2016 Ford F150 Mode/Blend Door Actuator Repair (Passenger Side) 

Man I’ve never left a RU-vid comment in my life but I’ve just tested every relay and fuse -related and unrelated, and gone down every possible rabbit hole of why my heat and ac aren’t working just hoping I wouldn’t have to pull the dash out but here I am 3 hours and and 6 beers deep and your video just helped me confirm exactly what part I need to get this working again! Whacked the actuator while changing from cool to heat and watched the cam move and finally the heat kicked on. Can’t wait to go buy a new actuator and get this fixed, thank you!

This video literally helped fix a lot of stress, wife just got back from a trip and heater stopped working, with your video I was able to get it fixed . Thanks for the content

Watched your video and my f-150 had the same exact issue. Literally a 15 minute fix because it took me 10 minutes to find my 1/4" wrench...

This is the driver’s side temp control. The passenger side temp control is on top of the heater box directly above the driver’s side control actuator.

You are correct. The driver side controls the direction and passenger controls the temperature. I lost the temperature control a month before I lost the direction control. Replaced the directional one and it wasn’t too bad. The temp control leaves it really hot or cold. No in between at all. This will be the next one. Thanks for the video!

2016 F150 3.5 Turbo Lariat was not blowing air cold or hot through dash and defrost vents. Used this video and not being short or small enough I also removed the driver's seat 4x 13mm to make more room. Fantastic fix can not thank you enough.

Thanks man. Got my heat going. My first attempt I just had hot and less hot. I definitely recommend holding the actuator there in its correct spot and testing before screwing back in the torx screws. Reaching up in the hole the actuator covered and manually moving the blend door to heat and setting the actuator to heat(plugged in but not installed) made it install right and work for me. The white cam piece came off with the actuator for me so it made installation pretty confusing and allowed me to install it wrong on first try.

Great video, thank you for sharing this! Also, thanks for putting the part number on the video too! Saved me a lot of time and money!

Thanks! Best video I've found on doing this.

To make diagnosing which door you need to replace simpler, a mode door actuator controls the flow position, i.e. floor, vent, defrost. a blend door actuator changes the temperature, cold to hot and vise versa. a recirc door actuator will change between fresh air and recirculated air. also, a recirc door actuator will almost always be very close to the blower motor itself.

Just replaced mine. Thanks for the guidance! Definitely requires some patience.

Thanks for the help. I have the exact same problem. Hopefully it will work for me. I appreciate the clear illustrations. Thanks again

Dude thank you. Having the same issue sometimes it’s stuck on cold sometimes it’s stuck on heat. Was about to tear into the dash rather than the passenger side.

Awesome video. I had no AC...fixed the problem. Except my screw head was a T15 on my 2016 XLT 5.0 Thanks

Thanks for the video man totally fixed my truck too

Your video and another couple I found a really helped me. I found that that white cog is actually broken in mind. Guess I need to order that

Thank god for this video. You're the best.

Thank you very much for this video. You saved me thousands

Thanks for posting this video!

Awesome video. Really appreciate this to save a ton of $$

Thanks for the video you saved me a ton of money! And your voice is hot

my issue is the exact opposite to yours ....mine has the heat going on rather than cold ...ill assume that its the same actuator....i do not have the dual temp control...mine is like yours....do you think that this is the only one that could be defective ....crossing fingers...let me know what you think...much appreciated sir

Great information I'm about to change the driver side one. Glad to know if my heat stops that will be my first stop. $1000 😂😂😂 thats what i was told came home RU-vidd the problem 30 min. And $25 later problem solved. These people are criminals.

Thank you I almost spent 1k

So if my issue is that the passenger side is hot and drivers side is cold then I need to replace the one behind that passenger air vent you mentioned?

I had no air coming out of the defrost. Changed the gas pedal side acuator and now I only have air coming out of the defrost and big vents. Anyone know how to fix this? Reset of sone sort.

Great video! Thank you so much!

I have the same symptoms you describe, I'm hoping this is my problem. So, how do you test the actuator to know that's the issue?

Mine is just blowing from defrost not from dash vents Wich one you think it is Its a F150 2016 King ranch If you can help me please🙏🏽

Is it also the same for 2013 f 150?

I just broke the mount for the top of the white piece

Under the floor board?

How do u calibrate this parts?

Thank you very much sir. This was extremely helpful.

Thank you

Who the hell in their right mind would pay one thousand dollars to have this work done???