Eight problems related to transmission gear slipping have been reported for the 2018 Ford F-150. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2018 Ford F-150 based on all problems reported for the 2018 F-150.
Transmission slippage, missed gears, rpm flaring, and transmission seeming to be in neutral while driving. Loss of power when driving causing vehicle to slow down in traffic. No engine codes produced. Issues with shift indicator bouncing from 10th to 1st gear while it seems the transmission is in nuetral. Hard transmission shifts. Over reving shift points or no shift conditions. Currently being diagnosed by a mechanic to see what the issue is. Whether it's mechanical or computer issue. Problem is random and hard to duplicate while driving. Dangers include causing an accident while in traffic to getting hit by other vehicles. Issues at times when driving up a hill and a neutral situation occurs losing speed and having to completely stop as speed can not be maintained.
Truck has had transmission issues for last 800 miles. Truck now has 12700. Shifts hard and slips especially 3-4-5 gears. 5th gear the worst on slipping, almost as if I put the truck in neutral, then it finds the gear and bucks. Definitely a hazard to drive. I have brought it into Ford 3 times, the first time they applied a TSB, second time they said it was normal and refused to do anything. I called Ford and sent it in for a second opinion they said they agree transmission needs work but refuse to work on it as the first dealership only one who can get paid for it.
2018 Ford f150 raptor, ordered and received April 1 2018. Only 7000 miles. Has been into Ford dealer twice for slipping transmission issues, loud banging noise and transmission rattling and slipping. Have pull out into traffic several times and the transmission slips and vehicle just revs up. Also caused several accidents. In motion on a highway and also city street.
Vehicle will some times hesitate during acceleration and transmission will slip - engine rpms will rise to about 2000 and then transmission will engage with a heavy clunk in the drive train. This issues has happened when engine is cold and at normal operating temp. The vehicle currently has 9000 miles on the odometer and has happened five(5) times already. Took to local dealer and they are unable to tel me what is wrong.
On initial take off, when the truck shifts through 1st and 6th gears it seems like the engine slows to the point that I have no power and then shifts. It also feels like the transmission slips. Have been told this is normal, but it is certainly a safety concern for merging into traffic because I can't get up to speed fast enough to avoid an accident. Ford needs to address this issue because it happens on most of their ecoboost engines and the 10 speed transmission combined. This truck has the 2. 7l ecoboost engine.
The transmission started slipping around 5000 miles. The problem occurs after start up when transmission is cool. During the first drive cycle when the transmission shifts from 3rd-4th gear, it will slip really bad. Once it does actually shift into 4th gear it feels like the vehicle has been rear ended. After multiple trips to the Ford dealership for warranty repair, the problem still exist. The last dealership I took the truck to confirmed the slip and replaced the main control in the transmission and replaced the fluid. I picked up the truck 2 weeks later and the transmission slipped when I left the the dealership after the repair. The service tech advised me to drive the vehicle for a few days to allow it to go through its adaptive learn cycle. After doing so, the transmission still continued to slip. I took the vehicle back a week later for repair. The service tech drove the vehicle and confirmed that the slip still existed. The dealership told me that they contacted Ford help hotline and were instructed to do a complete rebuild of the transmission. 3 weeks later I was told the truck was ready. I picked the truck up and drove it home with no problems. I let it sit for 24 hours and drove it again and the transmission slipped again. After two failed attempts to fix the issue, this dealership tells me that according to Ford hotline, there is nothing wrong with my truck. . The truck is doing the exact same thing now as it did before they attempted to repair it. I don't understand how the exact same problem that constitutes two separate repairs is suddenly not a problem anymore because they do not know how to fix it. So now I am a Ford customer with a faulty truck that Ford refuses to fix.
Vehicle will some times hesitate during acceleration and transmission will slip - engine rpms will rise to about 2000 and then transmission will engage with a heavy clunk in the drive train. This issues has happened when engine is cold and at normal operating temp. The vehicle currently has 9000 miles on the odometer and has happened five(5) times already. Took to local dealer and they are unable to doplicate.
In park and truck rolls,and the transmission is severly slipping,and smells like gas.