Recall · 25V686000
Ford Motor recalled 3 models over back over prevention
291,901
Vehicles covered
3
Models
9
Model years
October 10, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
BACK OVER PREVENTION:SOFTWARE
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2020-2022 F-250 SD, F-350 SD, and F-450 SD vehicles. The 360-degree view camera system may not display a rearview image properly in certain lighting conditions.
- What it can cause
- A rearview camera image that does not display properly can reduce the driver’s view behind the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the image processing module software, free charge.nThis will be a phased campaign, with the remedy becoming available in different phases based on model years. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed on October 30, 2025. Additional letters will be mailed once the remedy is available on each phase. Owner notification letters were mailed May 19, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25SA8. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on October 13, 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 291,901 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 96% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2022, 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 back over prevention 34 times before this, most recently in September 2025 as 25V572000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 8 of the 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 976 complaints with NHTSA, 762 of them before this campaign was filed. 45 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 January 2020, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 29 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V204000 (visibility), 26V158000 (fuel system, diesel), 26V104000 (electrical system), 25V729000 (visibility).
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 25V686000. 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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