Four problems related to radiator have been reported for the 2012 Ford F-250. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
Radiator leak from drivers side lower portion. Same as previous model year issues. Ford currently warranties earlier production, but will not extend to 2011 and up. Truck has only 56000 miles on it. Leak occurs after vehicle has reached operating temperature and is parked and/or turned off. Inspection conducted by Ford discovered tank crimping has failed and truck needs a new radiator. I am not the only one with this issue, but still nothing is being done to correct it.
On the first day of an extended trip with our truck and RV, we arrived at camp to discover a major coolant leak. The truck did not give us any warning messages that anything was wrong. We had the truck towed to the closest Ford dealer. Thank goodness this problem happened in camp, rather than on an isolated road where we could have been 100+ miles away from any sort of service. It turned out that both the water pump and radiator had failed, with under 29,000 miles on the truck. The water pump was covered under warranty, but the radiator was not. The Ford service manager advised us that they had already replaced several radiators this year, with leaks in the same place (driver's side lower corner). We also did some checking on the internet and learned that this failure seems fairly common. The radiator should not have failed in such a short amount of time, with limited miles on our truck.
The radiator has a leak at 59,200 miles. This should be a recall!.
Mt truck is one of many that have a primary radiator that leaks from the drivers side.