Bulletins
| Bulletin | Bulletin date | Replacement Bulletin | Item no. | Summary | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUSPENSION | |||||
| 15692 | 03/01/2002 | 636326 | Some vehicles may exhibit a squeak, snap, rattle, or clunk in the front end when turning or going over bumps. *tt | 11/07/2002 | |
| SUSPENSION - FRONT | |||||
| 15502 | 12/01/2001 | 630612 | Concerns with pop/clunk/click noise from the front suspension when making low-speed turns in forward or reverse gears. *tt | 04/18/2002 | |
| SUSPENSION - REAR | |||||
| 050618 | 01/01/2005 | 05126 | 10016789 | Rear axle noise repair. *sc | 10/07/2005 |
| SUSPENSION - REAR - SPRINGS - LEAF SPRING ASSEMBLY | |||||
| 17777 | 05/01/2004 | 10008552 | Rear leaf spring noise. *tt | 08/04/2004 | |
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUSPENSION | |||
| 01/20/2005 | 30000 | 1 | |
| Shimmy / bad vibration at 50+ mph. has been happening for awhile - gotten new tires and wheels, balance/rotate, new brakes and they are talking about a new controller arm or something...did some research and it seems this is common for this truck and ford not willing to do anything about it? quality issues and no concern for people's safety...nice. have had to pull over to the side of the highway many times because of this - guess people have to die in order for ford to take notice. sales down due to customer dissatisfaction among other things... *tr | |||
| 08/01/2004 | 1 | ||
| Passenger door would open while vehicle was moving. *ph the consumer also stated that the vehicle vibrated while driving. the consumer mother-in-law fell while trying to get into the front passengers side door of the truck. the brakes would lock up intermittently. *nm | |||
| 09/15/2003 | 19 | 4 | 04/16/2003 |
| Bad shimmy / vibration front end. this has been this way since i bought it new. have taken it back to ford on 4 different times. once they tried to fix it but hasn't been resolved. think it is a safety issue at higher speeds. *ph | |||
| 1 | |||
| Truck is subject to vibration at highway speeds with cause unknown by dealership. tires have been changed twice and then mounted and balanced four times. cause of vibration is still undetermined. nlm | |||
| 03/02/2002 | |||
| When making a slow turn there was a popping sound that came only when making low speed turns. contacted dealer, and dealer was not willing to do anything.*ak | |||
| SUSPENSION - FRONT | |||
| 01/20/2005 | 30000 | 1 | |
| Shimmy / bad vibration at 50+ mph. has been happening for awhile - gotten new tires and wheels, balance/rotate, new brakes and they are talking about a new controller arm or something...did some research and it seems this is common for this truck and ford not willing to do anything about it? quality issues and no concern for people's safety...nice. have had to pull over to the side of the highway many times because of this - guess people have to die in order for ford to take notice. sales down due to customer dissatisfaction among other things... *tr | |||
| 09/07/2007 | 83718 | 1 | 06/01/2002 |
| I was told during a routine oil change that my truck needed tie rod ends and ball joints (not just some of them but all of them) i checked the internet and it seems there have been multiple complaints about these. is there any investigation going on or a possible recall for this problem. *tr | |||
| SUSPENSION - FRONT - CONTROL ARM - LOWER BALL JOINT | |||
| 12/01/2004 | 1 | ||
| Saw tv note on daimler-chrysler recall re: ball joints. my wife has a similar issue with a gm f-150 (independently verified by a mechanic as excessive wear for 20,000 miles and is already making the noise chrysler says is a warning)--but dealer says it's within specs, and gm says it won't go against dealer. new husband is very worried for his wife given that ball joint is already at the stage that is quoted as consumer would have warning because of noise--yet no repair offered or even thought needing further review.*ak | |||
| SUSPENSION - FRONT - CONTROL ARM - UPPER BALL JOINT | |||
| 07/06/2006 | 84339 | 1 | 03/26/2006 |
| Missing cotter pins on front end upper ball joints. *jb | |||
| 12/01/2004 | 1 | ||
| Saw tv note on daimler-chrysler recall re: ball joints. my wife has a similar issue with a gm f-150 (independently verified by a mechanic as excessive wear for 20,000 miles and is already making the noise chrysler says is a warning)--but dealer says it's within specs, and gm says it won't go against dealer. new husband is very worried for his wife given that ball joint is already at the stage that is quoted as consumer would have warning because of noise--yet no repair offered or even thought needing further review.*ak | |||
| SUSPENSION - FRONT - SHOCK ABSORBER | |||
| 01/01/1901 | 62968 | 1 | |
| Consumer 2002 ford f-150 supercrew top shaft piston for the shock absorber broke. *ts the consumer stated that he never carried more than 500 pounds in the cargo bed nor ever pulled anything (motorcraft shock absorber, ash-144, 2l3z-1825-fa, h751b 103805 100604, bar code: 31508 407657, ml1193 rev 5/01). *nm | |||
| SUSPENSION - FRONT - SPRINGS - COIL SPRINGS | |||
| 03/29/2003 | 1 | 01/17/2003 | |
| Broken front coil spring. *ak | |||
| SUSPENSION - REAR | |||
| 07/01/2003 | 38000 | 1 | 11/18/2001 |
| Shudder from rear end when turning right or left or while taking off from a stop. *ak | |||
| SUSPENSION - REAR - AXLE - SPINDLE | |||
| 12/08/2003 | 15480 | 1 | 12/16/2002 |
| Passenger side rear tire broke off at the axle, while going approximately 35 mph, causing the truck to spin out. unexplainable, did not have an accident for this to happen. *la | |||