle and the vehicle operated as intended. The vehicle was taken to autonation Ford St. Petersburg (2525 34th St N, St. Petersburg, fl 33713, (727)231-1323) to be diagnosed. The contact stated that the vehicle was previously repaired under an unknown recall. The vehicle was returned to the dealer twice due to the same failure. The contact was informed that the warranty on the vehicle was expired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 115,000. Consumer stated that they were told that the throttle body and motor needed to be changed. Consumer said that they experienced the same failure the next day. Vehicle was taken in to have the transmission molded lead frame replaced. Vehicle was repaired.
Going 70 mph on the high way my truck is down shifting to a lower gear then looses power the RPM and the speedometer starts going hay wire jumping back and forth. Doing 40 mph it does the same thing and doesn't want to pick up speed. Took it to a Ford dealership and they reprogrammed the brain now the mph don't work no fuel notice it's blank.
I had recently bought a 2013 F150 have owned it for almost 6 months now it started with it's like I can be driving and it's like the transmission acts funny slows down and then a wrench symbol will show up on the dash then I pull over and shut it off then back on it's ok. Coming home yesterday it's like it downshifted and then the rpms raise to 5000 and I was on the interstate passing a vehicle and I could have caused a wreck something wrong with the transmission very dangerous I don't know if it's been recalled or not I just would like to know though actually I will find out if it's been recalled or not and fixed.
Put truck into park to help truck ahead of us unload bed. Our truck was in park with engine on, within 3 min truck began accelerating and crushed body in between two trucks. Had to press breaks (car still rolling) shift into reverse, back into park before car would stop rolling then went into reverse.
I have already had the safety recall 19S07 ' 6R80 performed on my 2013 F150 svt raptor for the sudden deceleration issues. This week I was traveling at highway speed and the truck suddenly downshifted from 6th gear to 1st gear causing my trucks rear-end to start coming around. Luckily I was able to maintain control of the truck. I took it to the dealership and that saw the downshift codes and attempted to reapply the recall. Now they tell me though the actions and near accident are inline with the recall, the code P0961 and therefore it is not covered by the recall. This is an immediate safety issue and the safety recall 19S07 ' 6R80 recall should be extended to cover this code.
The contact owns a 2013 Ford F-150. The contact stated while driving at 60 mph, the gear down shifted from sixth gear down to third, back up a few gears then back down, without warning and caused consumer to lose control temporarily. The failure occurred on two occasions. The vehicle was taken to the dealer llc chapman Ford located at llc 3951 columbia ave, columbia, pa 17512 where it was diagnosed that the wire harness melted which needed replacement along with the PCM. In addition, the dealer informed that there might be a possibility that the transmission would have been damaged as well but wont be determined until further use of the vehicle. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 54,000.
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- Depoe Bay, OR, USA