Recall · 23V070000
Ford Motor recalled 5 models over power train
1,138
Vehicles covered
5
Models
9
Model years
February 10, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2022-2023 F-150, Mustang, Explorer, Bronco, and 2023 Lincoln Aviator vehicles equipped with automatic transmissions. The transmission may contain a loose bolt which could prevent the transmission from engaging the park gear, although the gear shifter position may indicate that the vehicle has been shifted to "PARK."
- What it can cause
- The inability to secure the vehicle in the park position can result in a rollaway, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and, if necessary, replace the transmissions, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 25, 2023. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 23S06.
- 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 1,138 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 60% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2022 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the power train 92 times before this, most recently in November 2022 as 22V880000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,018 complaints with NHTSA, 131 of them before this campaign was filed. 446 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 January 2022, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 83 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V578000 (fuel system, gasoline), 26V489000 (back over prevention), 26V468000 (engine), 26V451000 (seats).
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 10, 2023 as campaign 23V070000. 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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