Other fuel system problem on the 2015 Ford F-250 SD
1 crash 1 fire 2 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 fuel system problem gets reported
Owners of the 2015 Ford F-250 SD report other fuel system problem at a median of 75,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 115,000 miles, from 16 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 90,000 miles. It is the 5th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 20,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 125,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 104,400 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
25% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19,900 miles | 44,184 miles | 74,914 miles | 112,750 miles | 124,300 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 and 1 a fire 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 $300–$2,200 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 15 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2003, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 230,000 miles.
By volume the 2017 carries the most reports, with 27; the 2015 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.
During the epa mandated exhaust regeneration cycle the vehicle begins to shudder uncontrollably along with power loss. This behavior began at around 5,500 miles and now does it at least every other exhaust regeneration. It happens on multiple lane country roads and city roads at around 50 to 60 miles per hour. It seems more specific to the regeneration cycle than any other driving condition or input. Temperature is between 40 and 70 degrees outside so far. Each time it happens is worse than the last. The experience is scary and could be very dangerous. I no longer let my wife drive this vehicle for fear that it may shudder her off the highway.
Within 60 seconds of the message "cleaning exhaust filter", the 6.7l engine begins to loose power, vibrating, and making very loud clanging noises. All while driving at 60-70 MPH, causing a huge deceleration, down to 45 MPH if going up an incline, due to lose of power. This started at 7,000 miles and happens at least 1 per tank of fuel. *tr
My complaint is ford has no warning system before it does $7800.00 damage. I reported this problem to ford motor corp. And its not covered under the factory warranty my case number is cas11721824. The ford dealership I took it to said ford used to have a design feature to shut down motor before it did damage to fuel system but the epa had them remove it and ford never put anything in to replace the warning feature. According to the ford dealership I had contaminated fuel that by passed the filters that I had changed according to fords recommendations. I have a report from the state of arkansas bureau of standards petroleum division and the fuel analysis shows that the diesel was not contaminated from the last place I fueled up. I regularly use the same auto lube to service my truck and was never told I had excessively dirty fuel filters and only had 7000 miles on the last fuel filter change before my engine light came on. I have investigated this problem and ford has had numerous complaints on this same problem. If ford has had this problem why haven't they implemented a safety feature to protect the fuel system before it does…
Also reported on the 2015 Ford F-250 SD
Other steering problem
Other suspension problem
Other engine problem
Other wheel or tire problem
Other powertrain 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 fuel system problem happen on the 2015 Ford F-250 SD?
Across 16 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 75,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 115,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other fuel system problem on the 2015 Ford F-250 SD?
20 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.7 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