Other suspension problem on the 2006 Ford F-350 SD
1 crash 1 of the 37 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 suspension problem gets reported
Owners of the 2006 Ford F-350 SD report other suspension problem at a median of 30,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 22,500 miles and a quarter after 65,000 miles, from 35 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 100,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 102,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 86,880 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.
57% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14,520 miles | 22,989 miles | 30,000 miles | 66,020 miles | 101,400 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 is 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 $350–$2,000 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 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 20,000 miles, and latest on the 2002 at 250,000 miles.
By volume the 2019 carries the most reports, with 221; the 2006 has 37. 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.
Tl*the contact owns a 2006 ford f-350 sd. While driving 50 MPH, the front end of the vehicle begins to jump and bounce back and forth. The failure usually occurs from a bridge to pavement, from pavement to a bridge, on uneven pavement, or in various other driving conditions. The dealer could not duplicate the failure. The purchase date was unknown. The current mileage was 44,000 and failure mileage was 21,977.
My vehicle has suspension oscillations that can lead to an accident, ford has tried 7 times to fix it and now tells me that they can't fix it and it is a normal characteristic of the truck after 35+ days out of service. These oscillations could lead to loss of control and a crash. This truck is a danger to me and my family. It is a 2006 f350. It has had said oscillations since new, and they seem to be getting worse, and I am concerned for my safety. There are daily incidents of this oscillation/bouncing while driving, and ford now tells me they wont work on the problem any more. *tr
I have a 2006 f350 that has what has been referred to as the deaf wobble. Mostly when I drive between 40 - 55 if the truck comes across a small bump or uneven road the front wheels / steering wheel shakes back and forth out of control. The only way I found it to stop it is to hit the brakes and slow down until it stops and then you can try it again until the wobble comes back. Also this truck is completely stock not after market parts have been added, no lifts etc. *tr
Also reported on the 2006 Ford F-350 SD
Other steering problem
Other wheel or tire problem
Other engine problem
No-start or intermittent start failure
Fuel pump failure
Instrument cluster or gauge failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 37 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 suspension problem happen on the 2006 Ford F-350 SD?
Across 35 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 30,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 22,500 miles and a quarter after 65,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other suspension problem on the 2006 Ford F-350 SD?
37 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 67 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