Other wheel or tire problem on the 1999 Ford F-250 SD
1 crash 1 of the 20 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 1999 Ford F-250 SD report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 120,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 85,000 miles and a quarter after 165,000 miles, from 14 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 35,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 185,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 151,000 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
14% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33,900 miles | 86,199 miles | 117,876 miles | 163,750 miles | 184,900 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 21 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 1,100 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 120,000 miles.
By volume the 2019 carries the most reports, with 81; the 1999 has 20. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Was traveling around 55 MPH and the passenger's rear tire separated. When the the tire separated, part of the rubber came up and caused damage to the right passegers side bed. I put my spare tire on it to get home. The bed has not been repaired or tire(s) replaced. Have pictures to document the damage. The tire company we bought the tires from advised us to file this complaint. They are wild country, radial rvt, size- m+s 35x12.50r16.5lt 1230. *ak
While pulling a trailer at 65 MPH there was a noise in the front passenger side . Consumer lost control of vehicle, and it went in the direction of oncoming traffic. Consumer then turned the steering wheel hard to the right and vehicle went to the right , down an embankment, and crashed into a ditch. This collision occurred because the front passenger side tire tread separated. *ak
I had just driven about 10 miles on I-25 from work to my house. I pulled into my driveway, got out of the vehicle and opened the gate, then I got back in the vehicle and drove on to where I park. After parking, I glanced back at the driveway, where I had stopped to open the gate, and there was a tire laying on the ground. It was actually my spare tire, that had been mounted up under the bed of my truck. Also on the ground was the bracket that holds the tire onto a cable and the nut-like device that holds the bracket onto the cable. The nut-like device apparently sheared off from the cable and the tire fell off. Looking under the bed of the truck, you can see the fraayed cable hanging down. I am so extremely relieved that this happened in my driveway instead of on the highway. Had the tire fallen off on the interstate, there is no telling what would have happened. I notified ford motor company, via there web site. They acknowledged and suggested I take the truck to a local dealer to get the cable fixed.
Also reported on the 1999 Ford F-250 SD
Misfire or rough idle
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Tire blowout or tread separation
Exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 20 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other wheel or tire problem happen on the 1999 Ford F-250 SD?
Across 14 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 120,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 85,000 miles and a quarter after 165,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 1999 Ford F-250 SD?
20 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed