Cruise Control Problems of Ford F-150 - part 1

The contact owns a 1997 n/a Ford F-150. The contact stated that while servicing the vehicle independently, the contact unplugged the cruise control deactivation sensor and became aware of condensation leaking from the sensor. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 132,000.

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The contact owns a 2023 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving at speeds between 65 to 80 mph on cruise control, the cruise control would suddenly decrease approximately 10 - 20 mph lower than what it was set at. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who was unable to diagnose the vehicle. The vehicle had not been repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The manufacturer referred the contact to the NHTSA hotline to file a safety complaint. The failure mileage was 29,700.

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The contact owns a 2022 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the check engine warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer where it was diagnosed and determined that the computer needed to be programmed. The vehicle was repaired but the failure recurred. While driving approximately 50 mph with the cruise control activated, the vehicle unintendedly accelerated to approximately 70 mph. The brakes failed to respond while depressing the brake pedal. The failure was self-corrected. The vehicle was taken back to the local dealer who documented the failure but was unable to duplicate the failure. The manufacturer was contacted, and the contact was referred to another dealer. The failure mileage was approximately 10,600.

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The contact owns a 2022 Ford F-150. The contact stated while driving at a slow speed around the parking lot, the contact accidentally depressed the cruise control button, causing the vehicle to accelerate quickly to 15 mph. The contact stated no warning light was illuminated. The contact depressed the brake pedal to stop the vehicle. The contact stated he had experienced the failure a total of five times. The contact took the vehicle to the local dealer who was unable to diagnose the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer had been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 3,000.

The contact owned a 2001 Ford F-150. The contact stated that he had noticed that the cruise control had stopped functioning. The contact stated that the vehicle had been parked for three hours at his residence driveway with no keys in the ignition and had caught on fire. The contact stated that he had no warning. The vehicle had been engulfed in flames and the fire department had been called and extinguished the fire using water. The contact stated that a fire report was issued. The contact's insurance company declared the vehicle a complete loss. The contact related the failure to an open recall on his vehicle NHTSA campaign number: 05v017000 (vehicle speed control). The manufacturer had not been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 230,000.

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While driving on the highway today, I needed to accel quickly to avoid being in the blind spot of another truck as I was merging onto a different highway. After getting past the truck, I let off the accelerator pedal, but the vehicle continued to speed up. When this happened, I assumed that the cruise control was somehow trying to resume so I tapped the brakes to cancel it, but nothing happened. I then put on brakes, but it was simply fighting the engine as the vehicle continued to accelerate. I then tried pressing both the cancel button and the off button on my cruise control, but the vehicle continued to accelerate. By this time I was easily up to about 85 mph and had now other choice than to put the truck in neutral. I left it in neutral for about 3 or 4 seconds and then put it back into drive and the acceleration problem was resolved. This could have been a very bad situation for an inexperienced driver. I plan on stopping at the dealer where I purchased the vehicle last year and report it to them as well.

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Drive in the interstate I felt something tap my shoe and at the same time cruise control deactivated and the hill assist warning light come on. I then tried to accelerate and for a second there nothing happened and then acceleration came back on and it would cut out like traction control is kicking in. Pulled over on to the side of the interstate and found a broken plastic pin looks like a body panel pin on the floormatt. Me being a mechanic something told me to look at my brake light to see if there being activated with no pressure on the brake pedal . The lights were on telling me that this pin had to do something with the brake pedal and the brake light switch. Once I looked under the dash, I did find that this pin came from the brake pedal and was no longer pushing on the brake switch and that's what actually cause my cruise control to shut off and traction control kick in as I were driving on innerstate. I was able to temporarily fix the issue was a body panel pin that I by lock had in my glove box from other projects and was able to get back on the road and make it home . The issue is the this original plastic piece is a certain thickness that if you replace it with a thinner piece you still have the same problem and if you get this to thick you have to push harder on the brake pedal to activate the brake lights and deactivate crouse control, and that's were it can get scary going 70 mph on the interstate and not being able to deactivate the crouse connector. So I call the local Ford parts store and the issue is that this plastic pin can not be purchased by itself and that this pin has to be purchased with a $150 pedal. So I looked on the internet to see if maybe this is an issue with this vehicle and I found multiple complaints of the same issue and no recall form Ford for this issue witch in my opinion it's a safety issue. 2015 F-150 with 76000 miles.

