2018 FORD F-350 — Complaint #1558576
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING filed April 17, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558576 (ODI reference 11196834) concerns a 2018 FORD F-350 and was filed on April 17, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 16, 2019. The vehicle had 13,256 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same FORD F-350 cohort independently describe similar steering failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2018 FORD F-350 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHEN TRAVELING AT FREEWAY SPEEDS (70 MPH), I HIT A ROUGH SPOT IN THE ROAD AND MY STEERING WHEEL BEGAN TO SHAKE VIOLENTLY. I HAD TO SLOW DOWN TO GET IT TO STOP. THE TRUCK HAS 13,256 MILES ON IT.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558576 |
| ODI Number | 11196834 |
| Date Filed | April 17, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 16, 2019 |
| VIN | 1FT8W3BT4JE |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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