Tailgate Problems of Ford F-250 - part 1

When I left work my tailgate was closed and had not been opened for several days. When I got home, my tailgate was open and all my tools had fallen out of the truck. My truck was serviced 2 years ago for this type of issue. The repair needed to be done twice as the first time my tailgate would no longer open at all.

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The contact owns a 2018 Ford F-250 the contact stated while driving at various speeds the liftgate would unlock resulting in the gate falling down subjecting the contents of the flatbed to the roadway. The contact stated no warning lights was illuminated. The vehicle was diagnosed but not repaired. The manufacturer was informed of failure and told the contact that they were unable to assist. The failure mileage was approximately 20,000.

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Tailgate continues to unlatch on its own while in motion. Was supposed to be fixed during a recall.

Was driving down the highway , tailgate opened on its own and tailgate fell off.

The electronic tailgate has opened by itself twice. One in a parking lot (not moving) and the other in my driveway (not moving). The only common thing is that it was raining both times.

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Truck tailgate opens randomly. This was a problem on over 20 occasions before the Ford superduty tailgate recall was implemented. However, since the recall fix was implemented on my truck in March 2020, the tailgate has opened on it's own at least 6 more times! usually I discover the tailgate has opened upon reaching a destination, but of the several times it has opened and I've heard the thunk, it seems to occur when the truck is at rest and I have just shifted the transmission from park to drive, drive to reverse, reverse to drive, etc. Most recently on 10/26/2020.

Backing up in reverse with a trailer. Clear skies, dry weather and during daylight. Tailgate opens and hits the trailer jack causing extensive damage to tailgate, tailgate rail, pull out step.

Tailgate opens while towing a trailer.

Tailgate open while towing trailer.

Tailgate will not open, using button on truck or on key pod.

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My truck tailgate is opening without cause. It happened 3 times before a recall was supposedly completed in January and has happened 3 times since. Twice when pulling a trailer just after starting to backup. That last was when my car play malfunctioned with the apple phone. During troubleshooting work the tailgate opened while sitting in my driveway. I have damage to then gate caused by a trailer strike on 1 opening and the dealership is not helpful and has not taken this seriously. This will happen again. .

While a trailer is attached to the truck, the tailgate opens automatically and without warning. The problem does not occur every time but does occur often while towing. It typically opens when first starting to move, whether forward or reverse. It may open repeatedly after closing and attempting to start moving again.

Unintended tailgate openings ; going down the road at about 60 miles per hour the tailgate came open and lost some cargo . The vehicles behind mine had to change lanes as well as go off the road in order to avoid a collision . This has happened over 11 times . Three times the vehicle was not moving , all other times the vehicle was moving. Ford has tried to to repair the vehicle with no success . This vehicle has been out of service over 70 days since new . The entire wiring harness has been replaced , Ford put in the identical harness with no new improvements . The problem still exists . Ford also claims they don't have any problems with unintended tailgate openings . This a serious safety hazard . The vehicle was on a major highway when this event occured .

On more than 20 separate occasions the tailgate has randomly opened on its own while truck was in motion on highway. In one instance this allowed the load I was carrying at 55 mph to fall out the back of the truck and onto the highway nearly causing an accident.

I have owned a 2017 f250 super duty vehicle for a little over a year and twice the tailgate has opened when driving. The first time was not long after I had the truck in the fall of 2018 and thought maybe I had left it down, although it made no sense since I had not loaded anything in the bed of the truck, but someone waved me down in the neighborhood as I was driving out of the neighborhood. However, on the expressway, less than five weeks ago, in austin, texas (we live in atlanta and was visiting our son,) the tailgate came down and a piece of luggage fell out in heavy traffic and I was only notified of the problem after several drivers came up beside us and yelled out their windows that the tailgate was down. To my knowledge no auto was damaged behind us but hard to know for sure since we were going about 35 miles per hour and not sure how far back the piece of luggage fell out. Sadly it had some of my wife's medicines and other items amounting to approximately $600 in total value and we could not recover the piece of luggage. Luckily the other items did not fall out (several heavy boxes of items for our son). In looking online today, I found that other owners have had this problem and wanted to report it. I will be glad to furnish additional information if required.

Tailgate opened on its own causing damage to tailgate while backing trailer. This happened during cold weather down to 5 degrees on hunting trip and happened several times. Has not happened since in warmer weather. Wondering if it could be frozen latch ?.

