The most common term for my problem is called a death wobble. i am spent a lot of money replacing parts to fix the truck only to learn that thousands of other people have the same problem. to date ford has refused to acknowledge or accept any responsibility for this problem. the problem occurs mostly when the truck is between 50 and 70 miles an hour and hits a bump in the road. my truck currently has a hundred and forty-eight thousand miles on it, the problem started approximately at 120000 about 8 months ago.
While accelerating to merge onto the highway this morning i hit a bump this caused the truck to start to wobble violently. i put on the brakes to slow the vehicle but it continued to wobble until i pulled to the shoulder of the highway. it nearly caused a accident. scared me to death. i know others have had the same issue. please do something about this before someone dies!
When driving down the highway at 70 mph, i hit a bump and the steering wheel started shaking violently causing me to almost lose control of the vehicle.
Between 65 mph and 80 mph the whole truck starts shaking if you come across uneven surfaces causing the truck to almost become uncontrollable speeds have to be reduced to 30 mph to regain control i have had alignments new tires and have had all steering and suspension parts inspected everything is tight apon research several ford owners seem to be having the same issue and no one is not even ford is trying to correct this issue. vahical millage at 105,000
I was towing a trailer on a hwy 52 in colorado when i hit a small bump in the road. the truck began to shake violently i lost control and went in too the other lane it shook until i came to complete stop. it has done it 5 times since then i honesty don't want to drive the truck any more. the truck only has 37k miles on it and new shock and steering damper. this needs to be resolved i did a google search on this there have been multiple cases just like mine google death wobble. some one is going to get hurt this is a safety concern.
I own a 2015 f350 superduty. i have noticed highway driving at 50 mph or higher when crossing over a transition in the road the front end suspension/steering can go into a violent shimming that can only be overcome by a rapid deacceleration to less ~30mph. there have been times that the shimming is so violent its had to control the vehicle. yesterday, crossing over a bride on rt 222 south in lancaster co penna, the truck crossed a transition a the end of a bridge. it was all i could do to regain control of the vehicle while other cars had to swerve to miss hitting me as my truck was in this resonance until i could get it under control. this only occurs so far above 50mph, but, it is much more common at 65-70mph. i am taking the truck back to the dealer again for another evaluation. this situation developed at ~ 76,000 miles. the truck has 92,000 miles now. upon further investigation into the event online i was able to determine that this has been identified as the "ford superduty death wobble." i asked the dealer about this term and they said that they have had this situation on quite a few ford f250-f350 vehicles. i no longer feel very safe driving a $72,000 vehicle that is known to have a death wobble, which as an engineer, would appear to be a direct result of an inadequate design by the oem. i believe we need the governments help resolving this situation since ford denies the existence of this common situation.
When traveling at highway speeds vehicle begins to bounce. the bounce is clearly coming from rear end of vehicle. i have done some research into the issue and have found other year have had this issue and is solved by a damper attached to the trailer hitch.
2015 ford f350 super duty, full size bed. this truck will bounce like crazy on the highway if it is concrete, or asphalt covered concrete. it starts about 60mph and if i speed up it will go away at about 75mph. this bounce is very frustrating and makes me upset, mad and embarrassed that such a nice truck that cost so much money would have this issue. it is not just my truck, by far there are many, many, many of them with this issue and not limited to late or early model trucks. search google for this issue and you will be as surprised as i was to how many there are and how long this has been going on!!! i have replaced the shocks with bilstein shocks, added 2" leveling kit to front springs, replaced steering damper shock with bilstein also, changed tires and rims 3 different times with no change in issue. the only thing that changed with the new bilstein shocks was not good either- now with the new shocks on the truck bounces more and sooner with my medium sized dump trailer connected. before the shock change, if there was a load in the bed or trailer connected there was no bounce to deal with. i love this truck and have spent lots of money on making it look great, now i want it to ride and drive great also. i got a pretty good deal on this truck last year at a car lot, now i am understanding why!!!! i am sure this truck was traded in after many attempts from the dealer to fix this issue and they could not. i feel like ford has really let us down here, i have owned many work trucks and vans and never had an issue like this.
2015 f350 4x4 6.7 we tow a 12k trailer gooseneck. this problem occures loaded and unloaded. any bump over 50 mph on the driver tire will cause a violent shake that will persist though acceleration steering inputs and braking, soft or hard. only slowing to below 45 sometimes 35 will stop the shaking. during the shake steering is nearly impossible, and attpeting to keep straight resulted in twisting the steering wheel out of alignment. thus far we have replaced steering stabalizer. track bar, and assosiated bushing and ball joint, tires, multiple alignments, sway bar links, balljoints, shocks. each repair makes the problem seemingly better for a time but within a week it returns. we are a danger on the road and have sense stopped driving until a hard resolution is found.