2008 Ford F-350 problems
NHTSA has received 176 complaints about the 2008 Ford F-350, and 27% of them involve steering. After that come engine (25%) and brakes (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 176 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Steering 27% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 12 and 12
- Injuries and deaths
- 15 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 66,000 miles 158 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 | 23 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 25 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 22 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 27 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 16 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 11 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 15 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 8 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 2 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 4 |
| 200k+ miles | 5 |
What the data shows
Among the 158 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 66,000 miles. For steering specifically, the median reported mileage is about 88,000 miles (42 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 12 complaints mention a crash; 12 complaints mention a fire; 15 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 80% 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 2008 ranks 10th most-complained-about out of 23 model years of the Ford F-350 with enough data (93 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 8 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.
Items inside bed caught on fire due to exhaust cleaning system getting so hot to burn off pollution in DPF pipe. Dangerous truck to drive contacted ford. No one contacted me. Other ford diesels caught on fire due to this. I’m retired military and don’t have money to buy 50k trucks. Only 80k on truck.
Items in my bed and liner caught on fire. Engine regeneration for emissions got so hot melted all of the bed liner and caught a new large tv on fire. Ford has a glue on heat shield under bed which fell off. Exhaust gets so hot it caught on fire. They should have put a metal fixed plate or something fixed no a cheap glue on piece of foil. I inspected other trucks all missing!
Two issues really: a sloppily installed valve cover gasket on the right valve cover causing fluid leakage. The second is a constant drift to the left. 2008 f-350 lariat 4x4 crewcab long bed powerstroke diesel.
I'm the owner of a 2008 ford pickup truck model f-350. The truck was taking servo times to a dealer to have the problem fixed. We are having problems with the steering wheel that it locks by itself you want to turn left and the car goes right or straight and you loose the control I almost got killed .the dealer sad that they cant seen to fix the problem one dealer sad that he replaced the gear box but never did.