Truck will randomly begin to violently shake and become hard to control the steering wheel when driving, typically at speeds over 50mph. This has happened three times within the last two weeks.
2017 Ford F-250 SD steering complaints
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I have a 2017 f250 4x4 which has 30,000 miles on it now and is still covered under the factory 3yr/3600 miles and on 9 different occasions while driving over 55mph my truck has began to shake the front end causing loss of control seems to be mostly after hitting a bump in the road or even a when the pavement was uneven each time that this has happened I have been unable to stop the shaking until the truck was below 30mph and last time I was on a 2 lane undivided road the shake caused me to loose control and cross over the center line of the road into the path of on coming traffic, luckily the car coming the other way saw the problem and drove off the road to avoid a head on accident, after the first time it happened I contacted the ford dealer and set up a time to drop it off for service service only to be told that there was a ford motor company tsb 19-2274 and that this has been going on for several years and before this ford also had a tsb 18-2268 then I also found out that before I bought this truck 60 days ago it was in the ford dealer for the same problem and had parts installed that didn't fix it. I have only drove this truck about 1000miles since I have bought it along with my self having this problem when searching the internet I found out that there are hundreds of truck owners having the same problems and that why there has been 2 different tsb issued for this problem most are complaining that after the repair it still does the violent wheel shake or as ford calls it sustained steering wheel oscillation above 45mph.and worst is the parts noted in the tsb is on extended back order and ford gave back the truck and said drive it and we will contact it when the part comes in this is very unsafe the public refers to this as the death wobble and that is truly what it is, my friend has a brand new 2019 with 4k miles on it that he bought new and it also does it.
The vehicle will begin to shake uncontrollably while driving at highway speeds when I drive over a bump, bridge grove, or any other irregularity in the road. When this is experienced I have to brake immediately to get the speed down to gain control of the vehicle. Controlling the vehicle is scary enough, add in congested traffic while doing this and its's a nightmare each time, which is every time I'm on highways.
Traveling at 75 MPH on ks turnpike while crossing a bridge hit a small bump that is the bridge joint and my ford f-250 supper duty truck began a violent shake in the front end causing me to almost loose control. Pulled to the side of the road and inspected vehicle but found no flat or damage. Continued at minimum highway speed with no problems. While traveling at 55 MPH and crossing railroad tracks crossing the road incident happened again but not as severe. Attempted to schedule a repair with rusty eck ford, who transferred my call twice and ended up with the voicemail of the maintenance manager. Left name, number and information of issue. No return call as of december 26th.
My truck is currently at 21000 miles. I've experienced the 'death wobble' 4-5 times in the past but on a recent trip of only 250 miles, it occurred at least 10 times. Travel speed was between 60-70mph. Usually happened on county roads that aren't perfectly smooth, but even on fresh asphalt....one little bump can cause problems. I believe it has something to do with the steering and suspension linkage, vehicle weight or wheel alignment (probably all of the above).
Problem with the vehicle shaking violently on the highway sometimes at speed of 70mph. Dealer claimed it was my tires. I complained about the issue with 26k miles on truck and after the third complaint they changed stabilizer bar and bushings, but did not fix the issue. Date below is the most recent date (aka death wabble)
Tl* the contact owns a 2017 ford f-150 and wanted to file the following complaint in thier own words; I bought a 2017 ford f-250 from blue bonnet ford in new braunfels texas. I have taken the vehicle to the dealership for regularly scheduled maintenance on time, every time. On 12/21/2019 I took the vehicle to the dealership for scheduled maintenance ahead of a trip to colorado. At that time the vehicle had approximately 34,500 miles on it. I asked them rotate and balance the tires. I know they checked the air pressure because I watched them do it. The service was completed and I departed. On my way to colorado, I was traveling at 75 (the posted speed limit) with the cruise set. I drove over an expansion seam on a bridge and the truck's front end began to shake and bounce so violently I could not control the vehicle. I had to quickly slow down to about 45 to get it under control. I continue on my way and the same thing happened two more times. When I arrived at my destination I began to research the problem. I found that it's a known problem to ford with this model truck, known as the death wobble. I want to go on record with nthsa and ford to make you aware of this issue with my truck. I will take the vehicle to the dealership upon my return.
While driving my truck down the highway it shakes violently when hitting bumps or transitions. This death wobble is unsafe, when the death wobble starts I cannot maintain my lane of travel, steer, or brake. This vehicle is unsafe for my family as well as the other motorists driving next to us. Ford acknowledged that my truck has this issue. They state they made a new part to help correct it but it is 6-8 weeks on back order. Ford stated it is a known issue and they have a bulletin to try to correct it. If this is a know issue why wasn't I ever notified of a recall? I do not have confidence that the new part that will instal will correct this issue. I am fearful to have to let my family drive in this truck again in the future. My truck is currently sitting at the dealer until they can get parts to try and fix it. I have video proof of the shaking (death wobble) while driving down the highway
While driving down the highway on a straight away at 60 miles per hour my truck began to shake violently until I slowed down two under 25 miles per hour. I got out to check to see if a tire had blown or a wheel had fallen off because of how dramatic the shaking was. There is no visual sign of anything broken or loose and upon thoroughly checking I startes driving home and the problem did not happen again. Both my passenger and I thought the truck was going to fall apart with us in it.