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On adaptive cruise control, since new, the vehicle brakes are applied when passing an 18 wheel truck/trailer (sometimes) causing a rapid 15-20 mph hard braking decrease in speed jolting and scaring the occupants of the Ford. Nearly rear ended several times. Have contacted Ford but they did not care nor were they concerned that this is a safety issue. Very dangerous going from 65 to 45 while passing another vehicle and cars are behind me. This is a random occurrence making it even more scary. This has happened too many times to count since 2015 and I am afraid to use the adaptive cruise control for fear of being hit from behind on the highway.

Tl the contact owns a 2015 Ford F-150. The contact stated while driving 50 mph with the cruise control activated, the steering wheel seized without warning. The contact attempted to depress the brake pedal however, the vehicle was difficult to stop. The contact stated after driving over a bump in the road, the contact was able to turn the steering wheel and depress the brake pedal to stop the vehicle on the side of the road. The contact stated the air bag warning light was illuminated. The contact continued driving to his destination. After driving 30 miles, the air bag warning light turned off independently. The contact stated while exiting the vehicle he started to smell electrical fumes. The vehicle was taken to joe hall Ford located at 1617 21st st, lewiston, id 83501, (208) 746-2391, and the mechanic was unable to duplicate the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The VIN was included in NHTSA campaign number: 20v332000 (service brakes, hydraulic). The manufacturer had been informed of failure. The failure mileage was approximately 42,000.

I erratically simultaneously receive a warning that adaptive cruise control is inoperative & collision avoidance is inoperative. Both indicate sensor is blocked when it is clearly not the case. Also receive arbitrary collision warnings. Both occur with no other vehicles in the vicinity. The systems works fine most of the time but then the problem appears "out of nowhere". Seems to be occurring in all Ford models with adaptive cruise/collision warning. May happen on the interstate or in town. There are hundreds of reports of this condition on the internet. Stopping, shutting down, and restarting will "fix" the problem for an hour or so or maybe even a few days until it occurs again. Again, the sensor is not blocked. I can't find a safety recall or technical service bulletin for this problem.

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I was on a highway in rain on cruise control approaching an off ramp. My speed was 72 mph as set by cruise control. I applied the brakes to disengage and slow for the off-ramp which is sharp. As I approached I started to apply more brake pressure. The vehicle began accelerating as I was going into the turn. I stomped on the brakes and the brakes went to the floor repeatedly while still accelerating. I navigated the turn at high speed with the back end breaking loose and fish tailing. I barely made it around and proceeded to hit the off button frantically. The truck shut down and I coasted to the side of the road. I had my 7yr old girl in the truck. It was terrifying. When I restarted the truck the cruise control was disengaged and the brakes worked.

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The contact owns a 2018 Ford F-150. The contact stated that the automatic cruise control would not operate as needed. He stated that while in automatic cruise control mode, the vehicle would accelerate without warning with a stopped vehicle ahead of him. The contact also mentioned that the driver's front seat would slide backwards without warning while driving at various speeds. The contact had taken the vehicle to corwin Ford nampa (5707 e gate blvd, nampa, id 83687) where he was informed that the mechanic was unable to detect any failures with the vehicle. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and provided the same information as the dealer. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 11,000.

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This vehicle experiences exactly the same characteristics as the following NHTSA campaign number: 15v614000 yet is not subject to the recall. The vehicle has acted in this way at least 10 times, the most recent on June 24, 2020. The vehicle may fall just outside the previously determined manufacture date window that determined the recall pool. Ford will not perform the software update to solve this problem as the vehicle is not subject to the recall. Please reconsider the vehicles included in this recall as mine may have been missed in error. September 30, 2015 NHTSA campaign number: 15v614000 unexpected braking using adaptive cruise control a vehicle that unexpectedly brakes increases the risk of a crash. Nhtsa campaign number: 15v614000 manufacturer Ford motor company components forward collision avoidance potential number of units affected 33,481 summary Ford motor company (Ford) is recalling certain model year 2015 Ford F-150 trucks manufactured March 18, 2014, to August 6, 2015 and equipped with adaptive cruise control (acc). While using the adaptive cruise control, the vehicle may falsely detect an obstacle in its path and may unexpectedly apply the brakes. Remedy Ford will notify owners, and dealers will reprogram the cruise control module with updated acc radar software, free of charge. The recall began on October 25, 2015. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 15s29. . Read more...

