Recall · 25V695000
Ford Motor recalled 10 models over back over prevention
1,448,655
Vehicles covered
10
Models
20
Model years
October 13, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2019 Flex, 2015 Explorer, Lincoln MKT, Lincoln MKZ, 2015-2016 C-Max, Escape, Taurus, 2016 Fusion, 2018-2019 Taurus, 2019 Lincoln MKT, Fiesta, and 2020 Mustang vehicles. The rearview camera may display a distorted, intermittent, or blank image when the vehicle is in reverse.
- What it can cause
- A rearview camera that fails to properly display an image can reduce the driver’s view behind the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the rearview camera as necessary, free of charge. This will be a phased campaign, with the remedy becoming available in different phases based on model and model years. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed on October 25, 2025. Additional letters will be mailed once the final remedy is available on each phase. Mustang owner notification letters were mailed January 2, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25SA9. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on October 14, 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 C-MAX | 2015 to 2016 | 20152016 |
| Ford Escape | 2015 to 2016 | 20152016 |
| Ford Explorer | 2015 | 2015 |
| Ford Fiesta | 2019 | 2019 |
| Ford Flex | 2015 to 2019 | 20152016201720182019 |
| Ford Fusion | 2016 | 2016 |
| Ford Mustang | 2020 | 2020 |
| Ford Taurus | 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 | 2015201620182019 |
| Lincoln MKT | 2015 and 2019 | 20152019 |
| Lincoln MKZ | 2015 | 2015 |
How this campaign compares
At 1,448,655 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 99% of the 19,025 vehicle recalls with a published size filed from 1995 up to this one. The middle campaign among them covers 470. It covers model years 2015 to 2020, 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 back over prevention 36 times before this, most recently in October 2025 as 25V691000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 20 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 7,286 complaints with NHTSA, 5,729 of them before this campaign was filed. 1,182 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 October 2014, 11 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 25 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V376000 (power train), 26V011000 (equipment), 25V827000 (structure), 25V732000 (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 13, 2025 as campaign 25V695000. 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 2025-10-13.
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