The tailgate is coming down while driving all by its self. It has already been crushed by a trailer that was being pulled and Ford will not cover the cost of the replacement.

While putting my f250 in gear (drive), the truck tailgate was automatically opened, which then crunched into my goose neck trailer when making a right hand turn. The tail gate has opened 3 time, without user intervention, in the first 6 weeks I've owned the vehicle.

The tailgate is electronic and is opening on it's own while in motion. With my 5th wheel RV connected I cannot tell when the tailgate opens and this time it damaged both the tailgate and my RV when I made a right turn. I also lost cargo that was in the bed.

I am having the same issue as in case # pe18-011. My tailgate will open randomly on its own. The tailgate release will actuate over and over when the button is pushed once. Took it to a Ford dealer and they confirmed that it is the same issue as TSB 17-2196. Water gets into a wiring harness. This should be a safety recall as the tailgate opening while towing could cause a limit to steering ability as the tailgate can make contact with the front of the trailer. It can also cause damage to the tailgate itself if it lands on something.

The tailgate opens by itself. It has happened when parked. It has happened when moving in town, and on the highway. It is a base model with a manual tail gate, so no key fob release could cause it. The truck has done it a lot, and there is no pattern to it.

Tailgate latch gets stuck and also drops while driving and turning. The tailgate dropped involuntarily when I was hauling my horse trailer and damaged both my truck tailgate and my trailer jack. I had to close the tailgate again to get my horses off the road and now the tailgate is stuck and I cannot unhitch my trailer.

Tl the contact owns a 2017 Ford F-250. While driving 55 mph, the automatic tailgate activated independently. The contact pulled the vehicle over off of the roadway and closed the tailgate. When the contact re-entered the vehicle, the tailgate activated independently again. The vehicle was taken to gjovik Ford inc (located at 2600 us-34, sandwich, IL 60548, (630) 552-8058) where it was diagnosed that water made contact with the wiring harness that controlled the tailgate. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 37,000.

I continue to have issues with the tailgate opening on its own. Today it came down sometime while I was traveling down the interstate to work. I will eventually loose something out of the back, and I have a cover on the bed, so I cannot see when the tailgate is down. My truck does not fall in the time frame Ford has on their TSB so I the dealership cannot address the problem. May truck was an August build and the TSB for the problem only covers trucks built up to July.

Tl the contact owns a 2017 Ford F-250. While the vehicle was reversing and towing a 26 foot trailer, the tailgate dropped down and crashed onto a tool box. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was taken to five star Ford (3800 highway 78, snellville, GA 30039, (678) 384-4242) where it was determined that the vehicle was not covered under a warranty. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and provided case number: cas16909652. A decision on repairing the vehicle was pending. The failure mileage was 75,000.

3 times my tailgate has opened spontaneously. Twice while driving in rain on a highway, and once while driving in snow in town. I have been unable to replicate the problem myself. It seems to be random. I have 6000 miles on the vehicle now.

I recently parked my tt at our new RV campground. While backing it up the gate opened randomly in the middle of a turn and dented the top of my tailgate. Extremely upset I new it was going to be a hard case to submit to warranty for them to believe that it wasn't user error. A few days later I left work and drove 20 miles down the highway only to get to where I was going and get out of my truck to see the tailgate down with a full propane tank in the back an a $1000 worth of fishing poles. Today I took my wife to lunch and when we parked and got out the gate was down again. We ate went a few miles down the road, shopped and unlocked the doors using the fob and the gate dropped. That's twice in one day. It was getting worse. Shortly after, I got a last minute call to move my tt due to rising waters here in buchanan at the RV park and while I was getting ready to leave the gate opened on its own while the doors were unlocked. So I got out my camera and closed the gate. Within 20 seconds it opened again. This time I video taped it and texted the video to my Ford warranty rep. I rushed my truck to covert Ford and by gods good grace the tailgate opened repeatedly in front of every Ford rep working. I'll let you know what they find. My truck is a 2017 f250 lariat ultimate. I have a video but it is 9. 63mb. Email me if you want it.

Twice now I've had the tailgate of my truck (lariat) has opened on its own. I'm unable to reproduce the fault so I haven't taken it in yet, but both openings were unexpected.