The contact owns a 2018 Ford F-150. The contact stated that when the cruise control was being used and they then attempted to turn off the vehicle it would fail to power off completely as expected. On the contrary, the cruise control would suddenly turn off the vehicle when active. The failure occurred intermittently and at various speeds. There were no warning lights displayed. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer who could not identify the failure's cause. The vehicle had not been repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and referred them to NHTSA. The approximate failure mileage was 49,000.

The cruise control does not work because of a censor either up by the steering colum or the censor by the master cylinder under the hood ! it's about a $150. 00 fix but I just got this truck and started driving it so I was shocked when I was having problems so early!! for a average person that is not much but for me I live in disability it sure takes the money away from food I was going to buy so it's a hardship. I love the truck and it's great but it's hard for me to get it fixed because I rely on the cruise control to keep the same speed when going down the highway . Please if there is anything you can do please let me know including sending me the part and I'll put it on it's the cruise control sensor under the hood by the master cylinder. It release so the truck will slow down when the cruise control is turned off . Please and thank you. Have a blessed day james d zahorsky po bx 63 aline oklahoma 73716 phone 580-884-0885 again thank you for your time . It's just hard for everyone right now . I know if I had the part I could fix it in 30 minutes! thank you sir or man I have talked to a lot of people and they said they are having the same problem as I am . I hope you can just send me the part if I need to buy it I sure will I'll send the money as soon as I get the part ! please and thank you I really need your help I just don't have the cash until I get paid. Thank you again so much james d zahorsky.

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Cruise control will not disengage. Driving down highway with cruise control on and when I put foot on brake to slow down, cruise control does not stop and accelerator begins to speed up. Pulled over and had to keep foot on brake as accelerator continued to increase while stopped. Turned off vehicle, did not disengage. Turned off engine again and stomped on gas, break petals. Finally cruise control disengaged.

Cruise control shuts off during operation. Intermittently will not turn on. Analog speedometer will indicate speeds in excess of 40mph slower than real speed. Stuck at 40mph when comes to complete stop.

The truck was set on cruise control when I accelerated to pass a moving vehicle on a freeway. The truck would not stop accelerating when I removed my foot from the gas pedal; I had to break hard to control the speed. As soon as I removed my foot from the break, the car engine revved up again and quickly accelerated from 70 to 96 mph even though I was not touching the gas pedal. When I stopped the vehicle and put the truck in park, the engine continued to idle at a high speed. The diagnostic reader produced the error code "p068a - ecm/pcm power relay DE-energized performance - too early". I took the truck to the dealership and they were able to reproduce the problem. To fix the issue, a new battery was installed.

This has happened 5 times. When starting to take off in low speeds, 20-30 mph, the transmission will slip into neutral then into first slowing the truck down rapidly. Also, while travelling at highway speeds on cruise control, the vehicle will drop to 5th gear and the speedometer will drop to 0, the odometer and all display panel shows nothing, the cruise will not work, and the airbag light comes on.

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Today was the worst of the 4 times that this same situation occurred. I was driving in traffic on the highway in downtown atlanta when I accelerated and switched lanes to pass a slow moving vehicle. The truck accelerated fine but would not stop accelerating when I removed my foot from the gas peddle. I had to break hard to avoid hitting another car. As soon as I removed my foot from the break, the car engine revved up and accelerated forward again even though I was not touching the gas. This went on for almost 5 minutes and was very scary. I could have easily had an accident. At first, thought is was the cruise control kicking in but it was off. Each of the 4 situations occurred when trying to pass another vehicle. I reported the problem to my dealership back on August 12th when it happened the 3rd time. They could not find anything wrong. I know there is a very dangerous problem with my truck and need to find a solution before I or someone gets hurt.

Had cruise control set while driving along freeway. Needed to slow down and tapped brake to release cruise control. Nothing happened. Pressed brake again to slow down and engine power increased to coincide with cruise control setting. Manually shut off cruise control and it disabled. Cruise control currently will not shut off by utilizing brake system.

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While the vehicle was in motion the truck suddenly downshifted and caused the engine to rev to max rpms. This resulted in a sudden jolt of the entire vehicle and rapid deceleration. Vehicles traveling behind me had to slam their brakes to narrowly avoid rear ending me because the truck slowed down so suddenly and with no brake lights as a warning. On several occasions in the last 2 days since this happened, the speedometer has acted erratically by going up and down from 0 to highway speed of 60mph while I was traveling with cruise control set at 60. The transmission seems to shift erratically into a gear that would match the speed of where the speedometer indicates even though the true speed is 60mph. These sudden down shifts seem to have damaged my transmission because the truck now has issues going into gear from a stop and will rev to over 4000 rpm without shifting into 1st gear to start moving. Once it's moving, the transmission often shifts erratically when the speedometer acts up. I will not drive the truck anymore except to have it repaired because it is too dangerous.

