Vehicle stalled in motion. It happened several times, without any warning or any sign of malfunction.
2010 Ford Fusion engine complaints
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Car loses power at highway speed, rpms drop to idle, engine idles rough as if it is not getting sufficient air or fuel, after turning engine off and restarting, engine operation returns to normal. Incident has recurred once.
Engine dropped to 900 RPM. Coasted to stop. Vehicle would not respond to acceleration. Turned engine off and restarted made it to town. Diagnosed by dealership as throttle body. Parts not available till october. They have car we have rental because we had extended warranty. If we didn't have that we would be in trouble.
Just four months after purchasing my so called "certified pre-owned 172 point pass inspected 2010 ford fusion" the car starts acting up while driving down a main street in the middle of town, the car lost all acceleration right after I started taking off from a stop light. The wrench light then came on and the car started to stall out as this was going on I'm also trying to turn left, which was a little scary because I basically cut someone off while turning because, I had no acceleration whatsoever to avoid them. This is a serious problem and I'm not the only one whose had to go through it from all the same complaints I see on the internet. This malfunctioning throttle body needs to be recalled before someone gets seriously hurt!
Tl* the contact owns a 2010 ford fusion. The contact stated that while driving 20 MPH, the check engine warning light illuminated as the vehicle stalled. The vehicle was towed to a dealer for diagnosis and the contact was informed that the electronic throttle body would need to be replaced. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The vehicle had not been repaired. The failure and current mileage was 81,000. The consumer stated the vehicle stalled multiple times, before it stopped completely. Updated 10/22/13
Driving on highway, traveling at appx 65-70 miles per hour - car started rattling and then slowed down considerably - car did not stall, but pressing on the gas pedal and the car did not accelerate. Was able to safely pull over, turned the car off, tried to drive, but the car wouldn't drive - engine worked fine, but car would not move forward or backward. Yellow wrench light came on. Had car towed to dealership. Was told it needs a new throttle body assembly.
While on the freeway doing approximately 65-75 MPH, my vehicle lost power, the wrench light came on the dash, and the vehicle began to stall. I pulled over to the side of the freeway, turned the car off, and restarted. It was fine after restarting. A couple days later the incident occurred again. Within 4 days, my vehicle began to have 4 episodes on my 11 mile commute. These issues during rush hour traffic prompted me to bring it in to the dealership asap as I did not feel safe driving it any longer. My vehicle is currently at the dealership awaiting diagnosis and repair. After a google search, I am fairly certain that the diagnosis will involve the throttle body.
I was traveling down a 2 lane highway (state road, pa) when the car began to rapidly lose acceleration and seemed to stall. The engine jerked excessively, but never turned off. No amount of pressing the accelerator made any difference. I coasted to the side of the road safely. Luckily, no one hit me. Turned engine off and called for roadside assistance. Turned the vehicle on a few minutes later and everything was fine. The yellow wrench light came on when accelerator lost control. Next day, while driving to work , it happened on rt13n de and again I was lucky to be able to quickly get to the emergency lane. Yellow wrench light and no control on accelerator with engine vibrating heavily but does not turn off. Switched off and turned on - everything is fine. Same day evening - returning from work - it happens as I get on the entry ramp to i95 n de. Narrowly missed someone rear ending me. Yellow light, heavy vibration and no acceleration. Turn off and turn on, everything is fine. Being in downtown wilmington - no emergency lane and had to do this right in the middle of the road during rush hour. This sudden loss of power is extremely scary and with 2 children in the back seat - I fear for their safety. Imagine if this is happens on the interstate with a 18 wheeler behind you. Will be taking to dealer first thing in the morning. Vehicle is serviced and maintained only by ford. No one has touched my vehicle other than ford authorized dealer and have not missed a single ford recommended maintenance service.
We were going down the interstate and my car started shaking and died out. This continued 6 more times before we found a valvoline and had them test it on their computer. It gave the code p2111 tac system open. Now the code is gone and the dealer can not fix it unless it displays this code so we have to continue to drive it until the error message shows up again.
On 8/17/13 while driving down the highway at 65 MPH, my car went into (limp mode) would no long accelerate, we safely pulled to the side of the road and the car began to shake violently. We put the car in park and shut it off, we restarted the car and it worked fine, the next occurrence occurred 9/1/13, while accelerating up a freeway ramp, all the same symptoms, again the car restarted fine. Third occurrence 9/2/13 while driving 35 MPH on the street. It seems it is the throttle body. My car is no longer under warranty, I called the ford dealership and they are on "back order for the part," I was also told this part "goes out all the time." I am told it can be up to 1 month for the part to come in! My car is not drivable and is a safety hazard. Luckily, the past three occurrences I was able to pull safely over, but I can not risk, driving it any longer. I am stuck.
