Recall · 22V648000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over visibility
198,482
Vehicles covered
2
Models
6
Model years
August 26, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:DEFROSTER/DEFOGGER/HVAC SYSTEM:FAN/MOTOR
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2017 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator vehicles. The front blower motor located behind the glove box may fail.
- What it can cause
- Front blower motor failure can increase the risk of a vehicle interior fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the front blower motor assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 4, 2023. Remedy parts are expected to become available in the second quarter of 2023. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 22S56.
- 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 198,482 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 95% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2015 to 2017, 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 visibility 31 times before this, most recently in June 2022 as 22V451000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 810 complaints with NHTSA, 340 of them before this campaign was filed. 67 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2015, 7 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V572000 (back over prevention), 25V270000 (back over prevention), 25V236000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 25V091000 (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 August 26, 2022 as campaign 22V648000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2022-08-26.
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