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Originally Posted by mmaloney

Has anyone had to replace the shifter linkage cable?
We have less than 20,000 miles and yesterday while at a campground went to move out of park and was unable to shift into gear. After 2 hr wait mechanic said shifter cable was burned thru do to resting on manifold, also found it had been mounted onto the wrong side of chassis. Now costing about 400.00 to fix.
Seems awful soon to have such a problem
Curious if this is a common problem

Yes, Long and Winding is correct about there being older discussions about that issue in the Forum. There was a service bulletin from Ford as I recall for some of the units that had the shifter cable getting burned by the exhaust manifold. Our 2016 had a problem with adjustment right from the beginning which I had handled by the local Ford dealer. It caused me to not be able to remove the key from the ignition. Irritating but fairly minor issue that they can easily correct.