Frame And Members problems of the 1997 Ford F-150

The contact owns a 1997 Ford F-150. The contact stated that the frame was completely rusted. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that the framework needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 180,303.

The contact owns a 1997 Ford F-150. The contact stated that the entire subframe of the vehicle was severely corroded. The dealer stated that the entire subframe and rack and pinion needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired and the manufacturer was notified. The failure mileage was 167,166.

The contact owns a 1997 Ford F-150. While driving approximately 35 mph over a bump, the vehicle began to tilt towards the front driver side. The vehicle was parked. When the contact inspected, he noticed that there were tack welding marks on the frame on the front driver side. The vehicle had not been repaired. The current and failure mileages were approximately 140,000.

The frame on my 1997 Ford f150 has rusted through, causing the shock and spring mounts to break. Ford will not acknowledge any problems.

While driving there was a severe shake in the entire vehicle that caused the transmission to come loose. This occurred because the rear right frame broke above the tire. Dealership indicated the was a common problem with these trucks.

Frame sheared at rear of correctlly and professionally installed class 3 hitch. The frame also bent between the front and rear leaf spring connections. The frame at the left leaf spring connection is cracked. There was no over loading of the tongue nor significant impact to shock load the frame. Ford is claiming that it is not their problem because it is out of warranty. All involved parties have never seen any thing like this before. They site that the after market hitch "could be to blame" although they did not say that the hitch was improperly installed. A 4 year old 70,000 mile truck should not fail towing a trailer that is less than half of the towing capacity for its rating, regardless of warranty expiration. No one was injured because it was discovered before total failure occurred. This could have caused a jack knife and/ or rollover of the truck and trailer. The towing capacity of the truck is 6600 lbs and the tongue weight max is 500 lb. Our trailer is a 10 foot 2 horse trailer weighing 2900 lbs empty and tongue weight of 250 loaded.

The truck has a stress fracture in the steel next to the windows. Nlm.

There is a crack in the frame from the axle bumper hole and it goes halfway up the frame. Nlm.

Vehicle had a crack above axle through the frame. Dealer/manufacturer notified. Please provide any further details.

I have contacted the local Ford dealer to look into this. Ford is being very slow to fix this major issue. It effects 2/3s of all the 97+ f150s. No safety defect listed in summary.

Driver side door has developed a crack in the frame.

Crack is visible very clearly on drivers side. The crack is just appearing on the passenger side. Dont really know when the cracks appeared, heard about the problem and just went to see if it was on my veh.

Vehicle's frame failed causing alignment problems and noise. Mjs.

Vehicle vibrates tremedously, shakes, when sitting still mostly, and dealership/mfr. Has no remedy. New brakes and shocks were put on trying.

Frame failed.

While driving 65 mph, the cardboard part that dampens the sound (road noise) from coming into the cab, fell down on top of the muffler and vechicle caught on fire, consumer stopped and put the fire out. Dealer will investigate the problem.

While driving on a dirt road at 35 mph, the left rear tire blew out. In addition, rear frame was bent because three dealers had modified truck by putting on overloads. Also, rear springs/shocks were defective/leaking.

What I concern about the cracks on the doors of the f150 I have seen about 20 trucks with cracks of 23 that have check . My truck is out of warranty but I think Ford should recall all trucks .

Cracked chassis. (attorney for client).

Grab bar on vehicle is poorly designed, consumer hits head on bar.