Other wheel or tire problem on the 2012 Ford F-350 SD
Only 6 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 other wheel or tire problem gets reported
There are 6 reports of other wheel or tire problem on the 2012 Ford F-350 SD, 6 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 60,000 miles. It is the 4th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 31,385 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–$1,500 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 18 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 15,000 miles, and latest on the 2004 at 130,000 miles.
By volume the 2017 carries the most reports, with 39; the 2012 has 6. 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.
This is probably about the 30th time my ford f-350 has had a death wobble. This time I was driving on highway 69 between prescott valley and prescott when it started. It was shaking so bad that I almost lost control and hit the median. The other vehicles must have noticed the vehicle shaking because all of the traffic around me backed way off. Once again I reported it to ford and took it in right away. They told me again that if it did not do it for them there was nothing they could do for me and sent me home with my vehicle. This seems to be a problem with the ford f-350 but ford refuses to recall or fix it. I found tons of information online about the issue as well as youtube videos taken of the events happening. *tr
Driving straight on a highway at 70 MPH, hit a small bump on the driver side only. The steering wheel started shaking violently, the front end and quickly the entire truck felt as though it was shaking apart and was swinging back and forth, I slammed on the brakes and the shaking got worse until about 15 MPH, it then stopped. I then got up to 60 MPH and when I hit a bump the same thing happened. Then got up to 50 MPH and the same thing happened. Then got up to 40 MPH and it did not happen again at that speed. I drove 100 miles home at 40 MPH on a main highway. Today I am bringing my truck to the dealership to have it fixed under warranty, I will do 40 MPH all the way there. I will not tow my horses trailer with this vehicle, it would have caused an accident and killed my horses. *tr
I am experiencing what they call the "death wobble". After hitting a series of bumps / pot holes, the front wheels start to shimmy and shake the truck violently, very hard to control the vehicle. As the mileage increases on my truck, the incidents are becoming more frequent and intense. Today, 04/09/2014, I almost got killed ... Literally ! On I-65 south of lafayette indiana, hit a serious of road patch bumps and holes ... The truck began to shimmy and shake and it went into a frenzy, the whole truck shaking violently. Cars around me were diverting away, and a semi was pushing hard from behind and hit his air brakes, I could not control the vehicle. Applying the brakes only made it worse. I am a 6' 3" strong muscular man, and could not control the steering wheel or direction of the vehicle. I started in the right lane, but wound up in the median, and almost took out (2) cars to my left and of course the impending semi behind me. I told the dealer of the issue, they did their inspections and found nothing. The truck is oem, I have not added or modified a single thing, it is as it was from the factory. Nothing has been changed or…
Also reported on the 2012 Ford F-350 SD
Other suspension problem
Other steering problem
Other engine problem
Tire blowout or tread separation
No-start or intermittent start failure
Misfire or rough idle
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 6 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 6 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 wheel or tire problem happen on the 2012 Ford F-350 SD?
Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 30,000 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 other wheel or tire problem on the 2012 Ford F-350 SD?
6 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 14 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