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So, this evening on my way home from the office, I'm cruising up the freeway at 75-80. Pretty much flat road, roughly constant throttle position, and I suddenly feel a hard thump, and the RPMs go up. I suspect the trans has just downshifted to 5th, though there is no reason for it to do so.
On the center display there is now a large wrench depicted in orange. Oh @#$%. This is not good.
I hit the selectshift "+" button which brings up the gear indicator, and see the truck is, as I suspected, now in 5th gear. It will not upshift to 6th even if I take my foot completely off the gas. I slow down to 55 or so, and head for the nearest exit, which also conveniently has a Ford dealer a couple of miles up the road.
As I roll to a stop at the traffic light off the freeway, I note the gear indicator still shows it is in 5th gear. When the light turns green, the acceleration confirms that the gear indicator is most likely correct, and I accelerate very lightly to 45 and hold it there. Getting to the dealer I end up having to accelerate from a stop to 45 twice, and then once from a stop into the dealership's service driveway. Trans temp registers 195 when I park it.
I try shifting from park, to reverse, to drive and back. The trans engages, but seems to do so aggressively, with a bit of a thump. I move the shifter to the manual shift mode, but it refuses to select that mode. When the shifter is moved to the "M" position, the selector position indicator in the instrument cluster does not illuminate the "M" orange as it should--all the positions (i.e. P R N D M 2 1) are white, as though none of them are selected.
I check the information display's vehicle diagnostics (for lack of a better term) section, and it shows there is 1 warning, but it gives no more detail than that.
Now safely at the dealer, I turn the truck off and then restart it, problem "solved" as the trans reverts to normal and now behaves as it did before. Normal shifting, and the warnings on the info display vanish. I run a vehicle health report on Sync, and it reports the truck is fine--not a hint of a problem.
Soooo, any idea WTF is going on here? Also, would driving the truck as described above with it stuck in 5th (most concerningly the part about accellerating from a stop in 5th) hurt the trans?
Lastly, I want to take the truck in to get this checked out regardless. Does anyone know of a good Ford service department and service writer in the Orange County, CA area?
Truck is a 2011 Raptor Super Crew with roughly 1,900 miles on the clock.
Sorry about the lousy pic--cell phone camera in a moving vehicle at night = camera shake.
Thanks.
On the center display there is now a large wrench depicted in orange. Oh @#$%. This is not good.
I hit the selectshift "+" button which brings up the gear indicator, and see the truck is, as I suspected, now in 5th gear. It will not upshift to 6th even if I take my foot completely off the gas. I slow down to 55 or so, and head for the nearest exit, which also conveniently has a Ford dealer a couple of miles up the road.
As I roll to a stop at the traffic light off the freeway, I note the gear indicator still shows it is in 5th gear. When the light turns green, the acceleration confirms that the gear indicator is most likely correct, and I accelerate very lightly to 45 and hold it there. Getting to the dealer I end up having to accelerate from a stop to 45 twice, and then once from a stop into the dealership's service driveway. Trans temp registers 195 when I park it.
I try shifting from park, to reverse, to drive and back. The trans engages, but seems to do so aggressively, with a bit of a thump. I move the shifter to the manual shift mode, but it refuses to select that mode. When the shifter is moved to the "M" position, the selector position indicator in the instrument cluster does not illuminate the "M" orange as it should--all the positions (i.e. P R N D M 2 1) are white, as though none of them are selected.
I check the information display's vehicle diagnostics (for lack of a better term) section, and it shows there is 1 warning, but it gives no more detail than that.
Now safely at the dealer, I turn the truck off and then restart it, problem "solved" as the trans reverts to normal and now behaves as it did before. Normal shifting, and the warnings on the info display vanish. I run a vehicle health report on Sync, and it reports the truck is fine--not a hint of a problem.
Soooo, any idea WTF is going on here? Also, would driving the truck as described above with it stuck in 5th (most concerningly the part about accellerating from a stop in 5th) hurt the trans?
Lastly, I want to take the truck in to get this checked out regardless. Does anyone know of a good Ford service department and service writer in the Orange County, CA area?
Truck is a 2011 Raptor Super Crew with roughly 1,900 miles on the clock.
Sorry about the lousy pic--cell phone camera in a moving vehicle at night = camera shake.
Thanks.
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