2018 FORD F-250 SD Complaints

BOUGHT VEHICLE ON 4/16/19 USED WITH 22,0000 MILES. RETURNED TO DEALERSHIP WHERE IT WAS PURCHASED ON 4/23/16 DUE TO 'DEATH WOBBLE' FOR REPAIRS. THE DAMPER ASSEMBLY WAS REPAIRED. RETURNED TRUCK TO DEALERSHIP AGAIN ON 10/23/19 FOR REPAIRS DUE TO 'DEATH WOBBLE' AGAIN. STEERING STABILIZER HAD DEAD SPOT SO NEW STEERING STABILIZER INSTALLED. 11/1/19. 'DEATH WOBBLE' RETURNS AND IS WORSE. RETURNED TO DEALERSHIP FOR FURTHER DIAGNOSTIC TESTING ON 11/20/19. CAN NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG..ALL DEATH WOBBLE OCCURRENCES HAPPENED IN MOTION ON HIGHWAY AT SPEEDS BETWEEN 51 MPH AND 70 MPH, DEATH WOBBLE WILL RESOLVE ONLY WITH GREATLY REDUCED SPEEDS. THIS VEHICLE IS UNSAFE TO DRIVE DUE TO THE VIOLENT FRONT END SHAKING.

TRUCK DOES DEATH WOBBLE AKA SHAKES VIOLENTLY AFTER HITTING BUMPS IN THE ROAD. YESTERDAY DRIVING TO PICK UP OUR SON FROM SCHOOL GOING DOWN THE INTERSTATE AT 65 MILES PER HOUR IN BETWEEN AN 18 WHEELER AND A SCHOOL BUS I NEARLY LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK WHEN THIS BEGAN SO BADLY IT RIPPED THE STEERING WHEEL OUT OF MY HANDS. NOT THE FIRST TIME BUT BY FAR THE SCARIEST

THE TRUCK WILL GO INTO A VIOLENT (DEATH WOBBLE) IN THE FRONT END AND STEERING, FEELS LIKE ITS TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL, HAD IT BACK TO THE DEALER AND HAD IT FIXED, A FEW WEEKS LATER HAD THE SAME THING HAPPEN. DID SOME RESEARCH AND FOUND ITS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THIS VEHICLE, ONLY 30,000 MILES AND I FEEL ITS NOT SAFE TO RIDE IN IT. I BELIEVE ITS A DEFECT. AND CAN'T BE FIXED. IT WILL HAPPEN ABOVE 50 MILES AN HOUR WHEN HITTING UNEVEN ROAD OR BUMPS. CAN HAPPEN AT ANY MOMENT.

WHILE DRIVING MY TRUCK AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS. THE TRUCK STARTED TO VIOLENTLY SHAKE AND WAS UNABLE TO STEER THE TRUCK. I REACTED BY QUICKLY TAKING THE TRUCK TO A COMPLETE STOP.

STEERING SHAKES WHEN HITTING ROUGH PLACE IN ROAD. BETTER KNOWN AS DEATH WOBBLE THIS ISAT NORMAL SPEEDS. DEALER WORKED ON TRUCK AT 10700 MILES. INSTALLED STEERING DAMPER.TRUCK HAS PROBLEM AGAIN AT 24000 MILES. THIS WILL CAUSE A WRECK.

TRUCK SHAKES VIOLENTLY AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS WHEN YOU HIT A ROUGH SPOT ON HIGHWAY. DEATH WOBBLE

AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS OVER 60MPH, UPON HITTING A ROUGH SPOT ON THE ROAD, HEAVY ROAD EXPANSION JOINT OR SOMETIME UNDER LIGHT BRAKING. THE TRUCK STEERING WHEEL WILL OSCILLATE STRONGLY FOR A FEW SECONDS THEN WILL SUBSIDE. THIS HAS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES. I HAVE TOLD MY DEALERSHIP AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THERE MIGHT BE A RECALL COMING BUT THEY DON'T HAVE ANY PARTS TO FIX THE PROBLEM. THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE, THIS COULD GET SOMEONE INJURED OR WORSE.