I was hauling my camper with family around 65 miles an hour truck hit small rough part off road went into uncontrollable death wobble until truck slowed to around 10 miles an hour I will not tow my camper or boat and will not let my family in my truck!! Only driving truck at slow speeds in the city.ford people need help.truck is a 2017 ford xlt 4 wheel drive
At steady speeds of 45 MPH and over the front end of the truck will violently shake after travelling over a pothole, or expansion joint, or other imperfection in the pavement surface. Ford is aware of this. This condition has come to be known as death wobble. The steering wheel will shake in my hands and becomes very anxiety provoking and eliminates my confidence that I can control the truck. The only cure once this condition starts is to slow down to the point that the steering wheel shake smooths out. I bought this truck new, and this condition has existed since day one. Ford claims there is no fix. This is unacceptable in any vehicle at any price.
Violent wobbling at high speed to the point of losing control.
When driving at 60 MPH or more & hitting a pot hole or ruff bridge embankment the steering wheel starts shaking violently & whole truck shakes. Only way to stop it after it starts is to slow down to around 30-40 MPH. Has occurred 10-12 times in last 6 months.
In november 2018 while driving on the freeway my vehicle went into a violent shimmy situation commonly called the death shake. It was a scary and dangerous situation. I had to brake hard to a complete stop to gain control of my vehicle. I took the vehicle to the ford deaker for repairs. The mileage was 21078. The dealer checked it and replaced the steering dampener. On december 11, 2019 I was towing a 37 foot travel trailer. I was going down a 6% winding downhill grade at about 60 MPH when my truck suddenly went into a very violent death shake. I braked hard and my vehicle was bouncing and crossed both lanes headet towoard the mountain side. I was trying hard as I could to keep it in the right lane but had little control. I finally came to a complete stop blocking the entire freeway at about a 30 degree angle. Many vehicles had to take evasive action to avoid a crash. Fortunately there was not a semi behind me as this would have been a disaster. I am amazed no one crashed or was injured. I limped my vehicle down the hill with the trailer brakes and down shifting the transmission. It went into the violent front ebd shake three more times. I took the truck straight to the dealership for repairs. They had it for two days and said they need to replace the steering dampener again with a upgraded version. The problem is the new dampener is on a 6 week national backorder. The vehicle now sits in my driveway as it is unsafe to drive. I now do not have a transpoetation vehicle tobdrive a week later. Ford is trying to provide a loaner. They have so far been unable to do so. They said they normaly only provide a loaner for 10 days.
I just bought my new 2017 f250 with 28000 miles last year and at any speed above 35mph or greater... If I hit a bump or any bad pavement my steering wheel start violently shaking side to side almost made me crash a couple times this is very dangerous for the safety of my children and other people ford needs to recall the parts that make this issue happen in the first place this is completely out of line for a new truck to almost kill you and your family please fix this issue before someone dies
Tl* the contact owns a 2017 ford f-250. While driving various speeds over a bump in the road, the steering wheel and the entire front end shook without warning. The failure recurred several times. The vehicle was taken to salmon river motors (208‑756‑4211, located at 1051 s challis st, salmon, id 83467) where the stabilizer was replaced. The failure recurred and the vehicle was taken to woody smith ford (888‑876‑7438, located at 535 s yellowstone hwy, rexburg, id 83440) where the drag link was replaced. The failure recurred. The manufacturer was contacted and stated that they were aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 20,000.
I purchased this truck new. At 7700 miles I had a severe shaking (known as death wobble)in the steering wheel after hitting minor bump in 4 lane highway. The truck was completely in its own control because you can't turn the steering wheel all you can do is apply brakes and go whoever it goes. On this occasion I had my family in truck. Took truck to ford dealership they replaced bushings in front end and told me they never had seen anything like this before. I now have 16,000 miles on truck and I hit a expansion joint in bridge saturday night with my family in truck and the truck did this death wobble again. Took it to ford dealership and they said everything was fine in front end and ford only wants to put steering stabilizer shock on truck. I personally think this is a bandaid to get this truck past warranty and out of there hands like so many others. By the way the part is 8 weeks on back order so truck will have to be driven till then like this.
Front wheels violently wobble when crossing road deviations like potholes ,bridge joints and angled rr crossings . Originally it started at highway speeds but has been happening at city street speeds more and more.
