My 2019 Ford F350 has the "death wobble" that started around 40,000 miles. Today it has 43,747 miles. Upon researching this problem, I am fileing this complaint. This problem is deadly. The wobble happens as freeway speeds and stops after quick deceleration. I have witnesses to this on two occasions.

- Rock Springs, WY, USA

Hitting a bump or bridge juncture at highway speeds (>65) causes a violent resonance in the front suspension. The truck shakes violently and the steering wheel turns side to side rapidly. The shaking gets worse unless you quickly slow down to <35 mph. Tire pressures were at the Ford recommended psi and the vehicle was within payload and towing limits. This happened multiple times with about 26,000 miles on the truck. Ford "fixed' the problem, but the problem recurred again at 33,000 miles. Ford issued a new fix which has been applied to the vehicle which now has 41,000 miles. The fix was to replace the drag links and put a very stiff steering damper on which greatly increased the steering effort. The underlying issue of poor front suspension design is still there and we can feel the issue is coming back and it is only a matter of time before it happens again. This is very dangerous. One of the times this happened, a tanker truck was following me and had to swerve into the other lane on I-65 near cullman, al to avoid me when I had to slow quickly to regain control of the vehicle. When this happens, it is very violent and you can not control the vehicle. If you do not slow down immediately, it gets worse.

- Huntsville, AL, USA

When traveling @ normal highway speeds if I cross uneven pavement or rough roads the steering wheel shakes violently side to side. When road smooths and along with braking to reduce speed the problem goes away. Have taken into dealership and steering dampener was replaced but problem is starting back. 25,500+/-miles

- Flora, MS, USA

I own a 2019 Ford F350 with about 13,500 miles on it. On multiple occasions I have experienced what seems to be named the Ford "death wobble". when driving occasionally the truck starts to shake uncontrollably causing the driver to death grip the steering wheel to avoid losing control. This problem has occurred 10-15 times in about 4 months. Ford does not have a recall on this problem, and they are refusing to put in writing at the service department the exact issue I am bringing the truck in for. They call it "recalls" however there is no recall for this issue. When this occurs, the vehicle attempts to move side to side making it nearly impossible to stay in the lane of travel. This has occurred at speeds of 30 miles per hour on city roads and 65 miles per hour on the freeway. Slowing down or removing your foot from the accelerator only makes the problem worse as we slow down. I have a video recorded of one of the times this occurred which we were going about 63 miles per hour, we slowed down to about 42 miles per hour rapidly in an attempt to keep control. Doing this almost caused the car behind us to hit us and the car to the right of us needed to steer out of the way quickly. Ford does not have a fix for this issue, the front tires on the vehicle look like they have been chopped up due to the bouncing that occurs during the wobble. Someone is going to get killed if Ford does not fix the problem. I have a video that I will gladly share, this only lets me upload pictures

- Huntington Beach, CA, USA

Twice today I experienced the so called 'dead wobble' driving down the interstate at approximates 70 mph. I had to pull to the side of the highway & decrease my speed to approximately 25-30 to get it to stop.

- Frisco, TX, USA

Going down the road about 50 mph hitting minor bump in the road. Front of truck started shaking violently. I was unable to control the truck and had difficulty slowing it down. I crossed the center line with it being unable to be controlled. Finally was able to gain control after almost a complete stop. Truck is almost brand new and only 13,000 miles.

- Cambridge, MD, USA

While traveling over bumps excessive vibration in steering and in cab. Even after steering dampener was fixed.

- Richland, WA, USA

On normal highway speed's after hitting a small bump I experienced a violent shaking in the steering that would not go away until I slow down to under 20 miles an hour

- Dennis, MA, USA

My 2019 F350 truck experienced the death wobble multiple times on recent trip. While towing our camper we hit a seem in the road which caused the truck to start violently shaking uncontrollably. I thought we broke and axle. I was able to slow the truck and pull over. I could not find any damage and so we continued. The truck had approximately 18500 miles on it. This did not occur again for about 1500 miles where it happened when we hit a small pot hole with our front left tire. Again, violent uncontrollable shaking that only stops when speed is below 30 mph. I slowed to pull over but it stopped when my speed got low enough. We continued cautiously not knowing what happened. I did some research but could not find anything at the time. We were on an 8 week trip and had started our return direction so we continued. About 1300 miles later it happened again, stopped when our speed dropped. This time I was able to find information on the "death wobble" and now understood this is exactly what we were experiencing. I had to decide how to proceed as we had our family and camper 1400 miles away from home at this point. I drove very cautiously, and despite my best efforts it happened 2 more times, once without the camper. On our last leg from tn to nc the roads were especially bad and we had 5 more incidents. I drove 45 mph with my hazards on much of the way to get the truck home. It seems to be getting progressively worse and I would say it is not safe to drive anymore. Any seam in the road or pot hole that impact the front tires at speeds above 50 mph will now cause this truck to go into violent uncontrollable shaking that only stops when speeds are reduced to below 30 mph. Very bad situation to be in, especially when this seems to be such a know issue. This should not be allowed to continue.

