2010 Ford F-150: engine overheating

Filed Jul 28, 2023 · Brakes · 45,000 miles · TX

The contact owns a 2010 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle overheated. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, where the brake pads were replaced; however, the failure recurred. The contact related the failure to an unknown recall regarding the electrical system with the brakes. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 45,000.

Filed Oct 28, 2019 · Electrical · 120,000 miles · FL

Tl* the contact owns a 2010 ford f-150. The contact stated that the vehicle did not restart after fueling the vehicle at a fuel station. The vehicle was towed to autonation ford panama city (730 west 15th st, panama city, fl 32401) where it was determined that the 20 amp fuse number 27 was overheating and needed to be relocated. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The vehicle was in the process of being repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 120,000.

Filed Sep 2, 2019 · Electrical, Seats · 129,682 miles · MD

The truck driver heated seat wires overheated and began to catch fire. The wires melted and caused the excessive heat to catch the foam and fabric to burn. The heated seats were not turned on at the time.

Filed Jul 18, 2019 · Visibility · 164,000 miles · FL

When you press the window defrost button the right panel of the rear glass overheats and shatters. This has happened twice now when leaving the house. The first time it happened the truck was 1 year old in 20 degree weather with frost on the windows and the second time was 80 degree weather with windows fogged up. It's very startling to hear an explosion right behind your head when you are driving sounding like and gunshot or brick being thrown into the vehicle

Filed May 13, 2019 · Electrical · 82,000 miles · CA

Truck was parked hooked to a camper when I tried to start the truck it would not start. Had to tow the truck to the ford dealer they told me it was the fuse that overheated they would have to replace it with a fuse kit. The dealer said it was not covered under my extended warranty but I did however see an article in cars.com stating that ford was replacing this free of charge. It seems to me that ford is aware of this fuse that overheats and in fact sells a fuse kit that relocates this fuse at a charge of $480 but I'm sending this survey hoping to overturn this. According to other ford owners this issue has occurred while driving and seems very unsafe I was fortunate enough to be parked and just inconvenienced.

Filed Oct 16, 2018 · Electrical · 90,000 miles · OH

Rear defrost glass shattered after using the rear defroster. The rear defroster stopped working but started working again, only to result in overheating and shattering the glass. The shattering occurred while driving between 30-40 MPH, the temperate while cool (around 45 degrees). I was driving straight and it was dark.

Filed Oct 3, 2018 · Acceleration · 178,000 miles · TX · fire

While on my regular commute to work as I drove onto the highway frontage road I slowly began to accelerate when suddenly my truck started accelerating on its own. So much so that I was no longer controlling its speed. Realizing this I had to apply both feet simultaneously on the brakes in order to slow the vehicle enough to put it in neutral then finally I was able put it in park. Unbelievably the engine was still running at high rpms even though it was in park. It wasn't until after I turned the engine off that the RPM's stopped. Immediately after this I saw smoke coming from both of the front wheel wells. As I got out of the truck I realized that both sets of brakes were on fire. This caused irreparable damage to the braking system as the components had become extremely overheated. The instance of the engine running high rpms also occurred the night before. However this time my wife was driving. We were in a parked position after fueling up the truck and were getting ready to leave the gas station. My wife just applied the brakes and put the truck back in park then the RPM's calmed down. We just kind of dismissed it until less than 12 hours later the above mentioned incident occurred. Coincidence I think not.

Filed Oct 24, 2016 · Visibility · ND

Tl* the contact owns a 2010 ford f-150. While driving 65 MPH, the rear window defroster was activated and the rear passenger windshield fractured without warning. The dealer diagnosed that the rear defroster overheated and caused the rear window to fracture. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was not available.

Filed Mar 22, 2016 · Visibility · 12,000 miles · NY

Tl* the contact owns a 2010 ford f-150. The contact stated that the rear defrost system was defective. The rear defrost system overheated, causing the rear windshield to fracture. The vehicle was previously taken to the dealer for the failure; however, the dealer replaced the rear windshield and did not provide a diagnostic to locate the cause of the defrost system overheating. The windshield was not replaced. The manufacturer was not notified. The approximate failure mileage was 12,000. ...updated 04/12/16 *bf

Filed Dec 27, 2015 · Electrical · 83,000 miles · TN

Truck stalls coming to a stop at red lights/stop signs. Also stalls while simply driving down a street or highway/interstate. After shutting down recently (while driving on the interstate), the truck was towed. I was traveling at 65mph on interstate at the time and was able to drift into emergency lane. After several tests, learned there was a problem in the fuse box. The fuse to the fuel pump was melted in the fuse box. Was told the fuel pump on these years pulls more than required amps and is overheating the fuse and melting it. Was told the fuse box would need to be replaced and ford has a 4 to 6 week back order on these. Because of so many issues. Not fair for consumers to pay for this engineering mistake.

Filed Jul 29, 2015 · Electrical · LA

Tl* the contact owns a 2010 ford f-150. While driving approximately 70 MPH, the vehicle suddenly stalled. The vehicle was towed to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the main harness cable connection to the fuse box overheated and malfunctioned. The harness was replaced, but the failure recurred. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was not available.

Filed Apr 25, 2014 · Visibility · 37,000 miles · MI · 1 injury

Driver side pane of 3-paned rear window spider web cracked throughout the entire thing, from rear defrost overheating. While taping window up, I could feel tiny shards of glass falling off and sometimes cutting me.