Powertrain Malfunction/ Reduced Power

[Grumpy2]

I’m at 82,000 miles on a 2022 Lariat.

Glad to hear that it is covered by the original warranty. SAD to think that 2nd module failure happened at 82k miles ....

Maybe keeping ours "forever" isn't such a great idea ...

I have convinced myself that these were manufacturing QC issues that would (should) show up well before the 8 years and/or the 100k limits.

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[Joneii]

Glad to hear that it is covered by the original warranty. SAD to think that 2nd module failure happened at 82k miles ....

Maybe keeping ours "forever" isn't such a great idea ...

I have convinced myself that these were manufacturing QC issues that would (should) show up well before the 8 years and/or the 100k limits.

Our intention was to keep ours as long as possible (for context, I have a 16 year old VW with 236,000 miles that is still part of our fleet). But we are thinking through our options now. My EV tech said that if it were his truck he would trade it in on one that has less miles if I really liked the Lightning. I do really like the Lightning. His logic is to keep Ford paying for the expensive battery repairs by staying inside the 100k mile warranty. My problem is that I will drive that in 4 years, and I can’t afford to drop 30-40k every 4 years. That is like paying for a new module every year—I hope my luck isn’t that bad. I’d ideally keep this truck at least 10 years and 15 would be better, but 2 module failures in 3 years doesn’t make that look likely. I think we are going to press forward and hope we don’t see another battery issue. The next battery issue will be the last for this truck and us. As a new adopter we understood these kind of growing pains were possible. In contrast our 3 yr old Tesla Model Y has 70,000 miles and has had no issues of any kind. Now it isn’t towing and Tesla has been doing the battery thing longer than Ford, so I’m not surprised by that. Hopefully Ford will get it right as they move forward.

 

[Rice_classic]

The battery module failing at 82k bothers me. Much more so than the issue arising for folks at <10k miles. I will have to plan on selling it or trading it in prior to the warranty expiring.

 

[BabyDoc1012]

Last week I got the powertrain malfunction for my truck. I figure it is the gear shift module because it has made a clicking sound a few times after I have parked the truck and shut it off. They only way to get the clicking to stop has been to turn the truck back on and cycle from park to drive back to park and shut it off. The day I got the malfunction when I got home I had to cycle it three times before it shut off. Just took the truck into the dealership and told them I suspected the gear shift module from what I have seen on here and because I did not have reduced power or reduced charging. And I figured while it was in there I would have the CSP for the front parking sensors down too. Well, somehow the CSP has disappeared from my truck and the dealership says there is nothing they can do. And none of the service advisors had any idea what a CSP was, so trying to explain that to them was a nightmare! But to top it all off, they just ordered the gear shift module, and gave me my truck back. I am fairly certain they did not pull any codes or even look at the truck because the service receipt I got just says "customer states gear shift module showing signs of failure" and the for tech notes it just says, "part on backorder". So no idea what the malfunction could be. And when I picked it back up, of course the warning and wrench are gone now. I gotta find a new dealership, because this is also the same dealership that did not rotate the tires on my 2022 Mach 1, because they said it has different size tires (staggered set) and that they can't rotate them. I told them to rotate them side to side and the advisor argued with me that they were directional tires, which they aren't, they are the stock tires from Ford. And they had the mustang for over 5 hours to do an oil change and tire rotation, because the never called me when it was done. These are my last fords.

 

[Jakester]

How many miles because mine has 37000 and the gearshift is not covered under the powertrain warranty and they want to charge me 1200.00 for replacement shouldnt there be a recall ive heard of alot of issues with the gearshift locking mine has done it sevreral times and you have to disconnect the battery and pray it unlocks

 

[USA EV]

How many miles because mine has 37000 and the gearshift is not covered under the powertrain warranty and they want to charge me 1200.00 for replacement shouldnt there be a recall ive heard of alot of issues with the gearshift locking mine has done it sevreral times and you have to disconnect the battery and pray it unlocks

So many people are switching out their shifters for rotary knobs that I imagine you'll have no trouble finding one second hand. They seem pretty easy to switch out too. There are videos on YouTube.

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