Stalling while driving on the 2015 Ford F-150
When stalling while driving gets reported
Owners of the 2015 Ford F-150 report stalling while driving at a median of 45,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles, from 13 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 30th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 10,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 80,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 68,800 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.
23% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,200 miles | 40,850 miles | 44,000 miles | 79,000 miles | 79,000 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
Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,500 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.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 16 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2001 at 145,000 miles.
By volume the 2012 carries the most reports, with 30; the 2015 has 15. 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.
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.
The issues started around mid july 2016 with about 11-12k miles. I was turning onto a side road where doing maybe 10 MPH and the engine stalled, it restarted while in motion and I continued. The hill start assist and advance trac warning lights came on. Later that week it happened repeatedly. The dealership here in town (not where I bought it) looked at it for a few days, they thought it was because of, "all the after market stuff (radio etc) I had (professionally) installed". They believed it was the power converter so they replaced the converter when it came in (the 110v converter) I got my stereo stuff reconnected and kept driving it. Then the engine would not stall, but the warning lights would flash advance trac and hill assist. After a few days, it began to stall again, almost getting me hit pulling onto a road with 50mph traffic. The truck died, and wouldn't "restart" itself. So here I am parked on a two multilane 50mph roadway trying to start my truck without getting killed. It also happened again while pulling off this same road into a side street with a big ass rv coming at me, I was able to coast into the side street…
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 ford f-150. While driving 55 MPH, the vehicle began to decelerate and the engine stalled without warning. The contact stated that a downshift occurred during the failure. The failure was persistent. The vehicle was taken to a dealer, but the cause of the failure could not be determined. The vehicle was not repaired. The VIN was not included in NHTSA campaign number: 16v248000 (power train). The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 10,000.
The first time I noticed the problem was when I went to pass another vehicle. I did a hard acceleration to pass and my 2015 f150 3.5 ecoboost engine stalled in the passing lane on a 2 lane highway. I was doing 45 MPH. I immediately got back into my lane behind the vehicle I was passing. After that incident I have occasionally accelerated hard to see if the engine would stall. Sometimes it would stall and sometimes it would not. I took it back to the ford dealer and they replaced the throttle pack but it still stalls. They are at a loss on what is causing this erratic acceleration problem. They say they have not had any service bulletins from ford relating to this. This happened not long after I purchased the vehicle with less than 2000 miles on it. I now have 18000 miles on it and this problem has been ongoing since I bought it. The dealer and I have been waiting to see if ford will offer a solution but so far they have done nothing.
Also reported on the 2015 Ford F-150
Other engine problem
Other powertrain problem
Other body or interior problem
Other electrical problem
Cruise control failure
Loss of braking
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 15 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 stalling while driving happen on the 2015 Ford F-150?
Across 13 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 45,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is stalling while driving on the 2015 Ford F-150?
15 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