general problems of the 2012 Ford F-150 - part 1

I had several instances where my electronic power assist steering (epas) has failed resulting in advance trac and other errorson my information screen. This has resulted in effectively no steering. Thank goodness I was in a parking lot or going slow otherwise may have resulted in severe injury or death. This appears to be a problem with my make and model of truck based on what I have read on the internet and my personal experiences. I am in shock that there has not been a proper recall as of this date. I am having dealer put in a second epas unit in less than 2 years and considerable cost to me.

My truck started to skid as I was making a left turn. I wasn't going fast enough to skid. I then noticed the idiot light was on so I took it in for an estimate. I was told that the truck needed a power steering rack and the cost would be around $3000. 00 I arranged for the repair. Truck mileage was 101051.

This truck is a safety hazard! the waterpump had to be replaced due to overheating, plus numerous other engine issues. It only has 137,000 miles on it but the real safety hazard is the power steering goes out at random times. And when this happens the dash goes blank. This has happened 4 times and each time we were lucky it was not on a busy highway, and close to home. The mechanic did everything he knew to do, and when we got it back. . . . It did it again!!! now, supposedly it is fixed, and we drove it home with no issues. . . . . But. . . Again, they are random, and I am scared to drive the truck. Will it take someone getting killed for this recall to happen? I have seen numerous post about this happening to others. I live on a winding back road, and if the power steering went out, I dont think it would end well. We are thinking of selling it, but I cant in my heart sell it to someone knowing these issues, and if we trade at a dealership, they will find numerous problems and never give us what it is worth, even though these problems are not from neglect.

The contact owns a 2012 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while in the reverse (r) position, a ' service power steering now' message appeared. Additionally, the contact stated that the steering wheel became stiff and would not turn as intended. The vehicle was taken to the residence, and the battery was replaced but the failure persisted. The vehicle was then taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the electronic power steering rack needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 89,073.

The contact owns a 2012 Ford F-150. The contact stated while driving approximately 55 mph, the message "service power steering now" activated, and the power steering malfunctioned, causing the steering wheel to become difficult to turn in either direction. The cause of the failure was not yet determined. The manufacturer was notified of the failure, but no assistance was offered. The local dealer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 139,000.

I started getting a notification on my dash about a issue with the charging system. I checked system and it is fine. Now I am getting other lights on my dash and head lights flashing. Come to find out, it's a bad body control module. I also have a steering issue, from time to time the truck is hard to steer and I been told it's signs of a bad rack and pinion. I also have had the same issues with my 2011 F-150. The bad body control module I fixed but the steering if bad. I have read on Ford forums that others across the country are have the same issues but of course no recall.

I was proceed up to 45mph, when back tires started sliding. I rolled the truck and damage my ribs, was pined for 1. 5hrs lost a $80k+.

The contact owns a 2012 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle experienced a loss of power steering assist. The contact was able to drive to the residence. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired by an independent mechanic or dealer. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 17,362.

The contact owns a 2012 Ford F-150. The contact while driving at an undisclosed speed and making a left turn, the steering wheel became firm. The "power steering assist failure" message was displayed. The contact pulled over and turned off and restarted the vehicle several times while driving to the residence. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic and the contact was informed that the vehicle had experienced the failure listed in NHTSA campaign number: 14v316000 (steering). The contact was referred to the dealer for assistance. The dealer was not contacted. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted that stated there was no recall on the VIN related to the failure. The contact was referred to the NHTSA hotline for assistance. The failure mileage was 228,000.

Whilst driving, suddenly power steering assist fault light flashed on and steering became very difficult to turn. Was able to safely pull off the road. After several attempts, the fault cleared and steering was fully functional again. Had I been on interstate it most likely would have caused accident.

Service advance trac warning light comes on when backing while steering wheel turned. Multiple instances. Clears after a few minutes, but researching issue seems to be widespread across the Ford community, and has resulted in steering locking up while vehicle is in motion. Scheduled for maintenance visit to local dealership to diagnose. Codes read were c1963 & u0428.

The contact owns a 2012 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle experienced a loss of power steering assist. The restraint warning light was illuminated. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic, who informed the contact that the steering gear assembly needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 209,000.

Electric assisted steering locks up traveling or parked. While traveling really have to strain muscles keeping in lane of travel, when steering turns it turns to far and I am trying to correct steering over corrects back in opposite direction. Cannot keep pickup in lane of travel.

