Recall · 25V685000
Ford Motor recalled 9 models over equipment
59,006
Vehicles covered
9
Models
36
Model years
October 10, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:ENGINE BLOCK HEATER
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2016-2019 Lincoln MKC, 2016-2023 Explorer, 2019-2020 Fusion, 2019-2024 Ranger, 2020-2022 Lincoln Corsair, Escape, 2021-2024 Bronco, Bronco Sport, and 2022-2024 Maverick vehicles. The engine block heater may crack and develop a coolant leak, causing it to short circuit when the block heater is plugged in.
- What it can cause
- An electrical short circuit can increase the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised not to plug in their block heater until the vehicle is remedied. Dealers will replace the block heater, free of charge. Owners will also have a alternative option to replace engine block heater element with a threaded blanking plug, and remove the block heater electrical cord. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed December 3, 2025. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available, anticipated September 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25SA4. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on October 15, 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.
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| Ford Bronco | 2021 to 2024 | 2021202220232024 |
| Ford Bronco Sport | 2021 to 2024 | 2021202220232024 |
| Ford Escape | 2020 to 2022 | 202020212022 |
| Ford Explorer | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 | 2016201720182020202120222023 |
| Ford Fusion | 2019 to 2020 | 20192020 |
| Ford Maverick | 2022 to 2024 | 202220232024 |
| Ford Ranger | 2019 to 2024 | 201920202021202220232024 |
| Lincoln Corsair | 2020 to 2022 | 202020212022 |
| Lincoln MKC | 2016 to 2019 | 2016201720182019 |
How this campaign compares
At 59,006 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 90% of the 19,024 vehicle recalls with a published size filed from 1995 up to this one. The middle campaign among them covers 470. It covers model years 2016 to 2024, so the oldest vehicles on it were 9 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 57 times before this, most recently in April 2025 as 25V271000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 36 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 13,621 complaints with NHTSA, 10,659 of them before this campaign was filed. 26 of those name the equipment, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2015, 10 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 154 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V468000 (engine), 26V451000 (seats), 26V448000 (structure), 26V403000 (structure).
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 October 10, 2025 as campaign 25V685000. 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 2025-10-10.
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