9.0
really awful- Typical Repair Cost:
- No data
- Average Mileage:
- 1,700 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 4 complaints
Most common solutions:
- replace factory battery (2 reports)
- replace the ford with a different make of truck (2 reports)
This problem may be covered under warranty. Ask your Ford dealer.
The Ford vehicles drain the battery overnight and in so doing the starter type battery is damage and its life greatly shortened. I replaced the battery 4 times with this truck in a 36 month period. After the fourth battery was installed I drove the truck to a Chevy dealer and traded it in for a new Chevy pickup.
Multiple trips to the Ford dealers and hours researching the problem to no avail. It is a common problem with Ford vehicles that can have a parasitic drain at night and leave the battery with too low a SOC to start the engine.
This problem is found on hundreds of posts on Ford forums but never on Ram, Chevy, or Toyota truck forums.
- Bruce S., Prunedale, US
Frequent error codes that were the result of low battery voltage. Left truck with dealer and they found that the original factory battery had failed and would not hold a charge. New battery installed on January 4, 2023.
A year later in 2024 experienced a failure of the battery. It showed a SOC of only 4% and I used a battery charger to get it to 93% SOC. The following morning the SOC was only 44% so battery not holding a charge for a single day.
- Bruce S., Prunedale, US
Truck would not start as the battery could not provide sufficient voltage for the electronics. Needed to have the truck jump started each time. Second visit to a Ford dealer resulted in correct diagnosis of the problem and the replacement of the factory battery.
- Bruce S., Prunedale, US
Ford's BMS or battery monitoring system keep the electrical circuits energized even with the engine switched off. A parasitic drain can reduce the battery state of charge well below 50% and damage the battery. I needed to replace 3 batteries for this reason. Even using a battery tender would not mitigate the parasitic draw problem with the Ford F-150 and this is a common problem with other Ford models sold in the past 10 years.
- Bruce S., Prunedale, US