NHTSA Complaint #10513597 — 2012 FORD F-150

MY WIFE AND I WERE DRIVING IN MAINE ON VACATION HAULING A 3600 LB 14 FOOT CAMPER. IT WAS EARLY EVENING AND RAINING, I WAS IN A FLAT AREA COMING INTO A STEEP HILL SO I ACCELERATED HARD AND THE ENGINE STAGGERED HARD. IT WAS LIKE A HAMMERING FOR SEVERAL SECONDS AND A TOTAL LOSS OF ACCELERATION. I THOUGHT I HAD ACTUALLY BROKEN THE ENGINE SOME HOW. A FEW SECONDS LATER THE HAMMERING STOPPED AND THE TRUCK RETURNED TO NORMAL. WHEN I TALKED TO MY FORD TECH ABOUT IT HE SAID IT WAS BAD GAS. THE ENGINE SINCE THEN HAS HAD A TICKING SOUND THAT THE TECH SAYS IS THE FUEL INJECTORS WORKING, I'M NOT SO SURE SINCE IT DID NOT MAKE THAT SOUND BEFORE THE ABOVE DESCRIBED INCIDENT. IT HAS NOT RECURRED, BUT I HAVE BEEN CAREFUL NOT TO EXPOSE THE VEHICLE TO HARD ACCELERATION AGAIN, BUT THAT HARDLY SEEMS TO BE AN APPROPRIATE SOLUTION. *TR