In recent years, a number of lawsuits have been filed over issues experienced with the Ford 10-speed automatic transmission and its reported tendency to exhibit harsh shifts, jerking, hesitation, and slipping gears. These lawsuits pertain to both the Ford F-150 and Ford Mustang, having been filed in August 2019, January 2020, February 2020, January 2022, and April 2023, though one was dismissed back in November 2020 after the judge presiding over that case agreed with The Blue Oval’s arguments to the contrary. Now, another lawsuit has been filed that covers even more models equipped with the Ford 10-speed automatic transmission, according to Car Complaints.
This newly filed lawsuit – Vangel, et al., v. Ford Motor Company – was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, with two plaintiffs being represented by Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, The Carlson Law Firm, P.C., Wallace Miller LLP, and Brent Coon & Associates. As is the case with other lawsuits related to this particular gearbox, the plaintiffs allege that their vehicles experience jerking, lunging, hesitation, clunking, loss of power, and gear slipping that comes directly from the transmission’s operation.
The lawsuit names a host of models affected by this problem – the 2017-2023 Ford F-150, 2018-2023 Ford Expedition, 2018-2023 Ford Mustang, 2019-2023 Ford Ranger, and 2018-2023 Lincoln Navigator. The lawsuit was filed by two owners who claim that Ford refuses to replace these defective transmissions, even though they present owners with “life-threatening” safety issues.
Thus far, Ford’s response to these alleged problems is to reprogram the powertrain control module, which forces the computer to re-learn its shift strategy, though this can also lead to harsher shifts for a period of several days. Additionally, technical service bulletins advise technicians to “overhaul the main control valve body and/or perform an adaptive learning drive cycle.” However, the lawsuit claims that these fixes are inadequate.
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after 15k miles my F-350 super duty has started to bang a few times a week.
My Expedition has already been at the dealer around 10 times for the transmission. They supposedly fixed it but it still doesn’t work right. I hope Ford acknowledges their customers and does what’s right.
I have a 2021 f150 it has 8500 miles it shifts fine but every time you slow down it make big clucking sound on the down shifts I drive it hope for the best
This is what happens when you partner with GM on something. A trans that works like crap. I have a 2018 Expedition that has had the trans out multiple times and a 2018 F-150 that has intermittent issues with 3-4-5 shifts that the dealer can never seem to replicate. Luckly my dealer is understanding and once it finally breaks they will be able to fix it. Just hope everything is still under warranty.
Go to GMAuthority and read the comments about GM partnering with Ford so the transmission is bad blah blah blah blah.
Ford forgot how to make transmissions since after the C6 and its cousins, and GM has had their share of issues since the days after the Slim Jim and the Jetaway. Make of all of this what you may.
GM does not seem to have the issues with their version of this 10 speed that Ford does. GM has problems with their earlier 8 speed.
That issue with the 8-speed was resolved with a new fluid. If your transmission wasn’t already damaged, a thorough flush-out and replacement with the new fluid cured everything.
I bought a 2019 F-150, put a 100,000 miles on it and had to replace the transmission…..
I have a 2021 F-150, have a little over a hundred thousand on it, too….
We are replacing the transmission in it, too…
I also have a 2022 F-150…
It has 83,000 on it….transmission is still working fine, so far…..
I’ve bought all 3 brand new….
They are all highway miles…..
MY F150 2017 with 65000 miles on it was working just fine until Tipton ford did a PCM up grade and now the transmission dont shift right took it back 3 times and still cant fix it this is really bad to treat people like this …….
Is it time for a Class Action Lawsuit?
I have a 2021 F150 and my trans. Clunks very hard on the downshift, and often slips into neutral when coasting up waiting for oncoming traffic, so I can make a left turn, I have almost gotten T-BONED twice, I took it to the dealership and all they say is that they can’t find any issues, and they also charge me $300 everytime, it seems as if they are trying to make me go away, but im not going away, my truck only has 50k on it. I’m hoping 🙏 that enough people make a stink about this so that BIG BLUE does the rite thing, instead of law suit after law suit!!