I recently purchased a 2018 F250 Platinum the first part of May, from a dealer in Texas but about 3 hours from the town I live in. No one around where I live could come close to the price they were selling them for. I drove it for 2 weeks and noticed a bit of movement in the steering wheel, almost like it was out of alignment or even kind of felt like the computer was making it “twitch” about an inch side to side when I would take my hands of the wheel on a flat straight road. I have never owned a ford before and chaulked it up to this is just how they handle I guess, naive, I know. It then set in my garage for 10 days while I was on vacation, no one else drove it or even touched while I was gone, have cameras on my house to prove that. When I got back, I drove it for 3 days before it went nuts on me. I noticed on the 3rd day, while heading to work, for a moment, like literally a millisecond, it acted like the power shut down and restarted. Loss of power steering and the a/c turned off and the on again. This all took place in the time it would take you to blink your eyes. I also noticed when it started doing this through out the day that it would turn on the cooling seats on the passenger side, drivers side was already on. I turned both of them completely off and seemed to fix the problem, I thought. That evening, I went to run a quick errand up the road and about a mile from my house it completely shut down, no power steering, power brakes, motor turned off, windshield wipers came on by themselves, horn started honking on it’s own, flashed a bunch alerts on the dash, but the truck still acted like it was running. Would not allow me to turn it off with the button, disconnected & reconnected the batteries and was able to start it and drive it home. Next morning would not start at all and had to have it towed to a local dealer. They told me it is a fuse box that needs to be replaced but the part is on back order. They have now had my pickup for 1 full month and keep telling me the part is still on back order. They gave me a half ton XL to drive but would not give me a 3/4 ton because they were worried that I might haul a trailer with it. ( the exact reason why I bought an f250). Has anyone else had any kind of issues likes this with theirs? The pickup only has 1,000 miles on it! Any input would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve started to look into the lemon laws in Texas to see if they apply to my situation. They’re suggesting at the dealership that is servicing it, that I must have recently tried to jump start a semi truck battery because another guy took his in for kind of the same problems and that was when is pickup started going haywire, but his truck is 2 years older than mine with a lot more than a thousand miles on it. I haven’t jump started anything with my truck because I haven’t had it in my possession long enough to do so.

Thanks, I’ll take a look at it and let y’all know what I find out! I appreciate all the advice! There is no way the truck was affected by Harvey because it was not built until Feb.- April of this year. I custom ordered it. And I have seen some threads about the back electric adapters being corroded from water, but I live in West Texas (Lubbock to be exact) and we have not seen rain in months! The only rain we have had is when the truck was in the garage for 10 days and then after that it has been in the service shop. I haven’t even ran it through a car wash since I’ve owned it! But checking those adapters is still worth looking into, so thank you.

All in all, great news!

But, we want proof that you actually got your truck back... post a picture!

Best of luck,
Jim / crewzer

Unfortunately, I cannot post any pics of my truck yet, because I actually didnt get it back on Thursday afternoon or Friday...couldnt even get My phone calls returned!! Day 62!!