I hate to say it but I'm losing faith in Ford. It seems like every single model/line they have has way to many issues now. Which is somewhat understandable being a massed produced vehicle but they're not fixing these problems. New, old redesign nothing seems to be working right ever since Covid which I still think is and excuse for everyone still.
or it gets worse which pushes the issue at hand in giving me a new / rebuilt transmission.
That is my biggest issue. They are not fixing the problems. It is like everyone is putting their future eggs in the EV basket and just running out the ICE lines to end of life before the EV version is ready.
You could try unhooking your battery for 15 minutes. This resets the adaptive learning. Just be sure to leave the car off for at least two minutes with nothing running prior. Talk about this in the manual. This cleaned up my shifting a lot. Took a few days though but now tow mode and sport shift like they should. Had a few days of learning shifting and now it seems much better. I have an appointment this weekend to look at Frontiers so I will just have to see how things are going come Saturday. Still do have the droning noise 50-60 mph but for the last few day’s transmission has at least been better.
Yeah try the battery reset and give it a week. I’m thinking the adaptive learning has trouble sometimes. It’s weird to unhook the battery just make sure you let the truck sit off for at least 2 minutes before doing it. I read in the manual that unhooking it quicker can cause issues which maybe is why mine was weird after the first time I did it. Who knows at this point. It took about 3 days before shifts smoothed out after the reset but it made a huge difference. Night and day. Not saying it’ll work but worth a shot if it saves you another trip back to the dealer. I’ve also been driving more in sport and tow and they now drive like they should. Who knows though maybe the weird shifting will come back for me if I decide to keep the truck. Right now I’m just trying to not think about the truck but it’s hard lol.
No they didn’t do anything. The service advisor really didn’t write down the actual issues I had. When I read the report all it’s said was tow mode shifts rough and to look at the service bulletin for front axle not balanced. I had went into way more detail of exactly the issues I had but don’t think those were communicated well to the techs. They told me bulletin didn’t apply to my truck because I fell one number out of the affected range of truck. I asked them to reset my adaptive learning at least and they said they couldn’t without Fords approval. Anyway I when I got home I unhooked the battery for about 15 minutes which in fact does clear any adaptive learning. Three days of the usual weird shifting but the transmission was at least skipping gears like it should. Had a few missed shifts up hills. Two days later and the truck started shifting really well. Has been for about 4 days now. Like when I purchased it.
