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At highway speeds hitting bridge expansion joints or rough roads create death wobble of the front wheels and the steering wheel shakes violently loss of control dealer has truck for repairs has done this since new progressively got worse very dangerous must apply brakes immediately to regain control
The contact owns a 2017 Ford F-250. While driving approximately 65 mph over a bridge, the front end of the vehicle vibrated violently. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The contact slowed down and pulled the vehicle over to the side of the road. The contact stated that the failure occurred twice the previous week. The contact scheduled an appointment with salem Ford (60 S broadway, salem, nh 03079) for December 9, 2019 to have the vehicle diagnosed. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 50,000.
Experiencing death wobble in front suspension of truck when hitting any bumps, grooves etc in highway travel at speeds of 65 to 75 miles per hour. Have to slam on brakes to stop extreme wobble in front end. Took truck to dealer for repairs 2 times and they discount issue and will not cover repairs. This issue has happened three times while on freeway 11/16/19, 11/28/19 and 12/6/19
Traveling down interstate 10 in AZ. Encountered uneven road. Traveling at 65 mph pulling a 30' airstream classic trailer. The truck went into a violent shaking in the steering. I could hardly hold on to the steering wheel. I appiled the brake as trucks were swerving to get around me at 75 mph. I had my wife put on the emergency flashers as I could not let go of the wheel. I could not steer or move to the right of the road. Truck was literally "hopping" as I tried to slow without getting hit from behind. Shaking finally subsided when my truck reached 20 mph. I literally was close to stopped on a 75 mph roadway! I increased mt speed again to about 50 mph and the shaking started again. I had to almost stop again. My wife and I were visibly shaking. We could have been killed. We pulled off on the next exit and called a Ford dealer. Ford dealer replaced front stabilizer shock. Ford is back-ordered on their shock for months. Wonder why? we replaced it with a third party shock. The suspension was checked and the dealer said it should be fine. Two days latter we experienced the shaking again! we are now stuck in palm springs waiting for a dealer to open on Monday. I called Ford corporate and they said they did not have a recall on this. They said they will call the dealer and me on Monday to get their truck division involved. I cannot drive this truck pulling a trailer with this issue. This is a very dangerous problem. I fear driving this in the mountain with roads that curve. When this shaking occurs, you cannot do anything but go straight.
- Canfield, OH, USA
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The truck will go into a violent shake when hitting a bump at speeds of 60-75 mph. The violent shake in the front suspension will not go away until I slow down to 35 mph. It has happened several times and is very dangerous. I am scared to drive the truck anymore.this is the death wobble many have talked about. My truck is all stock and this started happening at about 15000 miles.
Started getting wobble/oscillation in steering at highway speeds when hitting rough road conditions or bridge joints that requires quick braking to below 25mph to get back under control. First stabilizer was replaced and alignment performed with results lasting about a year, then it came back, this time drag link replaced and re-aligned, still has issue to some extent when crossing bridge joints on highway.
I was driving my F250 on the freeway and after hitting a couple bumps it started doing the death wobble as its called. Its a known problem Ford has tsb but they don't take this condition seriously as I scheduled an appt with the dealer ship within days and was told the parts are all backordered to repair it and they don't know the date they can get them.
2 events-2 weeks apart I believe it is referred to as the death wobble. In both events, I hit a bump on the interstate at 70 miles an hour. The steering wheel started to shake violently and I could not steer the vehicle. All I could do was hit the brakes. At about 30 mph the shaking stopped and I could pull over to the side of the highway to look at the tire. I thought a tire had come off the truck. Truck has 38000 miles and is now out of warranty. Now faced with an expensive repair and to be honest I am now a little scared to drive the truck at freeway speeds. Definitely never going to pull my fifth wheel trailer again with this truck. Thanks for listening.
When traveling at highway speeds and driving over a bump in the road, the truck begins to shake violently. Slowing the vehicle to approximately 45 mph tends to smooth it out. It was taken to the dealership and the replaced the steering dampener and rotated the tires, but the issue still exists and feels a bit worse and is occurring more frequently than before.
While driving at 75 mph on the hwy the truck did a death wobble I had to slow to 25 mph to get it to stop. The truck only has 13500 miles on it I bought it new and have been the only one to drive it. I'm 45 yrs old and truck has never left the road it has been maintained to the max for Ford to say people are not maintaining these trucks is why they are doing this is a complete lie. Please look into this before more people get killed. The dealers will tell you flat out they have a problem. Why won't Ford fix them?
Loss of control at speeds greater than 50 mph after running over a pothole or rough road surface. The front tires start to bounce or oscillate and steering becomes dangerously erratic. You have to immediately hit the brakes hard to lower the speed. Everything loose in the cabin can begins moving around and the steering wheel is hard to hold. If you are in heavy traffic at speeds of 60-70 mph there is very real danger of being hit from behind while trying to regain control of the vehicle. Descriptions online of Ford F250 trucks call it the death-wobble.
My front end shakes violently. This generally happens at highway speeds and I hit a bump. When this shaking takes place I must slow down to 45-55 mph for the shaking to stop. This shaking began with 32,000 miles on my truck and I have now brought it to the repair shop three times. It appears Ford cannot solve this problem.
On 11/30/19 while traveling on a highway at approximately 65 mph a bump in the road caused my vehicle and steering wheel to shake violently until the vehicle was slowed to approximately 20 mph. On 12/1/19 the same thing happened on two more occasions.
When hitting small bumps at speeds of 35mph or more the truck shakes violently. It happened yesterday while driving at highway speeds and shook so severely I had to slow to 30 mph before it stopped. This is a very serious life threatening matter that needs to be fixed. Truck has 9000 miles on it and that's it. Been doing it since new, but this was the first time it was this severe. It almost caused an accident. Everything is stock on this 6.2 liter F-250 super cab 4wheel drive. An inexperienced driver could easily have had a fatal accident if they didn't handle the situation correctly or if I was on a turn.
Have experienced "death wobble" on my 2017 superduty several times at highway speeds. As with all of the other complaints, the oscillation begins after hitting uneven pavement, and grows until you slow down. The Ford truck owners that have posted similar complaints are begging Ford (or NHTSA) to do something about this before someone gets seriously injured, or killed. When that happens, we will all be wondering why the complaints and information was provided, when nothing was going to be done to correct the issue (and to save lives).
Traveling at 60-65 mph on highway front end of truck began to shimmy violently ( death wobble). This happened after crossing a bridge joint in the road. Had to slow truck down to 20 mph to stop the shimmy. This could have ended badly if there was traffic behind me or in the on coming lane. Truck was barely controllable and took extreme effort to maintain control.
The contact owns a 2017 Ford F-250. While driving at an unknown speed, the front end of the vehicle shook violently each time the vehicle drove over a bump in the road. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was taken to anderson Ford Lincoln (2500 wildcat dr, Lincoln, ne 68521, (402) 458-9800), but was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and did not assist. The failure mileage was approximately 30,000.
At highway speeds, bumps in the road cause the steering to begin to wobble and make the vehicle uncontrollable, slowing down allows the driver to regain control. It has been called the death wobble be many people and appears to be a known issue. Problem started around 25000 miles. Continues to this day at 45000 miles, seems to be getting worse.
At 20,000 miles I experienced the " death wobble" at 75 miles per hour on the highway. Hit the brakes hard to get slowed down and I regained control at 30 miles per hour.
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- Griffith, IN, USA