Other steering problem on the 2010 Ford F-350 SD
1 injury 1 of the 14 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 steering problem gets reported
Owners of the 2010 Ford F-350 SD report other steering problem at a median of 75,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 115,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 35,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 125,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 93,485 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.
11% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33,600 miles | 44,000 miles | 73,000 miles | 115,000 miles | 127,085 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 an injury 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–$2,400 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 20 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2003, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 155,000 miles.
By volume the 2017 carries the most reports, with 269; the 2010 has 14. 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.
When the tilt adjustment lever was engaged to adjust the wheel tilt the lever broke off. The ford dealer agreed it was a defective piece of steel a it had a bubble in the in the steel in the area that it broke. *tr
Since I purchased my truck, used, in 2012, under limited circumstances the truck will go into a violent shake from the front end after hitting rather small bumps. Now that it is older and has about 73000 miles on it, this happens on a daily basis. The vibration starts out very small but quickly escalates until the truck is shaking out of control. It feels like the truck is rolling down the road with square tires in front. It usually lasts at least 5 seconds and only goes away with aggressive braking and steering maneuvers. *tr
Loss of control when driving on bumpy section of freeway, due to extreme shaking of front end. It seem to amplify in the severity and violence of the shaking until I was able to slow the truck to under 10 miles an hour on the shoulder of the road to regain control. I have had the truck in shop at the dealer 3 to 4 times for repair for this recurring problem. The ford service technician admitted that this was a common problem for this make and model but that neither ford or the dealer would take responsibility for the repair. But, they did however have a recommended fix, which I found interesting for an issue that they said didn't exist. I have spent thousands of dollars at the dealer to fix what is obviously a design and manufacturing flaw. This is a very dangerous vehicle to drive. We bought it to pull a large travel trailer but do not have confidence in the truck to do so. So not only are we paying for a defective truck, we are not able to use the truck for the purpose we intended. We could not be more disappointed in ford and our dealer. These trucks will cause fatal crashes, they are not safe to drive. I can send video from…
Also reported on the 2010 Ford F-350 SD
Other suspension problem
Other wheel or tire problem
Fuel gauge or level sensor failure
Other engine problem
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
Tire blowout or tread separation
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 14 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 steering problem happen on the 2010 Ford F-350 SD?
Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 75,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 115,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other steering problem on the 2010 Ford F-350 SD?
14 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 4,667 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