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Engine & cooling
Ford E-150 Engine problems by year
52 complaints filed with NHTSA about the Ford E-150's engine & cooling. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.
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The contact owns a 2008 Ford Focus. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle overheated. The coolant temperature warning light was illuminated. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic, where it was diagnosed with a coolant leak and a corroded subframe. The contact was informed that the subframe was significantly thin due to corrosion and that the vehicle was unsafe to drive. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 159,625. The VIN was unavailable.
After driving lightning, it loses power and a wrench appears, I already changed the gasoline pump, gasoline pump module, injection rail regulator, and it remains the same
My ignition switch is getting stuck and it is not allowing me to turn on the car. It is hard to turn on my vehicle. The catalytic converter is marking on my check engine light, it isn't allowing my vehicles motor to vent out.
The gas pedal goes with gas and decelerates on its own. Brake booster does not function correctly. The motor shakes and looses horsepower.
Engine stalling at red lights intermittent. No engine light. In town. No power steering almost cause accident. This has happened several times.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 ford focus. While driving various low speeds, the vehicle stalled without warning several times. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic for diagnostic testing, but a failure code could not be located. In the process, the mechanic discovered that the subframe was severely corroded and deemed the vehicle unsafe to drive. The manufacturer was contacted and provided the contact with case number: 15332352. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact also spoke with an unknown dealer who stated that they could not assist with repairing the subframe. The vin was not available. The failure mileage was 50,000.
While driving on highway at 55 mph car looses power, goes into limp home mode, orange wrench warning indicator appears on dash panel. Very dangerous in high traffic areas where there is room or time to pull to side of road. Pull off road, turned off engine, and then restarted and ran fine. Seems to happen unexpectedly every 3 to 4 months. No engine malfunction codes can be found on onboard diagnostic system.
Vehicle was leaking antifreeze and taken to good year. The part was not made and is not being made by any factory or by ford. Ford is aware of the problem. The service manager in rock hill,sc said there was 20 others waiting and they needed paperwork for proof and a hundred deposit for a part that isn't even made. Good year made a temporary fix. If the fix breaks the antifreeze will leak out causing the motor to seize up.
On sunday, august 20, driving s81 just before the salem exit, the 2012 ford e-150 white cargo van 4.6L romeo engine blew a spark plug out of the #3 cylinder head while accelerating from 40 mph. The planned trip started from harrisburg pa to andrews nc. To witness a solar eclipse. Engine failure happen at approximately 40mph just north of the salem exit off 81 south. There was no shop available till next day to repair damage.. Damages included a overnight stay, missing the solar eclipse of 2017 and repair and parts...
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cost of over $300.00 Spark plug was destroyed. The coil was destroyed and the cylinder head was render useless. At this time a temporary tap was made and heli coil was inserted to hold a new spark plug in place and continue our trip the next day. Since then it blew again and I have no transportation for me and my tools. I have reported this complaint to corporate ford for review. Ford stated they will respond by email wednesday december 27. To determine culpability for manufacturing flaw with inferior aluminum head design. Total damages estimate $2500 to $4000. Sincerely owner 12/22/17 submitted to cas & nhtsa. *Tr
I have an 2008 ford focus se I bought in 2016 and have had problems with passenger seat belt not locking in place, doors not locking/unlocking passenger side, and the biggest problem I have experienced twice is the engine revvening up and making strange noises like it is going to blow up the car does not increase with speed but engine revs and when braking the rev will speed up then decrease to break. Please recall before I get into an accident!!!!!
In the last two I been having a wrench coming up on the screen and truck loses power and the speed drops down to 5 miles an hour. While the truck is running in idle, it is vibrating. When I stop it and restart it goes away. It happen three times in the last two weeks. After the second time the dealer reprogramed the computer last friday. Thursday five days later it came back when I was doing 50 miles an hour. I called the dealer and he said he will change the throttle sensor out tomorrow .The times it happen I was on country road with no traffic, if I would have on the interstate no telling what would have happen with cars behind me doing 70 miles an hour.
Unexpected and random loss of power --- have to restart to gain power occurred 7 times on 6/27/17 on a 45 mile round trip errors on screen happened two time on 6/28 on 4 mile round trip happened once in early may which I told the ford service person severe safety issue stopping mid traffic rear end collision I had to stop in the middle of the lane and turn it off put in park then start again to get going again "service advancetrac" "hill assist mode not available" "see manual" wrency symbol
SPARK PLUG BLOW OUT
Driving on a city street the truck started shaking and loss all acceleration, it showed a wrench on the dash screen, coasted to a safe place and turned truck off. It restarted fine. Approx 30 mins later on the highway it did the same thing, started shaking, no acceleration and the wrench showed up. Again coasted to a safe spot and restarted.
I was crushing at 55 mph and I heard a loud pop that was followed by a continuous popping obviously from lost compression. I took to a local ford dealer and they stated that this is a common problem for this type of motor to "blow spark plug". This happened without warning and is now a hardship for me
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