My output seal was leaking on my 13 XLT. I had them replace the seal and do a complete flush. I know the flush is not recommended, but I have to stay up on their maintenance schedule to keep the tires for life program. I haven't had any shifting problems since this work was done. I have had my trans reprogrammed at about 20k due to hard shift. It's been fine ever since.

 

I'm not a happy camper right now... I have a '11 SCREW F150 with 90k miles and my Truck just did this to me on my way to work this morning. Did some research and found out about the output shaft sensor and lead frame connector crapping out, then came across the recall. Despite the fact that the recall covers before and after my truck was built, and covers the trucks built at the Dearborn truck plant, somehow Ford says that my truck got some parts that weren't susceptible and therefor its not covered by this recall. So you mean to tell me that they started with bad parts, switched to a good part mid-manufacture process, then switched back to a bad one after a batch of trucks that included mine were manufactured? I think not... So now I have to go spend $1000 to get this fixed at my dealership and cross my fingers, hoping that Ford expands the recall to cover my "special" parts as well. Grrr... This is obviously an oversight on some bean counter/engineers part... wish there was some way I could notify them that they were being idiots...

 

I filed a vehicle safety complain with NHTSA, hopefully after enough people chime in Ford will realize that they need to include additional vehicles int he recall as well.... In the mean time, guess I get to call my dealer and fork over $1000 to get it fixed and save the receipt...

 

I understand your frustration, jrglenni. Please send me a private message with your name, phone number, VIN, and servicing dealership; I'll see how I can help.

Rachel

 

Pm sent. And just to be clear, I do have faith that ford will eventually realize that this is an oversight and my vehicles as well as others should be covered, just not happy about paying out of pocket and waiting until they do. Thanks for the assistance.

 

It's our pleasure, jrglenni. I do see that my colleague got this documented for you. Let us know when you take your truck to the dealer; we'll check out how we can best assist.

Rachel

 

Hope OP and the others get their issues resolved.

Just for the record, Ford calls for the trans to be flushed every 60k miles if you're doing any regular towing. Even towing every once in a while, I would flush it more often than 150k.