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CarComplaints.com Notes: We aren't rating the 2015 F-150 as "bad" yet, but there is an early trend of complaints about the transmission shifting roughly.

10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
2 / 4
Injuries / Deaths:
1 / 0
Average Mileage:
41,578 miles

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2015 Ford F-150 engine problems

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2015 Ford F-150 Owner Comments (Page 5 of 11)

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problem #133

Oct 202021

F-150

  • miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

While driving, both around town and on the highway, all of the gears disappear from the gear cluster and when this happens my vehicle will not shift out of the gear that it is in. When pressing the gas pedal, I have had nothing happen and the vehicle shift unexpectedly or not shift at all. Instead of accelerating, it caused the rpm's to redline and I nearly went into the wall while on the highway. If the truck is turned off while the numbered gears on the cluster have disappeared then I have had problems trying to restart the truck. The truck will also have a warning pop up to "see manual" and warn you that the blind spot detection is offline. This problem has nearly caused me to be in several severe accidents and serious enough for me to spend the time typing this complaint. After diagnosis at Ford, they relayed that it is the molded lead frame for the transmission and that there are a few years models of f150 with this recall but not the 2015 year model.

- Arlington, TX, USA

problem #132

Dec 212021

F-150

  • miles
Coolant line to turbo is leaking

- New Bruanfels , TX, USA

problem #131

Dec 012021

F-150

  • miles
My turbo lines and vacuum pump are leaking coolant

- Old Hickory, TN, USA

problem #130

Aug 012021

F-150

  • 119,925 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

The contact owns a 2015 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked, unattended the vehicle caught fire without warning. The contact was able to extinguish the fire. There were no reported injuries. The vehicle was towed to an independent lot. The contact called the local dealer but, the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. A police report was filed. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was approximately 119,925.

- San Antonio, TX, USA

problem #129

Nov 192021

F-150

  • miles
The Engine locked, up the check engine light came on and the truck was running a little rough. I stopped turned off the engine, restarted the truck the light went off light. I drove another 40 or so miles light flashed and engine stopped got towed to dealer and was informed engine was locked up. Truck has a little less than 90000 miles and has been maintained.

- Alderson, WV, USA

problem #128

Aug 062021

F-150

  • miles
Exhaust manifolds have warped on both sides of the engine. The bolt holding the exhaust manifold has broken and caused an exhaust leak.

- Henderson, NV, USA

problem #127

Aug 282021

F-150

  • miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Went into 'limp mode'. Advance track, hill descent warnings. Wouldn't throttle. stopped going downhill. Known Throttle Block problem.

- Park City, UT, USA

problem #126

Jul 182021

F-150

  • miles
I was driving on a city street at about 30mph up a slight incline when the truck just seem to shut off. But it didn't die, the engine was still running but barely. It was running very rough, like miss firing on several cylinders. It would not accelerate, no change of engine sound or power, the throttle was totally unresponsive. It also felt as if the brakes were being applied slightly. A message came on the dash saying something about hill assist and another wrench message. I had no chose but to pull over in traffic before it quit. This was on or about July 18 then again today on July 26. This time I was one a city street down to one lane due to construction. I was barely able to make it to a turn off before it totally quit moving, with traffic backed up behind me. I shut off the engine to let the computer reboot and got a message that hill assist was now off. After a longer than normal crank time it started and ran ok. I called Stivers Ford to make an appointment and was told it was probably a fluke, and wait and see if it did it again. I now have an appointment for August 4 to have it checked. I went on Google after the first time and found many complaints about the same situations, but with no fixes. If this were to happen under the right circumstances it could be very serious. I'm a recently retired auto technician, and shop owner of 48 years. I understand the difficulty in finding intermittent failures. But after reading all the same symtoms in Ford pickups for years it seems there should be more done from the manufacturer to address this problem.

- Urbandale, IA, USA

problem #125

Jun 022021

F-150

  • miles
While driving on the freeway the truck completely lost throttle, note electrical stayed and engine idled roughly during this time. Had to emergently pull to the side of the freeway while the truck coasted nearly causing several accidents and people swerved around the truck. Since this initial incident this has happened approximately 15 times on various roads and in intersections. Dealership is saying that some of the electronic throttle bodies (TSB 16-0139) were defective which causes this issue.

- Scottsdale, AZ, USA

problem #124

Jun 232021

F-150

  • miles
Sounds like an exhaust leak near the turbo possibly at the manifold. It is very loud and can tell there is a significant loss of power.

- Sapphire , NC, USA

problem #123

Feb 202017

F-150

  • miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

The engine idles very low to were it shuts of at a stop light.

