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Update:
- A federal judge in Illinois says she will not allow a proposed class of Ford F-150 truck drivers to expand their class action lawsuit accusing Ford Motor Co. of installing faulty transmissions in their vehicles.
- U.S. District Judge Elaine E. Bucklo, in denying a motion to leave and amend, ruled the proposed class had waited too long to request to expand the class action to include drivers of additional Ford model vehicles.
- Ford F-150 drivers claim their model year 2017-2020 Ford F-150 vehicles were equipped with defective 10-speed automatic transmissions that they argue cause the trucks to jerk and lunge between gears.
- Ford opposed the motion to leave and amend, arguing the driver’s bid was too delayed.
(July 30, 2019)
A class action lawsuit says that the automatic transmissions in Ford F-150 vehicles possess a defect that causes them to shift harshly and erratically.
The Ford F-150 class action lawsuit was filed by Justin O’Connor who says he leased a 2018 Ford F-150 XLT 3.5 EcoBoost w/10spd transmission. Allegedly, he decided to lease this vehicle because it was advertised as safe and reliable.
However, the plaintiff says that around five months after leasing his vehicle and with around 6,000 miles on the odometer, the truck began to make a loud clunk or bang noise when the engine started.
The Ford transmission class action lawsuit says that in some circumstances, the vehicle’s transmission holds gears much longer than it should and has a loss of power while shifting gears. Allegedly, O’Connor noticed this from the time he leased his vehicle.
The Ford transmission class action lawsuit goes on to say that in January 2019, O’Connor was driving when his vehicle lost acceleration and shifting capabilities and displayed a message stating “drive mode not available.”
Allegedly, the vehicle went into “limp mode” and O’Connor was able to drive it into a nearby parking lot. There, he says that he had to disconnect the battery, which reportedly reset the drive mode and allowed him to get home.
The Ford transmission class action lawsuit claims that these problems were caused by a defect present in the vehicle’s transmission and in the transmissions of other Ford F-150 vehicles. Allegedly, the defect occurs in 2017-2019 Ford F-150 vehicles that are fitted with the 10R80 10-speed automatic transmission.
O’Connor claims that Ford knew or should have known about the defect in the transmissions, and did not disclose the problem to customers or attempt to fix it.
The Ford class action states that the company issued Technical Service Bulletins noting that the F-150s included in the Class “may exhibit harsh/bumpy upshift, downshift and/or engagement concerns.”
As an alleged solution to this problem, the bulletin also notes that the vehicles have an “adaptive transmission shift strategy” that enables the vehicle’s computer to “learn the transmission’s unique parameters and improve shift quality,” implying that this system could get accustom to the problem.
However, customers claim that this is not the case, and the vehicles still possess problems.
O’Connor says that he and many other consumers were financially injured by the shift defect because had they known that the Ford F-150 vehicles possess a defect, they would not have purchased them or would not have paid as much as they did for them.
Additionally, O’Connor claims that the defect poses a physical danger, saying that one passenger got whiplash from the shifting problems.
O’Connor is represented by Gregory F. Coleman of Greg Coleman Law PC.
The Ford F-150 Transmission Defect Class Action Lawsuit is Justin O’Connor v. Ford Motor Company, Case No. 1:19-cv-05045, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Need info on Ford Transmission 10 speed class action law suit. I paid $8500 to replace my Transmission due to failure
We have a 2018 f150 FX4. It has 75,000 miles on it. A few months ago it started hard shifting and shifting back and forth gears at low speed. Took it to the dealer, and they made a few adjustments that did not work. They told us to bring the truck back in a couple of weeks when their transmission specialist would be there. A week later the transmission had a complete failure. We had it towed to the dealer on August 24th. 2023 It’s now October 12th 2023 and the truck is still not fixed. We have been told by Ford to make minimal repairs to see if it fixed the problem. The quick fix didn’t work. Now Ford is telling them to pull the transmission and dissect what caused the failure, and then they would decide if they would fix it under our extended warranty. We are not sure what to do next. We’ve heard about a buy back program if they can’t repair or replace the transmission within 30 days. Does anyone know how that works?
Need info on the Ford F150 class action law suit.
Ford managed to reach me about the PCM flash update for the potential downshift issue on my 2012 F150 but somehow failed to mention the extended warranty coverage on the molded leadframe. Extension was 10 years or 150k miles.. transmission left me on the side of the road with the exact symptoms listed at 10 yrs 5 months and 162k miles. Cost me $4k
I have a 2019 ford ranger that has this exact problem.
We have a 2019 f150 and a 2020 expedition. F150 has major shifting issues and the expedition jerke when put on reverse. How do we help with this lawsuit.