Ford F 150 Super Crew Diesel
Problems & Worst Years

Transmission behavior is the through-line in the diesel Ford F-150 Super Crew's complaint record. In 2019 — one of the two heaviest years at 430 reported occurrences — erratic shifting, hard and delayed shifts, and general shifting complaints account for over 350 of them, with engine cam phaser failure adding another 66. 2020 continues the theme at lower volume: jerking and shifting complaints lead, joined by engine stalls during stop-start operation, the one problem owners flagged at safety severity that year.

2021 is the heaviest file overall at 460 occurrences. Fuel pump failure tops it with 151 reports, transmission hard shifting and jerking follows at 103, and a notable 95 reports concern recalls with unresolved defects — owners complaining that known problems weren't getting fixed. Wiper malfunctions round out the list.

The 2022 file is smaller at 234 but carries four safety-severity problems, the most of any year here, including infotainment system malfunctions that owners escalated to safety complaints, rear axle bolt fractures, and windshield wiper failures. Electrical noise and malfunction reports fill out the rest, along with continued complaints about unresolved recall work.

2020 and 2022 are the lighter years by raw count, but neither is dramatically cleaner than the rest, and the newest years have had less time on the road to build a file. These totals are what owners chose to report to NHTSA — not a measured failure rate — so treat them as a checklist rather than a verdict. On any test drive, pay attention to shift quality under load, confirm recall work is actually completed rather than pending, and put more weight on the individual truck's service history and a pre-purchase inspection than on which year is on the title.