HAhah reminds me of the Ford Pinto, 'fix', forget about it ...later get sued.

 

I dont totaly disagree and let me appologize in advance if this sounds harsh, but here it goes.... The issue with being patient is the other damage that this and the other issues with the ecoboost are causing to other parts on your truck, rough idle, bucking up hills, choking, gasping and spuddering when its foggy, humid, raining, or snowing. All of these things are causing damage and shortened life of injectors, converters, pistons, rods, shafts, axials, clutches, ect. If and when ford comes out with a fix for these, are they also going to repalce all the parts down the line that now have a shortened life becasuse of the root issues they fixed under warranty? NO. If these other parts make it to 65K miles beofre they fail who is going to left holding the bag? It will be the guy that already spent $50K on a truck and waited patiently. If you can offord it or not the last thing anyone wants to be doing is spending $1000's on repairs that were caused by but no longer stood behind manufactures defects. At best, you can buy extended warranty, but dont think those guys arent going to know about this and be charging ten grand for the extended warranty. Hope this makes sence, and again sorry if the tone seems less than favorible.

 

Question for you guys. I don't have this shudder. I have a tiny one at 5mph when towing. 157" wheelbase. (supposidly there is a TSB for that fix with a changing the angle of the drive shaft, doesn't bother me that much) I have 3.31 gears. I see a lot of FX4's which all have 3.73. Are most or all of you guys experiencing this shudder problem at 55-60mph with 3.73?

Just wondering if theirs a common thread in this problem.

I saw this way back
Model Year affected: 2011: 72 = 90% 2012: 8 = 10%

Engine: EcoBoost: 72 = 90% 5.0L: 8 = 10%

Wheelbase: 145'': 53 = 66% 157'': 27 = 33%

4x4/4x2: 4x4: 73 = 91% 4x2: 7 = 7%

Trim: I did not break down the individual numbers, however these are the levels affected: XLT, XTR, Lariat, FX series, Platinum. It appears the XLT had the highest number followed by the FX series and then the Lariat.

Assembly Plant: Dearborn: 64 = 88% Kansas City: 10 = 13% Unk. = 6

Only thing missing is Axle ratio

 

True enough.
Although, I don't know what a little shudder is going to do to a truck capable of yanking 11300lbs around. Till they find out what it is, then we'll have to speculate I guess.
Of course from all the posts regarding this issue and the fact that Ford has thrown some possible fixes out there such as solenoids in the tranny, turbo solenoids etc, it's not like they are ignoring the problem, they just don't know the root cause.
So I suppose we have three options, trade it in, lemon law it OR be patient wait for a fix.
I've told my wife that if there isn't a fix before the warranty is up, it will be traded.

 

The short answer... the same thing an impact wrench with 400 ft/lbs would do to anything over time.

 

I guess my shudder is much less than what some are experiencing.
Mine is like a hiccup just a couple times going uphill.

 

Anything new develope today?

 

Dont wait too long and read up on your states lemon law if that is a route you need or want to take. The state I live in only allows you to lemon law a vehicle if it has less than 24K miles. They may all be the same, i dont know, but thought that might be helpfull information.

 

I just looked up Illinois' lemon law and we only get 12 months/12k miles, whichever occurs first. It has to have been to the dealership 4 times for the same issue or have been at the dealership for 30 business days out of commission. I can see this being kind of tough to pursue here in Illinois.

 

The 4 times to the stealership shouldn't be too hard. Just keep taking it in. Different ones if need be. I'm looking into the lemon details for Canada.