2010 FORD FUSION Complaints

I WAS DRIVING DOWN A LOCAL ROAD AT THE LIMIT WHEN THE WRENCH LIGHT WARNING INDICATOR CAME ON, AFTER THE INDICATOR WAS ON THERE WAS NOT THROTTLE RESPONSE, ENGINE WAS STILL RUNNING AND YET NO POWER GOING TO THE WHEELS. I WAS ABLE TO ROLL OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND PUT ON HAZARD WARNING LIGHTS, CAR WHILE AT IDLE WAS JERKING AND BUCKING. I THEN LIMPED THE VEHICLE TO A PARKING LOT, PLACED IT IN DRIVE AND FILMED THE ISSUE WITH A CELL PHONE IN A PARKING LOT AND NARRATED AS TO WHAT WAS HAPPENING. ONCE THE VEHICLE WAS SHUT DOWN AND THEN RESTARTED THE LIGHT WENT OUT AND THE PROBLEM DID NOT PERSIST. I TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND NO CODES SHOWED UP IN A DIAGNOSTIC AND THE DEALERSHIP "COULD NOT REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM" BUT SUSPECTED IT WAS THE THROTTLE BODY CONTROLLER AS THIS WAS A COMMON OCCURRENCE. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 FORD FUSION. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHEN DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 5 -60 MPH, THE VEHICLE WOULD SHAKE VIOLENTLY AND THEN STALL WITHOUT WARNING. THE CONTACT WAS ABLE TO RESTART THE VEHICLE HOWEVER, THE FAILURE WOULD RECUR ON AN INTERMITTENT BASIS. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INSPECTED BY A DEALER OR AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC. THE MANUFACTURER WAS LATER CONTACTED BUT OFFERED NO ASSISTANCE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 55,000. THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 63,000.

THE VEHICLE LOST POWER STEERING, TRACTION CONTROL, AND BRAKES UPON ENTERING THE FREEWAY ON RAMP. TO STOP THE VEHICLE AND ENDANGERING OTHER DRIVERS, I WAS FORCED TO CRASH INTO THE CONCRETE WALL BARRIER ON THE DRIVERS SIDE OF THE ON RAMP. THERE WERE NO WARNING LIGHTS ON THE DASHBOARD UNTIL AFTER COMING TO A STOP AND THE ENGINE DIED. AT THAT POINT THE WARNING LIGHTS CAME ON. *TR

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 FORD FUSION. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE FAILED TO RESPOND TO ACCELERATION ATTEMPTS. THE CONTACT SHUT DOWN THE VEHICLE AND THEN RESTARTED. THE VEHICLE THEN FUNCTIONED PROPERLY. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A MECHANIC. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS CONTACTED AND ADVISED THE CONTACT TO TAKE THE VEHICLE TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR INSPECTION. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 55,000.

VEHICLE WOULD LOSE ALL RESPONSE TO THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL. IT WOULD HAPPEN AT ANY TIME WITHOUT WARNING, BUT FIRST HAPPENED AFTER SPEEDING UP AFTER GOING OVER A SPEED BUMP. THE NEXT DAY IT HAPPENED 3 TIMES. ON THAT LAST DAY, THE DAY OF THE APPOINTMENT AT THE DEALERSHIP, IT HAPPENED 4 TIMES. THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT REACT TO THE INPUT FROM THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL. YOU WOULD HAVE TO PULL OVER, ASSUMING THERE WAS A SAFE PLACE TO PULL OVER, AND SHUT THE CAR OFF IN PARK THEN RESTART IT. EVERYTHING WOULD BE NORMAL UNTIL IT ACTED UP AGAIN, ANYWHERE FROM 1 MILE TO 5 MILES LATER. OBVIOUS SAFETY ISSUE, YOU CAN'T POWER THE VEHICLE TO GET OUT OF THE WAY OF ONCOMING TRAFFIC IT WERE TO HAPPEN ON A TURN OR MERGING ON A FREEWAY. A WRECK COULD VERY EASILY HAVE HAPPENED FROM THIS FAILURE. IT ENDED UP BEING A BAD ELECTRONIC THROTTLE BODY. THIS WAS NOT COVERED UNDER THE POWERTRAIN WARRANTY AND THE TOTAL COST TO REPLACE WAS $352.40. *TR

I WAS DRIVING AT 40MPH ON A BUSY MAIN ROAD I PULLED INTO THE TURNING LANE WHEN THE LIGHT TURNED GREEN MY CAR WOULD NOT ACCELERATE. I WAS ALMOST HIT FROM BEHIND DUE TO THE CAR NOT ACCELERATING THIS HAS CONSISTENTLY HAPPENED AT LEAST 8-9 TIMES IN A 4 DAY PERIOD. *TR

WHILE DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY, MY CAR STALLED AND WENT INTO "SAFETY MODE" OR LOW POWER MODE. I WAS UNABLE TO ACCELERATE. AFTER PULLING OVER, NOTICED THE CAR WAS IDLING ROUGH. THE MAINTENANCE WRENCH LIGHT CAME ON. I TURNED OFF THE CAR AND RESTARTED IT, AFTER A FEW SECONDS OF ROUGH STARTING THE CAR TURNED BACK ON, THE WRENCH LIGHT WENT OFF AND THE VEHICLE DROVE FINE AGAIN. HOWEVER, THE SAME INCIDENT HAPPENED MULTIPLE TIMES LATER THAT DAY AND THROUGH OUT THE WEEK. I TOOK IT TO A FORD DEALER AND THEY WERE UNABLE TO FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE VEHICLE, SINCE THERE WERE NO CODES CURRENTLY ON AT THE TIME OF SERVICE. AFTER DOING SOME RESEARCH ONLINE, I'VE FOUND THE THROTTLE BODY IS DEFECTIVE, YET FORD REFUSES TO REPLACE THIS UNDER WARRANTY, OR REPLACE IT UNLESS THERE IS HARD EVIDENCE THAT IS THE ISSUE. *TR

