For several months the vehicle has been randomly shutting off mid-drive. Followed by that the check engine light and a wrench light would light up. A week ago we received letter in the mail from ford saying that our vehicle is eligible for new throttle body since there has been issues since manufactured, which perfectly explained our problem. We took it to ford, where they replaced the throttle body. However, only a week later the car is back to the same throttle body part problem. On saturday, 6/28/14 at around 11:40pm the car turns off mid-drive right before I cross over a major intersection, rt 130 and rt 30 in collingswood, nj area. I quickly braked and turned the engine completely off before I passed the white line. I sat through an entire green and red light. Once the light turned green again, I started the car back up and pressed my gas pedal. The car instantly turned off again, where I was now caught in the intersection. There was no momentum, so I very slowly coasted through during the green light, yellow light, and possibly some of the red light. Luckily, I made it through the intersection out of harm, but I was at a great risk of getting t-boned by oncoming traffic on a major street such as route 130 especially late at night. Obviously, the new throttles do not fix the problem. I no longer feel safe driving this car after this near fatal incident. Is ford going to wait until there is fatalities from this manufactured malfunction before they act and recall this make and model?
2010 Ford Fusion engine complaints
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I was driving to get lunch and experienced a complete loss of power in my car and say the wrench light and engine light illuminate. I managed to pull off the road and after lurching to a stop, I shut the car off, waited a moment and started it again. After picking up my lunch, the same thing happened and I barely got off the roadway. I plugged a diagnostic machine into the car which informed me that the throttle body was "stuck open."
Tl* the contact owns a 2010 ford fusion. The contact stated that while driving approximately 45 MPH, the vehicle jerked and the rpms decreased. The failure was experienced multiple times. The vehicle was not repaired and the manufacturer was not notified. The approximate failure mileage was 110,000.
We had been driving for 175 miles on the highway with the cruise control set. The car suddenly lost power with no warning and started slowing down. The service engine light came on as did the symbol of a wrench. I pulled off to shoulder. The car was idling very rough. Stepping on the gas did not raise the engine speed. I shut the engine off and looked under the hood. There was nothing obviously wrong. I tried to restart the engine. It started and ran just fine. The warning lights were off. About 16 miles later the same thing happened. There was a small ford dealer a few miles away so I took it in. The person I spoke with was aware of this issue and indicated there was a service bulletin about it. Apparently the problem is with the throttle body. They did not have one available. He said the car should always restart and we should be able to make it home. We drove the next 300 miles wondering what would happen. The car was fine for the rest of the trip. When we got home I looked this up on the internet and found countless postings of the same issue. It is obviously well known. Given this, I think there should be a recall. This is very dangerous. We were on vacation (myself, wife, children) on a rural highway when the engine failed the first time. A semi truck was behind us and started catching up fast as I drifted off to the shoulder. They were blowing the air horn at me because there was another truck coming the other way and he could not move over.
I noticed several times that the car tends to shift hard (automatic transmission). Now I've had a problem with the transmission light coming on, the car stalling, and starts shimmying and shaking. Had it back to the dealer on monday and they said they fixed it. However, this morning, I had the same incident occur. It is now back at the dealer to have it checked and hopefully fixed without any cost to me. I will be trading this ford for another make of car. I had similar problems when I owned a ford edge and traded it in. I also had problems with the ford edge mytouch screen going out on me as well.
I was driving at 50 MPH when the engine stopped working, even as I floored the accelerator. The lights, radio and A/C stayed on. I had to coast across several lanes of at least 50 MPH traffic to the shoulder. As I turned off the engine, the car rumbled and shuddered for several seconds. I waited a minute, then restarted the car and was able to drive. Ford covered the problem under an "extended warranty" for a throttle body problem, but I feel that my safety was in jeopardy by not fixing the problem before my car engine suddenly quit at high speed. In this area, having a car suddenly dive from 50 MPH to almost nothing can get you killed. The throttle body problem should have been covered by a safety recall, rather than waiting to see who survives the problem to take the car in for service.
While driving on interstate, car suddenly lost power. Check engine light and wrench came on. Turned the car off and started it back up and the car acted fine but repeated this process 5 more times on the way home.causing cars to almost run in to the back of the car. Found on line where, ford was extending a warranty on 2010 fusion throttle body for 150,000 miles. Took the car in to the keith hawthorne ford dealership in belmont,nc and service manager said this was true if it was indeed the throttle body. Called back later to check and said that it was indeed the throttle body but my car even though itis a 2010 ford fusion with low miles is not covered but had no reason why.
I was traveling on a secondary road at about 45 MPH when with out warning there was a sudden power failure. I was able to get off the road. I called the dealer service desk and was told it might be a "computer glitch". I started and drove the car about 3 miles back home without incident. I tried about 5 times in our long drive to duplicate the problem. Because I could not duplicate, I decided to continue on my errands. This time I traveled about 5 miles and the same power failure occurred. I had it towed to the dealer at my expense and after 36 hrs had my car back. They replaced the throttle body under a customer satisfaction program (13n03) at no expense to me. Luckily for me my experience happened on a rural road. Had it happened on a multilane, high speed road a very serious multicar accident may have occurred. I was assured that the new throttle body would not have the same problem.
