Tire blowout or tread separation on the 2005 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 tire blowout or tread separation gets reported
There are 3 reports of tire blowout or tread separation on the 2005 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 38,000 miles. It is the 23rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 27,000 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.
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 14 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2016, at a median of 15,000 miles, and latest on the 2012 at 75,000 miles.
By volume the 2000 carries the most reports, with 16; the 2005 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.
Truck tends to shimmy uncontrollably after hitting bump 55 to 70 MPH, when the truck had 2500 miles shocks were replaced helped problem until 15,000 miles returned to ford. Tsb for problem was to install shimmy damper on lr of truck. Not installed due to camper tie downs. Problem continued to get worse, undriveable above 55 MPH at 27,000 miles. Problem does not occur when heavily loaded ( cabover camper) tire pressure not a factor loading is. I address the problem and the shimmy was related to one particular tire being mounted on the front. Further investigation revealed a belt separation in the tire. All the tires had some degree of belt separation. Replaced tires problem cured somewhat. The truck still exhibits the tendency to shimmy especially when lightly loaded no matter what the tire pressure is. I am a ase certified master tech and have cured 2 other vehicles. All three vehicles still exhibit the shimmy tendency but self dampen with good tires. All three vehicles had continental 275/70 18 tires oem. The shimmy tendency seems to be enhanced with the continental tires fitted and get worse with wear. There seems to be a…
Complete tread separation around entire sidewall on left (driver) rear continental conitrac tr lt275/70r18 125/122s tire while driving at 55mph on pavement. The vehicle was a ford f-350 super duty pickup carrying no load. All tires on the truck are factory original with 14,600 miles and even tread wear. There appeared to be no checking or other damage to the tire prior to the incident. All tires were inflated at recommended levels. The tire is available for physical inspection. I also have photos of the tire damage. No damage occurred to the vehicle when stopping after the incident. *tr
Tire failure causing accident with property damage and minor injuries. Tire was the front left tire on a 2005 ford f350 4x4 srw. Tire had approximately 25,000 miles. Accident occurred while towing a fifth wheel toy hauler trailer. Trailer is 25' long with an approximate empty weight of 5500 lbs. Also in the trailer were personal effects including one motorcycle with an approximate weight of 550 lbs. Tire pressure was checked at 76 psi cold 3 days prior to incident. Accident occurred while on an interstate highway. The weather was sunny with temperatures in the 70s to low 80s. Speed of vehicle at time of incident was 60-65 MPH. Approximately 30 miles prior to incident, a stop was made for fuel with driver doing a walk around visual inspection with no defects noted. Left front tire blew with no advanced warning. This caused the vehicle to pull hard to the left. Vehicle left the roadway into the median. Vehicle jack-knifed and overturned to its right side. Guard rail stopped vehicle from entering oncoming traffic. Fifth wheel trailer overturned onto its right side. Occupants of vehicle, one adult male driver and one adult female…
Also reported on the 2005 Ford F-350 SD
Other suspension problem
Other steering problem
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Other wheel or tire problem
Other powertrain 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 tire blowout or tread separation happen on the 2005 Ford F-350 SD?
Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 25,000 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 tire blowout or tread separation on the 2005 Ford F-350 SD?
3 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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