Recall · 25V132000
Ford Motor recalled 8 models over electrical system
10,952
Vehicles covered
8
Models
9
Model years
February 28, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INTEGRATED TRAILER BRAKE CONTROL
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2021-2022 F-150, 2022 Maverick, Expedition, Lincoln Navigator, F-250, F-350, F-450, and F-550 vehicles previously repaired incorrectly under recall number 22V-193. Due to a software error, a towed trailer equipped with an electric or electric-over hydraulic brake system may not brake.
- What it can cause
- Loss of trailer brake functionality can extend the distance required to stop, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the integrated trailer brake control module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 11, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25S18.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 888-327-4236 (TTY 888-275-9171) 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 10,952 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 2021 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 76 times before this, most recently in January 2025 as 25V049000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,116 complaints with NHTSA, 977 of them before this campaign was filed. 379 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2021, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 78 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V489000 (back over prevention), 26V402000 (power train), 26V368000 (structure), 26V344000 (seat belts).
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 February 28, 2025 as campaign 25V132000. 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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