Recall · 23V509000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD F-150 over parking brake
870,701
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
July 21, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
PARKING BRAKE:ELECTRICAL
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2021-2023 F-150 vehicles equipped with a single exhaust system. Contact with the rear axle housing may damage the wiring harness, causing the electric parking brake to activate unexpectedly.
- What it can cause
- Unexpected activation of the electric parking brake while driving increases the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will install a protective tie strap, tape wrap, and replace the harness as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 12, 2024. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 23S35.
- 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 870,701 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 2021 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the parking brake 12 times before this, most recently in August 2021 as 21V631000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,976 complaints with NHTSA, 357 of them before this campaign was filed. 27 of those name the parking brake, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2021, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 42 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V578000 (fuel system, gasoline), 26V489000 (back over prevention), 26V402000 (power train), 26V104000 (electrical system).
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 July 21, 2023 as campaign 23V509000. 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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