2013 Ford Expedition: check engine light

Filed Jul 3, 2025 · Transmission · VA

This has been a great vehicle. We were going down a road around 60 mph and with no warning or symptom the car downshifted from 6th to 1st gear. This caused the rear end to lock up causing the tires to squeal and spin the car around sideways in the road. Luckily nothing was coming. This could have easily been a deadly accident if something was coming. The dealer has said the lead frame was bad a needed to be replaced. They have quoted $1,200. The vehicle only has 117,000 miles on it and it still under the mileage for the extended coverage but not the years. There are tons of vehicles with this transmission and lead frame on the road, this is a major safety issue that should be addressed. A check engine light or no other warnings have ever come on. Having these lead frames out there are just an accident waiting to happen. Luckily, ther was no one coming when mine decided to fail.

Filed Mar 11, 2025 · Transmission · 117,000 miles · MS

The contact owns a 2013 Ford Expedition. The contact stated while driving at 70 MPH, the vehicle downshifted with the check engine warning light illuminated. The contact also noticed that the instrument panel became inoperable and would not function properly when the contact attempted to shift gear. The vehicle was able to restart. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, where it was diagnosed that the output speed sensor had failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The dealer was contacted. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and referred the contact to the federal safety agency Hotline for further assistance. The failure mileage was approximately 117,000.

Filed Mar 2, 2024 · Transmission · TX

I have been having random transmission issues. Its wanting to start off in a high gear. Check engine light comes on. A wrench in the digital display. Speedometer quits working. Sometimes it wont shift, and idles way up by itself. At first turning the key off fixed it for a bit. Now its happening more and more. And now a few times it has downshifted HARD from a high gear to a low one causing us to be in danger on the highway, now fearing for our safety. Now turning off the key is not fixing the problem. It shows a code for output shaft speed sensor circuit fault.

Filed Feb 29, 2024 · Acceleration, Transmission · CA

Since more than 18 months, we have the known intermittent problem described in TSB [XXX], where all of a sudden the wrench appears, speedometer drops to zero and car can't change gear anymore. Sometimes going to manual gears works, sometimes car needs to be stopped, locked and completely shut down several times for the problem to go away. Before turning off, error P0720 appears (as described in TSB [XXX]). Car taken to garage in January 2023 where it was for 3 weeks. Technicians drove it for 11 miles (!) and could not reproduce the problem so could not do the required work ie changing the molded leadframe. Now, in January 2024 the problem happened again and this time the Check Engine light came on. The same error code P0720 was now permanently stored. Took the car to the garage, where they were able to diagnose the problem and ... replaced the molded leadframe. This at an out of pocket cost of $1,300. Contacted Ford and they say there is no program or financial assistance in place for this problem, despite all the information that can be found. It is clear this a general problem of all 6R80 gearboxes beyond the time periods stated in the recall. Ford is negligent by not doing a recall on all cars having this gearbox. Nobody is looking at this issue at Ford, when creating a case number they say no program exists, and state paperwork and proof can be sent to a PO BOX in Dearborn (not even an email address to send attachments in this 21st century). All ways to discourage people to react, send in documents or claim documents did not arrive. INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6)

Filed Jan 17, 2024 · Transmission · 135,000 miles · UT

The contact owns a 2013 Ford Expedition. The contact stated while driving 70 MPH, the check engine warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, who diagnosed a failure with the transmission molded leadframe. The vehicle was not repaired. The vehicle was then taken to the dealer, who confirmed the diagnosis. The vehicle was not repaired. After investigating the failure, the contact related the failure to Customer Satisfaction Program: 19N01, but the VIN was not included. The manufacturer was notified of the failure but referred the contact to the federal safety agency Hotline for assistance. The failure mileage was 135,000.