WHILE TRAVELING AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS, FRONT END BEGAN TO VIOLENTLY SHAKE OR 'DEATH WOBBLE' AFTER HITTING A BUMP. DIDN'T STOP UNTIL GOT UNDER 65 MPH. THIS IS A SERIOUS HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUE, I ALMOST CRASHED IN TO A GUARD RAIL AND THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.

ON 3 OCCASIONS (THE FIRST 2/17/2019 AT ABOUT 35,000 MILES), WE EXPERIENCED WHAT WE HAVE COME TO KNOW AS "DEATH WOBBLE" ON OUR 2018 FORD F250. WE HAD PURCHASED THE TRUCK USED WITH 33,000 MILES. WE DO NOT KNOW IF THE PRIOR OWNER HAD EXPERIENCED THIS SAME PROBLEM. WE WERE DRIVING STRAIGHT DOWN THE INTERSTATE AT NIGHT AT APPROX. 65 MPH. I WAS DRIVING AND HIT A BUMP IN THE HIGHWAY. IMMEDIATELY, THE TRUCK WAS SHAKING VIOLENTLY, I WAS PULLED ALL THE WAY FROM THE RIGHT LANE OVER INTO THE LEFT LANE. I HAD ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL OVER THE STEERING. MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS THAT WE WERE EXPERIENCING A TIRE "BLOW OUT". WHEN THE TRUCK FINALLY SLOWED ENOUGH TO STOP THE SHAKING AND I COULD ONCE AGAIN STEER, WE PULLED ONTO THE SHOULDER TO CHECK OUR TIRES. THERE WERE NO TIRE ISSUES. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. THANKFULLY, IT WAS ON SUNDAY NIGHT WITHOUT MUCH TRAFFIC. HAD THERE BEEN A SEMI TRUCK THE LEFT LANE, WE WOULD LIKELY HAVE BEEN KILLED. IF THERE HAD BEEN A SMALL CAR IN THE LEFT LANE, WE MAY VERY WELL HAVE KILLED OR INJURED PASSENGERS. WHEN WE GOT TO OUR DESTINATION IN FL, WE TOOK THE TRUCK TO THE DEALER TO HAVE IT CHECKED. THE DEALER DID NOT FIND ANY CAUSE OR PROBLEM AND TOLD US IT WAS LIKELY A PROBLEM WITH THE TRAILER WE WERE PULLING. WE WERE SKEPTICAL, BUT CONTINUED DRIVING THE TRUCK. ON OUR RETURN TRIP WHEN MY HUSBAND WAS DRIVING, WE ONCE AGAIN EXPERIENCED THE VIOLENT SHAKING. HE WAS ABLE TO SLOW DOWN AND GET CONTROL OF THE STEERING WITHOUT A CRASH. SOON AFTER WE RETURNED HOME, WE TOOK THE TRUCK TO THE DEALER WHERE WE HAD PURCHASED THE TRUCK. THEY REPLACED THE STEERING DAMPENER. ALTHOUGH, THE TIRES CONTINUED TO WEAR VERY UNEVENLY, WE DIDN'T EXPERIENCE ANOTHER INCIDENT UNTIL OCTOBER, 2019. STEERING DAMPENER REPLACED. IT IS GOING BACK TO THE DEALER THIS WEEK. I URGE ACTION BEFORE SOMEONE IS KILLED. THE DEATH WOBBLE IS A PRESENT AND URGENT PROBLEM!

WHEN DRIVING AT SPEEDS OF MORE THAN ABOUT 30 MPH, AND HIT A BUMP, THE TRUCKS STEERING STARTS TO SHAKE VIOLENTLY. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO MAINTAIN YOUR LANE WHEN THIS IS HAPPENING. IN ADDITION THE BRAKES HAVE TO BE APPLIED RATHER RAPIDLY TO STOP THE WHEELS FROM SHAKING. THE TRUCK HAS 22,000 MILES ON IT WITH NO MODIFICATIONS.