Five problems related to engine shut off without warning have been reported for the 2013 Ford F-150. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2013 Ford F-150 based on all problems reported for the 2013 F-150.
While traveling on the open highway at 65mph, a yellow wrench appeared in my dash information panel and the vehicle entered "limp mode". The engine shut down and I had to make an emergency transition onto the shoulder in heavy traffic. The vehicle was able to restart, however, it had the same problem two additional times on the way to the nearest Ford dealership. The obd diagnostic code was p2112.
With a hard acceleration the truck blogged down & the engine service light came on. I thought the engine shut off so I pulled it down into 1st gear & it took off again. Still sputters like there is water in the gas or something. Light will not go off. Pretty dangerous in heavy traffic. It actually didn't have any power what so ever. Pretty scary. I read there were several complaints of the same situation. Why has Ford taken care of this as a recall?.
When accelerating the engine shut off without warning. After the dealer provided service for this issue, the engine shut off while decelerating to a stop and again while accelerating from this stop. Most recently the engine has been very sluggish at times while attempting to accelerate.
I went to pass a slow moving vehicle and only had a short distance to pass. I pressed down hard on the accelerator, the engine shutdown, truck was coasting, and the orange traction slip light came on. Then the engine came back on and I was able to finish passing. This was in carlsbad, nm. I took it to the local Ford dealer they said there nothing showed on their diagnostic computer, but they did try to charge me $150 labor. I refused to pay, because this is a new truck and the incident happened twice driving into carlsbad. I have tried to duplicate the incident once since, but the engine did not shutdown.
Pulling out to merge into traffic engine shut down, engine light comes on . No power , engine missing very bad. Pull over to shoulder kill engine wait and restarted. Ford said no computer code came up but reset computer for turbo. 2nd Ford F-150 with 3. 5 ecoboost that has done this.