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Just a hunch but my guess is the driver of this is to cut mass thus increasing gas milage and miles between charges, also to transfer assembly touch labor cost and part cost onto the end user when repairs/replacements are necessary.

Thank you for this info, this answers many of my questions.

I don't know, I have not seen a cross-section of the hub assy but the dealer service department has stated that it is unsafe to drive. I really don't want to believe that a bolt is a single point failure resulting in an unsafe to drive vehicle but that is what I have been told.

The way to check the status is to remove the Ford Logo axle cover

It's a rattling at low speeds less than 10 mph with windows down, stereo off

Thanks for the attachment, it included more into than I've been able to obtain from my dealer.

I can't get anyone at the dealer to tell me what the problem fix is. When the bolt fails then they replace the axle and the bolt but I don't know if the fix is to replace the bolt with a higher strength fastener or due to material capability they have to replace the axle as well when using a...

Nothing other than highway speeds and noticed it when I got off the highway and pulled up to a stop sign.

This is really beginning to piss me off. I've had a second axle bolt failure, this time on the other side. Apparently there is a group of engineers and analysts somewhere in the engineering staff at FORD that has no idea of Fracture Critical Parts, Single Point Failures and redundancy of...

All due respect! Mediocracy, wow what a way to live. Buy the least worse vehicle, marry the person who pisses you off the least, vote for the least worse person. Guess its all about settling! Why has being the best you can be been replaced by being enough to get by?

"Be patient, they'll figure it out" That is exactly the problem. They should have fixed this before deployment. All FORD is saying is to Hey, bend over and take.

Well you're entitled to your opinion but the use of a Ford product should not be dependent on knowledge of a 3rd party. Anyone should should know that performing a reset would delete any customization setting that the user has performed such as address book, bluetooth connections, favorites...

Today I lost GPS, Sat Radio and cell phone connection functionality to sync today. After trouble shooting, rebooting my truck without any success I performed a "RESET - to factory defaults". Looking back I should have disconnected/reconnected the battery to see if that reboot would work but I...

Today I lost GPS, Sat Radio and cell phone connection functionality to sync today. After trouble shooting, rebooting my truck without any success I performed a "RESET - to factory defaults". Looking back I should have disconnected/reconnected the battery to see if that reboot would work but I...

Thanks, guess I will find out Friday. I just ordered the 295/70 for my stock wheels and I’m running the 5100’s

As i previously stated, my truck would only move in 4 wheel drive, I did not think to try the locking rear diff. I first thought it might be the transmission based on the sound of gears and or splines grinding. After further investigation I found that while in 2WD the drive shaft spun, read...

Based on the info from this thread vs what I was told by my service dept rep I’m thinking the same thing. My truck was in a No Drive situation. In two wheel drive, truck would not move, driveshaft would spin and rear wheels would not. I’m just relaying what I was told.

That does not surprise me, I was thinking that as well when i was told that they had already shipped it back to Ford

Thank you for the info and picture. So either substandard material or bolt preloaded beyond recommend preload. So I‘m assuming that when the bolt fractures the axel is allowed to slide towards the diff and then disengaging the splines, correct? Truck does not move when this happens (at least...

Seems like based on all the other posts it’s related to the max tow pkg floating rear. Still seems strange that where a bolted joint is loaded in shear in a drivetrain engineering would allow a single point failure.