Recall · 25V628000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over engine
Park outside and away from buildings until repaired. NHTSA issues this where it considers the risk immediate, and it stands until the repair is done.
4,632
Vehicles covered
2
Models
2
Model years
September 19, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
ENGINE
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2020 Expedition and Lincoln Navigator vehicles. A short circuit within the battery junction box can cause an engine fire while driving or parked.
- What it can cause
- A vehicle fire increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised to park their vehicles outside and away from structures and other vehicles, until the remedy is performed. Dealers will inspect and replace the battery junction box, as necessary, and remove a ground wire. On models equipped with standard-duty radiator fan motors, dealers will also install an auxiliary electrical box with a wire jumper. Repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 3, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's numbers for this recall are 22S36 and 22S48. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on September 23, 2025.
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 4,632 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 74% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the engine 13 times before this, most recently in June 2025 as 25V372000. 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 428 complaints with NHTSA, 291 of them before this campaign was filed. 54 of those name the engine, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2020, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 17 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V402000 (power train), 26V368000 (structure), 26V344000 (seat belts), 25V442000 (back over prevention).
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 September 19, 2025 as campaign 25V628000. 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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