Recall · 23V801000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD F-150 Lightning BEV over electronic stability control (esc)
5,118
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
November 28, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2022-2023 F-150 Lightning vehicles. The SYNC software may fail to activate the electronic stability control (ESC) system at the beginning of each ignition cycle. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 126, "Electronic Stability Control Systems."
- What it can cause
- Failure to reset the ESC to active may result in the driver unknowingly operating the vehicle without electronic stability control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- The Accessory Protocol Interface Module (APIM) software will be updated by a dealer or through an over-the-air (OTA) update, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 21, 2023. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 23C38.
- 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. This one is fixed by a software update rather than a workshop visit.
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 5,118 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 74% 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.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 196 complaints with NHTSA, 40 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2022, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 10 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V863000 (power train), 25V731000 (exterior lighting), 25V340000 (tires), 25V313000 (electronic stability control (esc)).
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 November 28, 2023 as campaign 23V801000. 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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