general problems of the 2010 Ford Flex

Leaving home to go to the grocery store and as I exited my street a dash warning came on stating "power steering assist" fault steering wheel locked up making it impossible for me to steer. Fortunately this happened in a spot where there was no other traffic and I was able to just turn off the car and restart and the message was gone and my steering was restored. I am now terrified to drive my car because if this had happened in traffic there could have been a serious accident because steering capability was non existent. . In reading online this is a very common problem with my make and model and apparently there was a recall by Ford for 2011 and later cars but not 2010 even though it is a "known problem" at dealerships. For me this now seems intermittent but in calling the dealership they know of the issue. It would cost me about $2200 to fix. I am happy to provide my vehicle for inspection. Thank you so much for your help . . . Greatly appreciated.

On the road and power steering went out and was super hard to turn.

Vehicle loses power steering intermittently upon vehicle startup as well as in motion. Vehicle is then extremely hard to control without power steering. Message " power steering assist fault" prints to the instrument cluster above the steering wheel. Turning the vehicle off and back on may resolve problem but it returns within a couple key cycles.

Intermittent electrical failure of the advance trak traction control system causes the vehicle to unexpectedly pull to the left or to the right while under acceleration on vehicle speeds above 20 mph without indication from the tell-tale to the operator to indicate there is a problem or intermittent failure of the traction control system. This unexpected pull to the left or right is violent enough to cause the vehicle to veer across the centerline of a lane, potentially causing a risk to oncoming traffic and well as the operator of the vehicle to become involved in a crash. The failure will continue to occur intermittently without indication to the driver until the event occurs frequently enough during an ignition cycle to trigger the tell-tale to indicate a failure of the advance trak system, but this tell-tale on the dash only stays lit during the current ignition cycle and will not be present on the next ignition cycle, again failing to indicate the intermittent failure of the advance trak traction control system via the warning light tell-tale on the dashboard.

After starting the car, a message lit in the counsel stating power steering assist fault. I could not move the steering wheel and had to reset the system and restart the car. This happened once in my driveway and a second time in the wall-mart parking lot. Feeling unsafe I drove my car directly to our mechanic and after diagnostic, it was determined a replacement of the power steering gear assembly. I have enclose the receipt for the work done.

Vehicle was in motion at 75 mph when the electronic power assist failed. The car turned to the right unexpectedly. After that the car was extremely hard to steer. I was able to get the car home with no incident. The power steering rack was replaced.

Power steering assist and advancetrac both failed at the same time. It is showing on the driver information screen. There are no codes with a code reader.

I turned my car on to back out of my driveway and had no power steering and on my dash it said power steering fault. This is a Ford limited 2010 with ecoboost engine and parking assist. This part has been recalled on every other Ford but my year. It is undrivable because the powersteering could gonout at anytime. The part from Ford is 2643 plus labor. I only had 119,000 miles on my Ford.

The electric power steering assist systems intermittently fails resulting in the loss of steering. This happens mostly at startup and most of the time requires turning the engine off and then restarting the engine to get the electric power steering assist systems to function. I have had the vehicle to a Ford dealer for this problem but they refuse to do anything about it unless they see it happen, which would be very difficult to do since it is a known intermittent problem. My understanding is that there is a recall for this exact problem for 2011 - 2013 Ford Flex's. For some reason the 2010 Flex is not included in the recall. This has been happening for about six weeks now but again the problem is very intermittent. At this point I am afraid for the safety of myself and my family.

When starting the car the power steering would not work with a "power steering system fault" and"adv trac fault" warning on the dash. For a few days we could try restarting the car and have power steering until it had a complete failure. Had the whole power steering rack replaced at Ford dealership at a cost of $1975.

Power steering went out. Towed to Ford dealer. They replaced the steering gear assembly ($2,145. 00). Two hundred miles later the same thing happened again. Towed to the same Ford dealer, after two days they tell me the tire pressure was low. I don't believe it but will drive some more. When these incidents occurred we were driving on state highways at 40 mph +/- pulled over and stopped and lower speeds the vehicle was impossible to steer. Vehicle mileage 72997 and we are original owner.

Steering goes into manual mode. It just started went away for two days then came back. Seems very similar to Ford Flex 2011 recall. Came close to having an accident as manual steering was at all levels of speed. Today it is back to normal, and it is easy too steer. Concerned that it will happen again and cause an accident.

While driving 30 mph the car simply dies. All lights come on and the car just shuts off. Left with no brakes, steering, or control. Dealer brought in engineer, after a week with the car dealer cannot replicate problem. Ford motor company decides nothing is wrong and force me to take dangerous car back. Incident occurred twice in the month of April/may.