WTF150

Chit happens. Parts fail. You assume the risks every time you set foot in a Motor vehicle. Your expectation for them to re-engineer what is a basic part for a mass-production vehicle is laughable. If you are so concerned about your family's safety riding in the truck, trade it in on something else. What price do you value your families safety and your peace of mind at? Surely not less than the couple of thousand you would lose on trade in.

SeatGuru

By your math that would be 40 trucks in 2015 and another 40 trucks in 2016 would fail this same way? That is acceptable??

Not acceptable to many of the standards I followed back in the day.

Best of luck OP. I am still boggled why stuff like this takes months to repair and get back into the OPs hands.

idrive

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Sensationalism at its best. There are more holes in this story than block of Swiss Cheese.

There are also many ways brake fluid can leak and cause such a problem.

No contact from the dealer in 3+ weeks??




My advice is sell your truck and buy a Dodge and then come back and troll this forum

vlade31

Holy smokes, I can't believe how many people are straight denying OP's issue or pretending it's not a big deal. Has everyone forgotten nhsta had to open up an investigation on the 2013 and 2014 for brake failure before Ford issued a recall? Sounds to me like the issue wasn't fully resolved in the '15s.

jess1

And the solution was to do what? Oh, that's right. Replace the part.

Which is what's done here. Best of luck to the OP.

Philp Porter

I understand the skepticism - but it totally happened. I'll post the paperwork whenever I get it fixed. I've also heard about the dual redundant braking systems, however whatever failed on my truck (for sure the master cylinder) took out all of my braking ability. I went to zero braking pressure whatsoever.

I don't expect Ford to engineer a part over night but I expect them to communicate that they realize there's an issue and they're working on a solution. I'm a scientist so I know things don't happen over night. I also hope they just don't pull the same part off a shelf and replace it without figuring out why it failed. Even switching to a different part manufacture would be better than nothing.

I hate to be a statistic and would hate even more for someone else with their family to become a statistic.

remltr

I'll take you at your word. Given that what do expect Ford to do? Find a new part manufacturer? And what will you be doing while that new vendor tools up and gets up to speed on QC?

Your expectations are a little extreme IMO. Would you expect them to follow that route with every failed part?

Parts fail for all kinds of reasons, poor assembly etc.

Replace the part with an existing OEM part, monitor it and move on.

srg963

FYI, downshifting does not slow the vehicle when the vehicle rev matches.

WTF150

Yes it does. It's all about transmission gearing.

jess1

Realize I'm in a minority, but I use the manual mode to shift and slow down all the time. Works great, and saves on brake wear...

I also wonder if this is a pedal or some other issue, as a complete power assist failure can't defeat all braking (but it would result in longer stopping times)