2016 ford edge titanium approx. Mileage 7600 date: friday september 8, 2017 time: approximately 12:45 p.m. Location: southbound on waukegan road/us highway 41 near intersection with casimir pulaski drive (lighted intersection), waukegan illinois driving southbound in left lane on highway 41 at about 40 MPH. Right lane closed for construction work. Weather clear and dry. Roadway flat and straight. Sudden lack of acceleration even with increased pressure on gas pedal. Dash service light (orange warning) 'hill assist not available' with wrench. Also noticed airbag light was lit. Hit brake pedal to light up the warning lights for traffic behind me and also turned on the hazard flashers. Car engine continued to run but the car would not go above about 1 MPH. Since right lane and shoulder were not accessible, I turned left at pulaski drive to get onto a slower-moving, less-trafficked roadway and pulled to the shoulder. Car was barely moving. Turned off the ignition and waited approximately 20-30 seconds. Turned the car back on and no error messages were displayed. Tested forward and reverse gears while on the shoulder and felt normal acceleration. Made a u-turn back onto pulaski drive, turned left onto highway 41/waukegan road and drove home. Service on 9/12/17 ' only error code was b1111 described by tech as 'ABS parking brake', code cleared by tech. Service on 9/19/17 ' complete diagnostics run ' no error codes. No resolution.
2016 Ford Edge acceleration complaints
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My vehicle was accelerating on a straight section of road during rush hour (had at least a half tank of gas). I was pushing normally on the gas pedal to keep moving and suddenly, without warning, the car decelerated and lost power as if I ran out of gas. It came to a complete stop. No limp mode, I had to coast to a place to pull over. Power was on and all components were working except there was no gas when I pushed the gas pedal. The wrench icon lit up on the dashboard. When I turned off and then restarted the engine the gas pedal worked so I put it in "drive" and accelerated cautiously. After five minutes, I lost power again, just before entering a major highway. The sudden loss of power could have killed me on a highway, or in the middle of any busy intersection, not to mention harm other drivers and passengers. I took it to ford service the next day and they said I had a bad throttle body. It was not contaminated, it just failed. They stated that this was the first time they saw a failed throttle body in a 2016 edge. (13,000 miles). My husband said it happened to him once earlier this year, and he immediately called the service department for advice. He was instructed to turn the car off and it should be fine after starting it back up. It worked. That may be a short term solution - to get home. It is not a solution to this life threatening problem.
I entered on to I-95 interstate on ramp. I looked back over my left shoulder to merge safely along with accelerating and the car decelerated. My 18 year old son was with me and he said you need to accelerate. I told him I could not accelerate. The dashboard displayed a wrench icon along with a message saying see owners manual. After barley being able to pull over to safety I shut the engine off waited a few minutes and restarted it. We were able to restart the car and get home. When I called the dealer they said it's the throttle body. I have a 2016 ford edge with 6,400 miles.
The incident has happened four times, so far, twice within two minutes. Driving down a straight, flat road and the car completely shuts down. Accelerator does not work, air bag sensors deactivate, complete loss of control. Cars behind had to swerve into a ditch to avoid hitting my car because the car completely shuts off with no notice, going 50 MPH. Now happens every time I drive vehicle for longer than 20-25 minutes. Hill start assist not available message appears and car shuts down without warning traveling at high speeds. Service engine light appears and service engine notification. Airbag sensor off light illuminates. I've found this has been a known problem since 2002 and there have been no recalls. They are still manufacturing malfunctioning etb in vehicles and someone is going to die. Thankfully, I was not on the expressway. I have this issue documented on video, as it happens every time I drive my 2016 ford edge. Https://www.law360.com/articles/893102/ford-hit-with-throttle-deceleration-defect-class-action http://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2014/ford-to-fix-cars-limp-home.shtml https://www.cargurus.com/cars/discussion-t35446_ds471580 http://www.autoremarketing.com/retail/ford-to-remedy-etb-issue-without-official-recall
On 4/4/17 my wife was driving our 2016 ford edge (titanium edition) and was talking to me on the phone when the vehicle suddenly shook, lost power, and lost acceleration ability. The yellow wrench, check engine light and air bag light appeared and the power train fault and hill climb assist not available messages appeared on the display. My wife was on the highway going about 70mph when this occurred. She had to try to coast over to the shoulder to pull over to the side of the road.
My ford edge had a sudden deceleration and a dangerous loss of power in the middle of a busy city intersection causing oncoming traffic to come to a halt. The SUV is now causing a traffic jam with my family looking at on coming traffic. Thank goodness we did not have an accident. Right after that episode, the transmission jerked so hard we bounced forward and backwards in our seats. Again, the car had a loss of power. Since that time, my ford edge experienced two other episodes. Ford marketed and sold this vehicle as new with a defective electronic throttle body control. How do I know that? When I took the car to bob tomes ford dealership, I was told the throttle body control had been replaced at 1000 miles. They sold the car as a new vehicle off the lot without revealing it had been driven as a demo vehicle. We bought the car with 1800 miles thinking it had been on the lot for long period of time and driven from another dealership. Ford owes the consumer an advertising campaign about he dangers of sudden unintended deceleration and educate consumers about their pre-purchase legal rights once facts are known. Thousands of owners are in danger because ford refuses to act morally and choosing profit before responsibility.
Vehicle has 4,800 miles. While driving vehicle lost engine power and power steering. Orange wrench icon appears on dash - check engine light also come on. The vehicle will then only travel <5 MPH. Shutting car off and restarting a few times and vehicle is fine. Check engine light goes off after about 15 miles of driving. Problem occurred 3 times. Could be very dangerous if it occurred on a left turn. Dealer replaced throttle body in response.
Tl* the contact owns a 2016 ford edge. The contact stated that the vehicle experienced unintended acceleration at lower speeds. The failure occurred without warning. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, but the failure could not be diagnosed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 172. The VIN was not provided.
The vehicle was in motion in moderate traffic going approximately 45mph when the engine unexpectedly shutoff and the accelerator became non-responsive. Was able to carefully coast the vehicle to the shoulder, put in park, and restart the vehicle. Extremely concerned that this happened as I'm traveling out of state with my family on vacation. We purchased this vehicle brand new within the last 60 days and it has less than 2,000 miles on it. We thought we were getting rid of a lemon vehicle when we traded in for this, but although our last vehicle had a lot of issues it wasn't nearly as concerning or dangerous as this 1 issue with the ford edge. There should be an immediate nationwide recall.
I was driving a rental ford edge and slowed down for a traffic signal. Without warning, the accelerator would not work and SUV was moving at < 10 miles/hr without any acceleration. On contacting the roadside assistance from rental company, I was told that this can happen with this vehicle at 10-12,000 mile mark. I was told to turn off the ignition and turn off after few seconds and it should work. On doing so, I was able to drive for few blocks but the vehicle stalled again. There was no warning on SUV's screen. I was also told by the tow truck operator that he has towed few vehicles with similar issues.
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