Filed Nov 20, 2023 · Transmission · 200,080 miles · VA

The contact owns a 2013 Ford Expedition. The contact stated while driving 65 MPH, the vehicle independently decelerated to 0 MPH. The check engine warning light and the wrench symbol was illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the failure was due to a faulty main control valve body in the transmission. The vehicle was repaired; however, the failure reoccurred. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and advised the contact to call the federal safety agency Hotline for assistance. The failure mileage was approximately 200,080

Filed Aug 5, 2020 · Transmission · 155,000 miles · ID

We are experiencing the issues in ford's tsb 13-6-8 the vehicle will suddenly have the speedometer drop to 0, fuel gauge shows empty, wrench or check engine light comes on, and the rpms go extremely high. It is extremely dangerous as it has happened on the freeway at high speeds and also when starting up from a stop light. Ford is only paying for the parts if it's 10 years or 150,000 miles whichever comes first. The vehicle is 7 years old but has 155,000 miles. The repair is $1,100.

Filed Jan 16, 2020 · Brakes, Engine · 102,000 miles · TX

Several stalls followed by crank no start conditions over several months with no associated check engine light, code p0627 while vehicle in motion. 4m auto service center abilene tx performed fuse 27 relocation to fuse 73 accomplished. Vehicle returned to service. Several stalls followed by crank no start conditions over several months with no associated check engine light, code p0627 while vehicle in motion. Code cleared, vehicle returned to service. Stalled followed by crank no start conditions with check engine light, codes p025a, u0109 and p0627 while vehicle stationary. 4m auto service center abilene tx replaced fuel pump control module. Vehicle returned to service. Several stalls followed by crank no start conditions over several months with no associated check engine light no codes. Vehicle owner replaced fuel pump due to burnt wire (see attached photo). Vehicle returned to service. Contacted 4m auto service center, arrow ford abilenetx aand ford motor company customer service.

Filed Jun 16, 2019 · Acceleration, Driver assistance · 131,000 miles · TX

Today as I was driving on perry rd about to turn onto fm 1960 rd e. When I started to accelerate to turn, my transmission down shifted while I'm driving at about 15 miles an hour instead of going up and jerked my car pretty good. I let go of the gas pedal for a second, then tried again slowly. The car started to jerk as if it was struggling to accelerate forward. It did after about 10 seconds. Then the speedometer dropped down to 0 and my digital fuel information that's displayed on my dash dotted out and a screwdriver icon flashed for a few times. The car then started to move smoothly, but seemed stuck in gear. This followed with the tmps sensor kicking on. No check engine lights showed up during this period and when I got to where I was safe, I turned the car off for about 15 minutes. When I turned it on again, it was perfectly normal. This has happened before while I drove on a major highway and it is scary. No diagnostic test has found an issue and I cannot afford to pay for an exploratory service as I just did a coolant repair a couple of weeks ago.

Filed Jun 6, 2019 · Electrical, Seat belts · 96,000 miles · TX

The vehicle will switch gears while travels ng at 70 miles per hour. I immediately pull to side and have to stop automobile and restart. The dash shows motor and check engine. At this time the passenger seat belt will not remain latched. The air conditioner has stopped working. My spouse is a mechanic and checked the plug below the glove compartment. The plug receiver (not sure what it's called ) had a whole melted in bottom of female and of plug.

Filed May 9, 2019 · Transmission · 63,000 miles · AL

My 2013 ford expedition transmission unexpectedly downshifts to a lower gear without input from the driver causing the vehicle to slow down suddenly without warning, or the transmission does not shift up to a higher gear when accelerating. The sudden downshift has occurred at speeds over 50 MPH and caused the rear tires to lock up and skid. These transmission issues are sporadically accompanied by the check engine light and/or wrench icon on the display. My truck is currently with the ford dealer in foley, al for repair. They have told me that cost for repair of this issue is not covered under a recall.

Filed Jan 2, 2019 · Transmission · 135,000 miles · GA

Tl* the contact owns a 2013 ford expedition. While driving, the vehicle started to lose power while accelerating from a complete stop. In addition, the odometer and speedometer stopped working. The contact pulled over and turned off the vehicle. Once the vehicle was restarted, the system reset. The failure occurred several times. The contact stated that the vehicle shifted hard and the check engine indicator illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a parts store and was informed that the turbine speed sensor failed. The contact purchased the part and a mechanic informed her that there was no such part for her vehicle. The dealer was not contacted. The vehicle was taken to another parts place who diagnosed that the computer board (mold lead frame) failed. The manufacturer stated that there was no recall for the vehicle and transferred the contact to the federal safety agency to file a complaint. The extended warranty for the vehicle recently expired. The failure mileage was 135,000.