Ford Motor Company announced a recall of 1,392,935 F-150 trucks due to an issue with the vehicles’ transmissions that could result in an unintended downshift into second gear at high speeds.
According to a recall notice posted April 17 on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s X account, the affected trucks were manufactured between March 2014 and August 2017 and span model years 2015-2017. The downshift problem, federal regulators say, stems from degraded electrical connections in the vehicles’ six-speed transmissions’ lead frames, which are caused by repeated thermal cycling and vibration.
A sensor in the transmission may send a faulty signal to the transmission’s power train module that could result in a temporary and unintended downshift into second gear, the NHTSA said….