Recall · 22V254000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Escape over power train
96,015
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
April 14, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:GEAR POSITION INDICATION (PRNDL)
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015 Escape vehicles equipped with 2.0L engines. The bushing that attaches the shifter cable to the transmission may degrade or detach.
- What it can cause
- A damaged or missing bushing may prevent the vehicle from shifting into the intended gear, and cause the vehicle to move in an unexpected direction. Additionally, the vehicle may roll after the driver selects the 'Park' position. Either scenario increases the risk of a crash or injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the under hood shifter bushing and add a protective cap over the shift cable bushing, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 27, 2022. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 22S25.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| FordEscape | 2015 | 2015 |
How this campaign compares
At 96,015 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 92% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2015, so the oldest vehicles on it were 7 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the power train 83 times before this, most recently in March 2022 as 22V188000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,077 complaints with NHTSA, 444 of them before this campaign was filed. 285 of those name the power train, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in December 2014, 7 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 26V011000 (equipment), 25V695000 (back over prevention), 22V413000 (power train), 20V331000 (latches/locks/linkages).
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 April 14, 2022 as campaign 22V254000. 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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