I accelerated after a red light and was traveling up an incline and suddenly I had no engine power. I thought car had stalled but all lights were on in the dashboard and I still had steering capability. I coasted down the bridge and pulled off into the first public parking I could find. The car was idling very rough. I shut it off, waited a few minutes and restarted. It started fine and traveled ok on the way home. It seemed a little hesitant a couple times but it didn't repeat the "limp-mode" that it was in previously.
In the past week, my vehicle has "stalled," for lack of a better word, at moderate to high speeds on three separate occasions. The third time this occurred, I was driving uphill during rush hour on "the cut in the hill," a stretch of highway in northern kentucky near cincinnati known for its disproportionately high number of auto accidents. It's a very dangerous place for a vehicle to simply stop at the busiest time of day. Because it was going uphill, the vehicle did not coast to a safer location (or even coast at all) as it had done during previous episodes and I was unable to pull over to the shoulder. I was stuck, broken down, in the middle left lane. I have brought my car into the dealership for this exact issue twice in the past while it was covered under the bumper-to-bumper warranty. They claimed they could not replicate the problem or find a code so it was probably just a fluke and not to worry about it. This time, when I brought my car in last friday 8/30/13, they knew exactly what was wrong with it and had the part to replace it (which was amazing since it's on a national back order because this problem is apparently happening to everyone). My 12 month/12,000 mile certified bumper-to-bumper warranty expired 1,200 miles ago, shortly after the last time I brought it in for service. It took less than an hour for them to call me with a diagnosis. It was a faulty throttle body, just like I had told them, and it cost me almost $600 out-of-pocket to replace it. None of it was covered. Unbelievable. Ford needs to stand behind their product and reimburse me and everyone else with this issue. Unsafe and unfair!
At highway speed, there was a controlled loss of power to the engine. Upon shutting down and restarting, the problem cleared but recurred. The vehicle was serviced and the electronic throttle body was replaced.
Driving on a busy interstate highway when suddenly my car looses power and goes into limp mode. Absolutely no throttle response. Wrench light indicator came on. I pulled over to the side of the road and my car shuttered a bit as I slowed down. Turned the car off and waited a minute before restarting. Restarted sluggishly. Began driving again and no more than 5 minutes later, the same thing happened. This time the check engine light came on. Once again, turned car off, restarted and began driving again. Made it into a local brake/muffler shop where they were kind enough to diagnose the problem for me. Error code p2112 came over with a description about the throttle body actuator being stuck closed. They informed me they've seen this problem many times and it seems to be a common issue. It made sense to me because, leading up to this event, I had been experiencing a lagging throttle. It has happened to me twice more since this initial occurrence.
The car unexpectedly losses power. It has occurred on two occasions. You can continue to press on the gas petal but the car will not increase in speed.you must pull over to the side of the road. Turn the engine off. Wait a few minutes and restart the car in order to gain control of the throttle again. It has a defective throttle body. This is a known issue to ford. They have recalled the 2010 escape for this same issue. Ford needs to recall the 2010 ford fusion for this issue before someone is killed or injured.
My 2010 ford fusion begins to shake, vibrate and then the engine stalls without warning, while driving in traffic. This happens while driving at either interstate speeds or city driving speeds. I have to stop, place my car in park and restart the engine. I have come close to being rear ended by a car behind me, both on the intersate and on city streets.
Driving down highway when wrench lights up and check engine light with no acceleration. Shut car off and was allowed to make it up to 45mph and under 2k rpms. Recall ford fusion throttle bodies!!
Motor power surge a few times then died with 4 lanes of traffic all traveling about 65mlh. Was able to turn key off and restart motor and ran fine the rest of the way home. Today surge a few times but not as often as yesterday.
Going on the highway at 70 MPH, engine just dies on me, forcing me to pull over, it looses all power but it goes to a very low RPM's for a while, engine shakes and after a couple of minutes just turn off, I turn it back on and it runs like nothing happened. I was out of time approximately 200 miles away from home, this condition happened to me for about 15 times in a 100 miles range. Some times it takes place just after leaving a parking lot, some other times at 20 MPH so it is very unpredictible but at the same time pretty dangerous. Every once on a while check engine light goes off, then it is not there.
