Other powertrain problem on the 2011 Ford F-350
Only 5 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 powertrain problem gets reported
There are 5 reports of other powertrain problem on the 2011 Ford F-350, 5 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 92,000 miles. It is the 12th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 30,000 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 $400–$4,500 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 9 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2011, at a median of 30,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 150,000 miles.
By volume the 1999 carries the most reports, with 45; the 2011 has 5. 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 2011 ford f-350. When attempting to shift between gears the vehicle would hesitate. The vehicle would also down shift into neutral gear while the rpms increased but the accelerator pedal did not respond. The failure occurred intermittently since the vehicle was purchased in august 2010. The dealer made two attempts to duplicate the failure. The performance was monitored by the dvr system; however, the system could not detect any codes. The manufacturer was aware of the failure; however, they did not offer any assistance. The vehicle was not repaired. The current mileage was 31,000. The approximate failure mileage was 1,500.
Upon acceleration transmission goes into neutral between 2nd and 3rd gear allowing the motor to race while the truck goes into coast only mode. This can put you at the mercy of oncoming traffic if pulling on to the road. Hard shifts in the upper gears both up shifting and down shifting, often bone jarringly hard. This causes the truck to break traction with the road when wet, snow covered or with loose gravel present. My last experience with this nearly caused me to jack knife a trailer on a steep snow covered downgrade. This is not an uncommon problem there several post about it at http://www.thedieselstop.com/forums/f149/, http://www.powerstroke.org/forum/6-7-tranny-problems/ and others, probably just the tip of the iceberg. Dealer originally dealer said it was not a problem now they say my warranty is up give us $199.99 and we will do up to two hours of testing. There is a tsb on this but it doesn't appear to work for everyone. If this were a recall ford would have to address the safety of all involved. *tr
My wife and I went to pick up the 5th wheel camper from the storage area. I backed up to the camper, put the truck in park and did a few things before my wife got out. As she was getting out I mashed the brake pedal fairly hard and placed the transmission in reverse. I didn't want the truck moving with the passenger front door open and whacking my woman. As the wife was getting ready to shut the door the engine RPM went sky high on its own. My wife looked at me as if to say what the heck are you doing! I gave her a blank/scared look as it was nothing I did to make this happen. I glanced at the tach and I was up over 2500 RPM, in reverse, but the truck wasn't trying to go anywhere. It was as if it had disengaged from reverse and was running wild. I put the transmission back into park and let go of the brake. The engine continued at high RPM for another few seconds (seemed like forever) and then went back to idle. I shut the engine off, sat for a few moments to collect my senses and then re-started the engine. Ran through all of the gears and all was working fine. I then continued the effort to connect my camper to the truck and all…
Also reported on the 2011 Ford F-350
Other steering problem
Other suspension problem
Other engine problem
Fuel pump failure
Other wheel or tire problem
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 5 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 5 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 powertrain problem happen on the 2011 Ford F-350?
Across 5 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 powertrain problem on the 2011 Ford F-350?
5 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 2.4 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