2012 FORD F-150 Complaints

LOST POWER WITH EASY ACCELERATING FROM STOP LIGHT AT LOW SPEED. ENGINE RUNNING WITH TRANSMISSION IN DRIVE GEAR, BUT WILL NOT MOVE WHILE PRESSING ACCELERATOR. STOPPED, SHIFTED TO PARK THEN BACK TO DRIVE AND WAS ABLE TO MOVE BUT SMELLED BURNING OIL. *TR

WELL I PURCHASED THIS TRUCK A BRAND NEW 2012 FORD F-150 XLT SUPER CREW W/ 3.5L ECOBOOST ENGINE. THE TRUCK HAD 104 MILES WHEN I BOUGHT IT. AFTER A WEEK I STARTED TO NOTICE THAT THE TRUCK SHUDDER'S WHEN I ACCELERATE FROM A DEAD STOP AND IT ALSO SHUDDERS WHEN I COME TO A FULL STOP. FOR ABOUT A WEEK EVERY SINGLE DAY AND TIME I WOULD START AND STOP THE TRUCK WOULD SHUDDER. I THOUGHT THIS WAS BECAUSE THE ENGINE JUST NEEDED TO BREAK IN. WELL I AM GOING ON THE 4TH WEEK OF OWNING THIS TRUCK AND IT STILL OCCURS. THE SHUDDER THAT IS. THE SHUDDER ALSO OCCURS NOW WHEN I HAVE A COLD ENGINE START AND I PUT THE TRUCK IN REVERSE IT STARTS TO SHUDDER. I DO FEEL AS THE DRIVER IT HAS EFFECTED THE PERFORMANCE OF MY TRUCK. 854

FIRSTLY, WHILE DRIVING ALONG A 3 MILE STRAIGHT STRETCH OF ROAD I PULL OUT TO PASS A SLOWER VEHICLE. MY TRUCK ENGINE SHUT DOWN IN TO WHAT FORD DESCRIBES AS "LIMP HOME MODE" MID-PASS AND I HAD TO DECELERATE QUICKLY AND GET BACK IN TO MY LANE BEFORE A HEAD ON COLLISION OCCURRED. THERE WERE VEHICLES IN THE LANE THAT I HAD TO CUTOFF TO GET TO SAFETY.I HAD TO PULL OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND SHUT OFF THE VEHICLE THEN RE-START IT BEFORE THE CONDITION CLEARED UP. THIS SAME SCENARIO HAPPENED AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER OF 2012. THIS TIME I WAS DRIVING ALONG WITH MY CRUISE CONTROL SET TO 62 MPH WHEN FOR NO REASON THE VEHICLE WENT IN TO "LIMP HOME MODE" AGAIN. I HAD TO PULL OVER ONCE AGAIN AND STOP/START THE ENGINE. I WAS IN A FAIR AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC WHEN THIS OCCURRED AND IT COULD HAVE RESULTED IN A DANGEROUS SITUATION HAD THERE NOT BEEN A CONVENIENT PULLOUT IN THE AREA. I TOOK THE VEHICLE TO A FORD DEALERSHIP FOR SERVICE AND WAS TOLD THEY COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG. SECONDLY, THE ENGINE MAKE A POPPING SOUND WHILE I ACCELERATE FROM A STOP (AGAIN THE DEALERSHIP CAN FIND NOTHING) THIRDLY, THE FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE SYSTEM RANDOMLY CYCLES SOME UNKNOWN SOLENOID DURING USE WHICH THE DEALER CANNOT REPRODUCE. THIS IS A BRAND NEW ECOBOOST ENGINE, WHICH I LOVE BUT WHICH I FEEL IS VERY UNSAFE AND I CAN GET NO RESOLUTION FROM FORD. *TR

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PASS ANOTHER VEHICLE I TRIED TO ACCELERATE TO GET UP ENOUGH SPEED. THE VEHICLE STARTED SHUDDERING VIOLENTLY AND LOST ALL POWER, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN HIGHWAY SPEEDS FOR A FEW MINUTES. FOR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES ANY ATTEMPT AT ACCELERATION RESULTED IN MORE SHUDDERING FROM THE ENGINE. THIS ALSO HAPPENED A FEW MONTHS BEFORE AT THE EXACT SAME POINT ON THE HIGHWAY. I HAVE THE ECOBOOST ENGINE IN MY VEHICLE. *TR

