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Recall · 21V223000

Ford Motor recalled the LINCOLN Aviator over back over prevention

34,952

Vehicles covered

1

Model

2

Model years

March 30, 2021

Filed with NHTSA

BACK OVER PREVENTION:DISPLAY FUNCTION

The defect
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Lincoln Aviator vehicles. The image processing module may be unable to provide video feed to the display, which could result in a loss of the backup camera image. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."
What it can cause
A backup camera that displays a blank or distorted image reduces the driver's rear view, increasing the risk of a crash.
What the dealer does
Ford will notify owners, and dealers will update the image processing module software with the latest level, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 21, 2021. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 21C09.
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 .

VehicleModel yearsSafety record
LincolnAviator2020 to 202120202021

How this campaign compares

At 34,952 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 87% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.

Lincoln vehicles have been recalled over the back over prevention once before this, most recently in September 2020 as 20V575000. 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 144 complaints with NHTSA, 14 of them before this campaign was filed. 19 of those name the back over prevention, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2019, 1 year before this filing.

The vehicles on this campaign carry 31 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V451000 (seats), 26V402000 (power train), 26V159000 (seat belts), 26V123000 (back over prevention).

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 March 30, 2021 as campaign 21V223000. 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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