Death wooble took it to the dealer said parts are being redesigned 4-6 weeks out will call when they get them. Very dangerous situation truck has 21000 miles on it problem has happened numerous times on highway 70-80 MPH.
2019 Ford F-350 SD steering complaints
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After hitting bridge expansion join at approx 60 MPH t in new hampshire I expierenced a speed wooble so severe I had to stop at night on the highway which is extremely dangerous, the wobble was so severe I was unable to turn or get off highway . This has occured three times in the last month but the last wobble was very severe. This is a brand new 2019 f-350 with less than 12,000 miles . This has ocured frequently since I purchased the truck but was not very severe , my concern is if my child was driving this truck likely would have been a severe accident or rollover . After getting online it appears this is a large problem with the superduties wondering why no recall?
When traveling at speeds above 40mph when the vehicle hits grooves, expansion cracks, or just uneven roadways the front end starts to shake violently and becomes very hard to control. The only way to get the shaking to stop is by bringing the vehicle to speeds around 20mph. So far it has happened 4 times and one of the times took me off the road.
I purchased a new f350 in 04/19. It has an issue that causes the steering and front end to shake violently and uncontrollably when it hits a bump in the road when traveling at highway speeds. The issue is only corrected by slowing the vehicle. Sometimes the vehicle has to come to a complete stop before the vehicle will stop shaking. The issue has happened no less than 12 times as of 12/31/19. It has been to the dealer twice for this issue. They made adjustments and replaced steering dampener both times and the issue was not a present until 6-8 weeks after repairs. This is extremely dangerous and I am very fortunate that this has not LED to an accident yet.
Traveling at 65 MPH, steering wheel begin to shake violently. Unable to control the steering of the vehicle, when brakes were applied, no braking action took place, pedal just went to the floor as if in an anti-lock situation. After speed was reduced below 25 MPH, the shaking stopped and was able to return back to normal driving. This happened 3- consecutive times, each time with the same ending. Truck is a 2019 f-350 with only 22k miles. Has been in the shop now for 42 days with no answer from ford about what caused or how to repair the issue.
At speeds greater than 45 MPH, when hitting rough pavement or a joint in the roadway (such as a freeway overpass or bridge), the steering wheel wobbles (oscillates) violently back and forth. It cannot recover until speeds are reduced below 45 MPH. This is repeatable. I have filmed an occurrence and posted on youtube for review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rupsa7kdsjo this video shows a typical occurrence. Traveling about 75 MPH on a clear, flat, straight stretch of freeway (I-25, just south of fort collins, co). A small joint (a normal part of the freeway) caused the wheels to shake uncontrollably, which causes the steering wheel to violently shake and oscillate back an forth. It's very difficult to control or even grasp the steering wheel. The only recourse is to find a way to slow the vehicle. Once speeds dip below about 45 MPH, the vehicle is able to recover. My vehicle is completely stock and has no aftermarket parts, shocks, lifts, or other equipment. It has stock wheels, stock tires, stock suspension components, etc. It had about 13,000 miles on the odometer when this problem began. This appears to be a known problem (internet) and ford had a service bulletin tso 18-2268 to address. However, this tsb only applies to trucks built on or before 31-july-2018. My truck was built during march 2019. Ford clearly hasn't resolved the underlying issue and now doesn't even have an active tsb to address the symptoms.
While driving at about 65 to 70 MPH, their was a small bump in the highway that normally you would not even notice, made my new truck with only 7,000 miles start shaking and it felt like my wheels were going to fall off, I lost about all control of my vehicle, and had to slow down to about 15 MPH on the I-15 highway to get it under control. I am sure if this persists that I or someone will be seriously injured or killed
Shacking of steering wheel this is not an isolated incident with our trucks, it's a nationwide problem that is very very dangerous. In a 10 mile ride it would happen 3-4x at 70 to 75mph hitting the slightest bump, the truck would violently shake. I would have to slow down to 20 MPH for it to stop. Very difficult on a highway!
Major steering wheel wobble at speeds unsafe. Contiues to happen and get worse as I drive.
'death wobble.' hitting any uneven road conditions at highway speed causes vehicle to shake violently. This is at random and you never know when it is going to happen. Temporarily lose control of the vehicle.
Traveling at about 80 MPH went over a bridge approach, the steering wheel violently shook until I hit the brakes and slowed to about 25 MPH. Aka death wobble.
