2012 FORD F-250 — Complaint #1787234
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT filed January 8, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1787234 (ODI reference 11446737) concerns a 2012 FORD F-250 and was filed on January 8, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 8, 2022. The report was geocoded to Colorado 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 2012 FORD F-250 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Violent shaking of the whole truck and steering wheel when the truck hits a bump in the road driving between 60-75 mph. Ford replaced worn put parts and said they could not replicate the problem and everything is good. Driving down the same stretch of high way that causes the death wobble caused the problem again. I almost caused an accident from the sudden reduction in speed in order to regain control of my truck. The service advisor said it could be possble the tires are not balanced, so I had the tires rotated and balanced. Immediately after i left the dealership this incident occurred.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1787234 |
| ODI Number | 11446737 |
| Date Filed | January 8, 2022 |
| Failure Date | January 8, 2022 |
| VIN | 1FT7W2BT3CE |
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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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