NHTSA Complaint #10896009 — 2016 FORD FUSION

WHILE DRIVING ABOUT 50MPH, MY CAR ALL OF A SUDDEN LOST POWER AND WRENCH LIGHT ON THE DASH ILLUMINATED. (NEW CAR PURCHASED 11/2015) DASHBOARD STATED TO SEE MANUAL WHICH IN TURN TOLD ME THAT IT IS A POWERTRAIN FAILURE AND TO SEE A DEALER. ENGINE, A/C AND RADIO ALL SEEMED TO BE RUNNING FINE AND AS I CAME TO A STOP THE CAR RAN ROUGH AT IDLE AND HAD VERY LITTLE POWER. AFTER TURNING IT OFF AND THEN ON AGAIN, THE CAR WAS BACK TO NORMAL AND NO MORE WARNING LIGHTS ON THE DASH. THIS WAS VERY ODD CONSIDERING I ONLY HAD 14K MILES ON IT. THIS HAPPENED ON THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS WITHIN ONE WEEK. TOOK IT TO A FORD DEALER AND I TOLD THEM AFTER RESEARCHING AND SEEING ALL THESE COMMON OCCURRENCES, IT APPEARS THAT THE ELECTRONIC THROTTLE BODY IS FAILING. THE TECH SAID HE HAS HEARD ABOUT THE ISSUE ON OLDER MODELS AND NOT THE 2016 BUT IT WAS FAMILIAR TO HIM. AFTER RUNNING DIAGNOSTICS, IT WAS IN FACT THE ETB AND FORD REPLACED IT AT NO CHARGE. THIS ISSUE DOES SEEM TO BE VERY PREVALENT AND I AM CURIOUS IF FORD IS SIMPLY REPLACING THE ETB WITH AN NEW... OR ARE THEY MAKING AN UPDATED/UPGRADED VERSION? I REALLY HOPE THAT THEY DO RE-MANUFACTURE A BETTER ETB A SI HOPE IT DOESN'T FAIL AGAIN SO SOON IN ANOTHER 14K MILES...