ABS module or sensor failure on the 2001 Ford F-350 SD
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 3 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.
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.
When abs module or sensor failure gets reported
There are 3 reports of ABS module or sensor failure on the 2001 Ford F-350 SD, 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 95,000 miles. It is the 16th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 34,500 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 $500–$2,400 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 5 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2005, at a median of 2,100 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 80,000 miles.
By volume the 2005 carries the most reports, with 4; the 2001 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.
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.
While breaking the vehicle sometimes pulls to the right or left, sometimes to the point that the vehicle is almost impossible to control, other times we get a server vibration while breaking again it is almost inpossible to control,we are geting only about 11000 miles out of a set of breaks, this unit is an ambulanceand although ford has replaced the break pads three times and the rotors twice in 33,000 miles this doe's not resolve the problem, now that the warranty will soon end they are now telling us that it is the ambulance manufacture problem. They still have not resolved the problem of why are we having all these problem they just keep changing parts. We all so have a 1999 that is almost a twin to this one but we have no breaking problems and are geting about 35,000 out of a set of breaks
The brakes started pulling left around july of 2003. Three different dealers worked on the vehicle. Instead of fixing the problem, they changed the toe-in to counteract the truck pulling left on braking. As a result, the truck pulled right from excessive alignment change, which caused an accident. The dealer initially changed the rotors, and calipers, but it did not solve the problem. The only reason I knew that the dealer changed the alignment is because I took the truck to a goodyear tire store for an alignment before taking it to the dealer for the brakes. After the first time the dealer changed the alignment, I took the truck back to the goodyear tire store. They made the laignment right, but the truck stilled pulled left and the steering wheel was way off centered. Goodyear tire told me to take it back to the delaer to fix the problem. Once I got the truck back, the steering wheel was straight, but the alignment was wrong and it did not handle properly. In fact, the truck was dangerous to drive. After that I took ti to a dealer in reno, nevada and in dixon california. All dealers insisted that the pulling was caused by a tire…
Tl*the contact owns a 2001 ford f350 super duty. While driving 40 MPH, an oncoming vehicle passed in front of the contact. He applied the brakes and the steering went to the right. He was unable to turn the steering wheel to the left. The vehicle passed and the contact was able to regain control. He also stated that the steering locks up when the brakes are applied. This failure has occurred three times. The dealer stated that the vehicle was designed in that manner. The current mileage was 72,741 and failure mileage was 72,500.
Also reported on the 2001 Ford F-350 SD
Other engine problem
Other wheel or tire problem
Tire blowout or tread separation
Other powertrain problem
Complete transmission failure
Other electrical problem
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 abs module or sensor failure happen on the 2001 Ford F-350 SD?
Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 35,000 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 abs module or sensor failure on the 2001 Ford F-350 SD?
3 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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