TriX wrote:
A friend’s F-150 recently self-combusted in his driveway (which had not been driven in the last few hours). Luckily it was far enough from their house not to catch it on fire as well, but the vehicle was thoroughly totaled. The fire seemed to have originated near the speed control “module”, and the fire chief on scene said he had seen this happen more than once. That was news to me since there are zillions of F-150s on the road and I had never heard of self-immolation issues. That caused me to Google which vehicles catch fire the most (and it’s not Ford trucks), but I did pick up one tidbit from Car and Driver this year which I found interesting and not what I would have initially suspected:
“ It found that hybrid vehicles, which have an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, had the most fires per 100,000 vehicles (3475), while vehicles with just an internal combustion engine placed second (1530 per 100,000). Fully electric vehicles had the fewest: 25 per 100,000.”
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You didn't mention what year F150. I know that the gen 10 (1997-2003) models, have a faulty sensor on the master cylinder for the cruise control shut off. The original equipment would leak at the master cyl and the brake fluid could catch fire because there is/was constant 12vdc even with the engine off. They sent out a recall and would fix this free, but some people missed the recall notice. I have a 2002 F150 and the cruise control stopped working. I looked at the master cyl and it was leaking brake fluid there. I bought the kit that Ford would have installed via the recall notice and everything is fine now.