While accelerating the vehicle to get to 55 mph the engine suddenly lost throttle response and began to run rough. Simultaneously the dash flashed that uphill assist was deactivated and flashed the maintenance wrench. Upon pulling the vehicle over and shutting it off and restarting it the vehicle ran normally. The frequency of this increased from once every couple of weeks to now up to 5 times in 10 miles. When it causes an obd code it is p2112. It occurs most frequently while accelerating to highway speeds but has also occurred while at highway speed and accelerating to village speeds of 30 mph. It has even occurred once while using cruise control as the vehicle was climbing a hill. At this time it is unknown what is causing the fault. An attempt has been made to clean the throttle body and the problem persists. A new throttle body is on order but has to be installed yet to see if it corrects the issue.

After receiving recall 19s07-19v-075 by mail and having it reprogrammed by crater lake Ford medford,or the transmission shifts worse than the original. My vehicle was manufactured at georgia plant. 3. 7 flex fuel. I was in cruise control going down a mountain pass with my foot on the brake and the cruise control failed to disengage and then abruptly shifted to a lower gear. The cruise control works flawlessly on most grades. The problem only seems to occur when during on highways in the mountains. 39k miles. Way too many light bulbs have gone out on this model. Never off-roaded . Not a work truck. Never even towed anything. Since that downhill cruise control problem occurred, now I have an antifreeze coolant leak at the expansion overflow tank on the 3/4 quick disconnect hose . Vehicle has never overheated. Low speed high rev before shifting into 2nd gear. Cruise control problem only on highway going downhill. Did they mistakenly reprogram my f150 with wrong recall?.

I picked up my 2015 Ford f150 on Thursday of last week because the master cylinder was leaking and caused my wife to lose her brakes while driving on the highway. I drove my truck to our family reunion about an hour and half away on Saturday which was 2 days after I had picked my truck up and the cruise control would not shut off by taping the brake. My wife and I were traveling on a highway and I was in the slow lane with the cruise set at 72mph. I was approaching the vehicle in front of me, so I looked in my left mirror and noticed a car coming up beside me. I was unable to pass, so I touched the brakes to disengage the cruise control and I looked back in my mirror again to see if the car beside me was going to pass me soon. My wife then said what are you doing? I told her I am going to pass this car in front of us after the car beside me passed us. She then said well you better slow down because you are about to hit the car in front of us. Here my cruise control never disengaged so I touched the brakes 2 more times and nothing happened. I finally had to slam on the breaks and it finally disengaged. I had almost rear ended the car in front of us. I then got into the fast lane and placed the cruise control on again and found out that I was unable to disengage the cruise control by tapping the brakes like you should. I had to push the brake pedal 2/3 of the way to the floor which at this point you are stopping on the highway. This is the third safety issue in less than 1 year that almost caused an accident and that it has been towed to Ford. My truck is currently at Ford. Dec 2018 throttle body went bad and shut off with my wife driving my truck, sept 2019 master cylinder went bad and caused my wife to lose the brakes while on the highway, and sept 2019 cruise control not working properly almost causing an accident.

When driving in adaptive cruise control the vehicle will agreesively decelerate when passing on the left side of a large profile vehicle. The greater the speed difference between the two vehicles the greater the rate of deceleration. If the speed difference is about 35 mph or greater the collision avoidance system will activate. This is potentially very dangerous on a crowded interstate with following vehicles very close.

Wiper motor, radio/ ignition system, remote locking/ unlocking & cruise control. 1st issue: wiper motor will not turn to off, the wipers run intermittently in the off position every 20-30 seconds the wipers will run. Pulled fuse until repairs can be made to switch and/or module. 2nd issue: when ignition is turned off & key removed, and the radio is playing or off, a low battery warning message appears: remove ignition key and turn off the radio. The issue will not cure unless truck is vacated & locked. Dealer can't replicate issue no repairs made but still occurs from time to time. 3rd issue: power lock/ unlock by remote does not communicate with truck intermittently, replaced both remote batteries still having issues getting truck to unlock/ lock. Dealer can't replicate problem & no repairs are made. 4th issue: cruise control will not disengage when pressing brake pedal, have to turn off cruise control from steering column. This issue never returned to date of this complaint, no repairs made. This issue should be a safety concern. With all the issues with truck no warning dash messages or lights. Thanks, (xxxx) parts of this document have been redacted to protect personally identifiable information pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u. S. C. 552(b)(6).

