Recall · 25V544000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over service brakes, hydraulic
499,129
Vehicles covered
2
Models
7
Model years
August 22, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2016-2018 Lincoln MKX and 2015-2018 Edge vehicles. The rear brake jounce hose may rupture and leak brake fluid.
- What it can cause
- A brake fluid leak can extend the distance required to stop the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the brake jounce hoses and adjust brake jounce hoses with no damage present, free of charge. Interim owner letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed September 8, 2025. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available, anticipated August 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25S87.
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 499,129 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 98% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2015 to 2018, so the oldest vehicles on it were 10 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the service brakes, hydraulic 51 times before this, most recently in August 2025 as 25V513000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 3,962 complaints with NHTSA, 3,242 of them before this campaign was filed. 311 of those name the service brakes, hydraulic, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2015, 10 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 25V572000 (back over prevention), 22V413000 (power train), 20V469000 (service brakes), 20V414000 (seats).
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 August 22, 2025 as campaign 25V544000. 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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