mnb76

I have the buzz in my 2014 SE with 88K miles. It started about one month ago out of the blue. When the ICE is running at low rpms, I will hear the loud buzzing. Yes, very annoying. Interesting that a speaker would cause this. But I am definitely hearing the noise from inside the dash above the glove box. I've fiddled with the HVAC (changing from fresh air to recirculating, fan speed) and sometimes it appears that it helps temporarily. But the sound always comes back. I feel that I'm doomed to have this noise until I am done with the car. But I love the car (except for replacing the transmission twice - under warranty - when the car was 4 years old). Update: You might be right about the speaker. On the Ford Fusion Forum (no Hybrid), I found someone reporting this problem with a movie attached. It sounds just like what I hear in my car. I might just swap out my door speakers to try to fix this. see https://www.fordfusionforum.com/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&controller=topic&id=21768#comment-119694 Posted by Niss240sxse - 2014 Fusion speaker buzz

We have had a lot rain here recently in the East and I noticed that the inside left of my trunk was wet. I removed the carpet covering the area where the hard styrofoam insert is stored. Then I removed this insert and discovered there was quite a bit of water underneath. It took a couple of towels to soak it up. After a lot of searching I think I see where it is leaking. The rubber gasket attached to the driver side taillight does not really sit flush with the trunk lid channel. I could actually lift that gasket and look straight down into the interior space that is behind the carpeted area covering the 12v battery. So the water just runs down the channel and straight into the car now! My next step will be to find a proper sealant that will bond with the gasket and the metal so that I have a good watertight seal again. This seems to be a bad design and I'm surprised that more owners don't have this leak. My car is a 2014 and I just noticed this now after 5.5 years of ownership. I imagine that time has caused that gasket to shrink and pucker which caused the leak.

The drive train warranty is 5 years/60K and my car is just over 4 years and has only 49K. So I think that is the one that covered it.

Car finally returned to me on Oct 12. Running ok so far. The paperwork from the repair did indicate four codes were found. My guess is they tried the easy thing first: reprogram the PCM. When that didn't work they replaced the cables since that was only $250 or so. Then they tried the next thing, replace the TCM. That costs over $5K! Finally when nothing else worked they replaced the trans. They ended up spending over $11K to fix this problem. Glad it was under warranty.

Sorry for posting this again but I wanted to make my own topic to make sure this is seen. I have a 2014 SE FFH with about 48K miles on it. In March 2018, I had transmission leak in my 2014 SE after only 42900 miles and they eventually replaced the transmission after trying twice to fix the leak.Now in Sept 2018 I experienced the dreaded "Stop Safely Now On Sept 17 2018, I was backing out of a parking space and the car just shutdown with a shudder and I saw the red triangle and "Stop Safely Now" on the dash. I cycled power and tried to drive again and it stopped again after 20 feet of driving. Now I was sticking out in a lane in the parking lot so I tried one more time to move the car. Again, the SSN message came up but I kept driving on electric only (at about 2 miles/hr) until I could get to another safe parking lot and out of the way. I had the car moved via flatbed to the Ford dealer and for a few days they tried to fix it. At first they couldn't duplicate the issue but once they did, the "fix" was to reflash the PCM. They kept the car another day to test it and then it failed five times in a row. One more day at the dealer and then they tell me they have ordered new high voltage cables that run between the PCM and the transmission. After a couple more days, the new cables came in and the car was "repaired" again. They had a valet/porter test-drive the car after the cable replacement and it died on him the same way it did to me. Stop Safely Now appeared on the dash. He tried multiple times to get it going but could not. They had to tow it back to the dealership. (My car is spending a lot of time getting rides on flatbed trucks.) Their next thought was to replace the trans again but Ford HQ said to replace the TCM instead.So that part was ordered, I waited a few days and sure enough the car still failed after the TCM replacement. So now they have finally got approval to replace the trans. So this will be my 3rd trans in this four year old car. It has now been 19 days of this. Next week we will see if the car finally works. How much confidence do I have in Ford now? Not very much. I find it hard to believe that when the car decides to stop with the SSN message that the software doesn't store a set of codes in memory that can be used to diagnosis the issue. The software is telling the car to shutdown so it should store the reason in flash so that someone can figure it out later. The dealer did give me a loaner after the car had been in the shop for 8 days but I had to ask for it.

Well they tried replacing the hi voltage cables but that didn't fix it. They had a valet/porter test-drive the car after the cable replacement and it died on him the same way it did to me. Stop Safely Now appeared on the dash. He tried multiple times to get it going but could not. They had to tow it back to the dealership. (My car is spending a lot of time getting rides on flatbed trucks.) They think there is a problem in the transmission so they are going to look at it again. This is ridiculous. Also I find it hard to believe that when the car decides to stop with the SSN message that the software doesn'tstore a set of codes in memory that can be used to diagnosis the issue. The software is telling the car to shutdown so it should store the reason in flash so that someone can figure it out later. I've now been without my car for nine days.

I also had transmission leak in my 2014 SE after only 42900 miles and they eventually replaced the transmission. That was March 2018. Now in Sept 2018 I experienced the dreaded "Stop Safely Now" I was backing out of a parking space and the car just shutdown with a shudder and I saw the red triangle and "Stop Safely Now" on the dash. I cycled power and tried to drive again and it did it again after 20 feet of driving. Now I was sticking out in a lane in the parking lot so I tried one more time to move the car. Again, the SSN message came up but I kept driving on electric only (at about 2 miles/hr) until I could get to another safe parking lot and out of the way. I had the car moved via flatbed to the Ford dealer and for the last few days they have been trying to fix it. At first they couldn't duplicate but once they did, the "fix" was to reflash the PCM. They kept the car another day to test it and then it failed five times in a row. One more day at the dealer and now they tell me they have ordered new high voltage cables that run between the PCM and the transmission. These will be replaced once they come in and I hope that fixes it. I wonder if the repair in March 2018 to replace the transmission somehow caused this problem to eventually appear? In any case, I'm not feeling too comfortable with this car anymore.

I also had to have my transmission replaced on my 2014 SE. Mileage was 42900. I bought the car in Sept 2014 and in March 2018 I noticed fluid on the driveway. I took it in for service and they replaced the left seal. The next day the car was still leaking. Took it back and they replaced the left axle and the left seal. The next day it was leaking again. So when I took it back the third time, they just said "We are going to replace your transmission" Besides the leaking, I had noticed a very faint whine at low speed but not enough to make me take it in. Now (Sept 2018) I have a "Stop Safely Now" issue. I'll post that info in another thread.