Other wheel or tire problem on the 2006 Ford F-250
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 22 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 2006 Ford F-250 report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 100,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 150,000 miles, from 20 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 10,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 180,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 169,100 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.
20% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,900 miles | 54,500 miles | 98,008 miles | 150,000 miles | 181,000 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, 1 a crash and 1 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 $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 19 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2011, at a median of 25,000 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 150,000 miles.
By volume the 2000 carries the most reports, with 90; the 2006 has 22. 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.
I purchased the tires (4) in april 2008 through a wholesaler friend. I had the tires install and liked them. On august 23, 2008 I was on my way home and about 6 or 7 mile from the house I felt a vibration in the front of the truck (06 ford f250). It got a little worse than there was a scraping noise than boom and the tread flies out from the right of the truck. I pulled off onto the shoulder and got out and could hardly believe what I saw. Luckily no one was to my right as the truck swerved to the right. The tire was almost gone, the rim was damaged the right fender and door damaged and all the plastic parts were gone. This was on a saturday evening and I pulled the truck into a business so it was the truck was off the road. The next day we found some of the plastic pieces about 75 feet from where the tire blew. We took pictures and had to wait till monday to find out what need to happen. Monday morning I contacted the wholesaler and he gave me the number to cooper tire. I called and they took down information and said I would receive a letter explaining what I needed to do to file a claim. That afternoon I was traveling home with…
I own a 06 f250 sd, and everytime I hit a small bump in the road when doing 65+ speed I get extreme shaking. I got a letter from ford recently about the shimmy thing, and I tried what they said and adjusted the tire pressure but I found this does not work I still get it. It said in the letter that you all approved this but I don't see how you could let such and unsafe thing still be on the roads. *tr
Tl*the contact owns a 2006 ford f-250. While driving approximately 60 MPH, the vehicle drove over a bump in the road and began to shimmy and vibrate excessively. The failures occurred whenever the vehicle traveled over rough road surfaces. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer for inspection, but they were unable to duplicate the failures. The dealer suggested that a loss of tire pressure may have possibly contributed to the failures. The failures occurred on twenty separate occasions. The service warranty expired and the vehicle has not been repaired. The failure mileage was 38,000 and current mileage was 50,500.
Also reported on the 2006 Ford F-250
Other suspension problem
Other steering problem
Other engine problem
Other body or interior problem
Other electrical problem
Tire blowout or tread separation
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 22 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?
Across 20 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 100,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 150,000 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?
22 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 2.6 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