Recall · 20V469000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over service brakes
488,594
Vehicles covered
2
Models
7
Model years
August 10, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
SERVICE BRAKES
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2018 Ford Edge and 2016-2018 Lincoln MKX vehicles. The front brake hoses may rupture prematurely.
- What it can cause
- A ruptured front brake hose will cause a brake fluid leak, lengthening the distance needed to stop the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Ford will notify owners, and dealers will replace the front brake hoses with the new hoses that have a revised braid material, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on May 13, 2021. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 20S42.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 488,594 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 98% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2015 to 2018, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
This site holds the complaint record for all 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 3,962 complaints with NHTSA, 749 of them before this campaign was filed. 366 of those name the service brakes, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2015, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 25V572000 (back over prevention), 25V544000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 22V413000 (power train), 20V414000 (seats).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Ford Motor Company with NHTSA on August 10, 2020 as campaign 20V469000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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