There is an issue with ford trucks that is commonly referred to as the death wobble. My truck has less than 30,000 miles and has been in three times for this issue. Once ford corrected the issue and it came back. When it came back was told there are updated parts have been waiting for well over a month with no feedback from ford. Reached out yet again to them and was told that I would be escalated. My concern is that this safety issue should have active management and communication from ford and it does not. People are told they have to wait with no update. Now it appears I have been escalated (we shall see) but I am concerned for others that may not be aware of what to do in order to get this addressed. Can you reach out to ford and see how/what their plan is to communicate and support impacted parties? Issue occurs when driving anything over 45 MPH and to resolve you must slow to below 25 MPH. Think of this occurring when on highway and having limited control of a 1 ton truck. Issue occurs at random times so there is no way to avoid it. Occurred many times first time was back in early 2019
Driving at speeds between 45-65 MPH the truck all of a sudden starts to shake in the front end up threw the steering wheel and you can not control the vehicle ( death wobble). Once you slow down to 30 MPH the shaking goes away,
Death wobble after hitting rough patch in road or bridge joint
Tl* the contact owns a 2019 ford f-350. While driving approximately 50 MPH, the front end of the vehicle suddenly shook and vibrated violently. The front wheels wobbled and the steering wheel vibrated after driving over a bump. The contact indicated that the failure occurred on multiple occasions while driving over 30 MPH. The vehicle was taken to opelika ford (801 columbus pkwy, opelika, al) and town and country ford (1101 martin st. N, pell city, al) where it was diagnosed that the steering track bar and steering bushings were faulty and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact was informed that the replacement parts were also not defective. The manufacturer was notified and provided case number: cas25139941. The failure mileage was 27,000.
Driving on dry pavement, approximately 40mph, straight smooth road. I drove over an expansion joint in the pavement, the steering began to wobble violently which made my vehicle leave the pavement onto the opposite side of the road onto an easement. I seemed to have experienced the "ford deat"h wobble, I contacted the dealership, they referred to what I experienced as a known problem referred to as "death wobble". If a vehicle would hav been coming in the opposite direction, there would have been an accident and could have resulted in death at the speed I was traveling. The truck only has ~15000 miles on it. I was told that there is an apparent tsb on this issue and parts are on national backorder with no idea when the parts will be available. This is a very serious safety issue.
At approximately 14,000 miles the vehicle developed a severe vibration in the steering when going over even a small bump on the freeway at freeway speed. The vibration continued to get progressively worse until the vehicle was no longer safe to drive. The vehicle was taken to the dealer that sold us the truck. The dealer service department had to replace a number of steering components in the front end and indicated that a tire problem caused the failure. The tires, wheels and all steering components were oem and no modifications had been made to the vehicle steering or suspension system when the issue occurred. The dealer indicated that the goodyear tires installed at the factory were the cause of the problem and recommended installing michelin tires to alleviate any future issues. The steering was repaired and the tires replaced by the dealer. Since those repairs another similar vehicle in our fleet that came with oem michelin tires and has under 10,000 miles has started to develop the same issue. The dealer has indicated that this may be a problem with f350 models but continues to blame goodyear for the problem and no other solutions to fix the issue have been indicated.
During speeds 50 MPH or above the front of truck will shake violently losing control of steer and breaking. It only takes the edge of a cement transition between regular road and bridge or some basic rough spots to start the violent shaking. During speeds between 35 and 50 after driving over rough road front will shimmy and smoothout. I have had 3 near misses with other vehicles due to the extreme and violent shaking. Yesterday was a near miss with a semi-truck, and did not gain control until after crossing over three lanes of I-435 traffic outside of kansas city. I went by ford today, and they have had many complaints for same reason. This is an extreme safety issue. I should have been notified that this model of truck is developing drivability issues that can kill.
When driving 55 MPH, I approached a bridge which was a slight elevation in roadway, I was pulling a horse trailer which was a goose neck. When I went over the change in elevation the truck's front end shook violently, the steering wheel shook so hard it was hard to hold onto, I slowed down the truck to 10 MPH and the shaking went down. This was extremely scarey and dangerous, luckily no one was behind me on the highway and the weather was not bad. This truck only has 20,000 miles on it. I really wish there was a recall regarding this truck, I want to trade it in at this point, it's too scarey to drive.
Truck has a re-ococcuring death shake / wobble that happens when you hit bumps at highway speed (60 MPH plus). Only way to regain control is to abruptly decelerate the vehicle to around 20 MPH. Has now happened multiple times and it's getting woemaw. It's to a point where I no longer allow my wife and kids to be in the vehicle. These trucks should not be on the road as it's a known issue.