- Amarillo, TX, USA

problem #122

Mar 312021

F-150

  • miles
My truck won't start sometimes and turns off in the middle of driving. It happens every few weeks. It shows a message saying the oil I low but when I check the oil, it is fine.

- Lumberton, MS, USA

problem #121

Feb 262021

F-150

  • 62,000 miles
While in motion and on the freeway there is power loss, shaking, engine sputtering and barely has enough power to get off the road, hill start assist disabled, decent control disabled, service wrench indicator, service advance trac. I powered off the truck, waiting 10 seconds and it starts and runs fine until it does it again.

- Lakewood, WA, USA

problem #120

Dec 282020

F-150

  • 81,500 miles
When turning onto a road and starting to accelerate, the truck suddenly lost all power and the traction control, advance traction control, hill descent control, maintenance required light all came on and the truck went into limp mode. Luckily I was able to pull off the road and avoid being hit.

- Jacksonvillie, NC, USA

problem #119

Dec 212020

F-150

  • 200 miles
Truck fault code flashes and truck shuts down into safe mode. Three times it occurred while driving on freeway at 70 mph and the fourth time it happened in an a side road doing 35 mph. Every time the same thing happened, the truck shut down in safe mode showing fault codes. I would stop, it would idle very rough, I was not able to move it as it would not rev or let me increase RPM. I would have to shut off truck, turn it back on, it would reset and drive like normal. Took to courtesy Ford four times to diagnose and they could not find anything, I bought a code ready and the truck went into fault code and safety mode again, the code read P2112. Ford found tsb 16-0139 applied and replaced throttle body and charged me $496.95 for repair. 2015 Ford F150 with 58K miles.

- Portland, OR, USA

problem #118

Aug 112020

F-150

  • miles
My truck on multiple occasions was driving than immediately lost power and shut off after sending it to the dealership and them replacing the throttle body it was still doing this with a rattle noise. It got to the point where my truck at 52,000 miles did this exact thing again and blew white smoke and a hole now is in the oil pan.

- Fayetteville, NC, USA

problem #117

Oct 302020

F-150

  • 78,718 miles
My wife was driving vehicle and dash started flashing "hill start assist not available", "service advanced trac" and the wrench icon started displaying on console. Vehicle vibrated heavily slowed down in a "cripple" mode no matter how hard gas pedal was pressed. She pulled over, turned the ignition off and waited 5+ minutes before restarting. It re-started with engine light lit. In order to get it to dealer, she had to drive approximately 15 miles. Vehicle drove ok for a bit and then exhibited similar behavior 4 more times, including once going up the conejo grade between camarillo and newbury park where a big rig had to take evasive action to avoid hitting her when the Ford F150 suddenly and uncontrollably slowed down. Had the semi driving not been paying attention, he could have easily hit her. Ford dealer diagnosed as bad throttle body on 11/2/2020 same vehicle had exhibited brake loss due to faulty master cylinder (now a recall) in August of 2019.

- Newbury Park, CA, USA

problem #116

Oct 132020

F-150

  • 71,000 miles
Oil pan repair was unsuccessful. Began leaking 17,000 miles after initial warranty repair. Truck currently has 71,000 miles. 2nd issue is paint over windshield is peeling. It appears tape was not removed and primer did not adhere.

- Holland, MI, USA

problem #115

Sep 102020

F-150

  • 43,000 miles
Driving on highway 3 different times when acceleration stopped and check engine light came. Fortunately traffic was light when vehicle decelerated. I took vehicle to my mechanic and he had to replace throttle body. He googled problem and saw numerous types of same part vehicle. Called my Ford dealer and he confirmed that they had had to replace throttle body on certain models but Ford had not yet issued a recall notice. This is a very dangerous situation to lose throttle suddenly while driving. My mechanic replaced part, but Ford will not address as a recall issue

- Grand Junction, CO, USA

problem #114

Oct 012020

F-150

  • miles
Engine has stalled and gone into 'limp' mode at highway speeds 4 times in the past few months. Have to pull over and turn truck off and then on to resume normal function. Got error codes about hill assist not working when turning the truck back on. Took to the Ford dealership and they could not replicate the issue. After researching online found numerous other people having exact same issue and it the resolution was replacing the throttle body. Called dealership and they said that might be it but didn't want to diagnosis it as that until they could replicate. Again voiced concern to them that if the vehicle goes into limp mode in the middle of the freeway that could be extremely dangerous. They said there were no recalls for my vehicle but appears multiple other models and years have had this recall already done.

- Kansas City, MO, USA

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