Cruise Control problems of the 2009 Ford F-150

Vehicle was motion. Merging onto interstate 93. Depressed the accelerator to bring the vehicle to highway speed. When I took my foot off the accelerator, the pedal did not come back, but rather was stuck wide open. I was forced to pull into the breakdown lane, turn off the engine, put it in neutral and coast to a stop. After about 5 minutes, I restarted the truck and it was fine. This vehicle has the 4. 6l 3-valve per cylinder v-8 engine with an automatic transmission. It does not have cruise control or any power options. I decided to file a complaint about this after reading over 100 reports of this same issue on the internet. The manufacturer denies there is a problem. Something needs to be done to correct this issue before someone gets killed because of it.

After accelerating to pass on the highway (65 mph to 70 mph), the truck remained going 70 mph when accelerator released. Vehicle could be slowed with difficulty by applying brakes, but would resume speed when brakes released. Fortunately, traffic was light. Cruise control was not being used at time of incident. Attempted to resolve issue for approximately 4 miles/minutes at highway speeds (determined accelerator not stuck on floor mat, engaged and disengaged cruise control, braked repeatedly while making sure I was also not hitting the accelerator). Eventually slowed vehicle to approximately 10 mph with extreme braking on an uphill incline, at which point vehicle would not slow any further. Took truck out of gear and shut off engine (vehicle stopped). Had towed to service department of Ford dealer who "could not reproduce problem" but replaced electric throttle body assembly and cleared/reprogrammed computer. When asked if incidents such as these are reported to Ford for their database, the service representative said no, that they had no means to do so.

The contact owns a 2009 Ford F-150. The contact stated that the accelerator pedal was stuck intermittently while traveling approximately 70 mph on a major highway with the cruise control engaged. The contact disengaged the cruise control and the failure occurred intermittently. The contact had to drive onto the emergency lane, shift into neutral gear and applied force to the brake pedal; however, the vehicle surged forward while the brake pedal was applied. The contact had to turn the vehicle off and restart it in order to reset the computer. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer several times and they were unable to replicate or diagnose the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 14,676.

Traveling at 65 mph with cruise control engaged as another vehicle merged on to the freeway I floored the accelerator to avoid a collision,the accelerator stuck at a very high rate of speed (85 to 90mph),tapping the brakes had no effect,disengaging the cruise had no effect,turned the ignition off in neutral for aprox 4 seconds had no effect,cruise finnaly disengaged after shutting the vehicle off in neutral for aprox 10 seconds.

Tl - the contact owns a 2009 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving 50 mph the vehicle was stuck at a high acceleration and was unable to stop. The contact mentioned he had to put the vehicle in neutral to control the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to a dealer. The vehicle was repaired. The contact stated the while in cruise control the vehicle accelerated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 71,000. Bt.

I was accelerating up a small hill. I reached 30mph and stopped accelerating. The truck continued to accelerate slowly at around 2000rpms after I took my foot off the pedal. I shifted the truck into neutral and the rpms slowly increased as it was no longer under load. I tapped the accelerator and they surged up to 4000 where they were capped by the computer. I used my brakes to come to a stop in the middle of the street and turned the truck off. I waited a few seconds and started it back up. The tachometer showed 1000rpms and then down to 700-800rpms. I continued home. This has happened 5 other times with this vehicle. I am still troubleshooting the problem, but it is not caused by floormats and I have ruled out the cruise control being part of the issue. The last time it happened, I engaged/disengaged the cruise control while the truck was accelerating on the interstate with no change in behavior. It appears to be mechanical to the throttle body or a computer malfunction somehow. It is a difficult problem to replicate and does not happen every trip. I am going to inspect/clean the throttle body and clean the mass air intake sensor. I haven't ever had a vehicle act this way and think there is a major problem if you have to turn a vehicle off to reset it. Losing power-steering/brakes is the problem with doing this while the vehicle is under way.

While driving 65 mph the truck accelerated to 95. I turned off the cruise control, thinking it could be stuck, even though I was not using it at the time, braked as hard as I could and got the truck to slow down and got off the interstate to a side road and finally got it stopped. I turned it off and restarted the truck. It immediatedly ran up to 5k rmp. I shut it back down and called a friends who is a mechanic. He told me to disconnect the negative side of the battery and let it sit a few minutes. Did this and it restarted and I got it home. Had it towed to the Ford dealer since it is still under warranty. The Ford dealer's service department cannot duplicate the problem; states that 4 people have driven it; they let it run for two hours and all diagnostics tests indicate all is well. Evidently there is an issue somewhere. I just pray I don't kill somebody or myself next time.

On sun Jan 3, 2009 at 7:20 a. M. I was driving to work in my Ford F-150 2009 4x4 pick up truck, when the pedal accelerated from 55 mph to 80 mph on its own. The pedal left my foot as if I had cruise control. I don't I attempted to get the vehicle to stop I could not. I doubled down on the brakes while pumping the gas pedal and eventually the gas pedal released. The day was clear weather conditions and the temp was very cold. I was driving on a one lane divided highway and I had a vehicle in front of me. I was terrified!! I took my vehicle back to the dealer prince frederick, MD Ford dealership and left it for the day. The result: they were unable to duplicate the action come pick up your vehicle. So if I die my parents have it in writing that Ford was unable to duplicate the action. I felt great about this. . Read more...

While driving our new 2009 f150 truck with only 3,200 miles on it, I stopped at a stop light. The truck began to idle very fast and was lurching forward, when I took foot off brake the truck accelerated very fast to 80 - 90 mph. I could hardly slow the vehicle down by applying brakes as hard as possible. I was on a freeway and continued to put it into neutral which only slowed it down for a moment . Cruise control was not on and there are no floor mats in the truck. I continued down the freeway for approx. 3 miles when I decided I had to exit freeway because I was gaining speed. I put it into neutral again to exit on a off ramp doing about 40 mph. The brakes were not doing anything to slow truck down at this point. I was headed for a very busy intersection and did not want to broadside another vehicle so I then decided to crash into a row of dumpsters at the end of a strip mall. As soon as I entered the mall parking lot I through it into park which locked the steering and I stopped just few feet in front of dumpsters. We had the truck towed to nearby Ford dealership. The dealer said that they can not replicate the problem and found nothing wrong with the truck. They want us to pick up truck and we refuse to drive the truck home.