- Raleigh, NC, USA

I was driving home late one night from work, running about 55-60 and the steering wheel and truck started violently shaking and got worse as I tried to apply brakes. It caused me to run off the side of the road into a farm field(luckily no damage)! so I shut the truck off and checked everything, I thought a wheel was falling off or something but everything was good, so I slowly drove home and would start to feel the steering wheel shake when I would apply brakes but nothing like before.

- Springfield, OH, USA

When driving at highway speed pulling a trailer experiencing violent front end vibration and wobble, this caused us to run off the road into the shoulder nearly causing ya to flip over into the medium. The tires are properly inflated and checked daily. This violent shaking and wobble happens almost daily in a truck purchased as new. This violent shaking started at around 7000 miles and has continued. The vehicle is currently in Ford dealership service at fowlerville Ford in Michigan to have this issues and other looked at. This is an extremely dangerous problem.

- Livonia, MI, USA

Hit a bump and the whole truck shook and vibrated violently to the point of loosing control. We were driving on the freeway at approximately 60 mph. The only way to stop the shaking was to apply the brakes and almost stop.

- Wittmann, AZ, USA

While pulling a gooseneck trailer with my compact tractor on it driving down a 2 lane road at aprx. 50 mph hit a bump in the road and I experienced for the first time in my life what's known as death wobble. Felt like the front tires were rapidly bouncing up and down. I immediately raised my foot off the acceleration pedal. Once it coasted down to about 40 mph the vibration stopped. A couple hours later it happened again on the interstate doing about 70 mph, same trailer setup as before. Raised my foot off the pedal and once the truck slowed down a little bit the vibration went away. The truck still has the original tires on it and they have been rotated. I checked the tire pressures a couple of days ago and they were at/near the factory recommend pressures. Truck has around 38K miles on it.

- Englewood, OH, USA

Death wobble

- Marshall, MN, USA

This vehicle violently shakes after hitting a grooved surface or a small bump in the road. The shaking takes a great deal of power to bring the vehicle back under control.

- Dundee, IL, USA

When I hit bumps in the road I get a violent steering wheel shake, known as death wobble. Happens at slow speeds on the windy road I live on, probably going roughly 25-35 mph usually when I hit a bump while turning. I have heard this is a common problem in these vehicles. It seems to be getting worse as time goes on. The vehicle only hads 8500 miles on it and was purchased new from dealer.

- Raymond, CA, USA

Five occurrences of 'death wobble' experienced so far. No aftermarket accessories have been installed on the vehicle and everything is stock factory installed. 1) the 1st occurrence was on 10/5/2019 and we were driving solo up a hill on hwy 550 doing about 45-50 mph climbing a hill. We hit a bump and I thought we had flat so pulled over to check. Check and no flat so proceeded and it never happened again so I never brought in to have the dealer (Ford) look at it. I don't have the specific mileage when this occurred. 2) the 2nd occurrence was on 5/14/2020 and we were towing our 12,000 lbs. 5th wheel on southbound I-25 in the middle lane doing about 55 mph. I hit a bump and the truck shook violently and scared us to death as we had traffic on both sides of us and need to slow rapidly. Luckily, I was able to slow down quickly while keeping the truck in my lane and not get re-ended. This is a very scary feeling having a truck out of control towing a 12K trailer in heavy traffic. Mileage was 21,927. 3) the 3rd occurrence was on 5/14/2020 and we were towing our 12,000 lbs. 5th wheel on hwy 24 w doing about 45 mph. I hit a bump and the truck shook violently again and I was able to slow down rapidly as we were heading up hill. Mileage was 21,975. 4) the 4th occurrence was on 5/14/2020 and we were towing our 12,000 lbs. 5th wheel on hwy 24 w doing about 45 mph. I hit a bump and the truck shook violently again and I was able to slow down rapidly as we were heading up hill. This was the third one in about 50 miles. Mileage was 21,980. 5) the 5th occurrence was on 5/17/2020 and we were towing our 12,000 lbs. 5th wheel on hwy 115 N doing about 55 mph. I hit a bridge abutment truck shook violently again and I was able to slow down rapidly. Mileage was 22,175. Working with the dealer to get Ford tsb 19-2274 accomplished.

- Monument, CO, USA

When driving at highway speeds (60+mph) and the truck hits a bump in the road, the truck experiences death wobble to a degree that the brakes have to be applied emergent until the truck slows below 10mph. Which causes the truck to become a road hazard. Fear is that the death wobble will cause an accident. As well, there is increasing front end vibration when driving above 60mph on apparent smooth interstates.

- Brighton, CO, USA

At 55mph or so driving over a hole, bump or raised portion in the rode way the steering wheel starts to shake/shimmying/wobble some what violently with both hands on the wheel for a distance until I slow down and it then subsides. The feeling make a person feel like their losing control of the vehicle and is scary.

- Springfield, IL, USA

Driving straight down a freeway, hit a bump, front wheels start shaking violently. This is the 5th time in the last 2 weeks. The only way I've been able to stop the shaking is to slow down to 40mph.

- Coweta, OK, USA