2010 is also the year we started seeing complaints about the power steering failing. Throttle and steering failure? Yeah, that’s why this is a clunker.
The 2010 Ford Fusion has 6 problems reported for rack and pinion failure. ... issue and started to put the EPAS gear heat shields on Fusions built after 04/12/10. My car was made before Heat Shield was added & Rack & Pinion FAILURE Occurred! Big Expensive Job, but after I found out O'Riel Had a Lifetime Warranty had part $564. less $300. for core =$264. plus Labor still Working on it!
I bought this car for my teenage son thinking that it would be a safe reliable car for him to drive; as I had heard nothing but good things about the Ford Fusion. We purchased this car used, from a Ford dealer. My son got a power steering assist fault reading in his dash and immediately he had no steering at all. It locked up and he couldn't turn it at all. Thankfully he was able to pull off the road and he or anyone was not injured. I see this is recalled on other years. This is a huge safety concern and needs to be recalled asap.
My 2010 Ford Fusion keeps have a electronic power steering fault and then the steering locks up. This is not safe could end up killing someone. There needs to be a recall done to have this issue fixed.
With really liking this car up until the past year. Long recall wait for the air bags now this. We are forced to have a Ford garage fix this problem. Way to expensive. I see that there is an on going investigation about the power steering frame. What how many people have to be in an accident or get killed before a recall. Come on Ford stand up to your company. Go above the rest.
The steering is electric and when it fails, there’s no warning. I got a message steering power assist fault and then no power steering. This is very frustrating when it gives no warning. Then you take it to be repaired only to find out Ford wants $1400 just for the new rack and it must be programmed by a dealer. The 2011 Fusion’s have a recall for this but not 2010. If you know you have installed inferior parts at least you could sell new ones at a reasonable price, especially since a dealer has to program it. But hey Ford has you, so bend over.
- Kurt R.,
Westminster, US
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I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE HOLD UP. YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION AND THE NERVE TO FORGET ABOUT THE 2010 FORD FUSION SEL V6 3.0. SHOULD BE EMBARRASSING. NICE CAR BUT OVER ALL SAFETY IS GOING DOWN THE DRAIN.
Bullshit! Ford KNOWS that this is a problem and still wants to charge $2300 to fix?! That's crazy. Cant hardly drive car without killing my arms. They even seem to have an extended warranty for some years and models for the same problem, but of course not my car that I just paid off 4 freaking months ago!
Steering locked up solid going down a two-lane highway around 30 mph. Car veered to right and damaged right rear quarter panel. Took to Washington Ford, replaced rack. The bill, out of pocket $2,175.75. Ford Fusion 2010's should be recalled as 2011's and up have the same part - Rack. The part they replaced was re-manufactured with a warranty of only 2 years. I am retired on a fixed income and CANNOT afford this crap. So please DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE 2010's and recall them. Unfortunately there will be no more Fords for me!!!!
Power steering fault occurred 3 times during start up. Shut car off each time before proceeding to drive car. Now, the power steering has completely quit without warning while driving into my driveway. I had a horrible time getting it to turn. I have severely pulled muscles in my back, neck, shoulders, arms. To the point it hurts so bad, I am in tears after I work as hard as possible to control the vehicle. I have had 3 heart attacks and suffer from documented disc damage, nerve damages as a result of the power steering quitting without ANY WARNING. I've had to drive the Fusion home under horrible duress, afraid for my life, to drive over 20-30 mph. in a 55mph highway speed zone in order to make it home safely.
I have all my life praised all Ford products over many car conversations,something is very wrong here! I am scared for my life to drive this Ford Fusion. If there is a FEDERAL MANDATED RECALL to have this Electric Assist Power Steering repaired and or corrected, please, by all means let me know. It's horrible and frightening to operate. I'm so afraid that it will not work at highway speed.
I need FORD to please "step up" and fix this defect before some poor soul loses their steering traveling down the highway,have an accident due to the steering electric assist failure resulting in the Ford Fusion driver crashing, getting hurt or worse killed.
My power steering shut down in my car on December 21. Today was the first appointment I could get at dealership which left me without a vehicle to drive over the entire holiday season. With no warning power steering shut off. My car had the low tire pressure indicator on and the tires caused friction while spinning on ice. It seems the power steering shut off at this point. Today my quote to get my power steering repaired, including tax and shop kit $2,398.54. My car has only 72,231 kms on it.
I had driven my car to an appointment with no problems. When I started to leave, I began driving and the power steering completely went out on the car. I'm 5'2 and 115 pounds so this could have very easily caused a crash. I could hardly turn the wheel at all to maneuver the road way. After a diagnostic testing at the dealership I was told the power steering component had quit for good and that my car (2010) wasn't included in the recall issued for 2011-present models for the same problem. It cost me over $2000 and I'm a one-income family so that was a hard hit for my budget. I plan to get another vehicle ASAP and it will NOT be a Ford. I found several complaints online and Ford is making no attempt to fix this problem in the 2010 models. I guess the company would rather save the cost of a recall at the expense of wrecks or deaths of drivers. Sad!
FORD HAS RECALLED 2011 THRU 2014 FOR THIS PROBLEM AND DID NOT RECALL 2010 WHICH HAS THE SAME PROBLEM. THERE IS A CLASS ACTION SUIT ON THERE, I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET A BOARD WITH IT.
WHILE DRIVING MY 2010 FORD FUSION INTO PARKING LOT, THE SERVICE ADVANCE TRAC WARNING APPEARED. I PARKED AND WENT INTO A STORE. AFTER SHOPPING, I WAS READY TO BACK OUT OF THE PARKING SPACE AND COULDN'T. I HAD NO POWER STEERING AND THE WARNING LIGHT SAID "SERVICE POWER STEERING NOW".
