The electronic throttle body gets stuck closed. The engine stalls or goes into limp mode. At highway speed I then have to try and navigate a dead car to the shoulder or am stuck in the middle lane with cars going past at 70+ mph. This is a known defect in fords engine and other years/models are recalled. 2017 Ford Expedition needs to be added immediately. This is dangerous.
2017 Ford Expedition acceleration complaints
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When driving at different speeds the throttle body randomly and immediately closes to idle without warning. This happened 4 times before it was replaced. It has been fine since.
I was driving to a scheduled appointment with our local ford dealership for another issue which needed correcting when all of a sudden the vehicle would not accelerate. The cars engine was still running but no acceleration. I managed to get off the road, without being hit, and continued to the dealership. I let them know what had happened but they blamed the incident on a bad battery and I thought the issue was fixed. This is where the issue becomes catastrophic in my opinion. On november 1, 2020 my wife and two friends were in the vehicle and heading out of town. We live in a mountainous part of arizona. Fortunately we were on a fairly level stretch and in the right lane. The vehicle's accelerator again failed to function. We pulled off the road to the shoulder. Turned off the engine, restarted the car and turned around and went back home, about a 120 mile detour. We called the dealership to have them do a diagnostic. They determined it to be a failed throttle body sensor. This incident could have turned out much worse. Had we been passing a truck, caught in the left lane and on a steep grade with no acceleration, who knows the outcome. I contacted ford for them to reimburse me for the cost of the throttle body repair/replacement. They did cover that cost, but I also asked them to give me an assurance the replacement part would not do the same failure after so many miles. By the way our vehicle only had 55k miles when this happened. I have since learned from the dealership that this failure (bad sensor) occurs with frequency in similar vehicles. If the failure occurred in the scenario I mentioned above, who would know it was the throttle body sensor that failed, rather than a driver error. It is a failure that could be catastrophic, and probably has been without consequences. I asked ford why this wasn't a recall action, no response. Where is the federal safety agency?
While driving the 2017 expedition el on a local street, the engine suffered an extreme reduction in power and limited speed to only 5 MPH. After taking the vehicle into the dealer, it was determined the it was a failure of the throttle body.
Started vehicle 2017 ford expedition el limited in morning 9/19/20 idle very heavy engine shook violently no throttle at all placed gas pedal to floor nothing. Ran diagnostics came back as p2112 throttle actuator control stuck closed. Unplugged wiring erased code. And worked fine. I drove it 4 miles throttle stuck closed while driving through busy intersection. Pulled off to side. Unplugged sensor again and car limped back home top speed 40mph. No warning signs previous to this and my warranty just expired 2,000 miles ago. Vehicle has 102,000 miles on it. This is a manufacturer's defect and could have ended very badly. Vehicle dash now has check engine light with a wrench also.
While getting on interstate my 2017 expedition el 4x4 was shifting and coming up to highway speed , when it seemed to run rough and felt like it missed a shift. I let off gas pedal, engine roughness temporarily went away. Now I'm getting closer to getting on highway , applied gas again and engine got rough running again and tool symbol appeared on dash . I lost all acceleration and power to wheels while trying to enter an interstate. Very dangerous and life threatening if I did not have a long shoulder to pull off on. Pulled over stopped engine. Let sit for 5 or so mins. Started up and tool symbol was gone. Got on highway up to speed this time then same thing happened again. Rough running , lost all power to wheels, tool symbol appeared again but got the check engine light this time. Luckily I was passing an exit and had time to get off interstate 77 before I got run over from behind. Stopped n restarted. Got truck to my mechanic and they pulled a throttle body code on the truck. I had them reset code to see if it happens again because I have an ally extended warranty which we'll see how using that goes. I am driving truck with less issues trying to get code to appear again to take to dealer for a fix. Have gotten the tool light to come on 2x but no check engine yet.
Sitting at drive up atm vehicle in park engine running, after business transaction placed right foot on brake and moved vehicle from park to drive and instant independent full acceleration occurred. Brakes had no effect in slowing vehicle. Approximately eight seconds later crashed into vehicle on busy highway my vehicle front end totaled. Steering column collapsed, steering wheel bent, left area of firewall pushed in.. No airbags deployed.. Put seat and shoulder belts kept injures to minor contusions and bruises. *bf*tr
While driving highway speed ~65mph on a straight highway vehicle showed wrench light and loss engine power. Driver had to the side of the highway without speed control. Ignition switch was turned off and back on and the wrench light was gone and the vehicle drove normally. The wrench light turned on again at ~40mph on a city street going straight a few days later. The driver again had to pull to the side and reset the ignition to regain accelerator control. Vehicle diagnostic was run and no codes were stored.
Vehicle suddenly looses engine power while driving and goes into safe (or limp) mode. Stepping on the accelerator does nothing, it doesn't even rev the engine, it's similar to being in neutral. It has occurred on 3 separate occasions, months between events - first, while attempting to accelerate onto an interstate highway, we suddenly lose engine power while attempting to merge into the right lane of traffic. We forced to slide over onto the right shoulder and stop. Second occurrence happened while driving down a city street. We suddenly lose engine power and are forced to turn onto a neighborhood street and come to a complete stop. Third time, again driving down a city street, suddenly lose engine power but there was no where to pullover or side street to turn onto. We forced to stop the vehicle in the middle road. Luckily no one was directly behind us. In all cases, turning the engine off, waiting a minute, and then restarting the vehicle "fixed" or cleared the issue and we were able to continue driving. No obd-ii codes thrown after the event. Ford dealer replaced the electronic throttle body and so far we haven't seen the issue.
Last week, my 2017 ford expedition experienced a situation where while driving the vehicle suddenly stopped running. I was forced to coast over to the side of the road when this happened, as the engine was running but my accelerator pedal was not operating and the vehicle would not move. Fortunately, after shutting the vehicle off, I was able to restart it and continue driving. In the space of 24 hours this happened six (6) times. After the sixth occurrence, I drove to the ford dealership and they diagnosed the issue as a throttle body and motor.
Tl* the contact leased a 2017 ford expedition. While attempting to park the vehicle with the brake pedal depressed, the vehicle began to accelerate independently and crashed into a tree. The air bags deployed. A police report was filed. The contact sustained a concussion, lacerations to the left shin, and bad bruises to the right side of the neck and shoulder. Medical attention was required. The vehicle was towed from the scene. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The VIN was invalid. The failure mileage was approximately 25,600.
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