My 2016 ford f150 with engine block heater caught fire today 14 february 2020 at 11:12 am. it was moving and caught fire when i parked the truck
Highway driving at 55 mph, ding and message "service advancetrac", "hill start assist not available". throttle unresponsive and truck immediately begins slowing. managed to get off road without an accident. engine running roughly in idle. turn engine off and restart. operates normally. this has occurred 3 times and puts the vehicle and passengers in an extremely unsafe position! internet research indicates that this is a common issue with ford throttle bodies. ford company and dealership refuse to acknowledge that this is a common problem. trouble code shows p2112.
Smelled gasoline odor inside vehicle after cranking on a cold day. i drove it for several miles. i parked it. i was in building for about 15 minutes. when i came out, i smelled gas outside vehicle. after leaving i then took vehicle to crossroads ford quicklane in cary nc. they found the plastic fuel line had split lenghtwise on top of fuel tank. they told me it was spraying gas. part was apparantly defective. i am sure it could have caused a major fire or explosion because of being not far from exhaust pipe. part replaced was 9l3z-9s278-b. i am wondering if there have been unexplained fires or explosions because of this. repair cost was $569.89
Was having trouble starting my truck one day. cranking and cranking but not firing. sometimes it would eventually fire, sometimes it required a jump to get it going. took it into ford, they replaced the battery. didn't happen for a few more days. same thing. crank, crank, crank, but wouldn't start. did some searching online, and found similar situation regarding a burnt/melted fuse 27 (the fuel pump fuse). ford knows about this issue so much that they even created a part to move the fuel pump to a larger fuse. i'm glad this issue only happened while sitting still and i was able to get the fused replaced without incident. however, i would imagine that soon my vehicle would have stopped while traveling due to the fuel pump fuse completely dying. also seems like a fire hazard, or it could do further damage to the fuse box or to surrounding fuses. ford should issue a recall for this immediately.
I drove my f-150 eccoboost truck to the snow, same area i have been hundreds of times and suddenly smoke burst from the engine, then flames shot out around the hood, popped the hood and fought the fire for half an hour, it kept restating. it stranded myself and children, and we had a harrowing experience that was pretty dicey. ford had just put in a new engine, at my cost, +14,000.00, after the timing chain failed. they would not repair it at their cost, even though i have copies of the fault codes from before the failure of the timing chain that destroyed the old engine. the new one had under 10,000 miles on the new engine, probably about 5,000 miles on it. we had driven on the relatively flat grade mainline road, and drove up about 0.8 miles, climbing maybe 400 ft elevation over that distance. i was in the process of turning the vehicle around when the engine burst into flames. it was on a gravel road. we had traveled from home, 35.2 miles.
Tl* the contact owns a 2012 ford f-150. the contact stated that while attempting to start the vehicle, the vehicle failed to start. the contact became aware that the fuel pump fuse was melted while inspecting the fuse panel. epic ford located at 5200 evergreen way, everett, wa 98203, (425) 353-7171, was contacted by phone and were made aware of the failure. the vehicle was not taken to be diagnosed. the fuse was replaced by the contact. the manufacturer was made aware of the failure. the failure mileage was 70,000.
Truck lost power due to a problem with the fuel pump fuse location
Wrench (check engine) comes on for unknown reason and vehicle looses all throttle ability! has come on 7 times. has occurred driving at 25 up to 65 mph. today i was in the fast lane wrench came on and shut down throttle. i managed to cross 3 lanes in traffic. each time this has occurred i've stopped and shut off the engine. the restarted & runs fine. taken to ford as well as private mechanics but no codes saved. has happened 6 times. ford told me they cant fix without a code.
Tl* the contact owns a 2014 ford f-150. while accelerating from a stop light, the vehicle suddenly stalled, shut off, and the check engine and oil indicators illuminated. the vehicle could not be restarted and was towed to auffenberg ford (115 regency park, o'fallon, il) where it was diagnosed that the fuel pump modulator was faulty and needed to be replaced. also, a fuse needed to be relocated. the manufacturer was notified of the failure, but no assistance was offered. the failure mileage was 130,000.
Fuse #27 burnt up and vehicle would not start because that fuse controls the fuel pump. this issue was addressed in tsb 15-0137. incredible to believe that something this simple has not been a recall for driver safety. vehicle luckily was not in motion when it happened. this most likely would not be an item located in a vihicle incident....so there is a good chance you have no idea how many deaths this has caused.