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Doors won't latch in below freezing temperatures even after recall preformed in February 2021. Dealer says there's nothing to be done at this point since the recall has already been preformed. The majority of the time when the temperatures drop below freezing you must drive holding doors closed till it will eventually latch. On several occasions the passenger rear door appeared to latch correctly only to swing open when i make a turn. This has happened with my child in their car seat in the passenger rear area. Available for inspection
I have AC condensation leaking into passenger side floor. I pulled the carpet and there is mold all over. I-??m concerned about the mold health hazard to my two young kids and myself.
Continuing issue with the door latches freezing. 20deg weather truck sat all day in car port. Opened driver door and would not latch closed. Lock would not operate. Had to drive holding the door shut. Finally got home and repeatedly worked lock plunger to get in lock position. Door then latched and then would NOT open. Next day heated door latch thru side hole with heat gun to get to work. After sitting 2 hrs again could not get door to latch closed. Drove holding door closed. If lock will move door will latch but then can not be opened from inside or outside. Truck has had two recalls have been completed to fix issue. Still having major issue. In Midwest area.
The door latches on the F-150 become frozen when temperatures drop below freezing. There is no Manual maneuvers you can do to get the door to latch close once it is open. Thus, once the drivers side door is opened for the driver to get in on a freezing morning, the door will not latch close. This causes me to drive down the road with an open door, holding it closed while I make turns down the windy road. It is not until the vehicle and the latch thaw a bit will it secure itself closed.
Driver door latch fails to latch when it get cold outside. I was able to manually move the latch by sticking finger in latch mechanism to make it work. Drove and parked for 3 hours. Came out and door would not latch again. Seems like this is very common with no known fix according to traffic on the web. Ford is unwilling to fix.
- Rogers, MN, USA
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Tailgate opened on its own, unexpectedly, while driving. This has happened several times recently. It could be dangerous. Canada has issued a recall to correct this issue. Why not the us? the fix appears to be easy.
2018 F-150 panoramic sunroof tracks and motors broke and stuck open position. Was driving and with fumes from other cars entering my vehicle from open roof and inability to close, I was getting lightheaded and almost passed out from exhaust fumes sitting in traffic.
Tailgate opens while driving at both city street speeds and highway speeds. Allowing items in bed to fall out on road creating road hazard. This is more than an inconvenience it is dangerous and someone is going to killed. Do something about this. Please. Canada has already done the right thing and ordered the recall. If NHTSA responds to this problem too late or not at all NHTSA will have blood on their hands because it is not a matter of if serious injury and/or death occurs it is a matter of when.
Electric tailgate latch fails causing tailgate to open unexpectedly; happens whether in motion or standing still. Evidently there is a recall for this problem in Canada, but not the us.
The passenger side rear door will not stay closed when cold outside. When you try to close it, it bounces back open. This happened while parked. I was unable to drive the vehicle because I could not get the door to stay closed.
Door latches are freezing open/closed. Dealer had me drive it to them to fix it, which I did so while holding the door closed. I am being told this is not a recall but a technical fix. That is unbelievable to me, it's a $40,000 vehicle with door latches that could allow a person seated to literally fall out onto the highway. This has to be fixed. It happened when temperatures got below freezing, about 15 degrees, while stationary at home.
After entering the truck, I closed the door, put on my seat belt, started the engine and put the truck into forward gear. I noticed the "driver door ajar" alert and tried to close it again. The latch did not engage at all. The temperature was a little below freezing, maybe 25 degrees F. I let the truck warm up, played with the electronic locking buttons and after 10 minutes or so, I got the latch to work. This happened again the next day and even using a torch to warm the door, it still took at least 15 minutes before I could get the latch to engage. I found numerous complaints on the internet for this problem, including some accounts in which the latch disengaged while driving! this is extremely scary and very dangerous. I believe this is a well-known and documented problem that is severe enough to warrant a recall. It could certainly lead to an accident and potentially a loss of control with potentially lethal results.
The drivers side door after freezing conditions in Maine would not close as I drove it to uhaul to have a hitch installed. This was extremly dangerous as the door would not latch closed.
I had just got my kids in the truck, started the truck and turned on the front and back defrosters. While sitting and letting truck warm up, the inside of the cab started smoking- got my kids out quickly and then the back middle window shattered out of nowhere.
Back since 2018-2019 ive had a reoccurring problem with my door latches freezing, specifically the rear passenger door. I'm very, very concerned that in the case of an emergency I will not be able to get my kids out of the truck. After about an hour of driving the latch unfreezes and I'm able to open the door. There is no longer a tsb on the truck because the issue was "fixed" last year (Nov of 2019). In fact the issue is not fixed and my doors froze this morning on the way to dropping my kids off at school. The dealership is unable to help without out me incurring out of pocket expenses (and rightfully so because this is a Ford issue). Ford has also not stood behind its vista roof option (not as big of a safety issue but nonetheless). The roof get stuck and bangs out of position like its going to break while driving. Ford has only "greased" the tracks without address the real issues. I'm disappointed in Ford lack of attention or proactiveness on this door latch issues. Someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed if they cant exit a vehicle because their latch is frozen and Ford knows about it.
When driving the tailgate will unexpectedly lower, this has happened multiple times with and without loads in the bed of the truck. The tailgate lowering has happened on the highways, city streets, turning and while parked
Door latch freezes in cold weather, and so door will no latch closed. You have to drive down the road holding the door closed or use bungee cords to hold the door closed.
I was taking my grand daughter to school and she got in the front passenger side, she closed the door and it would not "latch" and we could not get it to latch to secure the door from opening while driving. This has happened numerous times. I was afraid the door would open while driving and fall out (this needs fixed asap. Another problem is when driving 60 mph or greater the steering will "catch" that is when going around a turn left or right when turning the steering wheel it kind of jerks and doesn't maintain constant turn it seems to loose a constant control. This can cause an over correction and loss of control. In order to try to control I have to have both hands on the steering wheel and know it going to happen. What would a young inexperienced driver do...most likely over correct and crash.
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- Valmeyer, IL, USA