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ABS module or sensor failure on the 2011 Ford F-150

1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 17 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

Reports of this failure 17
With an odometer reading 16
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 19%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 2
Typical repair $500–$2,400
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 25th

When abs module or sensor failure gets reported

Owners of the 2011 Ford F-150 report ABS module or sensor failure at a median of 125,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 70,000 miles and a quarter after 175,000 miles, from 16 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 25th most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 5,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 210,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 202,510 miles across the middle 80% of reports.

When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.

19% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 16 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
7,490 miles 70,000 miles 125,500 miles 176,071 miles 210,000 miles

Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.

What a percentile can and cannot tell you here

These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.

What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.

Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.

What happens, and what it costs

Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $500–$2,400 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 24 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2006, at a median of 1,800 miles, and latest on the 2012 at 145,000 miles.

By volume the 1997 carries the most reports, with 113; the 2011 has 17. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1996 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 110k
  2. 1997 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 80k
  3. 1998 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 76k
  4. 1999 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 74k
  5. 2000 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 69k
  6. 2001 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 35k
  7. 2002 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 50k
  8. 2003 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 27k
  9. 2004 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 5k
  10. 2005 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 18k
  11. 2006 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 2k
  12. 2007 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 34k
  13. 2009 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 94k
  14. 2010 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 47k
  15. 2011 (this one) 126k
  16. 2012 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 143k
  17. 2013 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 137k
  18. 2014 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 91k
  19. 2015 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 2k
  20. 2016 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 71k
  21. 2017 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 107k
  22. 2018 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 83k
  23. 2019 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 86k
  24. 2020 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 90k
  25. 2021 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 45k
  26. 2022 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2023 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  28. 2024 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 141k
  29. 2025 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 52k
  30. 2026 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

During routine road driving, the service advance-trac light came on the dash. This was at 7490 miles. The truck was taken to be serviced. The rcm was replaced. At 9130 miles the service advance trac warning light again came on. The truck was taken to be serviced and the ABS module was updated. The truck is currently at the dealer for the same warning light. It has been there for a week. The mileage was about 9400 miles on the third trip for the same problem. I drive snowy and icy roads in the winter and feel that the disabling of my advance trac system compromises my safety on slippery roads. *tr

7,490 miles NHTSA complaint 892174 filed 2011-11-26

During routine road driving, the service advance-trac light came on the dash. This was at 7490 miles. The truck was taken to be serviced. The rcm was replaced. At 9130 miles the service advance trac warning light again came on. The truck was taken to be serviced and the ABS module was updated. The truck is currently at the dealer for the same warning light. It has been there for a week. The mileage was about 9400 miles on the third trip for the same problem. I drive snowy and icy roads in the winter and feel that the disabling of my advance trac system compromises my safety on slippery roads. *tr

7,490 miles NHTSA complaint 892175 filed 2011-11-26

During routine road driving, the service advance-trac light came on the dash. This was at 7490 miles. The truck was taken to be serviced. The rcm was replaced. At 9130 miles the service advance trac warning light again came on. The truck was taken to be serviced and the ABS module was updated. The truck is currently at the dealer for the same warning light. It has been there for a week. The mileage was about 9400 miles on the third trip for the same problem. I drive snowy and icy roads in the winter and feel that the disabling of my advance trac system compromises my safety on slippery roads. *tr

7,490 miles NHTSA complaint 892176 filed 2011-11-26

Also reported on the 2011 Ford F-150

Other powertrain problem

618 reports median 96k

Other engine problem

351 reports median 45k

Other steering problem

271 reports median 81k

Other speed control problem

156 reports median 52k

Other electrical problem

149 reports median 65k

Other visibility problem

135 reports median 61k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 17 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

Questions this page answers

At what mileage does abs module or sensor failure happen on the 2011 Ford F-150?

Across 16 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 125,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 70,000 miles and a quarter after 175,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is abs module or sensor failure on the 2011 Ford F-150?

17 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.0 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed