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2017 FORD F-250 — Complaint #1766615

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT filed September 3, 2021

NHTSA complaint #1766615 (ODI reference 11431692) concerns a 2017 FORD F-250 and was filed on September 3, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 3, 2021. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front, 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-250 cohort independently describe similar suspension:front 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 2017 FORD F-250 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2017 FORD F-250
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT
State
California

Complaint Description

Twice, when accelerating into the freeway a violent shaking, “death rattle” of the steering wheel back and forth left and right. I pulled off to side of freeway . Started back up and the problem seemed to have resolved.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1766615
ODI Number 11431692
Date Filed September 3, 2021
Failure Date September 3, 2021
VIN 1FT7W2BT3HE

Similar SUSPENSION:FRONT Complaints for 2017 FORD F-250

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.