The contact owns a 2012 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving at 65 mph, the power steering failed as the traction control warning light appeared on the instrument panel. Due to the failure, the vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic where they discovered that the power steering angle sensors were defective; the rack and pinion needed to be replaced. The dealer(dealer unknown) was then notified of the failure and he was informed that there were no recalls on the vehicle. The manufacturer had yet to be notified of the failure. The vehicle had yet to be repaired and remained in the possession of the dealer. The failure mileage was approximately 141,000.

As your driving advance track failure light comes on and you lose power steering. Steering gets real tight and hard to turn. Almost got in a car accident but was able to turn the steering as hard as I could just to make the turn. Drive for a little while then all of a sudden power steering kicked back on. It happen every time I drive my truck.

Without warning, power steering went out. This truck has less than 17,000 miles on it and is kept spotless and well maintained, garage kept. Power steering came back but now we're worried it'll go out again without warning and under possibly much worse/dangerous conditions. Bringing it in for a diagnostic, but cost of a new rack is over 2000. 00. And what assurance do we have that it will not happen again with the new rack? these electric racks are being recalled under other Ford vehicles, yet not the f150.

After arriving at work, when I went out to my truck to drive to lunch I started the truck and it was fine, for about 3 seconds. As I started to drive it the power assist steering failed and the error code displayed on the dash. The steering as you might expect become very heavy and hard. Luckily I was not at speed, and there was not a vehicle near me to hit. Turned off the truck and inspected under the hood. No apparent damage and nothing appeared broken. Closed hood and restarted truck. Same sequence occurred. Could steer initially just enough to start moving, then complete steering assist failure with the error code popping up on the dashboard display. Turned off again. Restarted and left running and popped hood to see if anything looked bad. Nothing bad. After idling for about 5 minutes while I poked around, tried again and for some reason the power assist had restarted itself and was working. After carefully testing in the parking lot, decided to drive to a local auto repair shop I use. They are assessing the error codes and trying to figure out what happened. If this had happened at speed and without warning, I guarantee I could have hit something or someone before I could wrestle the truck to a safe place.

The contact owns a 2012 Ford F-150. The contact stated while turning on the vehicle, the power assist failure warning light was illuminated. The contact was able to drive to his residence. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. A dealer was not contacted. The manufacturer had not been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 107,000.

Turning right the vehicle's steering and brakes locked up. The traction control system warning indicator illuminated. Rac and pinion unit replaced by Ford dealer. Same problem occurred within 50 miles. Returned to dealer. Dealer is unable to reproduce problem.

Electronic power steering module went out in the rack and pinion had to replace whole rack and pinion to fix problem. Power steering went out while driving.

The contact owns a 2012 Ford F-150. The contact stated while driving approximately 25 mph, the steering seized and could not be turned to the left or the right. The contact stopped the vehicle, shifted into neutral(n), restarted the vehicle, and the vehicle regained steering functionality. The contact stated that the failure recurred twice. The contact stated that the steering assist fault warning light was illuminated with an audible chime. The contact drove the vehicle to the dealer and was informed that the rack and pinon system needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer had been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 114,000.

My power steering assist light and my advance track light came on then my steering locked up and I had no control of my vehicle. Luckily I was pulling into my drive so no one was hurt. I had my 7 year old gson with me too. It could of been fatal. I did some research there's a recall on this on vehicles before 2012 and after 2012 but not on my vehicle which is a 2012 my rack and pinion went out I don't have any backup lights this could have been a serious accident and if anything would have happened to my grandson OH boy Ford but I want to know why my truck doesn't have a recall hurt.

Vehicle lost its power in the power steering system, and you lose all control over the vehicle and you can't move left or right making it very dangerous for me while it occurred, since I was unable to move the car towards any direction.

In 2019, my power steering assist fault/service advance trac came on as I lost power steering. . . It's recalled on my year and model, but not my VIN. Replaced the rack and pinion for the electronic power assist steering (epas) in September of 2019. Last week, so April 18,'22, my steering started getting stiff and binding. Last night, April 25,22, my power steering failed completely again. Ford refused to acknowledge it was the exact issue last time and it's extremely scary driving without power steering, esp when you don't know if it's going to go out while driving! this is a known problem and has not been addressed, outside the select vins.

