Cruise control failure on the 2010 Ford F-350 SD
Only 2 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 cruise control failure gets reported
There are 2 reports of cruise control failure on the 2010 Ford F-350 SD, 2 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 72,000 miles. It is the 9th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 5,500 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
Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,400 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 7 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2022, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 150,000 miles.
By volume the 2022 carries the most reports, with 7; the 2010 has 0. 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.
Yesterday may 12, 2010 my wife experienced a sudden acceleration in our 1 month old ford f350 cabela edition. From a highway speed of 65 MPH the truck, completely on its own, accelerated to over 95 MPH. The cruise control was not on and she was not touching any pedals. When she applied the brakes she left some impressive tire marks on the highway but with 650 foot pounds of torque at the rear wheels the truck was not stopping. She put the truck in neutral and the tachometer pegged all the way. She did manage to pull the truck to the side of the road and turn it off. She tried to re-start the vehicle and again without any input from the accelerator the tachometer pegged. She immediately turned the truck off and waited several minutes before restarting. This time the truck idled normally. She took it to richardson ford in albuquerque where we purchased the truck. The service manager told me he knew something really bad had happened because she was crying and visibly shaken. They performed several tests and the codes that came up were 'excessive speed' and something about the exhaust cleaning system stuck in mid cycle. They have now…
Since purchasing our vehicle new we have had several incidents of sudden acceleration. Our first complaint was filed within the 1st month (odi id number : 10330335). Within 16000 miles we had 3 incidents. All of these incidents were at highway speed with the cruise control off. Each time we were able to place the gear shift into neutral or stomp on the accelerator pedal until it stopped accelerating. Each time the vehicle was taken to the ford dealership, no explanation could be found however on the incident at ~16000 miles the dealership stated they had reprogrammed the computer. We had driven the truck without incident since that time until december 24, 2012 at approximately 0800 hours. My wife was driving westbound on I-40 at approximately 65 MPH when the vehicle accelerated on its own. Her first reaction was to try to put the vehicle in neutral, however she was unable to move the shift lever. The vehicle accelerated to maximum speed quickly as she attempted to apply the brakes. Her ordeal lasted for several minutes and she nearly lost control several times as this section of highway travels through a canyon and has significant…
Also reported on the 2010 Ford F-350 SD
Other suspension problem
Other steering problem
Other wheel or tire problem
Fuel gauge or level sensor failure
Other engine problem
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 2 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 2 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 cruise control failure happen on the 2010 Ford F-350 SD?
Across 2 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 5,000 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 cruise control failure on the 2010 Ford F-350 SD?
2 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 667 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