2000 Ford F-250 SD problems
NHTSA has received 277 complaints about the 2000 Ford F-250 SD, and 26% of them involve engine. Next are tires (14%) and brakes (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 277 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Engine 26% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 19 and 28
- Injuries and deaths
- 19 and 4
- Typical mileage
- 77,000 miles 215 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 7 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 23 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 35 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 50 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 20 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 29 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 12 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 7 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 13 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 5 |
| 200k+ miles | 14 |
What the data shows
Of the 215 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 77,000 miles. For engine specifically, the median reported mileage is about 99,000 miles (64 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 19 complaints mention a crash; 28 complaints mention a fire; 19 injuries reported; 4 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 85% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2000 ranks 17th most-complained-about out of 27 model years of the Ford F-250 SD with enough data (120 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 2 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Dt*: the contact stated while traveling at an undetermined speed on a dirt road, the driver became distracted and lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle left the road, and hit several pine trees head on. A towing hook on the front driver side became logged in a tree and resulted in the vehicle over turning. Once the vehicle overturned most of the impact was on the front driver side. Only an occupant in the rear passenger seat was wearing a seat belt.
The tow hooks on the front bumper of a 2000 ford f250 super duty pierced the door panel of a passenger sedan during a t-bone impact at a stoplight, causing massive puncture wounds to the driver of the sedan, which resulted in her death.
While I was driving my ford f-250 diesel of 2000 I smell like a oil burned. When I reached my house I opened the hood but I only saw some smoke coming near the brake reservoir. I said to my son that turned "on" the vehicle and them I saw when the electrical connection near the brake system begin to burn in fire. We turned "off" the vehicle and extinguished the fire with water.
Ford f250 super duty, with 83,000 miles on the engine. Two spark plugs blew out. The first occurred on 12/7/05 and the second occurred on 1/9/05. The repairs entailed installing steel sleeve inserts into the spark plug holes in the engine block.