My Second Powertrain Malfunction/Reduced Power-

[ErichKeane]

In ~December I had my '22 Lariat ER complain about a powertrain malfunction and show reduced power available, so I took it into the dealer.

Sadly, it took until early March to get my truck back thanks to the dealer being backlogged, and Ford dragging their feet on parts/support to my dealer. At the time, it was diagnosed with a battery cell #9 failure with everything else healthy.

A week ago, I got a less aggressive (the previous one gave me the 'pull over immediately!' warning and refused to charge more than ~60%, this one was fine being charged, and just reduced power to 54%) version of the same message.

I got a call not long after that with the diagnosis: Cells #1 and #6 are now dead. AND, Ford is quoting them a month to get replacement parts.

I get that this is new tech, and I'm an early adopter (though only ~22k miles), but this is quite annoying. You'd think with as important as all this is that Ford would be quicker to ship batteries and support the dealer staff.

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[Piquette]

Interesting. Cells #1, 6 & 9 are all located in Module #1. So if they replaced Module 1 the first time, does this mean they are replacing Module 1 a second time?

 

[ErichKeane]

Interesting. Cells #1, 6 & 9 are all located in Module #1. So if they replaced Module 1 the first time, does this mean they are replacing Module 1 a second time?

Oh, interesting! I thought they'd replace individual cells, not the entire module.

I guess that makes me feel a bit better, that this problem is just a bad replacement part, not endemic on my entire battery.

 

[Maxx]

Oh, interesting! I thought they'd replace individual cells, not the entire module.

I guess that makes me feel a bit better, that this problem is just a bad replacement part, not endemic on my entire battery.

It seems like it can be any cell in any module going bad at anytime requiring the module holding that cell to be replaced. That makes it like playing Russian roulette every day for a lot of us if not all. Makes me appreciate any day that truck works without showing me the wrench (The bird in truck language).

 

[macdian]

Yep, turns out I'm also in the same position - dead cell. Waiting on parts now for 3 weeks. Did you get yours back and fixed fine?

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