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At 50 mph or above when you hit a bump just right, the truck begins to shake violently. After some research, I have discovered that this problem has become known as 'death wobble' and is extremely unsafe. It did not start until around 30K miles and was very random, only occurring occasionally. Now at 39K miles it happens daily.
Experienced the 'death wobble' on the I-15 southbound at the russel rd bridge in las vegas. Loss of control of the steering wheel at 65mph driving straight.
At approximating 12161 miles on my truck, it is less than a year old, my F250 the vehicle exhibited (4-5 times) a violent oscillating or shaking of the entire truck when going over a bump in the pavement or over the expansion joint of a bridge. I have nearly lost control of the vehicle (4-5 times). My course of action is to take my foot off of the gas, slow down, safely pull to the shoulder of the road, slow down to 5mph, and then I can continue on. The shaking is so violent I thought the truck / I was going to flip over because of lack of steering.
While driving on the interstate, at 70 mph (posted speed limit) experienced extreme vibration/wobble in the steering wheel and tires after driven over slight rough patch on the highway. It was extremely hard to maintain control of the truck to get it to the shoulder of the highway through traffic. Vibration was apparently visible to onlookers, as several drivers motioned for me to pull over. Truck was bought brand new, six months ago, and only has 16K miles. Truck is stock, no modifications have been done on the truck. Vibration/wobble occurred several more times so we exited highway and returned home via backroads (posted speeds of 55 mph or less) without further incident.
At 7909 miles since new the vehicle exhibited a violent oscillation of the steering wheel coupled with enormous shaking in the front suspension, induced instantly after crossing a bridge transition on an interstate highway at approximately 65 mph. I nearly lost control of the vehicle and was forced to stop the vehicle on the road shoulder to get it to stop the oscillation. The shaking was so violent it also cracked the rear half of the dual panel sunroof glass.
- Driftwood, TX, USA
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While driving at approximately 65 mph, as I crossed an expansion joint from an overpass back to the main road surface, the front end of the truck began to oscillate. The handling returned to normal only after I had reduced my speed.
At appox. 12,000 miles the front string started to feel loose. By 14,500 mi it became very loose, jerky over normal hi way expansion joints. At 14,700 miles, after going over an expansion joint on the hi way at 64 mph, it went into "death wobble" shaking so hard I could barley control it. It is at the dealership, bob hurley Ford. Tulsa, ok. At this very moment. This was almost an accident caused by Ford.
I was driving down I-10 going East on I-10 and crossed the bridge at the Alabama/Florida line. I was changing lanes while going across the bridge and hit a bump. The front end of the vehicle started violently shaking. The steering wheel was also violently shaking. I had no control of the vehicle and it shook until my speed dropped below 45 mph which took about 20 to 30 seconds. I felt that if I had hit the brakes, that the front wheel would have sheared right off the axles. This was the most frightening situation I have ever experienced in a vehicle. I have kept the speeds below 50 since the incident and I do not feel safe in the vehicle.
Hit bump on highway and vehicle starts shaking out of control. This has happened over 5 times now. Ford would only replace steering dampener. It did it again after being in shop for 3 days. This is very dangerous and can only stop the shaking by slowing to a stop in the middle of the road as it is almost impossible to steer. From researching online, this is an ongoing problem referred to as the "death wobble". Ford refuses to look further into the suspension and steering components and claims everything is fine and it was the tire air pressure. The air pressure was to specs. And still did it.
Was going around 80 mph on the interstate this morning and came upon a bridge approach and when I hit the bridge approach I got the 'death wobble'. this happened as I was passing someone the only thing I could do is squeeze tight and slow down to pull over. The wobble would not stop until I was completely stopped. I currently have 10,959 miles on this truck. Same thing happened at this same bridge approach in my 2013 F350.
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- Medaryville, IN, USA