LOSS OF POWER WHEN ACCELERATING FROM A STOPPED POSITION, MORE FREQUENTLY AS TIME GOES ON, AND WHEN TRUCK HAS BEEN DRIVEN FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME. WHEN FIRST BOUGHT VEHICLE, THERE WAS A SHUDDER AND A SHAKE EXTREMELY NOTICEABLE AT 45 MPH. THE TRUCK WAS BROUGHT INTO THE FORD DEALERSHIP WHERE IT WAS PURCHASED AND CHECKED FOR A DEFLECTOR PLATE. THE DEFLECTOR PLATE WAS INSTALLED, SO A NEW INTERCOOLER WAS ORDERED AND A LONG WAIT WITH THIS TROUBLESOME PROBLEM OCCURRED. THE NEW INTERCOOLER ARRIVED AND WAS PUT IN, BUT THE SAME PROBLEMS PERSIST. THE SHUDDER AND SHAKE IS NOW MORE NOTICEABLE AT 35MPH BUT IS STILL THERE AND NOTICEABLE AS EVER. THE FORD DEALERSHIP TOLD ME THAT FORD HAS A NEW SERVICE BULLETIN OUT, BUT HAS NOT ISSUED A FIX. THIS IS A SERIOUS ISSUE, AND I HOPE THAT WITH ALL THE DRIVING I DO, I DON'T GET A LOSS OF POWER WHEN I NEED IT RESULTING IN AN ACCIDENT AND POSSIBLE FATALITY. *TR

ON MY WAY HOME LAST OCTOBER AFTER PICKING UP MY NEW F-150 AT THE DEALERSHIP I WAS ATTEMPTING TO PASS A CAR ON THE INTERSTATE. IT WAS ON A HILL AND WHEN I PUSHED ON THE GAS TO TRY AND PASS THE CAR THE TRUCK SHUTTERED AND SLOWED DOWN LOSING POWER AND SPEED. THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE IT WAS THAT IT "BOGGED" DOWN. THERE WAS NO ENGINE LIGHT. HOWEVER, I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG, BUT I FIGURED I WOULD HAVE IT CHECKED OUT WHEN I CAME IN TO GET THE RUNNING BOARDS INSTALLED. A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER, HOWEVER, AN INCIDENT OCCURRED THAT WAS A BIT MORE DANGEROUS. I WAS ATTEMPTING TO PASS A SLOWER CAR ON A TWO LANE HIGHWAY (NO HILL) WHEN THE SAME THING HAPPENED WHEN I PUSHED DOWN ON THE GAS TO SPEED UP TO PASS--THE TRUCK SIMPLY BOGGED DOWN--LOSING POWER AND SPEED. THE ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. I TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEY HAVE SAID THAT THERE HAS BEEN REPORTED SIMILAR PROBLEMS WITH THE ENGINE AND FORD WAS WORKING ON A FIX. BUT SO FAR THERE HAS BEEN NOTHING FROM THE COMPANY. I HAVE AVOIDED THE PROBLEM BY NOT ACCELERATING THE ENGINE RAPIDLY BUT THIS IS NOT A PERMANENT FIX. THERE SEEMS TO BE AN ISSUE WITH THE ECOBOOST ENGINE ESPECIALLY IN RAINY CONDITIONS. [XXX] INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *TR

WHILE TRYING TO ACCELERATE FROM 50 UP TO THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT OF 70 ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 10, THE ECOBOOST ENGINE IN MY TRUCK STALLED AND STARTED TO MISFIRE AND SHUTTER SO SEVERELY CAUSING MY SPEED TO DECREASE THAT I HAD TO PULL OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD TO PREVENT FROM GETTING RUN OVER. *TR

FORD'S ECOBOOST ENGINE V6 3.5L CUT POWER WHEN ATTEMPTING TO MERGE ON TO HIGHWAY AT 55MPH. SEVERE ENGINE VIBRATIONS ENSUED. VERY DANGEROUS ISSUE IF THERE IS A LOT OF TRAFFIC BEHIND PERSON DRIVING. TRUCK STILL HAS LESS THAN 15K MILES, HAS BEEN IN THE SHOP 2X ALREADY IN ATTEMPTS TO RECTIFY THE ISSUE, AND STILL HAS PROBLEM. *TR

3.5-LITER V6 ECOBOOST ENGINE SHUDDER, SHAKE AND THEN RAPIDLY LOSE POWER WHILE I'M ACCELERATING. ADVERTISED GAS MILEAGE OF 22 IS IMPOSSIBLE; MORE LIKE 16 HIGHWAY AND 14.4 IN CITY. I HAD THE ENGINE CHECKED AT FORD DEALERSHIP BUT NO PROBLEMS FOUND! *TR

I WAS DRIVING AT 60MPH IN A FOGGY RAIN WHEN I BEGAN UP A HILL. I MOVED TO THE LEFT LANE AS THE TWO CARS IN FRONT OF ME WERE SLOWING WHEN MY ENGINE STUTTERED AND I LOST POWER CAUSING ME TO DRASTICALLY SLOW DOWN. A SERVICE REQUIRED MESSAGE FLASHED ON MY DISPLAY AND A ADVANCTRAC SERVICE LIGHT ILLUMINATED. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TRIP I HAD VERY LIMITED POWER AND THE VEHICLE WAS GEAR HUNTING. ONCE POWERED OF AND POWERED BACK ON THE VEHICLE OPERATED NORMALLY. *TR