2017 Ford F-250 REGULAR CAB - Ratings, Complaints and Recalls

"the star shaking while driving in height speed or bump is called wobble."

"truck steering wheel bounces, vibrates, shakes violently after going over rough pavement at highway speeds. truck has 35000 mikes and it has happened several times since it was new. dealer replaced the steering damper which didn’t help. this could cause loss of control and an accident."

"took my truck for a safety recall concerning a potentially deadly defect in my 2017 f-250 ford truck. i had purchased this vehicle from brandon ford new in 2017. the safety recall was to address "the death wobble" which causes the vehicle steering to shake violently causing the whole vehicle to lose control. i sent my truck to brandon ford 2 time prior stating the same problem. in 2021 they told me it was the tires, so i purchased 4 new ones. still had the same problem occur. they told me this last time they fixed the problem. no true, my son and i whom is 11 had a day planned to goto the aquarium. on the highway the "death wobble" occurred again. this caused me to lose control of the vehicale stopping short of hitting the gaurd rail. my son was terrified and so was i. i drove right to brandon ford on a saturday and.demanded they fix the not fixed recall "death wobble" item. after several days received a phone call stating i needed new tires and they where dry rotted and in horrible shape. i told them i just purchased through them 2 years prior. the proveded no answer and new i caught them in a lie. they then proceeded to look into the car problem more. i received a phone call 5 days later only to be told i was needed to pay for the complete rebuild of the steering and front end. the rods where bent from the voilent shaking due to the death wobble. they told me to fix the problem it was going to be over $4000. i was shocked and was told if i want the safety recall of the death wobble to be fixed thats what its going to cost. i felt held hostage, i filed a bbb complaint only for the dealership to take no responsibility. the problem is not fixed since i have spent over $4000 for the repair. the steering still clicks every time i drive over bumps in the road. took it to another repair shop and they laughed at the repairs and what i was charged. only the tie rod was replaced by brandon ford, the cost of this part is only $300 dollars. the new repair shop told me it"

"loss of steering control, violent sustained steering oscillation at 60 mile per hour. twice on the same day on the freeway entrance ramp from phoenix oregon to medford oregon. june 9th. mileage on vehicle 26,432 once on june 16th between on the south bound entrance ramp from medford oregon."

"on april 26,2023 we were traveling home from florida in our f250 towing our rv. suddenly,( after we hit a rough patch of road) our truck started violently shaking. it was horrible. my husband was driving and i was the passenger. it lasted about 20 seconds during which it took all his strength to hold the steering wheel so we would not die in a horrible crash. this is no exaggeration. when it stopped i burst into tears and told him"i thought we were gonna die !" he responded, " i dont know how we didnt!" we were both very shook up realizing, what we just experienced is what someone sees right before they die in a fatal car crash. we had this happen in a much, less slighter degree last spring. so we are aware of "the ford truck death wobble " our ford dealership did replace the steering damper last august. i hope no one has to experience what we did that day ever again ! the next day we continued home cautiously. again it happened as we entered michigan. a just a few seconds. but ptsd kicked in from the last event and had us white knuckling. this truck has under 50,000 miles on it. we had it diagnosed and were told it would be $1500 to repair it. are you kidding ? what we experienced should never,ever happen in a car. especially with under 50,000 miles on it !!! our safety and others was put at risk as it started to wobble us into the next lane. thank god, no one was there. ford should be responsible for this repair ! not us ! we almost came home in body bags ....."

"driving at speeds over 60 mph i have experienced a wobble in the steering. it is at the point that i am unable to control the vehicle. i am forced to slow down considerably to regain control of the vehicle"

"steering, front wheels and suspension violently shakes and becomes almost uncontrollable hitting a bump or pot hole at over fifty to seventy miles an hour. commonly known as the ford death wobbl"

"uncontrolled shaking of the steering system. required me to stop on a busy interstate highway. shaking occurred after driving over a rough patch of highway. symptoms exactly as described online as super duty death wobble"

"we were merging into traffic on the freeway, going approx 50 when the front-end went into a death wobble. we were forced to slow way down and pull away from traffic. this was extremely stressful and dangerous. from what we have found online, this is a known safety issue with our year superduty truck that ford is not properly addressing. we do not feel we should have to be paying to fix the parts of the front-end not covered by their small steering damper fix. our truck has less than 22000 miles on it, should not need new front bearings etc. feel we are spending money on a vehicle that should have been recalled, this could have killed us or others."

"while driving on interstate steering oscillated left and right very fast. vehicle was hard to control. came to a stop on the shoulder of the road to stop the shaking. this is what some call death wobble. truck had steering dampener replaced for this problem a few years ago. it only has 26,500 miles total."