At approximately 60mph hit rough spot in road and truck started 'death wobble'! Had to brake hard to less than 20mph to get truck to stop. This happened first with the truck having only 2830 miles on it. Next time about 100 miles later happened at 75mph and I thought I was going to loose control. Called dealership and was told it would be 2-3 weeks before they would have parts and was also told to not expect the new parts to fix the truck. I was told prior to purchasing the truck that the issues had been fixed prior to my purchase since the truck was built in september 2019. I depend on my vehicles to make my living, can't do that with them in the shop with a unknown fix. Ford needs to stop being allowed to sell this trucks until there is a proven fix!! How many people will be injured or killed do you this problem before action is taken. Dealer asked me what I wanted to do after I complained about the 2-3 week delay on even being able to work in the truck. I said you knew these trucks still had the problem so just refund my money and I'll go down the road. Was laughed at and said that wouldn't happen. Again bought the truck october 10, 2019 and it now has 3,120 miles on it. This needs to be stopped.
Truck has 21750 miles on it and is experiencing the known symptom of ford super duty known as the "death wobble". As I was entering the ramp to the freeway, I hit a bump in the road and the vehicle started shaking violently causing me to almost lose control. I had to slow down and move to the shoulder and stop the vehicle to seize the shaking. Other vehicles were on the road and this causes a huge safety concern.
On dec 2, 2019 I was driving my 2019 ford f-350 (with 15,000mi) on insterstate 505 at approximately 65-70mph while overtaking a tractor-trailer. With no obvious cause, the front wheels / steering of the vehicle began shaking uncontrollably. I assumed there was some sort of major wheel damage or blowout of a tire and tried to pull over. The vehicle was very hard to steer and I did not have adequate speed to get safely past the semi, so I slowed down in the fast lane and pulled to the right behind the semi. Once stopped I inspected the vehicle and was surprised to find no obvious damage. I resumed driving without any apparent issue. About 45mi further down the road the exact same issue happened again at 65mph. This time there were no vehicles nearby on the highway so I slowed below 30mph and the vibration stopped. I accelerated back to 65mph without the vibration issue and continued my trip home. The intensity of these vibrations is very extreme and the vehicle is almost uncontrollable when they are happenening. There is no way to avoid or anticipate that they will happen, and the only remedy is to slow or stop the vehicle immediately, which is extremely dangerous to do in a freeway environment when the steering is barely working. My vehicle is using original, unmodified stock tires, wheels, and suspension components and is ovf relatively low mileage (15,000mi).
When crossing over bumps in the road at speeds above 45 MPH the steering wheel shakes. Sometimes it's slight and other times it's severe.
My wife and I were headed to costco and were driving through west chester ohio. We went over a set of railroad tracks on princeton glendale rd. Just before port union rd. Once we went over the tracks the front of the truck began to jump and shake uncontrollably. It was very scary. We had no idea what was going on. The truck wobbled side to side for a good distance after we went over the tracks. The wobbling was felt extremely strong in the front end and carried through the cab of the truck. It only subsided after slowing the truck down by letting off the accelerator and letting it coast to about 25 MPH. Thank goodness we weren't on the highway or worse yet, that we weren't towing anything. We bought this truck to tow a large fifth wheel camper. If this were to happen while towing this on the highway we would probably lose control and crash. That would be catastrophic to say the least. I have just under 4,000 miles on my new truck and this is the second time this has happened. The first time was minimal. So minimal that we wrote it off after it happened. But, it too happened after going over a set of railroad tracks on a rural road just outside of seven mile ohio. It was nothing like what happened this weekend. Since this happened I took it upon myself to look to the internet for more info. It seems this is a national problem with the super duty trucks. There is a plethora of complaints of this exact same thing. My fear is contacting my local sales dealership and getting the standard jargon. Having the mechanic take it for a test drive and then call me after I drop it off to them for three days and them tell me that nothing occurred and nothing appears broken. Like I said earlier, I have almost 4,000 miles on the truck and it has happened twice.
Going straight at 55 MPH the steering wheel and front of the truck started shaking ,wobbling and loss of control. I had no control of the vehicle as I ran off of the road into the mud on a county blacktop road. This is the second time this has happened.
Sever death wobble at speed and while breaking. Stealing wheel jerks violently to the point vehicle control is difficult.
I was driving 70mph and hit a bump when the truck became uncontrollable. I could not turn to get off the hwy and had to slow down to 25mph before the shaking stopped.
If the vehicle hits a bump addy sleds above 45 miles per hour, the steering wheel shakes uncontrollably. I have multiple videos of multiple instances, too large to upload here.
Traveling at approximately 50-55 MPH on a curved 2 lane highway I hit a small bump in the road. This caused the front of the vehicle and steering wheel to shake wildly and almost caused a collision with the vehicles behind me. I was only able to get it to stop shaking by coming to an almost complete stop in the middle of a narrow 2 lane mountain highway. As I was coming to a stop I had very little control over the vehicle and actually crossed the center line and went several feet into the oncoming lane.
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