The truck hit a small bump in the road while driving around 45 MPH and then started shaking uncontrollably. Felt almost like the tire fell off. Was very hard to keep on the road. After slowing down the shaking stopped. Very scary situation to be in. Took truck to ford service and was told this was the "death wobble" that many f250's experience. Parts were replaced per fords technical bulletin, but from our understanding this problem may re-occur. Very dangerous to drive. Would like to see a more permanent assured fix.
While driving home from work running approx 75mph I hit a rough patch in the road after hitting the patch my steering wheel began to shake violently. It felt like the front end was coming out from under the truck. It's almost as the truck started getting a very bad wobble. I was able to regain control of the vehicle once slowing down to around 30mph. I've heard of the term what people call the death wobble. Once I hit that patch it felt like the truck was going to shake apart.
Major wobble on the front end. Very dangerous.. Totally shakes the entire truck. My truck just turned 20,00 miles. I'm scared to drive my truck on the highway. Over 55 miles an hour extremely dangerous and shakes when you hit any kind of bump.
On 12/16/2019 while traveling 75 MPH on I-44 east and west bound between burkburnett tx and oklahoma city. My ford f-250 began violently shaking after hitting some rough road. It did not stop until I reduced my speed to 20 MPH. It was freezing weather conditions with dry roads. It did this 6 more times until I was able to get my vehicle back home. Upon learning this is a problem know as a 'death rattle' with this type of vehicle steering, I was wondering why this is not a recalled issue..
Experienced death wobble on the highway at 70mph, almost crashed due to violent steering shake and loss of control. Had to slam on brakes as I was crossing lanes and ended up on the side of the highway.
Death wobble occurred at 75mph had to slow to about 15 MPH to control vehicle has happened 3 times on a 800 mile trip in heavy holiday traffic current miles 24,900 vehicle currently at dealer for updated steering stabalizer
Have had a wobble in the front wheels when hitting minor pothole two to three times in front wheels when doing 70mph in the two years since purchase. Had to slow down for it to correct. In last three weeks, have had six instance per week when doing 70mph. Since tire rotation last week, cannot go over 60mph without the wobble, must slow down to 50-55 to recover.
Crashno fireno injuries0 deaths0 while driving between 65 and 75 MPH I hit a rough crossing a freeway bridge. Front left tire. The steering wheel started to vibrate violently almost losing control. Slowed down to 25 MPH to stop steering wheel shaking. This is probably the 3rd time happening. 2017 ford f250. 4x4. Must have read 50-60 incidents on internet . Even had a name. "shake of death".
"death wobble" was experienced in january of 2019. Truck was taken to ford, and per there invoice, tsb 18-2268 was performed to fix problem. On december 12 of 2019 truck experienced the exact same issue that was previously "fixed". Both times this happened, I was driving on the highway and the truck involuntarily went out of my driving lane and made truck unable to control until speeds reached around 35 MPH.
It's apparently called the death wobble, you are driving at freeway speeds hit a pothole, bump on bridge overpass, ect. Wheels start shaking violently, steering wheel shakes back and forth violently. It's very hard to keep control of the truck. Very scary and dangerous. I had my dealership work on the problem after the first time I noticed it probably about 19 months ago. Didn't have trouble for awhile. Recently coming home after thanksgivinig it occurred 3 times on the 2 hour ride home. Called my dealership, they're aware of the problem with these models. Them supposeded part fix is back ordered and has been for awhile.my truck was new from the factory, $75,000 truck , all stock , I sure hope ford is made to fix these right. I try to avoid driving vehicle on freeway, can't let my girls drive it.was't aware it was such a wide spread problem till I googled it on the internet. There is thousands of complaints on there . This needs to be fixed asap or people are going to get killed.
This problem started at 17,000 miles, hitting a bump at highway speeds of 55-70 MPH,experienced violet shaking of steering wheel, the truck has 42,000 miles on it now with no resolve to the problem. Has been back to the dealer at least 4 times and still has the problem, I have been lucky that I was able to keep truck on highway without causing an accident.
2017 ford f-250 stx fx4. Every time I hit a sharp bump or bridge section the front end of the truck shakes violently at highway speeds and have to slow down to 30mph before it settles. On the highway! In traffic!. This happened to me 30+ times coming from a jobsite in the chicago area. I live in florida. I've been reading up on this and it appears to be the death wobble. 100's of people are having this problem with the super duty trucks that ford is producing. When will it stop? Will it take a death to recitify this issue? I don't even want to drive the truck anymore. From what I've read, owners have taken the trucks into the ford dealers, getting them fixed and still having the issue several thousand miles down the road. And these trucks are not cheap. Averaging $45-80k. Please help before someone gets hurt or loses a life.
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