Transmission Slip Out Of Gear problems of the 2012 Ford F-150

Going downhill last night in 5 pm traffic and my truck shifted into 1st gear by itself and would not shift into a different gear. I could have been killed let alone someone could have rearended me and there would be a safety issue let alone maybe another death. I put on my flashers right away, pulled to the side of the road, shut the truck off for a few minutes. Gathered my thoughts turned it back on and drove on the shoulder for a ways, and the truck went into gear no problem. Then I had to stop at the store, shut the truck off, started it when I got back in and it wouldn't shift out of first gear. Again a major safety hazard. No warning lights or messages - I do have video of last nights occurrence. There are many facets to this problem. I know that there is a customer safety number that is related to this however my truck has just over 150000 miles. I took it into Ford this morning and also talked with national Ford customer service and they said 10 years or 150000 miles. Actually 2 different representatives told me 2 different things, one told me it is covered and the 2nd told me it is not covered. My truck had 149000 miles on it when I bought it, shortly after it was stolen out of my driveway, and when I got it back it had umpteen things wrong with it, so it has been in the mechanic shop and body shop more than I have had it. Had I known that there was a safety issue I could have had it fixed before it was stolen.

Multiple times while in motion 45mph + (spontaneously) , orange wrench comes up on my dash, speedometer drops to zero, engine power is cut to almost nothing, and a few times at higher speeds 60mph +, the wheels lock due to transmission downshifting out of nowhere. This has happened on the loop, city streets, highways, it's random. I can only limp my way to a safe spot to pull over, turn engine off then back on and everything generally starts working again. Last night on a city road doing about 55mph it locked up again but refused to drop out of 5th gear though I was at a dead stop. Even turning the key of and on would not re set it. It finally got to 1st after messing with it and I got it home, hooked it to my obd2 reader and it is throwing a p0720 output speed shaft sensor malfunction code and my check engine light will not go off. I have attached a picture of the code it is now showing, and date of malfunction is most recent.

The truck downshifts to first while driving and will not shift out of first gear, the speedometer stops working. Location was city street. After stoping and turning the engine off it seems to reset. I have had problems in the past and it was suppose to be fixed however it continues to be a problem.

Traveling down the highway at 70 mph (posted speed limit) when without warning my truck downshifts to first gear. Loss of power and speed resulted in the downshift. I went from 70 mph to 35 mph on a major highway quickly. My entire dash, besides the tachometer, went out as well as a result of this downshift. I was lucky I was traveling early in the morning (about 530 am) and traffic was light. Or else I am sure someone would have hit me due to rapid deceleration. The truck was traveling straight and not in a turn. After this deceleration, I was barely able to manage to get off to the shoulder of the highway because my truck would not shift out of first gear. It had no power to move the vehicle at highway speeds. It also felt as though it had affected the rest of the power items on the truck, steering and brakes especially. It felt as though my power steering was not working and took a lot of effort on the brake pedal to get the vehicle to stop fully. The Ford recall # for this specific problem is 19s07, the NHTSA # is 19v075000. My vehicle is no longer covered under what Ford deemed as a "voluntary safety recall", repair estimates are $1185. I find it ridiculous this problem is a voluntary safety recall, the only reason I was not involved in a serious accident is because of the time of day I was traveling.

The truck often times will not shift out of 1st gear. The rpm will rise and the truck will accelerate quickly then slow back down. When it gets out of 1st gear it will often go back to 1st gear randomly. Wrench and check engine lights are frequent. Limp mode engages often and the dash will become inactive. Fuel economy screen will clear out and all information will be displayed as dash lines. I took the truck to Ford to have them look at it under the 16n02 recall and they would not cover it. The coverage only extends to 150,000 miles, but my truck has 163,000. The coverage only covers it if the truck is displaying symptoms and mine did not display anything until this last week.

On hwy 65mph accelerating speedometer reading went to zero, transmission auto downshift. Had to pull over restart and then both the speedometer and transmission worked. After this several starts the speedometer doesn't work and transmission won't shift out of 1st gear.

My transmission was shifting out of 6th gear into 1st gear. This was updated by a computer fix that keeps it from shifting to 1st gear but into 5th instead. Ford has a customer satisfaction program 16n02 that addresses the same problems I am having and a fix for it. My truck was built at the plant indicated, in the time frame indicated and gives the engine codes as indicated by the bulletin. I have contacted them about it and despite all these findings am being told that it is not their problem to fix. My mileage is below the 150k threshold that is set for this warranty extension on the lead frame problem. Their fix to stop it from shifting to 1st gear reduces the chance for a major accident but their refusal to fix the problem in the lead frame still leaves this as a safety issue. A down shift at speed to 5th gear still causes an unindicated and uncontrolled slow down of my truck, the loss of speedometer is also apparently causing some problem with the passenger side airbag when this occurs as I MA getting a message to remove objects from the passenger seat when this occurs. My local Ford shop will not try to warranty this problem, I have made 2 different contacts at Ford concerning this and they all say it is not one they have marked for having this problem. I can't help that it is not one they thought might be affected, I can only say that it has been and can't get it repaired by them.

Intermittent issues with driving downshifts and hard upshifts. Sometimes the f150 shifts from 1st to third under light acceleration and will not shift out of 3rd gear. Wrench light error comes on, air bag light comes on and the speedometer goes to zero and mileage counter all show dashes. Pulling over and shutting off the truck works to clear the wrench icon and regain speed and mileage reading but the shifting issues may or may not comr back immediately. Downshift to 5th while in motion and had it downshift from 6th hear to 1st on the freeway at about 70 mph which was scary. With this issue it scares me to drive due to the airbag light coming on at the time it downshifted to 1sr gear. If I would have gotten into an accident, would I have had no airbag deployments for me and my kids?.

I have experienced four incidents where my vehicle downshifted from 6th to 1st gear. Twice on a highway while traveling 60-65, twice traveling 50 on a county road. This caused my back tires to skid and once on an icy road where I went into the ditch with no apparent damage to my truck. I have also experienced three incidents where the truck would not shift out of 1st gear when leaving a traffic light.

I have had multiple times where my truck transmission randomly and unexpectedly either drops out of gear or downshifts while moving. The speedometer also drops to zero while I am still moving. At least once this has happened after I pulled onto a street with plenty of time, but because I lost power, it nearly caused an accident. All incidents have been on city streets so far at low speeds. I have researched and found that Ford has a recall out for this exact issue (16s19) with build date parameters of February 11, 2011 to September 8, 2012 at the dearborn plant. My truck was built in August of 2012, within the parameters, at the dearborn plant, however, I am being told I am not included in this recall, even though I am having the exact issue it should be fixing. How my truck is not included is beyond me. I have attached a screenshot of the document I found online for the recall.