Recall · 23V905000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over engine and engine cooling
139,730
Vehicles covered
2
Models
8
Model years
December 22, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OIL/LUBRICATION:PUMP
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2016-2018 Ford Focus and 2018-2022 Ford EcoSport vehicles. The oil pump drive belt or drive belt tensioner may fail, resulting in a loss of engine oil pressure.
- What it can cause
- A loss of oil pressure can result in an engine stall and a loss of power braking assist, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the oil pump tensioner assembly and oil pump drive belt, free of charge. If engine failure occurs due to a damaged oil pump belt and/or oil pump belt tensioner, Ford has authorized dealers to replace the engine assembly as an interim repair before the availability of remedy parts for the final repair. This repair will be free of charge (parts and labor). Owner notification letters were mailed August 11, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 23S64.
- 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 139,730 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 2016 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 7 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the engine and engine cooling 29 times before this, most recently in August 2023 as 23V597000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 8 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 4,741 complaints with NHTSA, 2,065 of them before this campaign was filed. 1,093 of those name the engine and engine cooling, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2016, 7 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 7 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V376000 (power train), 26V369000 (fuel system, gasoline), 26V012000 (equipment), 26V011000 (equipment).
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 23V905000. 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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