Other wheel or tire problem on the 2006 Ford F-250 SD
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 2006 Ford F-250 SD report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 30,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 20,000 miles and a quarter after 85,000 miles, from 18 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 2,100 miles at the tenth percentile to 90,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 89,956 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.
56% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,141 miles | 20,500 miles | 32,450 miles | 83,375 miles | 92,097 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
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 2006 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.
Tl*the contact owns a 2006 ford f-250 super duty. While driving 60 MPH on a bumpy road, the front end of the vehicle began to shake. The contact lost control of the steering and braking. The dealer stated that the tire pressure was incorrect and inflated the tires. The following day, the failure recurred. The dealer has not inspected the vehicle. The current mileage is 14,500 and failure mileage was 12,000.
My wife and I were driving my 2006 f-250 super duty on hwy 95 when my truck felt like I was in an earthquake. It was the worst violent shaking I have ever felt in a vehicle. It felt like all four tires exploded. So I fought my steering wheel and brake pedals to slow the truck down to finally skidded off of the side of the road, while cars are going by us 70 plus mile per hour, everything inside the vehicle fell off of the seats the drinks in the cup holders went flying. After seeing that all four tires seemed fine and that we did not hit anything on the road, we were scared to death to drive again. After visited the ford dealership the next day, they are still trying to figure out what is wrong with the vehicle, they said it was the tire balance and pressure, but there is no way this would cause such a violent death shaking experience. After doing my own research, it seems there are thousands of people with the ford super duty that are having this same word for word problem. Please help me, before someone is killed by this ford mistake. I am scared to death to drive my brand new vehicle. Thank you very much. *tr
Wheel vibration, steering wheel oscillation after going over rough or uneven surface,causing lack of control and sometimes lane shift,this happens around 50/55 MPH and higher and mainly in a slight left hand curve,does not happen all the time. Truck has been seen at dealer from almost new,tried balancing tires quite a few times, change rim, forced balance tires,put steering damper on truck. Damper helped but did not cure the problem, have come close 4 times to losing control of veh and wrecking. *tr
Also reported on the 2006 Ford F-250 SD
Other suspension problem
Other steering problem
Other engine problem
DPF, EGR or DEF system failure
Other brake problem
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
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 2006 Ford F-250 SD?
Across 18 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 85,000 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 2006 Ford F-250 SD?
20 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 36 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