2025 2.3 Start-up CLUNK

[ericsmr]

I park on an incline every single day (driveway) and since reviewing this thread three weeks ago my solve which has worked thus far is to do this

put it in park, press and hold the brake with force, engage the parking break, wait one or two seconds after fully engaging, then turn off. So far hasn’t come back but if it does I will report

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[Texasota]

Flat surface, in my garage.

Same for me.

 

[Texasota]

That is a strange thing. AFAIK, PARK is just NEUTRAL with extra steps, engaging a pawl to keep the vehicle from rolling. It sounds like the truck is in PARK, but not NEUTRAL when starting?

I suspect that the action of moving the transmission to neutral causes some kind of transmission software reset that prevents the clunk.

 

[Oregon2025Ranger]

My muscle memory training on starting the truck is becoming automatic now.

Ignition on. Foot on brke. Release e-brake. Shift to Neutral. Start engine (listening for lack of clunk). Disable auto-start stop. Shift into R or D.

 

[RonEee]

My muscle memory training on starting the truck is becoming automatic now.

Ignition on. Foot on brke. Release e-brake. Shift to Neutral. Start engine (listening for lack of clunk). Disable auto-start stop. Shift into R or D.

I'm glad someone else sees this truck being as complicated as I do Just to leave the driveway. Start it up transmission jerks, beeps blings, select the drive mode, are you seat belts fastened, disengage auto start stop. By the time it's all over I forget where I was going In the first place.

The F-150 I sold to buy this truck? Get in truck, start engine, put transmission in drive and go
No bells no whistles no beeping at me while I'm driving no telling me to put my hands on the steering wheel when they're on the steering wheel already, no systems failing in the snow... If I keep the recall Ranger I'm going to have to Go on Prozac.

Oh yeah... Ford is coming to my driveway on Monday to do the 4th recall on the truck. I'm on a first name basis with the repair technicians now.

 

[MTGriz]

According to a post on the 14th Gen F-150 sub (10r80 trans), Ford says its inside the CDF drum and on startup the clutch turns causing a clunk. Don't know if that is true or applies to the 10r60, but thought it may be useful.

 

[artvarck]

I'm glad someone else sees this truck being as complicated as I do Just to leave the driveway. Start it up transmission jerks, beeps blings, select the drive mode, are you seat belts fastened, disengage auto start stop.

I don’t understand why sometimes on start the dash will give me the opportunity to use the same drive mode as was most recently used (and not other times), and why I have to acknowledge the seat belt warning. Along with auto stop disengage, it is all annoying.

 

[MTGriz]

I don’t understand why sometimes on start the dash will give me the opportunity to use the same drive mode as was most recently used, and why I have to acknowledge the seat belt warning. Along with auto stop disengage, it is all annoying.

The seatbelt warning drives me nuts too. Kinda SOL for stop-start on new vehicles. EPA no longer gives emission credit to car manufacturers for it, so maybe we will see it disappear.

 

[saxdogg]

I don’t understand why sometimes on start the dash will give me the opportunity to use the same drive mode as was most recently used, and why I have to acknowledge the seat belt warning. Along with auto stop disengage, it is all annoying.

On my '26, the seatbelt warning goes away within a little bit...it's not fast by any means but it clears itself. You mean yours stays forever until you clear it each start?

 

[h1k3rb]

Don't drive the Ranger a lot as I have other vehicles too but it hasn't clunked in quite a while. I just start it normally in park with the parking brake engaged and haven't heard it in numerous starts over the last month. Posting this means I'll likely hear on the next start, right? ;-)

 

[artvarck]

On my '26, the seatbelt warning goes away within a little bit...it's not fast by any means but it clears itself. You mean yours stays forever until you clear it each start?

No, the warning goes away on its own. I just don't understand what value that warning provides. I think we'd be hard pressed to find even one driver who uses that display to guide them to safer habits.

 

[kirkster89]

Hard to hear in the video but once I put both earbuds in and turned on noise cancelling I could hear it. My 25 2.3 definitely has this noise as well. I never thought anything of it. Figured it was normal.

I will also add sometimes when I put the truck in drive it feels like it lurches backwards for a split second... It's totally random and scares the sh*t outta me everytime. I don't think I've noticed it alongside the noise though.

 

[ShadowDragon24]

I'm glad someone else sees this truck being as complicated as I do Just to leave the driveway. Start it up transmission jerks, beeps blings, select the drive mode, are you seat belts fastened, disengage auto start stop. By the time it's all over I forget where I was going In the first place.

The F-150 I sold to buy this truck? Get in truck, start engine, put transmission in drive and go
No bells no whistles no beeping at me while I'm driving no telling me to put my hands on the steering wheel when they're on the steering wheel already, no systems failing in the snow... If I keep the recall Ranger I'm going to have to Go on Prozac.

Oh yeah... Ford is coming to my driveway on Monday to do the 4th recall on the truck. I'm on a first name basis with the repair technicians now.

When I park, I keep truck in gear. hold brake, set park brake, shift to park, shut truck off.

get back in, start truck, put in gear, release park brake, go. no clunking. push okay on steering wheel twice. thats it. no clunking, no jerking, etc

 

[03GeeTee]

Do any of y'all that have the clunking issue also use the "auto hold" brake feature. I don't think my truck has ever done the clunk and am just speculating that maybe it's because I have auto hold enabled and use it.

 

[MTGriz]

Do any of y'all that have the clunking issue also use the "auto hold" brake feature. I don't think my truck has ever done the clunk and am just speculating that maybe it's because I have auto hold enabled and use it.

I have the clunk occasionally and do not use the auto hold feature. Interesting observation, especially since this clunk seems to have occurred since the introduction of the Ford 10 speed transmissions in 2017.

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