It appears whatever design changes in production were either not applied at time of build, or they don't work.ģ) My Vehicle isn't covered under the VIN #'s covered in either of the TSB's or the Recall.įord hasn't "officially recognized" this as a continuation of the class defect.Ĥ) My truck has been at the dealer for a week now, where they confirmed and replicated the failure. A recall was issued in Oct 2017 for this problem.Ģ) My truck a 2018 was built in Oct 2018. This appears to not work on a large number of vehicles. The second one TSB 16-0155 describes a service procedure that includes blowing out water, drying, lube and then install of a rain shield kit. This is an ongoing problem with many F150's.ġ) F150 2015-2017 has had 2 TSB's on this topic. I was not aware at time of purchase that 20 F150's had 1.3 million recalls for door latch problems. In this process I have been asked to drive with dangerous conditions and am caught in a triangle between service people who have not been advised on next service steps, Ford who has been incredibly slow to respond, and the sales team who states they have nothing to do with the problem - this is a FORD corporation thing not a FORD dealer problem. I will be advised further after some pictures and after some 'work" is done. Formal incident report to Ford took quite some time for them to respond and six weeks into this problem I have been advised that some pictures are being requested. I have been without use of the car for more than a month. I have been offered money from FORD toward a rental but only a rental of a FORD car and not adequate money to rent a large enough vehicle or vehicle of similar value. I have been asked repeatedly to take the car home (and to drive dangerously when the car door won't close. I have had the car to the dealer for a replacement and after two additional freezing events (immediately each service) I am advised that Ford does not presently have a solution to this problem. It is essentially frozen in the open position and does not allow the door to catch. I opened the door and it would not catch when attempting to re-close the door. One month later on the first day below freezing the door latch malfunctioned. I like lithium grease because (a) it works almost everywhere, (b) it's cheap and (c) it's relatively high visibility (so I can see where it is and where it has rubbed off).I leased a NEW 2018 F150 in October 2018. Once you feel that the water has moved on, I'd lube the latch liberally with standard white lithium grease. The ambient temperatures don't necessarily have to be over freezing but it will help. Once the latch is nice and warm, Brian is correct about WD-40 for water displacement (thus the name). At a certain point, the latch will pop loose enough to hold the door closed. When something like this happens, I would suggest either using a heat gun or hairdryer right on the latch or, if that's not feasible, getting in the car with the heater on full blast. You were able to use the leverage of the door handle to move the latch against the friction of the ice but then the spring wasn't able to push it back. It sounds like ice formed on the spring and / or the latch hinge. It if was freezing outside, it was almost certainly colder inside the latch mechanism.
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