2012 FORD F-150 Complaints

I WAS DRIVING DOWN ROAD APPROX 30 MPH WENT TO MAKE A TURN AND LOST ALL POWER STEERING LUCKILY NO OTHER CARS AROUMD. MY VEHICLE ONLY HAD 34786 MILES ON IT. CONTACTED FORD AND GOT NO WHERE COULD NOT EVEN TALK TO SOMEONE HIGHER UP THAN THE COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT. WENT TO DEALERSHIP AND FOUND OUT REPAIR WOULD BE $ 1418.59 TO REPLACE THE ELECTRONIC POWER STEERING RACK. I HAVE SEEN WHERE NUMEROUS FORD VEHICLES HAVE BEEN RECALLED FOR THIS PARTICULAR POWER STEERING.

THIS VEHICLE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN SEVERAL SLOW SPEED BRAKE FAILURES AS FOLLOWS: 12/05/17 UNABLE TO STOP VEHICLE WHEN BACKING OUT OF DRIVEWAY. IT SEEMED TO HAVE A VERY HARD BRAKE PEDAL. VEHICLE RAN INTO CURB AT OTHER SIDE OF STREET. NO DAMAGE TO VEHICLE. 02/05/17 VEHICLE INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT. REAR END ANOTHER VEHICLE AT STOP LIGHT. VEHICLE DID NOT STOP IN EXPECTED DISTANCE WHEN BRAKES APPLIED.. EXCESSIVE PEDAL FORCE WAS NEEDED. 10/13/16 VEHICLE INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT AT STOP SIGN. VEHICLE DID NOT STOP IN EXPECTED DISTANCE AND COLLIDED WITH WITH ANOTHER VEHICLE. EXCESSIVE PEDAL FORCE REQUIRED TO STOP VEHICLE.

WATER PUMP FAILURE AT MERE 76,000 MILES. VEHICLE WAS MAINTAINED PER FACTORY MANUAL. LOCATION, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NON-DESERT. LARGE PUDDLE OF COOLANT AFTER 20 MILE DRIVE ONE DAY. NO OTHER WARNING SIGNS. DEALERSHIP REPAIR SHOP DIAGNOSIS SAYS HOSE LEAKS AND FAILED WATER PUMP.

MY 2012 F150 REAR DRIVERS SIDE WINDOW SECTION SUDDENLY SHATTERED AFTER TURNING ON THE REAR DEFROST FUNCTION. REAR DEFROST WENT ON THEN I SMELLED SOMETHING BURNING G. THE REAR DRIVERS SIDE GLASS SECTION THEN SHATTERED. THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO TRAUMA THAT CAUSED THIS. THE REAR DEFROST WILL NO LONGER OPERATE SINCE. I CONTACTED FORD SERVICE AND THERE IS NO RECALL AT THIS TIME. I SEARCHED ONLINE AND FOUND CLOSE TO 150 SIMILAR COMPLAINTS. WHEN THE GLASS SHATTERED THE TEMPERATURE WAS NEAR 30 DEGREES AND THE VEHICLE WAS NOT IN MOTION.

MY VEHICLE IS EXPERIENCING ALL OF THE ISSUES AS STATED IN SAFETY RECALL 16S19 (UNINTENDED DOWNSHIFT RESULTING IN LOCKING UP OF REAR TIRES AS WELL AS INTERMITTENT LIMP MODE AND TACHOMETER SPIKES AND DROPS WHILE DRIVING ON A CITY STREET). I TOOK IT TO A FORD DEALER AND THEY INDICATED THAT MY VEHICLE WAS OUTSIDE OF THE 'BUILD DATE' BY A TOTAL OF 9 DAYS AND THEY REFUSED TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE PER THE SAFETY RECALL.

STOPPED AT TRAFFIC LIGHT, AND ONCE IT TURNED GREEN AND PRESSES ACCELERATOR IT WOULD JUST REV UP, NOT MOVING; AFTER ABOUT 5 SECONDS, IT JERKED A FEW TIMES AND STARTED TO MOVE, BUT STILL JERKY, AND THE SPEEDOMETER SHOWING 0, NOT MOVING; I KEPT GOING ABOUT 30 YARDS AND IT CAME BACK TO NORMAL.

VEHICLE STALLED, IF ACCELERATOR WAS DEPRESSED IT WOULD JUST REV UP AS IF IN NEUTRAL, SPEEDOMETER WENT TO 0 AND WOULD NOT MOVE; HAD TO PARK ON SIDE OF ROAD AND TURN OFF/ON VEHICLE.

TRUCK LOST POWER WHILE STARTING FROM A STOP LIGHT; ENGINE HESITATED AND REGAINED/LOST POWER ABOUT 3 TIMES BEFORE GETTING BACK TO NORMAL. THIS WAS INSIDE THE CITY ON A STREET, NOT THE HIGHWAY.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 FORD F-150. WHILE DRIVING 25-30 MPH, THE CONTACT HEARD A LOUD SHATTERING NOISE AND NOTICED THAT THE REAR DRIVER'S SIDE WINDOW INADVERTENTLY SHATTERED. THERE WERE NO WARNING INDICATORS ILLUMINATED. THE DEALER WAS NOT CONTACTED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 73,000.

WIPER DOES NOT TURN OFF WHEN IT'S IN THE OFF POSITION THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A YEAR NOT SURE IF IT WAS PART OF A RECALL.