Death wobble. steering wheel shaking uncontrollably.
With approximately 35,000 miles on the truck, i experienced a extremely violent oscillation in the steering. everything in the truck was shaking and it was difficult to hold onto the steering wheel and maintain control of the vehicle until i could decrease speed to about 50mph or less. the oscillation did not happen again for approximately 6 months. then it happened again 2 times back to back. after that i did not have the issue for more than a year. then about 3 months ago (with roughly 49,000 miles), it started back again and has happened countless times since. when i reach 60mph the oscillation starts out light but progressively gets worse until it is in a full on "death wobble". all items in the truck are shaking around and falling in the floor. my wife will not drive the truck due to this issue and i wouldn't feel comfortable with her driving it. i am writing this report mainly for the thousands of other ford super duty owners that have experience this issue and for some, have been in accidents because of it. there are literally facebook groups created solely for the discussion of the "ford death wobble" and any potential solutions. from reports i have read, the dealerships, in many cases have not been successful in correcting the issue. some reports state the repairs and say that it was a "band-aid" and that the issue returned shortly after the repairs. others say that the dealers have told them that there is nothing else they can do. there also have been some reports that says it was corrected, at least for the time being. i have seen reports on vehicles as new as 2019 models with around 5,000 miles on them. this is definitely a safety related issue and i hope ford is pushed to make this right for their customers. i have videos but they are the wrong file type. date below is most recent occurrence. thanks!
Death wobble: when the vehicle is moving and hits a groove or bump (does not have to be a major groove or bump) in the road going upward of 50 mph, it will begin to shake violently. the shaking can only be stopped by a sudden and substantial reduction of speed, which adds to the danger, particularly on the highway. i have several videos of this occurring that i would like to share. the videos take place after bringing it to my local ford dealer and them claiming nothing is wrong.
Twice driving on freeways doing about 70mph the entire truck began to shake/vibrate violently. the steering wheel shakes, and the entire cab shakes like an earthquake. i had to slow down to about 40mph to get it to stop shaking.
While driving at highway speeds and encountering road irregularities, truck enters into "death wobble" condition whereby truck shakes violently until speed is reduced to <30 mph. suspension was rebuilt 3 months ago by ford dealer and condition has returned. in these situations the vehicle is extremely difficult to control and could easily result in total loss of control of the vehicle at speeds of 60 mph and greater.
Hello, on highway going between 60-70 miles an hour, it goes into a death wobble that nearly threw truck off road. very scary situation. appears from reading online this had been an ongoing issue with ford f250 pickup trucks from reading online consumer complaints.
The steering on my 2015 ford f250 has a very serious wobble. it occurs at highway speeds (55-70 mph), it is a very violent shaking that almost caused me to lose control of my truck. i have replaced the steering damper, shocks and steering arm ball joint. i am in the process of replacing all tie rod ends now as i am afraid to drive it over 50 mph.
While going 70mph on highway i drove over an uneven paving seam on a slight left corner and truck went into a front end wobble causing me to have to pull over the side of the highway to get it to stop.
2015 ford f 250 has death wobble was driving 70mph the steering has a uncontrollable shaking and bouncing in the steering has to slow vehicle to 30 mph to get shaking to stop and is very dangerous to do in heavy traffic
Death wooble when hitting bump
When truck hits a bump at highway speeds, especially in a left hand curve and down hill slope, it starts shaking violently. it becomes hard to steer and braking hard only makes the problem worse. you can only left off the gas and slow down hoping you can keep it on the road until it stops. it happened twice on our family vacation with my wife and kids in the truck. they feared for their lives. after that trip the dual steering stabilizer, 2"lift and adjustable track bar were installed.it took 6 months of replacing different parts, alignments, balancing tires, modifying suspension to finally correct the problem at a cost of over $2,600.00.
Driving 55 mph on hwy 161 in ar (in motion) when i hit a rough spot about 2' bump that completely crossed the lane i was driving in, the front wheels shook so violently i was about to lose control when the steering locked up. i had to bring the vehicle to a complete stop before i could regain control of the steering. i took the truck to a front end shop and all they could find wrong was the ball joints were a little worn, i had them replaced and the truck did better for about 3,000 miles and now it's worse than ever. a truck with 66,000 miles on it should not be having this problem. has there been any other complaints like this with ford.?
My truck has gone into what they call a death wobble when driving at highway speeds going over a bridge expansion joints. this has happened a few times. front end shakes violently causing me to drive off the highway on to the berm. i cut off the car next to my during one of these occurrences almost hitting his car. the latest occurrence was 6/17/19.
