Recall · 20V636000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Transit Connect over engine and engine cooling
2,903
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
October 15, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Transit Connect vehicles equipped with 2.5L engines. The powertrain control module (PCM) software has fail-safe temperature threshold values higher than intended for the engine. This may delay the fail-safe cooling strategy in the event of coolant loss and result in engine overheating.
- What it can cause
- If the engine overheats, it can result in engine damage and increase the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Ford will notify owners, and dealers will update the PCM software, free of charge. The recall began November 10, 2020. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 20S60.
- 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 2,903 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 70% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the engine and engine cooling 24 times before this, most recently in March 2017 as 17V209000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 82 complaints with NHTSA, 7 of them before this campaign was filed.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 8 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V442000 (back over prevention), 25V196000 (power train), 24V294000 (visibility), 22V413000 (power train).
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 October 15, 2020 as campaign 20V636000. 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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