I have experienced numerous times the "death wobble" when I hit a bump in the road. The truck shakes violently and totally loses steering until I can slow down to about 10 MPH and the shaking stops. It is very scary and has happened several times. It has to be over 55 MPH when it happens. The slightest bump on the left front wheel will cause it. One time I was going about 75 MPH and thought I wouldn't be able to get it back in my lane. It really scares me and my passengers when it happens .I am afraid to let my wife or kids drive it. Ford won't do anything other than tell me to take it in and get it repaired .I just can't understand how they refuse to take responsibility for all the problems they have had with these issues and will not issue a recall.
2016 Ford F-350 SD steering complaints
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Within 8,000 miles the vehicle could not go over 45 MPH and hit a bump without the front tires and entire truck shaking so violently that the cars around me would scatter and I'd have to pull over to stop the violent shaking. I've had a 2005 f350 before and was already aware of the known problem, "death wobble". Dealership adjusted my camber so the outside tires wore out in a few months. After 16,000 miles the problem returned and they blamed the balding tires which they created with their camber adjustment and took no responsibility. After I got home I also realized that the service manager intentionally did not put my complaint on the work order. He knew I was aware that this was an ongoing issue with ford trucks and I knew the history and obviously tried to protect himself and the dealership. They fed me the same line that read from hundreds of other people online who complained about the same problem and told me the truck had to be aligned every 6 months. This is a known issue for 20 years and extremely dangerous.
While driving at approximately 60 MPH, the front end began to shake violently and the steering wheel was shaking upon driving over a few minor bumps in road. I immediately slowed and pulled to the shoulder. Upon slowing, the shaking subsided. No visible signs of anything wrong with tires or suspension.
Terrible shaking when cruising at certain speeds. I mainly notice the shaking around 45 MPH, and again around 60 MPH. I am able to control the shaking by either accelerating to around 70 MPH, or braking to below 40 MPH. The shaking is so bad sometimes that I feel like I will lose control of the vehicle if I don't speed up or slow down to make the shaking stop. It doesn't matter what type of street I am on as long as I am going fast or slow enough to cause the steering wheel and vehicle to shake uncontrollably.
At 70mph, on the interstate, we went over some grooves in the pavement. The truck began shaking so violently that my husband couldn't steer. He rapidly decelerated, and we were able to pull over. We were convinced that we had had multiple tires blow out. There were no other vehicles on the road at that time of the morning, or I don't know what would have happened. I normally haul a gooseneck trailer with horses, so thankful this wasn't the case this time.
The entire vehicle shakes when driving over a certain speed limit (30+). After researching, this is known to the public as "death wobble".
I posted highway speeds the vehicle shakes when hitting a bump and continues to shake until I slow down
While driving the f350 at 70 MPH out of nowhere the vehicle started the death wobble at the front end. Making it practically impossible to keep control of the vehicle! My family and I almost caused a major accident on the interstate! I had to slow down to 30 MPH to get the vehicle under control!
My truck has 56000 on it and you cannot hold it on the road. I have had the steering looked at and they cannot find whats wrong. This is a very common issue with ford superduty and there are several lawsuits filed with no recalls.
Death wobble! The know problem ford has with their super duty truck but won't fix! I am a 56 year old woman and was driving on the expressway with my daughter when the death wobble happen. My steering wheels started shaking so hard I thought all 6 of my tires had blown. I had no control over my vehicle and than god there was no other cars near me. It is just getting worse now. I hit any little bumps on even the side road and the death wobble happens again. Called my ford deal and they say no know fix for it. I can bring it in and they can try to replace the staring tracking bar. But don't know if that will fix it. Ford needs to be held responsible and pay for the fix! I am afraid to drive my own vehicle!
Truck has ~130k miles. At random times, typically during breaking the drivers front wheel will shimmy or vibrate causing the truck to shake violently. This has happened multiple times. This has occurred on city streets, state highway and interstate highways. Dealers are of no help. Date selected for occurrence below is the last time this happened. First occurrence was ~6 months ago.
Since new a death wobble has occurred while traveling at speeds over 30 MPH. This is a random issue that happens when hitting a bump in the road. Sometimes it goes away quickly other times I need to pull over and stop completely.
Extremely violent shaking of steering wheel and truck. Also known as the death wobble. This happens at highway speeds and is in predictable when it will do it.
