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Recall · 25V442000

Ford Motor recalled 21 models over back over prevention

200,237

Vehicles covered

21

Models

64

Model years

June 27, 2025

Filed with NHTSA

BACK OVER PREVENTION:SOFTWARE

The defect
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2018-2022 Transit Connect, 2019-2020 MKZ, MKX, Edge, Continental, F-150, Nautilus, Fusion, 2019-2023 Ranger, Mustang, 2020-2021 EcoSport, Expedition, Navigator, 2020-2022 Escape, F-250 SD, Corsair, 2020-2023 Aviator, Transit, 2020-2024 Explorer, 2021-2024 Bronco Sport, and 2022-2024 Maverick vehicles. A software error may cause the rearview camera to display a blank image, or the image may remain on the display after the backing event has ended.
What it can cause
A rearview camera that displays a blank image can reduce the driver's view behind the vehicle. A rearview image that continues to be displayed after the vehicle is shifted out of reverse may distract the driver. Both of these situations can increase the risk of a crash.
What the dealer does
Dealers will update the rearview camera software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 4, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25S72.

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 .

VehicleModel yearsSafety record
FordBronco Sport2021 to 20242021202220232024
FordEcosport2020 to 202120202021
FordEdge2019 to 202020192020
FordEscape2020 to 2022202020212022
FordExpedition2020 to 202120202021
FordExplorer2020 to 202420202021202220232024
FordF-1502019 to 202020192020
FordF-250 SD2020 to 2022202020212022
FordFusion2019 to 202020192020
FordMaverick2022 to 2024202220232024
FordMustang2019 to 202320192020202120222023
FordRanger2019 to 202320192020202120222023
FordTransit2020 to 20232020202120222023
FordTransit Connect2018 to 20222018201920202021
LincolnAviator2020 to 20232020202120222023
LincolnContinental2019 to 20202019
LincolnCorsair2020 to 2022202020212022
LincolnMKX2019 to 2020Not published here
LincolnMKZ2019 to 20202019
LincolnNautilus2019 to 202020192020
LincolnNavigator2020 to 202120202021

How this campaign compares

At 200,237 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 95% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2024, 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 back over prevention 32 times before this, most recently in May 2025 as 25V273000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.

This site holds the complaint record for 61 of the 64 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 12,964 complaints with NHTSA, 8,055 of them before this campaign was filed. 546 of those name the back over prevention, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2018, 6 years before this filing.

The vehicles on this campaign carry 207 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V451000 (seats), 26V402000 (power train), 26V377000 (lane departure), 26V373000 (exterior lighting).

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Filed by Ford Motor Company with NHTSA on June 27, 2025 as campaign 25V442000. 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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