Recall · 22V087000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over structure
247,445
Vehicles covered
2
Models
12
Model years
February 16, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS:UNDERBODY SHIELDS
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2017-2022 F-250 and F-350 Super Duty vehicles equipped with gasoline engines and aluminum driveshafts. Underbody heat and noise insulators may loosen and contact the aluminum driveshaft, which could damage the driveshaft and cause it to fracture.
- What it can cause
- A fractured driveshaft can cause a loss of drive power, or a loss of vehicle control if the driveshaft contacts the ground. Additionally, unintended movement could occur while parked if the parking brake is not engaged. Any of these scenarios can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and repair the driveshaft as necessary, and properly attach the underbody insulators, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on April 7, 2022. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 22S09.
- 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.nhtsa.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 247,445 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 96% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2017 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the structure 32 times before this, most recently in May 2021 as 21V316000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 12 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 4,886 complaints with NHTSA, 2,799 of them before this campaign was filed. 247 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2016, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 32 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V204000 (visibility), 26V158000 (fuel system, diesel), 26V104000 (electrical system), 25V729000 (visibility).
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 February 16, 2022 as campaign 22V087000. 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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