Latest news with #F-150PowerBoost
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Ford Recalling 105,000 Expeditions, Navigators Over Seat Belts — And Yes, Some Are Re-Recalls
The Ford Motor Company is recalling 105,322 2018–2020 Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators because a problem with the seat belts may cause the pretensioner to inadvertently activate. And as we at Road & Track have seen a few times here in recent memory, some of the vehicles included in this recall were part of a previous recall and were repaired incorrectly. Ford's description of the problem is as follows: 'Oxidation on top of the seat belt pretensioner squib pins where the bridge-wire is connected in the seat belt pretensioner squib causes a high resistance or open circuit (primary failure) that triggers a diagnostic trouble code (DTC) and airbag light ON. If the welding between the squib pin and the bridge-wire degrades after extended corrosion, a pretensioner inadvertent deployment (secondary failure) may occur.' Of course, once the pretensioner is activated, that locks the seat belt in position, so it can't retract or extend. The good news is that you'll have a warning that this event might be coming, because the airbag light will illuminate before the pretensioner deployment, according to Ford. The faulty retractors were built within a specific production date range, so Ford will inspect the parts to determine if they're part of the bad batch, then replace them with assemblies built outside of the faulty range if needed. Three other, smaller recalls from Ford have also just hit the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's website. One is for the 2025 F-150 PowerBoost: 47 trucks are being recalled because the high voltage junction box may contain an incorrect fuse, possibly causing a sudden loss of power. Dealers will replace the incorrect 60-amp fuse with a 150-amp fuse in affected pickups. 152 examples of the 2019-2020 Transit Connect are being recalled for the same issue it's been recalled for before — the engine overheating. Ford says the powertrain control module's fail-safe temperature threshold values are higher than intended for the engine, which could result in delayed engine cooling and ultimately engine overheating. Dealers will simply update the software to remedy the problem. And lastly, Ford is recalling 4163 vehicles from among the population of 2024-2025 F-150s, 2024-2025 Expeditions and 2024 Navigators. These vehicles might be equipped with 'a misaligned engine cup plug at the side or rear of the engine, which may result in a rapid oil leak.' Ford says the cup plug hydraulic insertion press was misaligned during production, which results in distortion of the cup. Affected vehicles will be inspected, and if necessary, a new cup plug will be installed with the proper alignment. You Might Also Like You Need a Torque Wrench in Your Toolbox Tested: Best Car Interior Cleaners The Man Who Signs Every Car
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Ford's Raptors Won't Go Electric or PHEV Anytime Soon, Insiders Say
Ford offers some excellent electrified powertrains (and one full electric one, too) across its vast pickup lineup, but one place you don't see electrification taking place yet is in the off-road Raptor lineup. Don't expect it to happen anytime soon, either. A recent report from Australia's Carsales delves into the timing of an electric Raptor, suggesting it'll happen one day — but that day is aways off. 'Inevitable at some time in the future that there will be electrified offerings [of Raptor] … but we're still working through what that means,' Ford's head of the International Markets Group Kay Hart said. Keep in mind that Hart speaks for all sorts of Ford's international markets, but the U.S. is not under that umbrella; the Raptor sold in those markets is the Ranger Raptor, though, a truck now sold here in the United States. Hart says the Raptor will continue to deliver better and more refined internal combustion engines in the short term, but puts no timeframe on when electrification might begin. How Ford might go about injecting electrification into Raptor models on the road to full electrification is another open question. Justin Capicchiano, Ford Performance, SVE program manager, spoke about the downsides of a plug-in hybrid. 'A straightforward PHEV is probably not going to let you deliver what you want to do,' Capicchiano told Carsales. 'You have to put that battery somewhere, and the logical position is going to be somewhere out the back, and that's going to impact your off-road capability.' It's not as though Ford's Raptor models are prime examples of Colin Chapman's maxim of simplify and add lightness, but adding on poundage without performance is an additional worry. 'Any battery-based system, you are looking at what the performance is like when the battery gets degraded,' Capicchiano said. 'Does it overcome the weight of the battery when the battery gets depleted?' The large batteries and electric motors that make up a plug-in hybrid system add huge amounts of weight to cars – just ask the latest BMW M5. And once you run dry of electric power, you're lugging around a huge battery, hurting both performance and efficiency. That doesn't rule out the path of a traditional hybrid like the F-150 PowerBoost, however; while it doesn't offer the electric-only driving range a PHEV provides, the weight penalty is much less from its smaller battery. For now, at least, we're happy to continue pounding around in the sand with Ford's V6- and V8-powered Raptors for as long as Ford lets us. You Might Also Like You Need a Torque Wrench in Your Toolbox Tested: Best Car Interior Cleaners The Man Who Signs Every Car
