Steering Gear Box Problems of Ford F-150

The contact owns a 2011 Ford F-150. The contact stated that while driving approximately 50 mph, the service advance track warning light illuminated intermittently as the turn signals failed to operate. The failure recurred several times. The dealer diagnosed that the rack and pinion and steering box needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired since the parts needed to do the repairs were not available. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 24,500.

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Broken bolts to the steering box. No incident involved. Steering control became loose. Diagnosis of problem was a loose steering box from bolt failure. Additional failures of remaining bolts would cause loss of steering control.

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The contact owns a 2003 Ford f150. Contact received recall on campaign id number 03v349000 concerning steering gear box. While driving home on June 22, 2005, and after just pulling his boat trailer steering malfunctioned just as stated in the recall. He contacted Ford dealership, and they stated that this vehicle was not included in the recall due to VIN. The steering gear box was replaced twice.

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My steering wheel is shaking back and forth at approximately 55 mph since purchasing the vehicle. The balance job, trip to the dealer, and new rims and tires have not fixed the problem.

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While driving the consumer noticed that the steering could be turned completely around and around. The consumer popped the hood and found that the rod that attached to the steering wheel and gear box detached due to a bolt that had come off.

Loose steering, second (replacement) steering gear. The original steering gear was noisy and the dealer replaced it with a used, rebuilt unit at 3,264 miles. Current (used) gear has excessive free play, the vehicle wanders and is difficult to control on the highway. Ford refuses to supply the dealer with a new gear. The dealer refuses to replace or adjust the loose gear. I feel the safety of the vehicle is in question with the used gear in it due to lack of traceability of the gear in case of a recall or safety campaign.

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We were backing our truck into our driveway when all of a sudden the vehicle completely lost all of its steering ability. We immediately investigated the problem and found that the lower steering column shaft had separated from the sector shaft on the st.

Steering gear box has been replaced twice. Contacted dealer.

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We could hear and feel a "clunking" through the steering wheel. Took the truck to the dealer to have it checked. Found that the lower steering shaft was broken and was advised to stop driving the vehicle until it could be repaired. Was also told by the service manager that this problem was fairly common with the f150 and in fact they had the required part to fix it in stock. This truck is only two years old and has never been driven off-road or involved in any type of accident. I am very concerned that this type of failure could occur, and apparantly is not uncommon. The break was apparantly in a "knuckle" in the steering shaft, which is why we could still steer the vehicle at all.

Lower steering shaft universal joint became disengaged from the steering gear box commection. This created an inability to steer the truck.

On Friday 03/02/01 I lost control of the steering in my Ford F-150 when something in the steering box failed. For specifics of what the exact failure was, please contact the mechanic who made the repair. They are rockville auto boutique, 360 sunrise highway, rockville centre, NY 11570. Phone 516 766 7525.

After experiencing increasing sloppiness in steering, mechanic friend checked out the problem. One of the three bolts holding the steering box had backed out approximately 1 inch allowing the gear box to move away from the vehicle frame. Contact with local dealer in virginia (truck originally bought in PA. ) stated that the vehicle is beyond the three year/ 36,000 mile warranty. The stripped area on the steering gear box would require replacement of entire mechanism costing approximately $500. I identifed that there is no evidence of this part ever having been removed from the vehicle and that it appears to have been stripped when assembled. (assembly done in canada. ) contact on Monday (2/26) to the local Ford customer inquiry line in chantilly, va did not reveal much - no service bulletin could be identified. I volunteered and gave them my vehicle number after providing them my address and a description of the problem - stating that it was an assembly problem and that the bolt was over tightened. I also went on to describe that there was always a looseness in the steering and that recently it had gotten worse resulting in me drifting off of the road several times. It was only after my wife indicated that she too was experiencing a noticeable increased sloppiness in the steering and another recent drifting off the road, that I had a mechanic friend take a look at the steering and identify the problem.

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Lower steering shaft came off input shaft of steering gear box causing a complete loss of control.

Bolts securing steering box to frame broke. Steering box fell loose, and all steering control was lost. Little warning that anything was wrong. Service personnel indicated that this has happened 'a handful' of times.

I was trying to avoid rear ending the car in front of me because traffic had come to an abrupt stop, so I jerked my truck to the right as hard as I could. I could not steer out of it because the steering box broke. I hit the car in front of me on his right rear bumper with my left front bumper. Ron blackwell Ford's head mechanic said the steering box breaking is a safety feature. I have never heard of such a thing. I don't believe that hitting a car at 30 mph should make the steering box break. The only damage done to my truck was on the left side of my bumper. The headlight wasn't even broke. I think it broke from the extreme pressure of turning it so hard trying to avoid a collision not from hitting the car.

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I was trying to avoid rear ending the car in front of me because traffic had come to an abrupt stop so I jerked my truck to the right as hard as I could. I could not steer out of it because the steering box broke. I hit the car in front of me on his right rear bumper with my left front bumper. The only damage to my truck was the front bumper. The headlight wasn't even broke. Ron balckwell Ford's chief mechanic said the steering box breaking is a safety feature. I have never heard of such a thing. I don't belive that hitting a car at 30 mph should make the steering box break. I think it broke from the extreme pressure of turning it so hard trying to avoid the collision.

The steering gear assembly failed due to broken/sheared off bolts that fell off.

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Steering gear box broke off of frame while driving truck out of driveway at home. Unable to steer truck, very very dangerous situation!! the dealer said that the bolts just broke off no sign of wear on bolts. Dealer was unable to explain why this happened.

Took back to the dealer several times, and they ignored it. They said that this type of truck does this . No defect mentioned in summary.

Steering gear assembly and pitman arm failed causing loss of control. Yh.

Driving 55-60mph & vehicle hit small puddle. Vehicle shifted to left & then right, jerking abruptly, before driver regained control. Took vehicle to mechanic & was unable to locate the cause of the mechanical problem.

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Failure on the steering wheel gear box, consumer alleged play in the steering wheel.

While driving at approximately 35 mph steering box fell off, disconnected from frame due to bolts that sheared off, causing loss of steering. Vehicle ran through yard and into a tree.

While driving 35mph, lost all steering power. Connection from steering wheel to steering gear box came off without warning. Dealer contacted.