Eight problems related to engine shut off without warning have been reported for the 2015 Ford F-150. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2015 Ford F-150 based on all problems reported for the 2015 F-150.
Truck sporatically fails to start or motor shuts down within five minutes of driving. Starter remains ingaged even in run position, needs to be cycled to off position to dissengage. After cooling at least 10 minutes truck usually starts and runs normally for a few days until it does it again. Dealer cannot find anything wrong and refuses to look any further. Shuting down at speed on the road safety hazard. Almost impossible to stear or break after engine shutdown. No engine codes or warning lamps.
With no notice or warning while driving on freeway pulling horse trailer at 65 mph engine shut down and would not restart. Hill assist light came on along with skid anti-sway motion and a wrench appeared in the indicator light. Steering wheel became hard to move. Had to cross three lanes of traffic to get to side of road in a construction zone while going uphill towing a horse trailer eventually restarted.
2015 f150 - without warning - driving at 30 mph on a road and the engine shut down. Hill assist came on along with skid anti-sway motion and a wrench appeared in the indicator light. Truck would not move. I turned off the engine and started it back up and it ran until I reached 45 mph on a 4 lane main road and the engine shut down and I had to coast to the side and restart again. This is a very hazardous situation especially if I had been on an interstate with multiple lanes. I am surprised Ford has not issued a recall on this matter. It happened suddenly and without warning. Please look into this ASAP - I have seen postings where other people are having the same problem.
Engine goes into limp mode on the road, street or highway with no warning. Engine shuts down. Dealer installed new throttle body for the third time!.
My 2015 f150 with 100,700 miles on it completely stalled on me while pulling into traffic. I lost all control and had no throttle response and the truck went into idle mode and would not do anything until I put in park and then turned the truck off and then restarted the truck. Ran my codes and noticed that it showed a p2112 code which was a fault with the throttle body response. This caused my truck to completely lose all function in the middle of a busy intersection with cross traffic. Luckily there were people turning to prevent an 18 wheeler from coming towards me and the speed limit of 55 mph. This is totally unacceptable for this to just shutdown like this and cause serious danger for myself and those driving around me. After reading online it seems that this is a common problem with these throttle body assembly's. This is not ok!!!! I replaced the throttle body myself without paying $800 at the Ford dealership. This has to be addressed for safety reasons.
While driving on the freeway the vehicle shuts down and the hill descent control light came on and then the engine light. This happened 3 times, I took it to autozone to be tested and the error code - p2112 throttle actuator control system- throttle body needs to be changed. After researching, I came to find out this is happening to thousands of Ford vehicles. Ford had a recall on some vehicles for this, but if your make and model was not on there they will not cover the cost. Ford knows this is a dangerous problem, but will not issue a recall. It is only a matter of time (if not happened already) that there will be a fatality due to this body throttle issue. We as consumers should not have to worry about our vehicle randomly dying on the roads, worry about killing someone else or our own families just to commute. Ford should be ashamed of themselves.
While driving on the highway at 75 mph the truck shuttered violently and the engine shut down. Immediately it flashed a warning that the "hill climb assist" malfunctioned followed immediately by a wrench symbol notifying that service was needed then another warning about the advance trac system then back to the hill climb assist symbol. All of this happening while the car behind me is almost sideways trying to avoid me. I eventually made it to the right shoulder of the highway. As I read the various warnings it said to refer to the owners manual with regards to the hill climb assist. I turned the ignition off, pulled out the owners manual only to find a description of the hill climb assist feature. After waiting for about 5 minutes I decided to turn on the ignition. The truck started without issue and I continued home cautiously in the far right lane.
This vehicle has the 'stop/start feature;' which actually shuts off the engine when at a stop and is supposed to 'restart' when the gas pedal is depressed; the 'electrical systems' are supposed to be operative; how power brakes are 'electrically operated' is beyond my comprehension; however, a few days after purchase I was at a stop lite when the engine shut off, and eventually re-started' by itself; the dealer sales staff never informed me of this 'feature,' and also did not tell me there was an 'override switch on the dash; the fact that I did not override it, and that the engine did not restart when the gas pedal was depressed, to me means that this 'feature' is, on this vehicle, inoperative, and therefore inherently dangerous and life threatening; my wife refuses to drive it, and it was towed in to the dealer on 12/21/15, where it remains; I refuse to drive it as well; lastly, the vehicle exhibited no 'stop/start feature' upon a pre-purchase test drive with the salesman in which we made numerous 'stops' and a friend of mine was with me on that test drive, who will attest to this fact; likewise, it did not have any 'problems' until almost three weeks later, during which time I drove the vehicle daily.