Recall · 23V162000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over service brakes, hydraulic
1,280,726
Vehicles covered
2
Models
12
Model years
March 10, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2013-2018 Fusion and Lincoln MKZ vehicles. The front brake hoses may rupture and leak brake fluid.
- What it can cause
- A brake fluid leak will increase brake pedal travel and extend the distance needed to stop the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the front brake hoses, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 27, 2023. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 23S12.
- 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 1,280,726 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 2018, so the oldest vehicles on it were 10 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the service brakes, hydraulic 38 times before this, most recently in January 2023 as 23V021000. 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 7,774 complaints with NHTSA, 4,881 of them before this campaign was filed. 214 of those name the service brakes, hydraulic, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in December 2012, 10 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 7 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V376000 (power train), 25V695000 (back over prevention), 23V775000 (latches/locks/linkages), 22V413000 (power train).
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 March 10, 2023 as campaign 23V162000. 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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