Ford F 350 Supercab
Problems & Worst Years

If you're weighing a Ford F-350 SuperCab from the mid-to-late 2010s, start with 2017. It's the heaviest year in the complaint data by a wide margin — 481 reported occurrences across 37 problems, six at safety severity — and the file is essentially one complaint told five ways: death wobble at highway speeds (83 reports), death wobble generally (61), steering wheel oscillation at high speeds (41), and suspension shaking (another 79 combined). 2019 is next at 273 occurrences, led by steering wheel shaking during high-speed bumps (145). The remaining years — 2015, 2016, and 2018 — cluster between 160 and 176 occurrences apiece, each topped by the same steering and suspension shake complaints.

Beyond the wobble, the recurring secondary item is the tailgate: 2018 logs 28 combined reports of it opening unexpectedly or dropping uncommanded, and 2019 adds 42 reports of inadvertent opening. Small stuff by comparison, but easy to check and annoying to live with. Scattered air bag malfunction complaints (2016), check-engine-light reports (2015), and fuel-system stalling complaints (2016) fill out the record at low volume.

None of this makes these trucks unbuyable — it makes them trucks you buy a specific way. Take any candidate to highway speed over broken pavement and note whether shake develops after bumps and how it resolves. Put it on a lift and have the steering and front suspension components evaluated. Treat documented front-end repairs as a positive signal that the known issue was addressed. Cycle and latch the tailgate.

Complaint totals are what owners filed with NHTSA, not measured failure rates, and later years have had less time on the road to accumulate reports — so use the numbers to aim your inspection rather than to rank trucks precisely, and let the individual vehicle's service history and pre-purchase inspection carry the real weight in the decision.