Like many others, I'm experiencing increasingly frequent acceleration failures (no acceleration with visual cue as well as acceleration surges) consistent with (and identified by dealer as) a malfunctioning etb. Additionally, it seems that the throttle body may be affected by both proximity and stress sensors, as the failures (and generally fairly dramatic drops in speed) tend to occur most frequently at high speeds in heavy traffic. Per ford's response to the safety investigation (inrl-pe13003-57050p), the manufacturer submits that the resulting fmem mode (always the most severe of "good luck with that" in my vehicle's case) allows for safe maneuvering. While this may be true on the test courses in dearborn, I'd gladly volunteer my vehicle to allow my neighbors to re-evaluate this claim in actual lansing traffic.
Vehicle stalled and driver was unable to get the vehicle restarted once it was pulled off the road. Vehicle had to be towed into the nearest ford dealership where it was determined that the throttle body needed to be replaced.
Driver stated that the vehicle was shaking while she was driving it and she was unable to accelerate. She was able to get the vehicle pulled over and turn it off for a few minutes and get it restarted. She took the vehicle to the nearest ford dealership where it was determined that the throttle body needed to be replaced.
Driver was complaining that the vehicle was running rough while driving. The vehicle stalled a couple of times and the driver was able to get it restarted and drive it into the nearest ford dealership. It was determined after diagnostic that it was the throttle body that had gone out and needed to be repaired. The shop told us it would be a minimum of 3-4 days before they received the throttle body assembly before they would even be able to start the repairs.
Driver was driving when the vehicle started to lose power and was getting slower and slower. When the driver pulled over the vehicle was idling and running rough. The vehicle stalled and the driver tried to restart it after letting it sit for a few minutes. She was able to get the vehicle to state back up, but it kept stalling. Vehicle had to be towed to a ford dealership where it was determined that the throttle body needed to be replaced.
Rapid deceleration while on the freeway, wrench sign came on. Pulled on the side of the freeway and car started sputtering and jerking, turned car off turned back on and drive fine. Back on the freeway the next day during rush hour traffic and rapid deceleration happened again. Pulled over in rush hour traffic (very dangerous by the way) turned car off and back on and ran fine. Ford says it will cost me $565.00 for a new throttle body and cam on a 3 year old vehicle that has had regular maintenance.
I was driving and a wrench came on my dash, the car stalled and lost all throttle. Its happened to me before but now its doing it alot more. I am afraid I will get hurt.
Basically the car shut down driving down the pennsylvania turnpike on friday morning at 65 MPH, the car totally shut down. This happened 2 times at 65 MPH and one time at about 25 MPH while entering the turnpike. I was very lucky that the tractor trailer behind me going about 70 MPH, saw something was wrong with my car and had time moved over into the passing or he would have hit my car and killed me. This happen one more time during my morning commute at that speed. I took my car yesterday to the ford dealer and he repaired the throttle body motor assembly. I have notified ford customer service case # cas-#[xxx], but I believe this is an immediate life & health safety recall issue. [xxx] information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
For the last couple of weeks I have been having an issue with my 3 year old ford fusion (2010) started stalling out at random times for no apparent reason. When this happened the first time I called my local dealer and asked him what may be wrong with my vehicle and he said that there was a common issue with the throttle body, which causes the car to stall occasionally and that it would cost me around $350 for the part alone. I believe this to a major safety problem because one time this happened to me I was traveling on the highway at 60mph with a semi-truck behind me and the trucker came very close to hitting me. I also had this happen to me at an intersection while taking off from a red light, turning left. I have done some online research about this issue and it does seem to be a problem amongst many ford fusion owners in cars that are only 2 or 3 years old. If this is such a common occurrence that ford dealers know that this issue exists then I ask why hasn't this part been recalled?
I was driving my car on the expressway and suddenly my engine died with no warning and the rpms dropped. I came very close to an accident and luckily was able to get it off the road. People drive very fast and I feel lucky to be unhurt. I have a defective throttle body and I can no longer drive my car till it is fixed. This is very dangerous and should be recalled. They say the circuit board is faulty and is sending the engine the wrong signal. Someone is going to get seriously hurt or killed . Please add this to your list of other complaints. I bought my car on july 11, 2009 thank u
I was driving home doing about 50 MPH, and all of a sudden the car lost power and I was unable to accelerate. The car started shaking violently and it finally stopped down to about 2-3 MPH. I took it to the ford dealership and had to pay 824.00 to replace the throttle body. Ford never mentioned anything about this being a problem. I have seen numerous news stories about this very problem.
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