Recall · 25V168000
Ford Motor recalled the Ford Transit over visibility
471
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
March 14, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:DEFROSTER/DEFOGGER/HVAC SYSTEM
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2022-2023 Transit vehicles previously repaired incorrectly under recall number 22V-791. The heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system's controls, including those for defog and defrost, may become inoperative.
- What it can cause
- Loss of the ability to control the defrost or defog function decreases the driver's visibility under certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the remote climate control module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 21, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25S23.
- 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 471 vehicles this is a small campaign: 50% of the 18,509 vehicle recalls with a published size filed from 1995 up to this one are as large or larger. The middle campaign among them covers 471. It covers model years 2022 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the visibility 41 times before this, most recently in August 2024 as 24V597000. 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 100 complaints with NHTSA, 49 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2022, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 25 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V061000 (structure), 25V887000 (back over prevention), 25V876000 (equipment adaptive/mobility), 25V623000 (steering).
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 March 14, 2025 as campaign 25V168000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes. Data last checked 2025-03-14.
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