FORD FUSION 2012 3.0L V6 SEL GOES INTO "LIMP-MODE" WITHOUT WARNING AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS. A SLIGHT SHUDDER IMMEDIATELY BEFORE TRIPPING THE "LIMP-MODE" WHERE THE ACCELERATOR BECOMES DISABLED. NO OR MINIMAL POWER IS AVAILABLE TO PULL OUT OF TRAFFIC SAFELY. WRENCH LIGHT COMES ON, HOWEVER, THE ENGINE IS STILL RUNNING. ONCE THE CAR TURNED OFF AND RESTARTED, THE CAR RUNS NORMALLY UNTIL THE SYMPTOM HAPPENS AGAIN. NO OTHER SYMPTOMS ARE PRESENT PRIOR TO GOING INTO "LIMP-MODE". BROUGHT THE CAR TO A MECHANIC AND THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY SAVED ENGINE CODES AND COULD NOT REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM. NO WORK WAS DONE TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM DUE TO NO EVIDENCE OF IT IN THE COMPUTER. HAS HAPPENED THREE TIMES AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS, WITHOUT ANY WARNING, AND CREATES A HAZARDOUS DRIVING EXPERIENCE. *TR

TRANSMISSION SLIPS GEARS AND ENGAGES VERY HARD, CAUSING THE CAR TO LURCH FORWARD. ON ONE OCCASION I NEARLY REAR-ENDED A CAR IN FRONT OF ME BECAUSE OF THIS. WHILE DRIVING AT LOW SPEEDS THE CAR WILL SHIFT RAPIDLY BETWEEN TWO ADJACENT GEARS, AS IF IT IS "CONFUSED". CAR WILL SOMETIMES NOT SHIFT AT ALL; THE RPM'S JUST SIT AT THAT THRESHOLD FOR A WHILE BEFORE KNOCKING HARD INTO THE NEXT GEAR, AGAIN CAUSING A DANGEROUS LURCHING MOTION. WHILE ON THE HIGHWAY THE CAR WILL LOSE POWER SUDDENLY, MORE PROMINENT WHEN THE CAR IS TRAVELING UP A STEEP INCLINE. YOU COULD KEEP PRESSING THE GAS BUT AMAZINGLY THE CAR SEEMS TO LOOSE MORE POWER WHEN YOU DO THIS. THE ONLY WAY TO GET POWER IS TO OPEN THE THROTTLE 100 PERCENT IN WHICH CASE THE CAR AGAIN JERKS INTO GEAR VERY HARD. THIS SITUATION HAS HAPPENED PLENTY OF TIMES AND IS VERY SCARY. ON SOME OCCASIONS THE POWER WAS NEEDED TO ACCELERATE IN FRONT OF ANOTHER CAR IN ANOTHER LANE, TO AVOID AN OBSTACLE IN THE ROADWAY. THE LATEST INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED WAS VERY SCARY. THE TRANSMISSION WAS MAKING A FUNNY SOUND, ALMOST LIKE A ZIPPER BEING ZIPPED. THIS SEEMED ODD TO ME BECAUSE IT SOUNDED ALMOST LIKE THE GEARS WERE RUBBING UP AGAINST SOMETHING, HOWEVER I DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING OF IT BECAUSE THE CAR SEEMED TO BE OPERATING PROPERLY. THEN I WENT TO MAKE A LEFT TURN ACROSS CROSS TRAFFIC. WHEN THERE WAS A BREAK IN TRAFFIC I PRESSED THE GAS, THE RPMS WENT UP TO ABOUT 5K AND THE CAR SLOWLY GRINDED INTO GEAR, ALMOST LIKE A PERSON WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE A STICK SHIFT VERY WELL. THIS CAUSED MY CAR TO NEARLY GET STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ACTIVE INTERSECTION AND I WAS NEARLY T-BONED. THANK GOOD THE OTHER DRIVERS SAW ME STRUGGLING AND STOPPED. THE ISSUES WITH THIS POWERTRAIN SEEM TO BE ENDLESS AND THE WORST PART IS THAT THEY OCCUR AT RANDOM WITH NO WARNING. *TR

WHILE DRIVING THE CAR TO GET ON FREEWAY IT BOGGLED DOWN LIKE IT WAS GOING TO TURN OFF AND CHECK ENGINE LIGHT TURNED ON AND WRENCH SYMBOL SO PULLED TO THE SIDE AND CAR WAS SHAKING AS IF IT HAD NO GAS SO TURNED OFF FOR 3 MIN AND TURNED BACK ON AND DROVE NOT EVEN A MILE DOWN THE ROAD AND IT DID THE SAME THING SO TURNED OFF AND ON AGAIN AND IT RAN AS IF WAS FINE NOT EVEN A MONTH LATER STARTED DOING THE SAME THING ONCE YOU DRIVE AND IT STARTS TO ACCELERATE IT BOGGLES DOWN AND LIGHTS COME ON. GOT IT CHECKED AND WAS TOLD IT WAS THE THROTTLE BODY WHICH IS HAPPENING IN A LOT OF FORD FUSION 2010 CARS. *TR