Here's one that I haven't seem to have found on the forums yet...

The wife was driving my 2016 3.5EB (3500miles) on Monday of last week. She complained of zero power, so she pulled over, put it into park and then back into drive and all was well.

Thursday, I'm driving the truck, 45mph cruising (light throttle), 4th gear, sport mode, when all of the sudden I feel a clunk under the truck and I have zero power. The dash indicates I'm in 1st gear. I pull over, put it in park and then drive and all is well.

Saturday, crusing down a major NJ interstate at 75mph, 6th gear, normal mode. The truck looses power and then revs up to 5000rpm before I let off the gas. Again, the dash indicates 1st gear. Being in the left lane, I can't exactly just pull over, so I shift to neutral and then back into drive and the transmission selects 5th gear and we continue as normal.

This morning I go to take the truck into the dealer and not more than a 1/4 mile before I pull into the dealership, it does it again from 5th gear.

The dealer says "uhh..sorry, but no codes were thrown so we can't do anything about it". 4 times in 1 week. I told them that this is a serious safety issue and told them to give me a loaner and keep the truck until they can replicate it and fix it.

Anyone see this before?

 

ford customer service, find a different dealer.

 

I would ask one of them to go out for a test ride and try to duplicate the error. Hopefully now that you have left the truck, they will take it for a test drive and hopefully it happens for them.

When you were able to pull over, was the truck in limp mode where you could barely find speed to make it over safely? Turn the truck off start it again drives fine until the next time it happens? The throttle body in some of these trucks can cause similar symptoms with not always showing error codes.

 

It is the computer if there are no codes unless there is a sensor problem but then again the computer should pick up on that. My daughter's new 2008 Dodge Nitro would got into limp mode all of a sudden for no reason while driving. If you turned the key off and restarted it the problem was gone. They replaced the electronic valve body and it still did it. Took it back and no codes as usual. They could not reproduce the problem.

I had to wait until it did it again and drive it there. They said yeah we can see it has a problem but no code. I told them it was the computer. Being an electronics major and computer guy it was obvious what the problem was to me. I kept telling them if the computer is doing the monitoring and controlling but it is not telling on itself then it is the problem. They told me if they replaced it and it was not the problem Dodge would not cover the cost even though Dodge was no help at that point in helping them with the problem. I had to get the General Manager involved and he said go ahead and replace the computer.

She is still driving that Nitro today and it has never done that again.

 

Hi jhindle,

Which dealer is your truck at? Please send me a private message with your name, phone number, and VIN; I'll see how I can help.

Thanks for mentioning us, TX-Ripper!

Rachel

 

Something similar happened to my friends explorer. Wrench light turned on while driving on the highway. But the car lost complete power instead of going to 1st gear. After pulled to the side of the road, car gave me no respond when I floored gas.

The car was towed to dealer, and dealer told it was due to poor design of the throttle body which was also used in 2015-2016 F150. Ford seems not willing to recall it. But it's better losing power instead of brake.