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While driving on an interstate highway using cruise control, I needed to slow down for an exit. When I applied the brake pedal, the cruise control did not release and I had to apply quite a bit of brake pressure to slow down. I also hit the off button for the cruise control which did not deactivate the cruise control. When I braked, the speed was decreased but the cruise control was still on at the reduced speed. I kept hitting the off button, but the cruise control was still in operation. After doing this for about ten minutes, the cruise control finally deactivated. I used the cruise control later on this trip to test it and it worked as it should. I took the truck to the dealership on 3/6/19 and was told they would check it for a charge and would fix it for an additional charge; that charge depending on whether it was under warranty. I have an extended warranty to 100,000 miles and the vehicle only has a little over 20,000 miles. I told the service manager that it was a safety issue. He replied that a bald tire was a safety issue also, making the point that they did not intend to treat this as a safety issue where a repair would be done with no charge. He professed ignorance of any vehicles having a problem with the cruise control not deactivating. I showed him an article on the internet where fiat Chrysler had several million vehicles recalled with this problem. He still said he had never heard of it. The dealership said they could not find a problem, but if it did it again, to bring it back.

Tl the contact owns a 2001 Ford F-150. While the contact was inside his house, he noticed smoke coming from the hood of the vehicle. The contact extinguished the fire under the hood with a fire extinguisher. The fire department was not called. The vehicle was towed by aaa to paso robles Ford (2401 oakwood st, paso robles, CA 93446, (805)-239-3673) where it was diagnosed that the classic cruise control module failed and needed to be replaced. The dealer mentioned an unknown recall related to the failure that was closed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure, but declined to assist since the contact received several recall notices. The contact stated that the vehicle was included in NHTSA campaign number: 05v388000 (vehicle speed control). The failure mileage was 160,000.

When adaptive cruise control on and passing a semi sometimes the truck brakes sharply slowing down.

I have a 2016 Ford f150. 4 times now the auto breaking system engaged for no reason. 3 of the times I was driving in cruise control down a straight section of highway 80 going to lake tahoe, the auto breaking system engaged for no reason while passing a semi truck. The latest auto breaking episode almost killed us, we were driving back from lake tahoe on hwy 80, (cruise control was not no), when we were passing a semi truck on a curve in the two lane highway going about 70 miles per hour when the auto breaking system engaged for no reason and slowed our truck down form 70 to about 35 miles per hour in just 1-2 seconds. . . . I was not able to override by flooring the accelerator for at least 2-4 seconds. . . . A semi truck behind us came within inches from rear ending us!! this issue needs to be addressed by Ford. Its a huge safety issue!!.

When the truck was in cruise control, the engine started randomly downshifting all the way to 1st gard.

Speedometer, odometer, cruise control, blinker control, and transmission shifting quits working. Believe it's the transmission lead frame causing the problem like in the 2011 and 2012 f150's.

While using the adaptive cruise control on my 2015 Ford F-150 (king ranch), my truck will confuse a dump truck as a stopped or slow moving vehicle in front of my truck. This will happen if a dump truck is in the lane beside me or in opposing lanes. This occurs at sow and high speeds. Multiple times this has occurred at 65mph+ in traffic. The truck will very abruptly apply the breaks and the collision warning system will alert. This has almost caused very serious wrecks due to the speeds that it often occurs. This is also not a seldom occurance, it happens every time I pass by a dump truck. It will occur on any and every street. I took the vehicle to a Ford delearship and their solution had no effect on the issue.

Truck was having issues with randomly disengaging from cruise control, loss of power from a stop, and erratic downshifting. On the highway the cruise control would disengage, speedometer would go to 0 then back to its actual speed. From a stop sign/stop light, when the light would turn green the truck would spit and sputter, shifting erratically, rpm would go up but no power. When cruising around 45mph truck downshifted for no reason causing a loud clunking sound, this happened twice consecutively. Took is to simmons rockwell to get it diagnosed, after I had already researched the issue and knew what it was, and they replaced the molded lead frame in the transmission. This was exactly the issue they had that caused the recall on the 2011/2012 models. The repair cost was @ $500. I was just reading an article which stated that the NHTSA may order another recall which would include the 2013 model.