Drive Control Malfunction

Joy ride? Beat the he’ll out of it in train yard? OMG. Now I’ve heard everything. For those of you who are fortunate to go off road, you know exactly what I’m talking about. When I went on wrapped a result, that was a joy ride, beating the living shit out of the trucks, bottoming out, going into Gullies, one side going into ravines, bottoming out so hard, that the glove box door popped open and I couldn’t get it to close. Those trucks I’ll be to death every day and they keep on running. You couldn’t kill it on a joy ride if you tried. It’s obviously an electrical issue that the deal will be able to fix quickly. However, I agree, I would not wait. I’d bring it in and tell him fix it now or I want my money back

Just take it to the dealer, get it fixed, be happy.

Take it to the dealer ASAP! They will get you squared away in no time. It's a bummer it happened on your new +70k truck but sometimes shit happens, most likely an easy fix.

Just bring it into the dealer ASAP. They should take care of it right away. Don’t try to figure it out yourself, you’ve paid $75G+ for that Raptor so let them deal with it or demand another new Raptor.

Went to the dealer and made them fit me in. They tell me that the issue is a module in the right shock that adjusts the ride height, and they need to order a new one to replace it. Until then I can’t change drive modes. Sounds similar to an issue experienced by someone who posted here not long ago, where the cause of the error involved the shocks.

I’ll keep you posted. Thanks for the advice so far.

Wow so a shock error can cause this? Who would have guessed and don’t need to play backyard mechanic to do guesswork on a brand new vehicle. Glad you got it in. Regardless it’s in there hands now and they will have to test and make sure this Corrects it.

Best of luck and hopefully you will be on the road soon and this will be a faint memory.

goblues38 said:

STOP THIS ****

No body hurt his truck with "joy rides". Don't ruin the guys day with nonsense about his brand new truck.

Truth is...YOU have no freakin clue why there are 119 miles on his truck. Was it pulled for extra QA? Did the dealer use it in a parade? Has it been on the lot for 5 months and had 10 10 mile test drives?

No dealer is going to let a "joy ride" happen on a $75k raptor.

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While I agree that even it they went on a minor beater binge in the truck, should be just fine...and I’d seriously doubt a Ford dealership would have this happen. HOWEVER, I went to look at a used Raptor (before I bought ‘19 new) with what was supposed to be 8200 miles and change. They Dodge dealership had taken it as a trade in. They’d had it about 3 months and the listing had 8200-ish miles. Went to drive it and while the outside was clean, the undercarriage, and door jambs were incredibly muddy. Further, the thing smelled like cigarette smoke even though previous owner reportedly did not smoke. A quick look at the odometer...8800 miles. Those Dodge guys just couldn’t get any satisfaction outta their trucks so you know they were playing seriously with this one!

the reason the raptors and any ford specialty vehicle has so many miles on it , when its manufactured and shipped it goes to apex 10 different locations around Detroit when the load to ship its computer is put into shipping mode which ford does so the idiots among us can't take it off and joy ride it. it will only power up to 2200rpm and 120HP. when it gets to the dealer the computer is tweaked to normal and the dealer takes it for a 30 mile drive to make sure it doesn't do what your rig is doing.plus the dealer can track every mile it was driven to the different locations when it was assembled its not just done in 1 plant. I know I flipped when my brand new truck being unloaded off the car carrier had 50 miles that's when they showed me the places it went to for assembly and told me about all this and it had to be driven for 40 miles by them.I have a '14 and a'19 they are kick ass engineering marvels for the money.most do not realize what they have under their asses.unbelieveable rigs

Please let us know if that was actually the fix