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- Mike
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- Houston, TX
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- Raptor, Badlands Sasquatch
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Our Badlands Sasquatch has been a real joy but we have a gremlin in it our Ford dealership says they can’t find or recreate.
We have had our Bronco for about 4 months and it has a little over 4000 miles on it.
One morning (about 3 weeks old) I started it and got “Hill Assist Fault”. After acknowledging it, the fault cleared and it drove fine. The very next week the same thing happened.
Fast forward about a month and we were waiting to turn right into a busy road. When a spot opened we started forward but suddenly the accelerator didn’t work. I pressed it all the way to the floor but no response. As traffic was bearing down, I lifted completely and then reapplied throttle. It behaved as expected and accelerated away. Four days later the exact same thing happened.
Moving forward to this week, my wife was driving around a traffic circle at 35 mph and the engine turned off all the sudden. The display was flashing the auto start symbol and said “put the vehicle in park to restart”. We are fortunate she was not going down the highway with no place to stop. That could have been fatal. My wife snapped a photo of the screen after it rolled to a stop (attached).
The first deal with the Hill Assist did drop fault codes but they did not contain any diagnostic information, per our dealer. Everything else - including it switching off while driving - did not produce a fault or code.
The dealership just called me and said after 4 days they found no loose grounds or wires and could not recreate a fault. If they can’t reproduce it, there is nothing more they can do.
At one level I understand the response but, even though we love it, it is not safe to drive. There is something wrong in the electrical system. It is a very dangerous intermittent problem that could be in a harness or connector that would require massive disassembly to locate.
Not sure how to proceed. Thoughts?
Thanks for any feedback.
-MM
We have had our Bronco for about 4 months and it has a little over 4000 miles on it.
One morning (about 3 weeks old) I started it and got “Hill Assist Fault”. After acknowledging it, the fault cleared and it drove fine. The very next week the same thing happened.
Fast forward about a month and we were waiting to turn right into a busy road. When a spot opened we started forward but suddenly the accelerator didn’t work. I pressed it all the way to the floor but no response. As traffic was bearing down, I lifted completely and then reapplied throttle. It behaved as expected and accelerated away. Four days later the exact same thing happened.
Moving forward to this week, my wife was driving around a traffic circle at 35 mph and the engine turned off all the sudden. The display was flashing the auto start symbol and said “put the vehicle in park to restart”. We are fortunate she was not going down the highway with no place to stop. That could have been fatal. My wife snapped a photo of the screen after it rolled to a stop (attached).
The first deal with the Hill Assist did drop fault codes but they did not contain any diagnostic information, per our dealer. Everything else - including it switching off while driving - did not produce a fault or code.
The dealership just called me and said after 4 days they found no loose grounds or wires and could not recreate a fault. If they can’t reproduce it, there is nothing more they can do.
At one level I understand the response but, even though we love it, it is not safe to drive. There is something wrong in the electrical system. It is a very dangerous intermittent problem that could be in a harness or connector that would require massive disassembly to locate.
Not sure how to proceed. Thoughts?
Thanks for any feedback.
-MM
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