2008 Ford F-250 SD defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2008 Ford F-250 SD. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Alleged Loss of Steering
  Preliminary Evaluation PE13014 · opened May 7, 2013 · closed Jan 31, 2014

  The Office of DefectsInvestigation (ODI) opened PE13-014 after identifying five complaints alleging steering gear failure in model year (MY) 2008 Ford F-250 and F-350 Super Duty pick-up trucks and to evaluate the relationship between the design history of the steering gear assembly and the alleged defect.As background,…