Does anyone else randomly get this message? I have been getting it more and more lately and whenever I get the message my hands are on the wheel and my lane keeping system has both green arrows. If I try to replicate the message by driving without my hands on the wheel it will not come up again.

 

I've noticed this too. I drive with my hands on the lower half of the steering wheel most of the time and when the message appears and i put my hands at 9 and 3 then the message goes away. I just assumed the sensors were located in the upper half of the wheel.

 

I don't think there's actual touch sensors on the wheel. It just senses resistance of movement from your hands. If it senses no resistance it assumes you're not touching the wheel. Far from a perfect system...

 

It's not sensing the lack of hands on the wheel. It's sensing the lack of steering input ... such as on long straight roadways.

 

If the truck is driving straight, and does not tend to develop a pull in either direction if you tug on the wheel too hard, then its just sensing that you are not correcting. If you do have an erratic pull, there is a LKA update that corrects the drift compensation and the hands on wheel warning. Mine would do the above and I constantly got a hands on wheel warning. Now it drives nice and straight no erratic pull and only get the warning if I really do take my hands off the wheel.

On mine I could hold the wheel rock steady while going over a bumpy road and the truck would drift left and right every time I hit a bump and the darn thing would yell at me to put my hands on the wheel. Now I only get yelled at when on a really smooth road and hold the wheel steady with no movement. It's in the EPAS that detects wheel input, some are more sensitive than others. It's just a calibration.

 

Is there a tsb for this? Mine does not seems to drift in normal driving, I do get the over the bump issue, and the hands on wheel a lot. I find myself jerking the wheel to get it off, Funny I have to drive unsafe to get the safety message off.

 

I keep getting the message too. I find myself talking back to the truck, telling it my hands are on the wheel dammit.

 

My son sees random messages similar in his explorer. 100% of the time, they are not accurate.

My hope is that they are not stored in the vehicles computer/black box and therefore retrievable by insurance. When in reality, they were wrong and could be used against you!

 

You can press the OK button to clear the message if you don't want to jerk the wheel.

 

https://www.f150forum.com/f118/2015-...evised-354633/

There have been revisions to this one as well.