The vehicle has 34,000 highway miles on it. This issue first began on i95 @ 29,000mi. When hitting a bump, such as bridge expansion joint, the vehicle begins to shake uncontrollably. The brakes do not work properly when this happens because the tires are bouncing off the road surface causing ABS activation. The shaking gets worse until it comes almost to a stop. Very dangerous on the highway in lane 1 at 75 MPH with cars all around. The problem is related to the track bar. This problem is unsafe and well documented on sites such as youtube. The track bar issue does occur on solid axel 4x4 vehicles with high mileage (200,000) but not on low mileage trucks like my f250. I have replaced track bar ball joint and problem was fixed but has now wore our again causing a recurrence of the issue. Very dangerous effecting steering and braking. I can send video of this occurring if needed.
2012 Ford F-250 SD steering complaints
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Traveling on highway approximately 60, hit a small blemish in the road, and front end started a violent shake, had to pull over and stop for shake to quit. Has happened multiple times since.
Driving straight down the expressway and car started to violently shake. Slowed down and exited highway, once to 20mph it stopped. Pull off and checked under carriage for any signs of problems. Noting found. Drove to dealership where I told them the issues. They stated "oh that is called the death wobble, it is on all the new ford trucks" spent $600 to stabilize front end but no guarantee that it would be fixed. This is well known problem about ford f-250 and f-350 trucks yet they do nothing about it.
Clear and dry road conditions. Factory truck. Driving at 65 MPH with steering wheel slightly turned to the left, the road made a transition from concrete to asphalt with a slight rise in road surface and the commonly worded "death wobble" took over violently and rapidly pulling my steering wheel back and forth until I eventually brought the vehicle to a stop as it the truck took itself into the median. Under nearly the exact same conditions around 100 miles later also ending with the vehicle in the median.
After hitting patched portion on road front wheels began to shake violently. Steering wheel shook. Stopped vehicle and inspected. Saw no damage so I continued to drive. I then took to local ford dealer for repair. Not finding anything as of this date 8/30.
Dramatic wheel and front end wobble when hitting a bridge transition. Vehicle becomes uncontrollable and continues to shake violently until vehicle comes to almost a complete stop. I had this same issue in my 2005 f250 and had to change almost all the components of the front end to fix. There are hundreds of people speaking about this on the forums and state that there are tsbs that cover this but that the parts fail again in about 25k miles. I pull a boat quite often and if this would have happened with a trailer behind my truck there would have been fatalities. As it was cars went all over the interstate trying to get away from me. This issue has been around for a long time and it seems that it has not been addressed by the manufacture. I love and need my 3/4 ton truck and believe that ford makes the best truck, but there will be deaths caused by this, if not already. Now I will start the long process of getting the dealer to fix the issue.
Tl* the contact owns a 2012 ford f-250 sd. The contact stated while driving at speeds over 60 MPH the front wheels of the vehicle would suddenly began to shake and wobble. The contact indicated that the steering wheel would also vibrate and the vehicle would become difficult to steer. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who was unable to diagnose the cause of the failure. The steering stabilizer and the track bar bushings were replaced but the defect was not remedied. The manufacturer was not notified of the defect. The failure mileage was 22,000.
Vehicle stalled and stopped running in traffic on highway 231 in montgomery al. About an hour after, second incidence of violent front end oscillation [see previous complaint (odi number) is: xxx59219. Called ford roadside assist. I have 125k extended warranty and had vehicle towed to nearest ford dealership. There were no warnings of any kind from on board diagnostic systems . Vehicle was diagnosed with "evidence of water in fuel system" . There was no water present in system , no "water in fuel system" warning light ,has never lit up on this vehicle , had it checked in the past ,was told was functional], was told repairs were "not covered " .all service has been done to ford specifications and at ford facility. These repairs would not be necessary if the warning system was operable . I am in a business that sells, operates and uses diesels every day and all modern diesels have water in fuel sensors . Case is still open with ford customer care . This needs documentation . There would have never been an issue if the trucks systems were operating properly. The repairs are more than I can afford for a truck that is under warranty. This is clearly a system failure .
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