Ok...why would my FFH suddenly die on the highway?

[jgnfld]

Was driving down the highway--intending incidentally to take a round trip to a pretty remote fishing village 150km off the main highway--and my new 2015 FFH (S) w/ 2500km on it just died. Dead. Key did nothing, no lights unless I opened door and the blue panel lights would come on till I tried key and all would go black again. No windows, heater, blowers, etc. Put the car in park when I pulled over and after doing that P would not release. Security flashers worked and locks worked.

 

Dead. But battery fine as best I can tell as jumping from my powerbox did nothng.

 

Got a tow and left it at dealer for the morning, but WHAT happened? Felt like nothing so much as a fuse blowing/safety breaker tripping, but I was driving at 104 kph and not pushing anything at all.

 

Can I trust my car? It gets very remote in Newfoundland. Thank God this happened on the main highway only 30 km out of town.

 

Ford Roadside Assistance was fast getting me a tow, I will say that.

Edited December 6, 2015 by jgnfld

[Griswald]

Wow...sounds serious.

 

Don't think we have had any reports like this, lets hope it is just an isolated incident and gets corrected.

[lolder]

The problem may be easy to find. My vote is the 12 vdc battery as usual but that's just a guess.

Edited December 7, 2015 by lolder

[machoman1337]

Did the car die while you were in motion, or did you pull over to the side for a break and then find that it didn't start?

 

If it's the former, you may have a lemon and you should fight for your rights at the dealer. While we have no explicit automobile lemon law in our country we do have buyer protection laws that can be invoked for this.

 

If it's the latter, you did mention you bought a slightly used car and it's possible the 12V battery died multiple times sitting at the dealer, causing damage, so replacing it could be the answer. My own car was slightly used and I had the 12V battery replaced at my appointment to reprogram the PCM for a recall last year - the reprogramming failed because of a bad battery.

[jgnfld]

Did the car die while you were in motion, or did you pull over to the side for a break and then find that it didn't start?

 

If it's the former, you may have a lemon and you should fight for your rights at the dealer. While we have no explicit automobile lemon law in our country we do have buyer protection laws that can be invoked for this.

 

If it's the latter, you did mention you bought a slightly used car and it's possible the 12V battery died multiple times sitting at the dealer, causing damage, so replacing it could be the answer. My own car was slightly used and I had the 12V battery replaced at my appointment to reprogram the PCM for a recall last year - the reprogramming failed because of a bad battery.

Former...just tooling down the TCH at 104 kph.

[jgnfld]

Former...just tooling down the TCH at 104 kph.

Ford replaced 2 main circuit breakers and said they identified the cause (though I was never able to talk to the mechanic). Nearly 1K later including highway driving, no problems.

 

Fingers crossed.