My wife had the steering lock up on her tonight and made her pull into oncoming traffic, head on. She was able to stop the truck in the oncoming traffic lane, narrowly missing being hit head on. The steering gave her no warning, and just locked on her when she wad attempting to veer into a turn lane. The truck immediately jumped a curb divider,landing her into on coming traffic on one of the busiest streets in town. Quick thinking of switching on the hazards and praying, is all that kept her safe. The steering on this 2012 Ford f150 ecoboost has become increasingly worse over the last 3 weeks. Started with the advance track light going off every time we turned left, and has now escalated to this. . . Almost killing my wife. I know now, after doing extensive research that this is actually fairly common in these trucks. 2011-2014 seem to be the problem trucks. A bulletin was finally made for the 2011 models. I think it's safe to say that the 2012, 2013 and 2014s should also be put on that list. There are countless people having a steering rack issue with these trucks. And when this issue comes to a head, it's usually when you are driving, and lose all control, because of the electronic steering mechanism.

Electronic power assist system failure while driving down the road. It became very difficult to operate the vehicle. If anyone but myself were operating the truck it would have resulted in an accident.

Steering becomes hard, almost impossible when a “power steering assist fault” displays on in-dash information screen. It happens simultaneously with a very audible chime and instantaneous loss of power steering. It has happened randomly all at low speeds and doesn’t happen every time the vehicle is driven. Dealership was contacted and will be dropping vehicle off for them to diagnose and repair. The danger is sudden loss of vehicle control due to “fault. ” steering become almost impossible. When “fault” occurs, I have been able to regain steering with turning the vehicle off, then on. Steering then returns.

The electrical steering failed causing the vehicle to be unable to steer. A clear safer issue. Almost caused a collision.

Sept 1 I was driving to the highway going to work when I felt a small jolt in my steering wheel. I thought it was a bump in the street and thought nothing of it. When I got off of work, and was leaving the parking lot I felt the same small jolt (almost like a pulling sensation in the steering wheel). When I was driving home doing around 70mph I get a message message on my dash (power steering needs maintenance immediately or something of the sorts) and a seconds after my steering column seizes up while I'm driving. My truck is well maintained and I do not do any off roading. The problem was sudden and could of been fatal. Fortunately I was able to pull of the road before I got hurt. After doing some reading this is a very common problem that Ford has with there f150s, but Ford has not announced a recall yet.

We went to my brothers for dinner. When we backed into his driveway the truck made a horrible noise. When we got home, we could barely back into our driveway, in fact we were half the flowerbed and half on the driveway. The next morning we tried to move the truck over so we could get our other car out of the garage, and the truck was barely drivable. We had to have it towed to a Ford dealership where we bought it the next day. They diagnosed it and the same code came up as the recall that my father found when researching, but our VIN number wasn't one of them. They gave us an estimate of approx. $3000. We had it towed to another Ford dealership where they fixed it for $1,981. We thank our lucky stars the steering gear did not go out on us on our way home, we probably wouldn't be here to tell about it, as we were on a dark curvy road and then on the freeway.

With less than 500 miles on a new set of tires, I had a power steering assist warning. I was attending a high school football game and when I started the truck to return home a notice came on the dash. I quickly realized that I had no power steering. I shut the truck down, opened the door then restarted. The warning was gone and I had power steering. While turning the wheel left was very easy, turning the wheel to the right was just slightly harder.

My power steering went out without any warning. I did receive the day before a warning stating to have my advancedtrac system serviced. I took my vehicle to the closest tire and brake service center that I was already schedule to do an alignment. I was told that my truck was in alignment but they suspected I could have a steering problem. I took it to the dealer and they told me it was the steering gear and the cost would be 1900. 00 dollars. I researched the problem and it is well documented that Ford has had multiple recalls on this type of power steering systems. It is very unsafe. I called the Ford motor company and was told that my truck was not included in the recall.

Hard power steering and traction control faults a year or so ago. Had to reprogram control unit. Started getting power steering assist faults today. Steering went out at high speed on interstate. I have read that this is a common problem.

Making a right turn off of a county road at 10 mph and epsa fault warning came on. Could not physically turn the vehicle. Was able to get the vehicle stopped. No accidents or injuries. There have been recalls on f150s from 2009 through 2018 with similar problems. My specific VIN number has not been found but I have read similar articles with other customers having the same problem. Living in upstate south carolina. This is the first occurrence. Vehicle with about 140,000 miles.

The contact owns a 2012 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle loss power steering assist which made it difficult to steer the vehicle. The contact stated that extra effort was needed to maneuver the vehicle. The contact turned off and then restarted the vehicle and regained power steering assist temporarily. Ken grody Ford san bernardino (1121 w colton Ave, redlands, CA 92374, (909)793-3211) was contacted and informed of the failure. The contact was informed to have the vehicle taken to the dealer to be diagnosed which was still pending. The contact was provided a repair cost from an independent mechanic of $1,700. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 72,000.