While traveling highway speeds (60mph-80mph), steering and truck start shaking violently (death wobble) until slowing to ~20mph. Shaking is triggered instantaneously after driving over a depression-type bump while in a left hand curve. Problem is most likely castor alignment needing adjusting (see ford tsb 18-2268) or, less likely, steering linkage damper.
Ford death wobble, defect in front steering damping shock causes truck to severely start shaking when 1 wheel hits ripple in road. You cant stop the violent shaking of truck without almost stopping truck. It shakes entire truck. Happens on highways with ripples in pavement or uneven pavement at speeds around 60 MPH or higher. Ford will not do anything about it. Dealership puts after market dual steering stabilizer kit on front end at price of $600.00
I started my truck and started down my driveway. The steering wheel was very hard to turn so I attempted to stop and the power brakes were out as well and only had manual brakes so I had to pull the steering wheel hard to turn and press the brakes very hard to stop the truck. I stopped the truck, turned it off then back on and the steering wheel with a whine and the brakes worked but not fully. It felt like the ABS was attempting to kick in when pressing the brake pedal. I took the truck to the dealership and they said the power steering pump went out and needs replaced. The truck has 29, 618 miles.
While driving the vehicle it shakes violently causing loss of control of vehicle. This is also known as a death wobble.
While traveling freeway speed, hitting a bump on the road causes an uncontrollable shake in the front end and causes the truck to go towards the left, that only goes away after hitting the brakes and slowing down 10-15 MPH. A representative from ford calls it the "death wobble." I had the truck into ford before the warranty expired and they replaced a steering stabilizer shock, but the problem never went away totally. Ford confirmed the problem, and diagnosed it as track bar ball joint worn, excessive play, shimmy shock worn. The dealer is aware of the defect in their trucks, but refused to take responsibility for it and said it's just because the parts were worn out. They didn't say anything about any parts being worn when they replaced the steering shock, less than 10000 miles before. Vehicle was unsafe to drive with the "death wobble." ken garff ford was willing to pay for the oem parts to be replaced, and now the death wobble is gone. However, ford has known about this problem for 15 years and refuses to take responsibility for the defect.
I am experiencing a profound "death wobble" in the front end. When driving on the highway and going over uneven pavement, an uncontrollable death wobble occurs and the whole front end shakes violently (causing the tires to skip on the pavement surface-loosing traction) and this "rhythm" cannot be controlled until the speed is brought below 25 miles an hour. This is especially dangerous in a curve in the road. It would be easy to loose control and crash into something/someone! Everything on my truck is factory stock. The tires are good and I have made no modifications to the suspension. The dealer acknowledges the problem and wants me to replace good parts at my expense which does not fix the problem. This seems like a definite design flaw. There are many aftermarket parts available that claim to fix the problem. I do not want to put them on because I don't want to give ford a reason to blame the problem on the aftermarket parts. This seems to be happening to many other people and looks like a serious safety issue!
Tl* the contact owns a 2016 ford f-350 super duty. While driving 60 MPH over a bump in the road, the steering wheel shook violently without warning. The vehicle was taken to pallotta ford lincoln (4199 cleveland rd, wooster, oh 44691, (330) 345-6600), but was not diagnosed or repaired. A service appointment was scheduled. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 37,340. The VIN was invalid.
My ford f-350 has experienced the death wobble at speeds from 50-75 MPH, it's random and doesn't show any warning signs, it is extremely scary and unnerving to experience. Hitting the brakes makes it violently uncontrollable. My truck has been to the dealership twice for this repair. It has been returned to me in worse shape then before I took it in. I have done tons of research and have found this is a very common problem with all f-250,f-350,f-450,and f-550 trucks and there should be a recall issued! This death wobble is going to get someone killed it, if it hasn't already. I own 3 ford super duty trucks so far 2 of them have experienced this uncontrollable situation and my 2019 f-550 is showing the same signs as my other 2 trucks before they actually death wobbled. Ford knows of this issue and so does the federal safety agency. Please do research and an investigation so this can be taken care of for all super duty owners! Or stay away from these trucks if you are a consumer. They have replaced my track bar, steering stabilizer shock and some sort of slugs which I have never heard of. So we will see when I get it back this time if it's any better.
