2016 FORD F-350 — Complaint #1887300
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY filed April 12, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1887300 (ODI reference 11516764) concerns a 2016 FORD F-350 and was filed on April 12, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 25, 2022. The vehicle had 180,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kansas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:axle assembly, 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 power train:axle assembly 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 2016 FORD F-350 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2016 Ford F-350. The contact stated that on several occasions while driving approximately 30 MPH, the vehicle started shaking violently. The contact stated that when the brake pedal was depressed, the vehicle started shaking. The contact stated that the shaking intensified until the vehicle came to a complete stop. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed and determined that the front axle needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 180,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1887300 |
| ODI Number | 11516764 |
| Date Filed | April 12, 2023 |
| Failure Date | December 25, 2022 |
| VIN | 1FT8W3BT5GE |
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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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