I HAD MY YOUNG DAUGHTER AND MY MOTHER WITH ME, SO THANK GOD WE WERE ALREADY IN A PARKING LOT AND NOT IN TRAFFIC OR AT A HIGHER SPEED!! (I'M ALSO SO THANKFUL MY NEWLY LICENSED SON WASN'T DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY WHEN THIS HAPPENED.) I HAD TO LEAVE MY CAR THERE SINCE IT'S NOT SAFE TO DRIVE AND CALL FOR A RIDE.
I WILL BE TAKING IT FOR SERVICE ON MONDAY, MOST LIKELY BY TOW TRUCK. I HAVE FOUND MANY OTHER CASES ONLINE JUST LIKE MINE WHERE THE EXACT SAME THING HAS HAPPENED. I CAN ALMOST BET THE PROBLEM IS THE POWER STEERING RACK. WITH SO MANY REPORTS, WHY HASN'T FORD ISSUED A RECALL FOR THIS? THIS SEEMS LIKE A VERY EXPENSIVE PROBLEM AND I THINK FORD SHOULD HAVE TO PAY TO HAVE IT FIXED. WHEN I BOUGHT THIS CAR IN 2011, I DID NOT EXPECT TO HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MAJOR SAFETY ISSUES LIKE THIS. I REALLY THOUGH I WAS GETTING ONE OF THE SAFEST CARS ON THE MARKET, BUT APPARENTLY NOT.
On Sunday,17th May 2015 my family and I went for our routine Sunday evening drive. We were just about 45 minutes on our journey, when the power steering gave out.. At that moment I had no control of the car because of the tightness of the steering. That was one of the most unpleasant and scary experiences I have ever had.
Thank God I was able to pull over with much effort without incident and wait on a tow truck to take the car to the dealer.
This seems to be a common problem with these Ford Fusion cars and Ford should really have a recall on this model for this problem, before more people get injured or die as a result.
Ford Motor company needs to do a recall on this part. In one of my vehicles it has gone bad 2 times now. putting in separate complaint. The sttering feels gritty/ tight right before it completely gives out. It is so expensive to replace. Now 20,000 miles later it went out again. Ford tells me they will only cover the part not the labor. "oh Sure thats fine I'll just pay you another $500.00 to put it in. I am persue further to get this taken care of and a refund, possible recall.
This is the 2nd steering rack put in the same car. Ford needs to do something quickly. No reason I have to put 2 in within 20,000 miles of each other ..seriously pissed off. Ford tells me "Well we'll cover the part put you have to pay labor total is $488.00" , F U Ford keep the car !!!
THIS HAS BEEN A VERY FRUSTRATING TIME FOR ME. HAVING TO STRUGGLE WITH THE STEERING WHEEL GOING ONE WAY AND HAVING TO USE MUSCLES IN MY ARMS I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD, TO KEEP FROM GOING INTO OTHER VEHICLES. ALSO HAVING TO SPEND OVER $1500 TO DIFFERENT SHOPS, INCLUDING ONE OF YOUR FORD DEALERS, AND STILL THE PROBLEM EXISTS.
THE PROBLEM ISN'T THE RACK AND PINION. IT IS WITH THE CAR COMPUTER BRAIN GIVING OFF FALSE FAULTS MAKING THE CAR THINK THAT THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITHIN THE STEERING. WITH ALL THE COMPLAINTS THERE SHOULD BE A RECALL FOR FORDS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE ACTUAL PROBLEM IS .
PLEASE FIX THE PROBLEM AN REIMBURSE ME FOR MY PAIN AND SUFFERING AND MONEY THAT I SHELLED OUT THAT DIDN'T TAKE CARE OF THE PROBLEM.
Driving on highway and a bell goes off and dash says power steering failure..barely could get it onto shoulder...almost got hit twice..take it to Ford dealer and they want me to pay $2000 and I have read that is not even guaranteed to fix the problem. Get on Twitter and rant and Ford contacts me...all smoke and mirrors..they refused to help as well. Someone is going to get killed due to this and I hope they sue Ford and close up shop. How can you not recall this? This is not leaking oil or squeaking brakes..this is steering which last time I checked was pretty important in a car.
Bought brand new. Help American workers - yeah right!! Power steering light came on as did service power steering NOW without warning. Managed to get car to side of road and turned off engine. Started car after 10 minutes but no change. Got car home and disconnected battery and reconnected. Same messages and still no power steering. Dealership service rep told me that in 22 years he had never seen this. Very rare. I told him BS go on line and read the horror stories. Ford Canada essentially kissed me off. So a four year old car with 56,700 kms ( 37,300 miles) required a $2600 Cda. repair to replace steering gear, new rack.
Oh yeah, While at the dealership on Saturday the service rep next to my service rep was telling a customer on the phone that a new rack would be ordered first thing Monday. When I spoke to this rep Monday he denied the conversation and said he was referring to something else.
All my buds snickered when I bought a Ford. Now I know why.
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The 2010 Ford Fusion has 6 problems reported for rack and pinion failure. ... issue and started to put the EPAS gear heat shields on Fusions built after 04/12/10. My car was made before Heat Shield was added & Rack & Pinion FAILURE Occurred! Big Expensive Job, but after I found out O'Riel Had a Lifetime Warranty had part $564. less $300. for core =$264. plus Labor still Working on it!
- Larry P., Enfield, US