Recall · 24V949000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD F-150 Lightning BEV over suspension
11,922
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
December 19, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:UPPER BALL JOINT
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2023-2024 F-150 Lightning BEV vehicles. The front upper control arm ball joint nut may not have been tightened properly, allowing the front upper control arm to detach from the knuckle assembly.
- What it can cause
- A detached control arm can cause a loss of vehicle steering and control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the upper control arm ball joint nut, and replace the nut and/or knuckle assembly, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 10, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 24S76.
- 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 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 11,922 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 80% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2023 to 2024, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the suspension 41 times before this, most recently in October 2024 as 24V770000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 134 complaints with NHTSA, 56 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the suspension, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2023, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 9 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V863000 (power train), 25V731000 (exterior lighting), 25V341000 (suspension), 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 December 19, 2024 as campaign 24V949000. 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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