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Parking brake failure on the 2017 Ford F-350 SD

Only 0 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.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $250–$1,300
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 54th

When parking brake failure gets reported

There are 1 report of parking brake failure on the 2017 Ford F-350 SD. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 54th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $250–$1,300 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 4 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 1,000 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 105,000 miles.

By volume the 1999 carries the most reports, with 11; the 2017 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.

Median
  1. 1999 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure 103k
  2. 2000 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  3. 2003 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  4. 2004 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure 39k
  5. 2005 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure 57k
  6. 2007 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure 17k
  7. 2008 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure 84k
  8. 2016 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure 87k
  9. 2017 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  10. 2018 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure 25k
  11. 2019 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure 1k
  12. 2020 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  13. 2021 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  14. 2022 Ford F-350 SD parking brake failure
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2017 Ford F-350 SD

Other steering problem

269 reports median 26k

Other suspension problem

198 reports median 26k

Liftgate, tailgate or trunk failure

64 reports median 15k

Other wheel or tire problem

39 reports median 16k

CV axle or driveshaft failure

14 reports median 86k

Other fuel system problem

14 reports median 71k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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.

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