Recall · 23V896000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD F-150 over power train
112,965
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
December 22, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
POWER TRAIN:AXLE HUBS
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2021-2023 F-150 vehicles equipped with the Trailer Tow Max Duty package and a 9.75-inch heavy duty axle with a 3/4 float axle design. The rear axle hub bolt may fatigue and break, which can result in damage to the axle hub splines.
- What it can cause
- Damaged axle hub splines can result in a vehicle rollaway when the vehicle is in park without the parking brake applied or cause a loss of drive power. Both of these conditions can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the left and right rear axle shaft assemblies, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on May 9, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 23S65.
- 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 112,965 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 93% 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 power train 101 times before this, most recently in November 2023 as 23V758000. 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, 463 of them before this campaign was filed. 618 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 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 December 22, 2023 as campaign 23V896000. 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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