Other suspension problem on the 2005 Ford F-250 SD
2 crashes 2 injuries 4 of the 111 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 suspension problem gets reported
Owners of the 2005 Ford F-250 SD report other suspension problem at a median of 30,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 20,000 miles and a quarter after 47,500 miles, from 98 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 100,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 10,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 70,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 61,000 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.
60% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 miles | 19,058 miles | 30,000 miles | 46,994 miles | 71,000 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, 2 a crash and 2 an injury are 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 $350–$2,000 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 22 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2009 at 150,000 miles.
By volume the 2019 carries the most reports, with 634; the 2005 has 111. 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.
Dt: vehicle will go to the left or the right, and consumer will never feel steering wheel move. Took vehicle to dealer , lined it up, put new tires on it, put new casters on, and rotated it. But vehicle still has the problem. *ak
Consumer's 2005 ford f250 shook when it hit a bump. *ts when the steering wheel started shaking the consumer could not make it stop until he lowered his speed to approximately 30 MPH. The vehicle was taken to the dealer 5 times for this problem but they have been unable to duplicate or remedy the problem. As of 9-26-05 the vehicle has been at the dealer. An engineer agreed that there is a problem but doesn't know what the problem is. The consumer would like for the manufacturer to buy back the truck. *nm
Driving 2-lane highway 55-70 MPH when change in road surface (bump, frost heave, road bed surface material change) caused front end to shake violently, nearly causing loss of control. Only way to stop shaking was to suddenly decrease speed to approximately 35-50 MPH in traffic on rain-slick roadway. This occurred 4 times in course of 350 mile trip, each occurrance becoming more violent in nature and requiring more effort to maintain control. Last occurrance was as operator was passing 18-wheeler...as I pulled along side, vehicle began to shake violently. As operator finished passing and returned to lane of travel, had to brake suddenly to regain control, nearly causing skid on rain-slick road and almost causing following vehicles to take extreme measure to avoid collision. *jb
Also reported on the 2005 Ford F-250 SD
Other steering problem
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Fuel injector failure
Other body or interior problem
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 111 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 suspension problem happen on the 2005 Ford F-250 SD?
Across 98 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 30,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 20,000 miles and a quarter after 47,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other suspension problem on the 2005 Ford F-250 SD?
111 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 5.6 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