Recall · 23V378000
Ford Motor recalled the LINCOLN MKC over engine
Park outside and away from buildings until repaired. NHTSA issues this where it considers the risk immediate, and it stands until the repair is done.
142,734
Vehicles covered
1
Model
5
Model years
May 26, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
ENGINE
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2019 Lincoln MKC vehicles. The battery monitor sensor may short-circuit and overheat, causing a fire in the engine compartment while parked or driving.
- What it can cause
- An engine compartment fire while parked or driving can increase the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised to park outside and away from structures until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will add an in-line fuse to the battery monitor sensor power circuit, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 8, 2023. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 23S28.
- 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 142,734 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 94% 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 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 8 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Lincoln vehicles have been recalled over the engine 2 times before this, most recently in May 2022 as 22V346000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 582 complaints with NHTSA, 143 of them before this campaign was filed. 313 of those name the engine, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2014, 8 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V011000 (equipment), 25V685000 (equipment), 25V572000 (back over prevention), 25V270000 (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 May 26, 2023 as campaign 23V378000. 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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