2016 Ford F-350 Sd

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 NHTSA. 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.