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Stalling while driving on the 2011 Ford F-250

Only 3 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 3
With an odometer reading 3
Reports per 1,000 built 1.4 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $300–$2,500
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 17th

When stalling while driving gets reported

There are 3 reports of stalling while driving on the 2011 Ford F-250, 3 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 17th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 3 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 70,000 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

Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,500 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.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 6 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2004, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 210,000 miles.

By volume the 2004 carries the most reports, with 10; the 2011 has 3. 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.

Median
  1. 1997 Ford F-250 stalling while driving 166k
  2. 1999 Ford F-250 stalling while driving 210k
  3. 2000 Ford F-250 stalling while driving 40k
  4. 2001 Ford F-250 stalling while driving 34k
  5. 2002 Ford F-250 stalling while driving 162k
  6. 2003 Ford F-250 stalling while driving 19k
  7. 2004 Ford F-250 stalling while driving 7k
  8. 2005 Ford F-250 stalling while driving 121k
  9. 2006 Ford F-250 stalling while driving
    no odometer readings given
    —
  10. 2008 Ford F-250 stalling while driving 53k
  11. 2011 (this one) 70k

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 2011 ford f-250. While driving 35 MPH, the engine stalled and an unknown warning light illuminated. The failure occurred twice. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic. The technician diagnosed that the engine egt exhaust temperature sensor needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 70,000.

70,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1126995 filed 2014-11-04

Tl* the contact owns a 2011 ford f-250. While driving 35 MPH, the engine stalled and an unknown warning light illuminated. The failure occurred twice. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic. The technician diagnosed that the engine egt exhaust temperature sensor needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 70,000.

70,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1126996 filed 2014-11-04

Takata recall. Truck just shut down and died while driving. We tried to restart to move better location and only worked for few more feet.no warnings and whole fuel system has metal shavings in it and costing 11,000 to repair and ford not recalling or covering any of the repair when they know this is an issue causing wrecks and even a distaster kit online for the problem with ford trucks from 2011-2015. We have spoke with mutliple repair shops and our insurance and it is mechanical failure and happens alot with ford and not a recall nor is ford helping out customers that the mechanical failure is happening too. We only have 100,000 miles diseal truck and do all our maintence needed and ford dealership stated as mechanical failure.

104,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1473419 filed 2018-06-05

Also reported on the 2011 Ford F-250

Other suspension problem

96 reports median 80k

Other steering problem

89 reports median 60k

Other engine problem

29 reports median 53k

Other wheel or tire problem

21 reports median 27k

Other powertrain problem

13 reports median 82k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 3 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 3 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 stalling while driving happen on the 2011 Ford F-250?

Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 70,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is stalling while driving on the 2011 Ford F-250?

3 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.4 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