Jus4Kix
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- Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- 2015 GT Premium 6MT in Guard Metallic
Greetings from Canada. New member here, I found this forum after researching this issue. I've got a 2015 GT Premium, 6MT, non-PP, 100% bog stock, 12k km (roughly 7k miles) on it. Early production (I believe Sept 2014), I bought it new in April 2015. Premium fuel always used, and car is generally babied with only the occasional 3rd gear hate run on the highway to blow the cobwebs out of it (or to put some dumb kid in a Civic that's riding my ass in his place).
Until recently the only problem I've ever had with the car was the random mirror clicking when the car's started, as I read another member had happen a few posts (or maybe pages) back in this thread. Recently, though, the car has started stalling. It happened to me once at the corner of the street I live on. I was waiting for a break in traffic, saw my break, went to pull out, and the car wasn't running. Didn't think much of it - thought maybe I'd fat-footed the clutch pedal. It happened again a week or so later at the same intersection. Again, didn't think much of it. Then one day my partner took the car to get groceries, and sent me about 80 texts when he got to the store saying the car stalled a dozen times on him, and he was lucky to have made it. I was preparing to call Ford Roadside assistance, and told him to see how it worked on the way home.
When he got home he told me it stalled once, but then worked perfectly normal. He noted that when it was acting up it felt like it was struggling to make power, and there were other electrical issues happening: The heater fan was fluctuating and the SYNC dropped the bluetooth connection to his phone and then reconnected by itself several times. I took it for a run and aside from the fluctuating fan, which I attributed to the automatic climate control, it worked flawlessly.
Next day I took it to work. Stalled at the same intersection, and this time I noticed "Run power active" or something like that in the dash. Worked flawlessly the rest of the way. Worked perfectly the whole week I drove it to work. He takes it to the grocery store on Saturday and it stalls several times on him. He comes home, I get him to take me for a drive just to see if it's something he's doing, and it works perfectly. For the next two weeks, it works fine, with both of us taking it to work. Then today he's driving it home and it acts up on him. This time, each time it stalls the whole SYNC screen goes dark. I take it for a drive and it stalls once, with no SYNC screen problems.
This is becoming quite concerning for me. I am a mechanic by trade with 25 years experience (specializing in European stuff(, so I know what will happen if I take it to Ford: They'll drive it, it'll work fine, they'll hand me back the key and say no problems found. The reason it's concerning, aside from the obvious traffic dangers of stalling in an intersection is that this was my second-ever brand new car. The first one was a 2011 Hyundai Sonata that, with about 25k miles on it, started doing very much the same thing, except that it would cut out at speed (manual tranny) and the heater fan wouldn't fluctuate, it would flat out die. I drove it home in subzero weather once because the fan crapped out, and it stalled a few times on the highway (but being a standard, the momentum of the car started it again). I took it to the dealership twice in three days. They found no issues. The day I drove it home with no heat, when I got home I left it running, got out, went to the passenger side, and gave the underside of the dash a little kick. The blower motor started working. I called the dealership and made an appointment to bring it in for the third time. The next morning was very frosty so I started it up to melt the ice off the windshield. I went back into the house to get ready for work. Came back out, opened up the door, and was greeted by a wall of smoke. I could see flaming plastic dripping from the passenger side dash area onto the floor. The car was on fire! I jumped back, closed the door, ran into the house to get the dog (the flaming car was parked right next to the house) and called 911. The thing burned to a crisp right in my driveway.
Needless to say, I neither want to get hit in traffic in a dead car nor have the thing join the Sonata. I would normally think that bulletin I saw mentioned might fix it, but that doesn't explain the SYNC blacking out.
I think after reading this thread I will have to make a call to Ford of Canada to register my concerns...
Until recently the only problem I've ever had with the car was the random mirror clicking when the car's started, as I read another member had happen a few posts (or maybe pages) back in this thread. Recently, though, the car has started stalling. It happened to me once at the corner of the street I live on. I was waiting for a break in traffic, saw my break, went to pull out, and the car wasn't running. Didn't think much of it - thought maybe I'd fat-footed the clutch pedal. It happened again a week or so later at the same intersection. Again, didn't think much of it. Then one day my partner took the car to get groceries, and sent me about 80 texts when he got to the store saying the car stalled a dozen times on him, and he was lucky to have made it. I was preparing to call Ford Roadside assistance, and told him to see how it worked on the way home.
When he got home he told me it stalled once, but then worked perfectly normal. He noted that when it was acting up it felt like it was struggling to make power, and there were other electrical issues happening: The heater fan was fluctuating and the SYNC dropped the bluetooth connection to his phone and then reconnected by itself several times. I took it for a run and aside from the fluctuating fan, which I attributed to the automatic climate control, it worked flawlessly.
Next day I took it to work. Stalled at the same intersection, and this time I noticed "Run power active" or something like that in the dash. Worked flawlessly the rest of the way. Worked perfectly the whole week I drove it to work. He takes it to the grocery store on Saturday and it stalls several times on him. He comes home, I get him to take me for a drive just to see if it's something he's doing, and it works perfectly. For the next two weeks, it works fine, with both of us taking it to work. Then today he's driving it home and it acts up on him. This time, each time it stalls the whole SYNC screen goes dark. I take it for a drive and it stalls once, with no SYNC screen problems.
This is becoming quite concerning for me. I am a mechanic by trade with 25 years experience (specializing in European stuff(, so I know what will happen if I take it to Ford: They'll drive it, it'll work fine, they'll hand me back the key and say no problems found. The reason it's concerning, aside from the obvious traffic dangers of stalling in an intersection is that this was my second-ever brand new car. The first one was a 2011 Hyundai Sonata that, with about 25k miles on it, started doing very much the same thing, except that it would cut out at speed (manual tranny) and the heater fan wouldn't fluctuate, it would flat out die. I drove it home in subzero weather once because the fan crapped out, and it stalled a few times on the highway (but being a standard, the momentum of the car started it again). I took it to the dealership twice in three days. They found no issues. The day I drove it home with no heat, when I got home I left it running, got out, went to the passenger side, and gave the underside of the dash a little kick. The blower motor started working. I called the dealership and made an appointment to bring it in for the third time. The next morning was very frosty so I started it up to melt the ice off the windshield. I went back into the house to get ready for work. Came back out, opened up the door, and was greeted by a wall of smoke. I could see flaming plastic dripping from the passenger side dash area onto the floor. The car was on fire! I jumped back, closed the door, ran into the house to get the dog (the flaming car was parked right next to the house) and called 911. The thing burned to a crisp right in my driveway.
Needless to say, I neither want to get hit in traffic in a dead car nor have the thing join the Sonata. I would normally think that bulletin I saw mentioned might fix it, but that doesn't explain the SYNC blacking out.
I think after reading this thread I will have to make a call to Ford of Canada to register my concerns...
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