2013 F-150 Ecoboost 3.5 problems
I have a Ford F-150 Ecoboost 3.5 engine with 55,000 miles that is junk! First of all it just stalls without warning in the middle of freeway, highway, road, parking lot wherever it feels like it with ...
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"The Wrench" - A couple of years ago, had the problem towing our Jayco fifth while on the way to Mobile, AL. After a whole day at the dealer there, it was found to be a cracked electrical connector. The only good news, because it knocked out the turbos, I was getting near 40 mpg on highway (not towing). Of course, it took a loooong time to get up to speed, but.....
Last summer, started to get the occasional wrench as described above. No codes, ever. Dealer said while they could not guarantee that it was the needed fix, they replaced the throttle body. Trouble free for the last 11,000 miles.
Trailer controller - the factory one moderates the braking force based on speed, making it hard to conventionally test. If you are going slow, it doesn't brake as hard as it does if you were going faster. Ford's attempt at sort-of ABS for trailers.
Others have reported that poor trailer braking is more usually due to trailer brakes not fully adjusted. If you have self adjusting it can take many, many repeated stops before they fully self adjust.
A rough test, with everything stopped, is to pull the emergency braking pin, then try to pull the trailer - wheels should remain locked up.
"The Wrench" - A couple of years ago, had the problem towing our Jayco fifth while on the way to Mobile, AL. After a whole day at the dealer there, it was found to be a cracked electrical connector. The only good news, because it knocked out the turbos, I was getting near 40 mpg on highway (not towing). Of course, it took a loooong time to get up to speed, but.....
Last summer, started to get the occasional wrench as described above. No codes, ever. Dealer said while they could not guarantee that it was the needed fix, they replaced the throttle body. Trouble free for the last 11,000 miles.
Trailer controller - the factory one moderates the braking force based on speed, making it hard to conventionally test. If you are going slow, it doesn't brake as hard as it does if you were going faster. Ford's attempt at sort-of ABS for trailers.
Others have reported that poor trailer braking is more usually due to trailer brakes not fully adjusted. If you have self adjusting it can take many, many repeated stops before they fully self adjust.
A rough test, with everything stopped, is to pull the emergency braking pin, then try to pull the trailer - wheels should remain locked up.
