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Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure on the 2024 Ford F-150

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 5
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $700–$3,000
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 12th

When control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure gets reported

There are 5 reports of control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure on the 2024 Ford F-150. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 12th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $700–$3,000 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 26 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2021, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2002 at 150,000 miles.

By volume the 2013 carries the most reports, with 127; the 2024 has 0. 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 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1997 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 100k
  3. 1998 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 126k
  4. 1999 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 97k
  5. 2000 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 59k
  6. 2001 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 63k
  7. 2002 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 150k
  8. 2003 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 65k
  9. 2004 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 44k
  10. 2005 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 59k
  11. 2006 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 70k
  12. 2007 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 47k
  13. 2009 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 76k
  14. 2010 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 90k
  15. 2011 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 123k
  16. 2012 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 84k
  17. 2013 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 94k
  18. 2014 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 104k
  19. 2015 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 52k
  20. 2016 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 64k
  21. 2017 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 51k
  22. 2018 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 60k
  23. 2019 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 63k
  24. 2020 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 86k
  25. 2021 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 10k
  26. 2022 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 96k
  27. 2023 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 125k
  28. 2024 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  29. 2025 Ford F-150 control module (ecm/pcm/bcm) failure 204k

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

Also reported on the 2024 Ford F-150

Other electrical problem

23 reports median 68k

Other engine problem

20 reports median 18k

Other powertrain problem

16 reports median 49k

Other driver assistance problem

13 reports median 30k

Other body or interior problem

8 reports median 55k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 5 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 5 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.

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