Recall · 25V313000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD F-150 Lightning BEV over electronic stability control (esc)
6
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
May 9, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2022-2023 F-150 Lightning vehicles previously repaired incorrectly under recall number 23V801. The SYNC software may fail to activate the electronic stability control (ESC) system at the beginning of each ignition cycle. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 126, "Electronic Stability Control Systems."
- What it can cause
- Failure to reset the ESC to active may result in the driver unknowingly operating the vehicle without electronic stability control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the Accessory Protocol Interface Module (APIM) software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 18, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25C15.
- 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 6 vehicles this is a small campaign: 94% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. 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 electronic stability control (esc) once before this, most recently in November 2023 as 23V801000. 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 196 complaints with NHTSA, 139 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2022, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 10 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V863000 (power train), 25V731000 (exterior lighting), 25V340000 (tires), 25V272000 (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 May 9, 2025 as campaign 25V313000. 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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