Automatic electric tail gate opens randomly without driver selection. This has happened several times while vehicle is moving and has caused damage to tailgate and travel trailer. No indication tailgate is open given to driver. This happened within the first 100 miles after purchase, the first time. It happened several times after that. Last incident I had just pulled onto the freeway and was flagged down by a passing trucker while I was driving at 65mph that my tailgate had opened. Imagine if something had fallen out of the bed of my truck and caused another motorist to crash. I had heard a creaking sound while turning onto a roadway with my airstream travel trailer attached. The tailgate had crunched against the propane bottles causing damage to the tailgate, the propane bottles, and the cover. This had happened to me several times in other instances but thought it was a fluke until this last event while towing my airstream travel trailer. I contacted Ford dealer where I purchased in austin; they submitted to Ford and Ford said they would pay part of the bill, but I am on the hook to pay also. This is a Ford wiring harness issue. Several other people have reported same issue. Ford should fix this 100% before something serious accident occurs from items falling out of the back of the truck when bed opens automatically.

Power tailgate is coming open while driving. Tailgate was damaged due to it coming open while towing a trailer. Tailgate has opened on two occasions and requiring replacement both times. Both times the tailgate has come open it has been while there was a trailer connected. Once while driving down the highway and the other while pulling out of a parking lot. First occurrence was 05/22/2018 and the second occurrence was 10/08/2018.

Automatic tailgate assist just randomly goes down either while driving, while in park, or even just for no reason. This happened while in park with a trailer on the back and caused $2000 in damage which we had to pay for. Luckily all the other times it has happened, there was not a trailer on the back. We were not touching the key fob, so it didn't get "pinched" in a pocket or anything.

My 2017 Ford sd F-250 tailgate has opened by itself on several occasions. Several times last year both stationary and in motion. It has happened twice this year while stationary. I've never seen it happen in real time only after it has happened. In 2017 on 2 different occasions I was going down the highway and passing cars pointed to my tailgate. This year 2018 the truck was parked at work for several hours and when I walked to it the tail gate was wide open. The key fob is always in my front pants pocket.

The automatic tailgate in the 2017 king ranch f250 can come open without any warning when in drive. This has happened to me at least 4 times; most recently while pulling my airstream trailer while in utah, causing damage to my airstream propane bottles, the aluminum cover, and also putting a dent in my f250 tailgate. This issue could cause serious problems in traffic, should something fall out of the back during this malfunction. My experience recently: I had just entered the freeway and was accelerating to freeway speeds in utah, after a quick stop for takeout breakfast at mcdonalds. A trucker flagged me down to pull over as I entered the freeway. He ran back and told me my tailgate was open. Upon inspection, it appeared the open tailgate had caused damage to my propane tanks on my airstream, the aluminum cover, and also put a dent in the tailgate when leaving mcdonalds parking lot onto the street to get back onto the freeway. We were lucky nothing had fallen out of the rear bed, as it was packed with camping gear. The automatic tailgate can only be activated by the �keyfob� or by manually pressing the release button on the tailgate when unlocked. 1) there is no way to open or lock the tailgate other than the push button on the tailgate or with the keyfob. 2) there is no indication the tailgate is down, once in drive. (safety issue) 3) the tailgate can/does open intermittently on occasion while in drive without any operator intervention.

My wife and daughter were traveling south on interstate 55 north of sikeston, missouri. My wife was driving the truck. And was at the time of the incident passing a semi-truck. She noticed the truck lost power in the engine and a light came on on the dash. A message appeared on the dash relating to the power loss. She was able to get the truck to the shoulder safely. As soon as she stopped the truck, she noticed smoke coming from under the hood and told our daughter to get out of the truck. As soon as they got to the tailgate flames started shooting out of the truck. She saw that the fire started on the lower right hand side of the engine with flames dropping down about one foot from the front passenger tire. This is the location of the oil filter on the truck. The truck was soon engulfed in flames. This incident happened at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon. She had the oil changed at the Ford dealership in cape girardeau, missouri (Ford groves) earlier that day. Luckily there were no injuries and only property damage resulting from the fire. If there had been a child in a child restraint, it could have been tragic. The truck was towed by d & k towing and stored at their facility in sikeston. The scott county fire department responded to the fire. The truck and thousands of dollars in personal property were destroyed in the incident.

Truck has auto tailgate release. Truck was stationary. The tailgate has dropped / released twice by itself. Tailgate released and dropped while truck was not in park. One time this occured when I released the parking brake. When this happens I need to exit and close the tailgate. Concerned that when this happens cargo could drop out onto the road and cause an accident and or cargo could be stolen from the truck bed.