2017 Ford F-250 SD: tire blowout or tread separation

Filed Apr 1, 2022 · Steering, Suspension · CA

This is a DEATH WOBBLE ISSUE - On Feb 23rd 2022 I was coming back from SoFi stadium with my wife and two young children and was in the diamond lane doing approximately 65mph. There was a rough patch in the road and my steering began to shake violently and I nearly lost control of the vehicle. The shaking caused me to move out of my lane into the lane on the right and I nearly collided with another vehicle. I continued to move over to the right lanes and as I got into the #1 lane and my speed had dropped the wobbling stopped and the truck was stable again. I thought that I had a blow out but when I checked the tire pressure on the console, the tires were fine. We were not in a very good area of Los Angeles so chose to continue to drive at about 50mph and finally got home. The next day I drove the truck over to my FORD dealer and that's when I learned of this DEATH WOBBLE ISSUE. FORD should have issued a recall for this... my dealer is telling me that they want to replace the front end tie-rods, etc... for a $2300.00 repair that FORD will not cover. I thought the truck was going to flip at one point and could have nearly killed someone or my family.

Filed Dec 26, 2021 · Fuel system · TX · fire

truck has less than 60,000 miles. Driving along the hiway with grand daughter, going to dance , truck dinged said reduced power,and started losing power started to pull over and engine died, battery light came on, went to get out out some one driving by said get out your truck is on fire, as i got out could see fire smoke, coming from area under engine on left hand side, fire was dripping out . Popped hood release, but now less than a 2 minutes later from reduced power had fire boiling out under the hood. one person had a fire ext and we sprayed in the crack of the hood, as too hot to get hood open, paint was turning colors, by time fire dept got there, the truck was engulfed in fire, loud explosions going on, windows has already blow out left hand side tire on fire. By the time Port Lavaca Texas 77979 fire dept got the fire out, nothing left of the truck. but rear bed. Truck had bee going in Regeneration a lot lately , While waiting for Grand Daughter to come out of school in 10 min, it went in and out of Rengen several times with weird, rpms rise and drops. Drove fine, when we left school. was app. 18 miles from home when the truck said reduced power and started to slow down and died. Called Ford customer care, got passed on twice to different parts, then told Office of general counsel would call. after a week i called back could not get a phone number to call. only a fax. when office of general counsel did call about 11 days later, the guy would not give me his name, a phone number, a email address, told him Video on youtube of 2016 ford Test truck in Cal. on side of road, 6.7 diesel i had seen same thing started under the engine compartment and burnt to ground. See several more post about them catching on fire, all around same age and all 6.7 diesels . Then he said just tell your insurance sub ligation, and let them handle it since i had insurance. Calhoun county Texas Sheriffs office and Port Lavaca Texas fire dept has the reports,

Filed Jan 8, 2021 · Tires · 70,297 miles · GA

Tire failures during towing lexani lt 275/65r20 tires are stated to have 3750 max load capacity, 50% of the tires have failed during normal towing. Have not experienced the same with other manufacturers and feel these are not capable of stated capacity.

Filed Jan 4, 2021 · Steering · 23,200 miles · TX

On two separate road trips I have experienced the 'death wobble' a violent shaking of the front end that feels as if the wheels are about to come off, in early december 2020, it happened and I thought I had a blow out, but once I got the truck pulled over it checked out ok, so I continued and it happened again. I took truck to dealer and they replaced steering linkage damper. On dec. 29 on another highway trip it happened again and almost caused a possible fatal crash with my grandkids in the truck.. Today jan 6, 2021 truck is back at the dealership. Fyi the mileage is 23,346. My apologies if this was submitted twice, wasn't sure if it worked last night.

Filed May 24, 2020 · Steering · 25,600 miles · NH

My truck has 25,600 miles on it. While driving at approximately 70 MPH I went over a bridge expansion joint. The resulting shake/oscillation in the steering caused me to almost lose control of the vehicle. I had to slow from 70 to 25 MPH to regain control causing a serious safety issue for myself and those on the road behind me. This happened without warning and other than this instance, the driving characteristics of the truck have not changed since new. I.e. The truck does not vibrate or wander and everything seems normal. To put into perspective how violent the shaking was, my wife screamed that we had a tire blow out!

Filed Nov 18, 2019 · Steering · 17,905 miles · TN

While accelerating into traffic on I-40 left front wheel hit small pothole and steering wheel and truck shook violently. Traffic was fairly lite and other drivers saw what was happening and let me get off hwy. Thought I had blow out or lost tire. Looked truck over nothing wrong. Continue on to destination at no more then 72mph. Had around 1000 lbs in bed of truck, unloaded. Next day headed home at 74 MPH hit bridge connection and violent shaking occurred again, had to slow on interstate to 40 to stop shaking. Dropped speed to 70 MPH and hit patch of rough road and shaking happened again. Continued home off interstate, did not occur again but speed was never over 60 MPH. Waiting for dealer appointment.

Filed Jun 3, 2019 · Steering · 50,000 miles · TX

My 2017 ford f-250 was having what I would describe as a "death wobble" when I drove over 65mph and hit any imperfection in the roadway (small pot hole, uneven surface at bridges, very small textured road) this happened around 5 times before I took it to the dealership. Once they looked it over, they said it was stabilizer bar, tension rod and bushings wore out, pick-up had 50k miles so... No warranty on repairs ($895.00 in repairs) . This is a major safety issue, once wobble started I had to slow down to 40-45 MPH and pull to shoulder of hi way to stop severe shaking of steering wheel and front end bouncing. It felt like a blow out on the front tires.