While driving my vehicle it suddenly felt like it stalled, but it actually had not. Before I could safely pull off the road it began violently jerking the whole car. Gas and brake controls were effected and the car was difficult to get off the road safely and difficult to stop it from moving forward once I got off the road. I quickly put it in park and turned it off. The check engine light came on as well as a wrench light during this incident. After about 5 minutes I turned the car back on and it seemed to be running fine. I started to drive to the body shop I use and after a couple minutes it did it again in the middle of an intersection. The car was extremely difficult to control and I was scared I would be hit by another car. After making it off the road again, I turned the car off. I eventually did get it to my body shop, but the defective throttle body could have resulted in a serious accident. Ford should recall this part and fix it!
While driving on the highway the engine started to shake and shudder and I had to pull over in heavy traffic. Turning the car off, then on again helped for a bit then engine started stumbling again. Diagnostic equipment revealed error code p2111, throttle actuator control system -stuck open. Ford has a customer satisfaction campaign (13n03) for this issue that is not advertised to consumers unless they research this issue. This could have easily caused an accident as the car completely lost power when this event occurred.
Ford issued an extended warranty for the throttle body for my 2010 ford fusion. I received multiple letters in the mail letting me know that my car was receiving this warranty. Yesterday, my car suddenly stopped acceleration and made an extreme jerk multiple times on the freeway- this could have killed myself, my passengers and anyone who may have hit me. Today, I was told that because my vehicle has a salvaged title, ford would not fix the throttle body component. I am not covered for their stupid extended warranty program. Ford needs a full recall for the throttle body, for people like me who are beyond warranty coverage. They already conned me into an unnecessary $1400 repair before, now I feel that I am only being conned again. Own up to your mistakes ford! I'm tired of having my safety at risk because of you!
The throttle body failed causing the car to lose all power. I made it to the side of the road and turned the car off. Turned the car off and left it off for a few minutes. Turned the car back on and it ran. I took it to a dealer, where ford refused to fix the issue even though the part is under warranty. Drove the car for three weeks after that when it occurred again while driving. Took the car back to the ford dealer where once again ford has refused to fix the issue.
I was no longer able to accelerate. The car was running but while I was driving the car stalled in the middle of the road and as I tried to give the car gas it just increased RPM's but didn't move the car. I pulled off into a parking lot turned the car off and on and it began to run again, but lost all computer information so the mechanic couldn't figure out the problem. It has happened multiple times since then.
My husband was driving on the interstate highway at about 75 MPH and the wrench light came on and the car suddenly lost acceleration and would not accelerate with the gas pedal. It shuddered as he drove, and he was only able to drive at a very low speed. He was very worried that he would get hit by other faster cars. He got it towed to the closest ford dealership, and they replaced the throttle body. We are registering this complaint because we understand that this is a problem with ford cars generally.
Approximately two years ago, I was driving down rt 28 in fairfax, va. I was going about 60 MPH when my car turned off. No power steering, no brakes, to speed. The car behind me slammed on his brakes and narrowly missed rear ending me. I made it over to the shoulder. I took my car to koons ford sterling, they told me it was the throttle body. I called ford motor customer relationship center and told them what happened and also told them that I goggled it and found many other people complaining about the same thing. I was told that ford had no knowledge of problems with the throttle body. I paid to have the work done. Fast forward...............three weeks ago we received a letter from ford telling us that the throttle body was now being recalled and if we have already had the work done, we should take the receipt up to the dealership for our refund. Well that was on april 1. Still nothing. Each time I call I'm told that it's still under review. Aside from the fact that I probably will never get a refund, I'm wondering how many people died from this. It took ford 2-3 years to do this recall.
While driving vehicle, vehicle will suddenly "stall" (engine stays running, but loses all power). Can turn off engine, and restart vehicle and will run. This has occurred multiple times. Previous attempts no "code" has been stored, so dealer would provide no resolution to the issue.
Driving to work car had a thump then loss of power(couldn't accelerate ) and amber wrench light came on. Pulled over to side of highway as quickly and safely as I could. Engine was idling rough. Put in park and turned off car for 2 seconds, and turned back on. Car ran fine, until 3 days later when exact same problem occurred.
After driving for ~20 minutes and the engine warming up, the engine will surge when coming to a complete stop after braking. There is also a smell of gas. Immediately after refueling, the engine is difficult to start. Once started it runs rough for a few seconds and wants to lurch away.
