Recall · 22V413000
Ford Motor recalled 5 models over power train
2,925,968
Vehicles covered
5
Models
30
Model years
June 10, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:GEAR POSITION INDICATION (PRNDL)
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2013-2019 Escape, 2013-2018 C-Max, 2013-2016 Fusion, 2013-2021 Transit Connect, and 2015-2018 Edge vehicles. 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 shift bushing and add a protective cap over the shift cable bushing, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters, informing owners of the safety risk, were mailed July 1, 2022. Remedy parts are expected to be available in 4th Quarter 2022. Owner notification letters were mailed October 27, 2022. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 22S43.
- 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 2,925,968 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 99% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2013 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 9 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the power train 87 times before this, most recently in May 2022 as 22V382000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 30 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 22,297 complaints with NHTSA, 10,281 of them before this campaign was filed. 3,812 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 July 2012, 9 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 27 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V376000 (power train), 26V374000 (visibility), 26V011000 (equipment), 25V695000 (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 June 10, 2022 as campaign 22V413000. 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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