I have experienced what has become known as the ford death wobble. my first experience with this was at less than 50,000 miles. i was exiting a freeway off ramp at about 60 mph with my steering wheel cocked just to the left. i hit a slight bump in the road and my steering wheel became violent in my hand causing me to briefly loose control and almost run off the road. this is an experience that nobody should ever have to experience. i cannot remember a time in my 55 years that i felt so hopelessly out of control of a situation. i immediately took it to a shop and had some front end parts replaced and had the front end aligned. the problem was cured for another 40,000 miles until it happened again. it happened a total of three times at freeway speeds and the only way i could make it quit was by hitting the brakes and getting down below 20 mph. of course at freeway speeds this is very dangerous and embarrassing. replaced several front end parts again, the problem went away again until the next time. then again this time which is the 4th time in 150,000 miles. i do not know how i have not been killed by this very common ford problem. unfortunately this time i have replaced almost the whole front end, had the front end aligned and the problem has now gotten so bad that i cannot even drive the truck. if i get up over 40 mph i can even feel in the steering wheel that it is right on the verge of the dreaded death wobble. i have no doubt that people have lost control and have even been killed by this issue. i talked to a gentleman at ford and he acted as if he had never heard of this issue. this must be fixed!!
Death wobble experienced by me on 5/10/19 doing 60 on rural road. experienced the death wobble on the interstate going 65 at least 6 times the next time. a motorcycle almost crashed-ford fixed by front end alignment-experienced it again and almost lost control on the interstate. took to ford to repair and the svc mgr suggested we file a case number with ford cas-22221345-c3v0p4 on 7/23/19, ford cust experience specialist suggested we take to another dealer, took to took to gordie boucher who said it recommends replacing both tie rods due to inner tie rod at the pitman arm has play in it and the right side upper tie rod has play it it toopreplaced left side drag link and the right side upper tie. dealer stated worse truck they had ever driven. death wobble happened again going 35 down hwy h in kenosha county. everytime this happened we had to pull over to the side of the road or an off ramp on the interstate due to construction. waiting for an off ramp is the scariest because you hope you can control the truck to make it off the interstate. my husband did research and found others replaced the following so he did the same-replace the steering shock, the stabilizing bar assembly, the track bar assembly, and the front shocks. ford did 2 front end alignments, they turned rotors also..ford customer experience specialists keeps telling us to take to the dealer to determine the problem. per ford, tire tread and wear are good. it appears everything my husband has done has fixed the problem, but we will see when we drive down the road on our next interstate trip. right now we have paid out $1,675 and my husband has done all the work. we are scared to death that something is going to happen. we are unsure what steps we should be taking, but we are afraid we could die and no one knows about this.
I recently purchased a 2015 f250 super duty. it was a clean title no accidents. shortly after purchasing the truck i was driving between 43 -55 mph on a county road when my steering wheel and in fact the entire truck started shaking so violently i was having trouble maintaining control. i managed to slow down quickly and it stopped. after several more occurrences all at the same speeds i took my truck to a specialty wheel and alignment shop and paid nearly 1,000 dollars to have this fixed. after new bushings, new tires, new shocks, new steering and new alignment it abated for 3 months. it is now back and as scary as ever. i had a 2004 f250 super duty and never had this kind of issue. i have now learned this is a known problem that ford will not acknowledge or even recall. i may have to sell this truck because of the danger to the rest of my family. there is also a class action law suit over this known and very dangerous problem. please look into this before more money and more damage is caused. if you have not been in a truck that does this come to texas and take a ride with me. i promise it will scare you into action. this has been my problem since march. it is always on rougher roads or after hitting uneven pavement.
Whenever i hit a bump going 30 plus miles an hour the front end shakes violently in the steering wheel jumps out of my hand. i have changed the shocks balance the tires and inspected all the suspension components and i cannot find the problem.
Steering gear is moving about 2 inches wear on left front tire.
Bought used f250 october 2018 with approximately 55,000 miles. went into shop for p207f on 12/10/18. installed ccv collar kit and reprogrammed pcm @ 57,104 miles. 12/24/18 truck back into shop for p207f code. nox sensors replaced @ 57,473. in january 2020, check engine light and limp mode message displayed. nox sensors replaced again for p207f code on 1/17/20 @ 69.700 miles approx. nox sensors only a year old. per mechanic, catalytic converter is suspect - but is on indefinite back order with ford. 1/24/20 while traveling down the road @ 60mph the truck started the "death wobble". truck back in shop, bad track bar replaced. wheel damper needs replacing, but this part is also on indefinite back order.
Started having death wobble last year at about 95000 miles. put new tires on it, new rotors, trackbar, draglink, tie rods. i think it is a lot more controllable but it still bump steers in curves and the steering wheel shakes violently when hitting a bump but doesn't break into death wobble. i've just reported three vehicles that have this problem all in the last year.
Traveling at or above 60 mph when hitting over pass or bridge expansions truck will start to violently shake and go into what is called death wobble. noted this truck has only 37,000 miles but started doing this at around 29,000 miles . it is stock truck with stock tires . been to two ford dealers and alignment place with no positive results in fixing this problem . truck is now at 3rd dealer who says needs $650 repairs of bushings which ford says they won't cover because truck is out of warranty by 1000 miles. even though truck was took to dealer for same problem before warranty was out . thanks ford . when this death wobble occurs it is very dangerous and i will not let my wife drive this truck anymore. this has happens numerous times now please do something about ford not addressing this issue.
