general problems of the 2012 Ford F-350

High speed wobble in front end goes away of you slow down getting worse very scary, pulls steering wheel out of my grasp wife refusing to ride in the truck.

We have been maintaining our vehicle and had no warning lights at the time our truck died . At the time of the incident it had oil and water. We were driving on the florida turnpike at full speed when suddenly, the truck started shuddering, and then it completely lost power. A cloud of blue-white smoke came out of the back of our truck. We were lucky to be able to get off of the turnpike to a safe place. We could have been killed. The mechanic has determined that the engine is locked up and can't be fixed. Our truck only has 134,000 miles - it should not have blown up like this.

Driving ~ 55mph on highway 146 and without warning the transnisson switched gears and locked up rear tires and truck died, heard a loud pop and tires began rolling again. I restarted the truck in neutral while still rolling on highway, shifted into drive and the transmission started jumping gears then locked into 5th gear. I was able to make it home 30 miles in 5th gear and once home I inspected and the truck had no reverse. Only 5th gear worked. I had it replaced with a reman transmission.

Radiator failed at 37,500 miles due to leaking. Engine overheated. This is a common problem with this particular vehicle and Ford is aware, as they extended the warranty on the 2008 (same model radiator) and have since changed the design on the latest model. They will not cover this item under the 100k mile powertrain warranty, and will not extend the warranty on a common failure item. Failure of the radiator can not only cause engine damage but can be a safety concern if engine self destructs while driving due to overheating.

Was going into an intersection and my F-350 died and displays a stop safely now message, which caused me to die right before I went through the intersection. Ended up being an egt sensor. Their are 4 on this truck and now another one has gone out leaving me stranded again. This ha sbecome such an issue that Ford has a national backorder on these sensors, and they wont warranty the part, and the extended warranty will only cover them as they go out. This truck only has 60,800 miles on it. This is unacceptable.

Warning came on saying "stop safely now" and as I pulled to the side of the road the truck shut down and would not re-start. Luckily I was not on a busy road, pulling a trailer or out of cell range or there definately could have been a problem. Because there is no warning and the vehicle will not start again and these trucks are way to big to simply push off the road this is a very dangerous situation. After looking into the problem online I have discovered that this is and has been a problem on these trucks and now that I have been told that the replacement sensor is on national backorder and will take an undetermined amount of time to find, this is a very common problem. These are large truck and often are pulling large loads, this problem of a sensor that can completely shut down a truck leaving it stranded is a very dangerous situation not only for the driver but even more for the others on the road since it will be impossible for everyone to safely get out of traffic before the truck simply stops. There are 4 exhaust gas tempreture sensors on these vehicles, I had one fail causing the problem.

The first time it happened to me I was on a trip in canada from texas. The road was a little bumpy (farm road) I was driving 30 m/h accelerating to get to 60 m/h when all of sudden the truck started shaking so badly my head hit the side window. I couldn't steer the truck at all I slowed down to 0m/h put it on park then started rolling slowly and it was gone. It did it to me 3 times on a 3 weeks period. Since the roads are bad up there I kinda left it as that and told my husband about it when I came back to texas. We had the tires rotated and they couldn't see anything else wrong under the truck. I was months without having anything similar happening to me and yesterday I am on I-10 rolling about 65m/h and there it goes again and it was worst then the other times I fell my truck was about to explode from under me shaking to no end and no steering control at all even when letting go the gas it kept going and shaking and my truck shake its way from one lane to another one and finally stopped 3 inches from the retaining wall of the overpass. I could have killed myself. I had no more control at all on this truck which is a (2012 F-350 king ranch with about 40,000 miles on it) luckely for me I was almost alone on the highway. I called my dealer and they told me to bring in the truck next Tuesday to see what is wrong with it. I ask if there was a recall and they did not say yes or no just to bring the truck in. I got another 2012 F-350 lariat and my husband said his truck did it to him once a while back. I write up the outcome after the visit at the dealer.

While towing loaded trailer on 2 lane highway, truck computer flashed message to "stop safely now". Engine shut down and would not restart. Dealer inspection found a faulty exhaust sensor. No other issues with cooling, oil or engine occured. The safety issue is that the new control system software is designed to shut down engine in the event of a faultly sensor in order to protect the vehicle. The system should alert to the issue and allow the human to determine if it is safer to continue driving and risk damage to the vehicle. A control system that is not aware of the road, traffic or environmental conditions should never be allowed to override human requirement to continue driving out of harms way.

Tl- the contact owns a 2012 Ford F-350 sd. The contact stated that after shifting into park while on an incline, the vehicle rolled away and crashed into another vehicle. There were no injuries. The police were not contacted. The vehicle was later taken to the dealer but was not diagnosed. In addition, when the contact placed a load behind the vehicle, it would independently shift into neutral. The manufacturer was contacted and they offered no assistance. The failure and current mileage was approximately 48,000. The VIN was unavailable. Kmj.