Cps- cam position sensor failures. 2001 f350 7.3 powerstroke. While driving thru a construction zone on I-40 westbound, truck just died. Luckily I was able to get off the road with out being run over by extremely heavy traffic. Truck was towed to ford dealer and the technician said truck died to cps failure. 02/2005. Cps failure again,04/18/2007 but thank god this time it was in the intel parking lot. I had truck towed home. 107 dollars for cps. Replaced cps and truck is once again running fine. Ford corporation is fully aware of this problem with this sensor and will do nothing about it. This is a extremely dangerous problem that could have ended tragically for me.
2001 Ford F-350 SD electrical complaints
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Ford f350 super duty xlt lariat 7.3l powerstroke diesel 2001 model my truck has a factory installed engine block heater, which I have to use to get it to start on cold mornings. At 7:15am, I was talking to my wife on our cordless phone & it went dead. After some searching, I found out that the circuit breaker had tripped. This circuit breaker powers the wall the phone base station was plugged into, and that wall is shared with the garage. After some more searching, I could not locate the short that caused the trip and I reset the breaker. It tripped again. I had to take my daughter to school, so I figured I would wait and look some more when I came home. I opened my garage door to find my truck on fire. The plug for the engine block heater had shorted out, melted & caught fire....this caught my truck on fire. The back side of the plug had melted and the wire had burned and become disconnected. No other part of the wire was damaged....only the plug. I called ford, and they said that it was not part of a recall & the could do nothing for me. My concern is that, other than feeling a little "put out" at the situation & how I was treated by ford, what if I had pulled my truck as far forward as I usually do.....there is an ornamental pine tree at the corner of my house......and the flaming molten plastic from my truck had dripped on the pine needles & caught the pine tree on fire........this would have engaged my home. And, what if it had happened at night & I had not put it out right away. I don't want this to happen to someone else. By the way, the plug on my engine block heater has always been warm to the touch when plugged in. I have never had a diesel before & assumed this was normal due to the amount of electrical current that the heater pulled, and the mechanic said this was true. My new engine block heater works just fine & the plug is not warm to the touch. Obviously, it was defective from the time I bought it.
(1) on 13 dec 06 truck (approximately 57000 miles on vehicle) quit running on main artery, no leading symptoms (2) had truck serviced at black forest auto center (local) and replace cps- cam positioning sensor (3) truck runs fine...this is the second.
My f-350 super duty diesel suddenly shut down while driving during rush hour without any warning, losing total power: power steering and brakes. Not being able to move it due to traffic and since it wouldn't start police were notified so that an accident would not occur. Eventually it was towed to a near by parking lot and then towed directly to the dealer where they notified me that my cam sensor was bad and needed to be replaced. Not thinking much of it a few days later someone told me that they are known for going bad and I had better keep one in my glove box as a spare or I might find myself stranded again. This concerns me since my wife sometimes drives it and we have 3 children, not to mention that it cost me $420.00.
Cps failure. Shuts truck down. Brakes are boosted via power steering. Resulting in loss of brakes.
2001 ford f-350. Engine stalling, hesitation. Advised problem was cps failure, common problem on ford powerstroke diesels. After many stalls, old cps was replaced, was advised that cps failure can happen often, even with a new unit. Old cps is available. No accident has occurred yet but I'm concerned that another cps failure could be catastrophic.
I have a 2001 ford f-350 with the 7.3 diesel motor. I have replaced the cam sensor in it twice and there are many people on the internet upset about this. When the cam sensor fail the truck shuts down which causes loss of power steering, power brakes, and all control of the truck and there is no way to tell when it is going to fail. For has no recalls on this sensor and has had many problems with it and nothing is being done. If this problem is not fixed then its is going to kill someone if it hasn't already. I tow a 3-car hauler with this truck, it's really dangerous when the engine shut down with no warning. Sometimes the engine may be restarted and other time I had to wait 45 minutes.
Spark plug blow out on my 01 ford f-350 v-10. Loss of power un drivable. The truck only has 35k miles. I called coley ford to get info, they told me to call ford customer care to se if they can help with the expensive costs! I was basically told to bad cant help, & it only had 35k miles at the time it happened but was almost 4 yrs after time of purchase.
Electronic problem, causing the vehicle to stall, it stall on the freeway causing a collison betweeen my vehicle and a semi, semi sideswiped my vehicle tearing off the driver's side mirror.
Consumer states there is a popping noise from the front end when turning the wheels while standing still. Dealer found leaf springs rusty and dirty.
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