2009 Ford F-450 SD Recalls, Complaints & Specs

5 safety recalls list the 2009 Ford F-450 SD, and owners have filed 3 complaints with NHTSA. Check your own VIN below.

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5 safety recalls for the 2009 Ford F-450 SD

Most recent first. Recall repairs are free at any authorised dealer. Click a recall for the full defect, consequence and remedy text.

1. Equipment

   NHTSA 14V360000 Reported June 23, 2014 10 vehicles potentially affected Palfleet Truck Equipment Company, LLC

   Palfleet Truck Equipment Company, LLC (Palfleet) is recalling certain model year 2009-2013 Ford F-350, F-450, and F-550 super duty vehicles modified by Palfleet and equipped with certain Muncie Power Products PTO Assemblies. In the affected vehicles, oil may leak from the PTO pressure switch onto a thermal blanket covering the exhaust.

   Remedy: Palfleet will notify owners, and dealers will install a new pressure switch kit that moves the switch away from the exhaust system, free of charge. The recall began on July 29, 2014. Owners may contact Palfleet…

2. Equipment

   NHTSA 14V328000 Reported June 13, 2014 21 vehicles potentially affected Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc.

   Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc. will notify owners and dealers to inspect the Muncie PTO pressure switch to determine if it is from the range of defective switches and if required, remove the pressure switch assembly and put a plug in the port where the PTO switch had been installed. This switch was never being utilized. This will be done…

   Remedy: Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc. will notify owners, and dealers will install a new pressure switch kit that moves the switch away from the exhaust system, free of charge. The recall began on July 28, 2014. Owners may…

3. Equipment

   NHTSA 14V327000 Reported June 12, 2014 10 vehicles potentially affected Stahl

   Stahl is recalling certain model year 2009-2014 Ford F-350 Super Duty, F-450 Super Duty, and F-550 Super Duty vehicles modified by Stahl and equipped with certain Muncie Power Products PTO Assemblies. In the affected vehicles, oil may leak from the PTO pressure switch onto a thermal blanket covering the exhaust.

   Remedy: Stahl will notify owners, and dealers will install a new pressure switch kit that moves the switch away from the exhaust system, free of charge. Owners may contact Stahl customer service at 1-800-277-8245, or Muncie at…

4. Equipment and gasoline (engine and engine cooling)

   NHTSA 14V382000 Reported June 10, 2014 4 vehicles potentially affected SOMERSET WELDING & STEEL, INC.

   Somerset Welding & Steel, doing business as J&J Truck equipment (J&J), is recalling certain model year 2009-2013 Ford F-350, F-450, and F-550 Super Duty chassis with 6.8L gasoline engines modified by J&J to be equipped with certain Muncie Power Products PTO Assemblies. In the affected vehicles, oil may leak from the PTO pressure switch…

   Remedy: Somerset will notify owners, and dealers will install a new pressure switch kit that moves the switch away from the exhaust system, free of charge. The recall began August 2014. Owner's may contact Somerset customer…

5. Electrical system

   NHTSA 14V070000 Reported February 11, 2014 22 vehicles potentially affected Monroe Truck Equipment

   Monroe Truck Equipment (Monroe) is recalling certain model year 2006, 2008 and 2009 Chevrolet C7500 vehicles, 2005-2006 Chevrolet Tahoe vehicles, and 2009 Ford F-350, and F-450 vehicles, equipped with Sure Power-brand battery equalizers or DC-DC converters containing a particular epoxy sealing, aka 'potting', compound. The specific…

   Remedy: Monroe will notify owners, and Sure Power will replace the equalizers or converters, free of charge. The recall began on March 24, 2014. Owners may contact Monroe at 1-608-328-8127.

3 owner complaints filed with NHTSA

Owners of the 2009 Ford F-450 SD have filed 3 complaints with NHTSA. The average mileage at failure in those reports is 45,833 miles. Complaints peaked in 2011 with 1 filed that year.

Most-reported components

• Engine1
• Engine and engine cooling1
• Power train1
• Tires1
• Unknown or other1

What owners are reporting

“My 2009 ford f-450 truck currently is at my local dealer which is kerry ford in cincinnati with a bad motor and bad rear differential. The motor has one failed lifter and 2 failed rocker arms. The rea”

Owner complaint to NHTSA, January 6, 2015 · Engine

“Bought my motor home in june 2009 with michelin tires size lt 225/75r16 115/r/lre ltx ms. Since new, my tires have been cracking on the outside of the tires more and more. I only have less than 10,000”

Owner complaint to NHTSA, April 16, 2014 · Tires

Compare Ford F-450 SD model years

Recall and complaint counts for every Ford F-450 SD model year in NHTSA's database.

Checking a specific 2009 Ford F-450 SD

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Source: NHTSA recall and complaint databases and EPA fuel economy data, October 2026. Complaint counts are owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects. Recall counts are safety campaigns that list this model year; whether a particular car was already repaired depends on its VIN. How this data is compiled.