While driving down the interstate under normal conditions, the truck unexpectedly starts what is called the "death wobble". the steering wheel and the truck starts to shake uncontrollably, and the only solution to fix the problem is come to a very slow speed or a dead stop. this is very unsafe, especially when it happens on a major interstate. there are a ton of complaints out there regarding this matter, and several videos out there regarding this matter. ford needs to issue a recall on this matter, as it is extremely unsafe, and someone will be injured or die because of this. my truck is pampered, and only has 55k on it, so this isn't because of abuse.
While driving on the freeway at approximately 60-70 mph i drove across a bridge transition point when out of the blue my truck began to wobble excessively to the point i had to merge to my right and slow down to under 40 mph to get the wobble to stop. cars behind could see i was in some sort of trouble and they would not pass me. once the wobble stopped i proceeded to merge back onto the freeway and once again the wobble started as soon as i passed over the bridge transition. again i applied my brakes and moved over to the right for my safety as well as others. the mileage on my truck at that time was 20,780 miles. i took the truck to my ford dealer and explained the situation to them. they inspected the truck and replaced the steering damper assembly. the problem did go away until august 19, 2019 with 34,052 miles when it happened again in the same location. i returned to the dealer again and they replaced the steering damper again. it resolved the issue for 1695 miles and it happened again several time at different locations on different freeways. this time replacing the damper did not work. they also told me i needed to have them install a caster/camber adjuster shim to resolve the problem. that also did not work. they have readjusted the camber and caster with worse results. they now tell me that i need to replace my tires which still have 6/32 of tread left on them. the truck has now been at the dealership for six weeks with no fix available. they put a set of tires and rims off of another new truck and said the problem went away. so what there telling me is i will have to replace my tires every 20,000 miles which be ridiculous. ford has a big problem that they don't want to admit. i believe a dual steering stabilizer unit will fix this problem but they don't want to admit that would work. this needs to be a recall asap to save lives.
F250 death wobble my 2015 f250 pick-up truck is only three years old with 38,000 miles and it has the death wobble. when driving on the highway at 50 mph or higher, pressing the brake and hitting a bump in the road causes the vehicle to go into an uncontrollable wobble. it is called the death wobble. it happens every time on the highway. tires and brakes are brand new - sill happens.
There is an issue with the truck losing steering when encountering bumpy roads or multiple potholes in a row whenever speed is above 30 mph. at highway speeds i have literally lost control enough that i cross lanes, uncontrollably because i have encountered defects in the road surface. i have traveled across the same road surface in other vehicles at similar speeds and have no noticable effects. the 2015 f250 sd has the same loss in control every time.
I have experienced an extreme shimming (death wobble) numerous times while driving at speed on the freeway. after going over a bridge expansion joint or just a rough spot in the highway, my truck starts shimming so violently that i have to brake hard to slow the truck until it stops. this happened to me twice yesterday (7/14/17). the first time it happened i almost caused an accident behind me when i applied the brakes. the second time i was in the slow lane and was able to get on the shoulder to decelerate. this was the first time my wife was with me when this happened and she said if she was driving she would have lost control of the truck. i understand from speaking with other ford f-250 4x4 owners that this is a common issue. is anything being done to remedy this issue. i did not see any recall for this on your site or on ford's site. i have an appointment at the local ford dealer, next wednesday to have them check the front suspension for any defects but i wanted to add my name to what i am sure is a long list of people with the same complaint. does somebody have to die because of this issue before it is addressed?
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 ford f-250. while driving 40 mph, the steering wheel jerked as if it had been snatched out of the contact's hands. the vehicle stopped when it drove into a ditch. the contact restarted the vehicle and drove slowly to the dealer (all star ford palestine, 2929 s loop 256, palestine, tx 75801) where it was diagnosed that the traction bar failed. the manufacturer referred the contact to the dealer, who stated that they would attempt to repair the failure. the failure mileage was 21,000.
Was driving on the highway 70 mph and changing lane i hitting the pothole and the truck start bouncing and i have to slow down to stop the bouncing very dangerous to drive. i had a same truck back in 2005 working for the company was doing same thing please can someone help ?
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 ford f-250. while driving at various speeds, the vehicle suddenly became turbulent, shook, and a knocking noise was heard from the engine. the contact would have to park and turn off the vehicle in order to stop the failure from occurring. the contact took the vehicle to the dealer five times. the dealer stated that this was a common failure with the vehicle and there was no remedy. the vehicle was not repaired. the failure recurred. the manufacturer stated that the failure did not qualify under the lemon law. the vin was unknown. the approximate failure mileage was 19,000.