Driving highway speed with the cruise control active, on my way to work. Turned off the cruise and the car "bucked." the wrench warning light came on. It would lose RPM and then go back up again. Turned around and went home. I didn't want to be stranded at 4:30 in the morning. Got home, turned the car off, and restarted, and the light was off. Took it to the ford dealer and they said it's the throttle body. But...my car for some reason isn't covered under the extended warranty. I have a 6 speed manual. It uses the same throttle body as automatic transmission cars. What gives??
While driving the engine just cut out. There was no response from the gas pedal at all. The engine was surging around 10000 RPM, and running very rough. Then the vehicle went in to limp home mode. I was able to shut it down put it in park and restart, but after a while it started all over again. This happened multiple times during the day.
The car went into 'limp' mode, and lost almost all power. The 'check engine' indicator lit up. I was able to coast to the side of the road and restart it w/o incident, after which it ran normally. This is the first time it happened, but an online search revealed that this is not an unknown issue with these models. I was in heavy traffic and fortunate that no accident occurred.
Went to pull onto interstate and when tried to accelerate the vehicle wouldn't speed up. Also the engine RPM's would accelerate and cause hard shifts which has progressively gotten worse, the vehicle doesn't want to start when the fuel level gets low enough to turn the low fuel light on either. All of the above problems have gotten worse over the past month.
Driving in far left lane at highway speed. The car had been on for about 10 minutes after sitting in parking lot all day. It was 96 degrees. Car started to vibrate and slow down. I noticed that the tool light was on. Obviously I had entered into limp mode and found a way to cross four lanes of rush hour traffic to make it to the emergency lane. Once stopped engine loped erratically and would not accelerate. Engine was non-responsive to pedal changes. Put car in park and shut the engine off. I waited 30 seconds and started the car again and drove home (26 miles) without further incident. It should be noted that I have experienced surging in the engine this past week. Symptoms point to the throttle body; but this is speculation as I have not had the car diagnosed by a professional. I am aware that there is a current investigation into this matter. This event happened at highway speeds and could have been disastrous. Driving can be inherently dangerous and parts do break; but, the fact that this has been a known issue for quite some time warrants an additional report.
Driving on highway and the transmission went out of gear, coasted to edge of highway, had power to engine/car though . Second time happen I was stopped dropping off wife and when I started to go, the car started to shake and sputter and the transmission went out of gear again. Had to coast to empty area. Both times, I shut of engine waited 30 seconds/minute and restarted and continued on without problem.
In a nut shell the car would not accelerate properly it kept dying out every time I would mash on the accelerator.went to autozone and had a scanner put on the vehicle and a number of codes came back pointing to the throttle accelerator control when looking for the part it came back as the entire throttle body. Then come to find out the part had to be ordered, then it could nto be ordered from any retailer, went to the dealer one day to get the part and it was purchaseable, went back the next day to find it was a recall on that part went to another dealer to have the recall honored and they gave me this spill about the cost of a diagnostic test, saying it had to be done before they could know for sure if it was the throttle body. Then later that day they call back saying it was some kind of air hose that a rat had chewed through. Sounds like a bunch of hoorah to me. Tell me what do you think.
This is in regards to the federal safety agency action number: pe13003 my fusion was having stalling problems leaving my neighborhood. It would act as though there wasn't enough fuel but not enough to stall out. The engine would shake like crazy and throw the entire car into a shake that was incredibly strong. I would have to stop, park and shut off the engine to get it to stop. This happened at least twice a week leaving the house in the morning on my way to work. Once it shook so hard I thought it might tear the engine mounts right out of the car. I took the vehicle to mullinax ford of apopka where they had to replace the throttle body. They claimed it was not under warranty as it isn't a "mechanical" engine part, that it was an electronic component.
Car had a defective throttle body that caused the car to lose power and shake. Wrench light would come on.
While driving loose power, have to stop and shut off and restart vehicle to get throttle response back. Had to have throttle body replaced. There are several cases of this listed on internet. Should be the same issue as in your investigation pe13003. I would like to be kept informed if this turns into a recall, as I would like ford to reimburse me for the cost of replacing the throttle body.
My 2010 fusion car had been using quite a bit of gas, the check engine symbol came on, . I took my car to the dealer and was told I needed to replace the evap canister and the purge valve for 800.00 as I had p0456 code, and a p2169 code and has raw fuel leakage. I researched the internet and came across several complaints as well as a tsb bulletin, that this is a common failure in this year make/model of the car. I think ford is aware that these components are faulty/defective and do fail and should be held accountable and made to stand behind their product(s). Consumers should not have to pay car payments and make costly repairs on a 3 year old cars. I believe a recall should be made on this car concering this know problematic matter .
Car has stalled out before a few times. This time, it chugged with the wrench light on, brown/grey exhaust. Shut it off, tried again. The same. I inched my way over to the side of the street. So glad I was not on the freeway going to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Recall this car so we can get our money back, or give me big discount on new different car/truck. Poor workmanship on this year of vehicle. Car of the year? What a joke.
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