Nearly 1.3 million Ford F-150 trucks being investigated in U.S. over unexpected gear shift
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating almost 1.3 million Ford F-150 collection trucks in the United States for reports of an unexpected downshift march accompanied by a temporary rear wheel block.
NHTSA has declared Monday that is opening a preliminary evaluation in some Ford F-150 trucks from the 2015 to 2017 model after receiving 138 consumers complaints.
Complaints have taken unexpected transmission transmission transmission transmission as they travel at motorway speeds without notice or input of the driver, followed by the vehicle that slow down quickly.
A Ford spokesman said on Monday that the car manufacturer is “working with NHTSA to support his investigations” and said he was linked to vehicles with six -speed transmissions.
Ford did not provide any comment on the request for CBC News on the impact on consumers in Canada and Transport Canada was not immediately available for the answer.
NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation on the problem and therefore must decide whether to update the probe to an engineering analysis before it can try to request a call.
A complaint from 2023 by an owner in Ohio of the 2016 F-1550 said that while driving on the highway 70 miles per hour “the truck automatically moved from the sixth gear to the first gear almost launching me through the windshield.”
Many owners have reported long expectations to obtain parts of replacement.
Some complaints said that the rear wheels of the vehicle will be stuck temporarily, seize or would have slipped during the downshift, leading to the loss of control. This could lead to an increased risk of accident, said NHTSA. The agency said that accidents or fires had not been reported.
Last of a series of investigations
This is the latest in a series of NHTSA investigations on the unexpected down-and-up of the F-150.
In June, Ford recalled 668,000 F-150s trucks of 2014 for unexpected downship reports in the first gear causing a loss of control of the driver or blocking of the rear wheel.
It was the last Ford recall on the problem since 2016 and arrived after the NHTSA in March 2023 opened an investigation into the fact that the 2014 model trucks should be recalled for the problem.
Ford in 2016 recalled 153,000 Ford F-150 Ford 2011-2012 vehicles equipped with six-speed automatic transmissions to face the downshift problem.
NHTSA opened a probe on the matter in December 2017 and 2019 Ford expanded its call to cover 1.48 million F-150 trucks in North America, including the 2013 models. Ford subsequently remembered 107,000 F-1550 2013 vehicles due to a problem with correction.
In November, Ford accepted an US civil penalty of 165 million dollars after NHTSA discovered that the car manufacturer did not remember the vehicles with defective rear view cameras in a timely manner.