My 2016 f 350 has the death wobble took it to dealership they repaired the alignment stabilizer arm and let me go and got on the interstate10 headed to houston got speed up 75 MPH and hit bump and almost lost control of the truck,18 wheeler almost run me over; it scared so bad I have a pacemaker I thought I was having a heart attack!!
Hit a bump at 55 MPH on highway and the front end began to violently wobble/shimmy. Vehicle is uncontrollable until slowing to minimal speed. Vehicle was taken to the dealership at 38k miles and told there was nothing wrong, keep tire pressure monitored constantly. Monitored pressure and vehicle began repeating this phenomenon at 58k. Paid $3169.63 for repairs however, violent episodes continued. 100k miles the truck repeats the violent behavior 3-4 times daily. Dealership has indicated that ford is aware of the problem but does not have a fix.
There is an uncontrollable shaking at 60 miles an hour or higher, after investigation it seems that there are hundreds of cases, the shaking has been called " the death wobble" dealerships don't seem to know whats going on and ford not giving any good solutions. This cant be seen with pictures there is hundreds of videos in youtube about this issue.
Popularly referred to as "death wobble". At speeds above 50 MPH, the truck instantly goes from full control to an uncontrolled state of severe oscillation that can only be stopped by stopping or slowing the vehicle to 10 MPH or less. There is no prior warning that this is about to occur and it does not occur all the time - extremely random - usually occurs when the truck hits a rough patch of road or a bridge/pavement expansion joint. The condition is manifested by violent shaking of the front end accompanied by the steering wheel being jerked out of the driver's hands, resulting in complete loss of steering control. This causes an extremely hazardous condition for other vehicles as well as the problem truck. Ford has issued a tsb for this problem 18-2258, consisting of a replacement steering dampener and various alignment components. This 'kit', installed by a ford dealer into my vehicle, had absolutely no effect on the problem and in fact it occurred twice since installation. Thus far, it has happened a total of four times with my truck, an f350-2016. This problem is severe, it is extremely dangerous and sooner or later, someone will be injured or killed. For the fhtsa - I have dashcam movies of this.
I experienced death wobble while driving approximately 70mph after hitting a rough patch of straight road on the highway. Extremely violently shaking! I ended up in the shoulder of the road. I could not control the truck until I got to a near complete stop. There was a total loss of control. Miraculously avoided a wreck on the highway.
2016 ford f350 powerstroke (29,947 miles), while traveling down smooth interstate pulling 5th wheel camper when speedometer gets to 61mph the steering wheel begins to vibrate. When speed is 62-63mph the entire truck begins to violently bounce causing near loss of control. The "wobble" was so severe while reducing speeds the truck was bouncing all over the highway lanes, fortunately tractor trailer drivers were alert and immediately slowed down which allowed us to regain control of the combination. Appears speeds less than 61mph the steering is better with less vibration. After dropping off the 5th wheel again we approached 60 MPH with some vibration noted. When 62mph was reached again the steering violently began wobbling as it bounced the truck extremely hard on the pavement. It should be noted the highways used were in very good condition with no visible or noticeable defects.
October 8, 2018 at 3:45 pm heading north bound on us highway 55 at mile marker 191.8 towing a fifth wheel rv, hit rough pavement which caused uncontrollable oscillation of the steering wheel and violent shaking of the entire vehicle. You must slow the vehicle to under under 10 miles an hour to regain control. This same type of situation happen on august 4, 2018, which I returned the vehicle to the ford dealer who stated they could not find anything wrong, because they could not duplicate the issue.
Uncontrollable steering after driving over expansion joints on the highways or rough roads or streets. Once you drive over these areas, the steering wheel begins to violently shake to the left then the right. The truck is shaking violently and makes it difficult to control the vehicle. You must slow down to almost a stop to stop the violent shaking and regain control of your truck. This has happen two times in a row and I went straight to the ford dealer who replaced parts. On the second time this happen, I had to cut between the highway workers back blocking truck and the highway workers repairing the road because I could not control the vehicle at the highway speed. It has happen again and the truck is back in at the ford dealer.
Tl* the contact owns a 2016 ford f-350. While driving various speeds, the vehicle began to shake violently without warning. The failure recurred randomly. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer (mclean ford of fredericksburg, 1279 us-87, fredrickburg, tx 78624), but the cause of the failure could not be determined. The vehicle was also taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the steering damper failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and did not assist. The failure mileage was approximately 14,000.
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