Recall · 26V204000
Ford Motor recalled 7 models over visibility
422,613
Vehicles covered
7
Models
16
Model years
March 31, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:LINKAGES
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Lincoln Navigator, Expedition, and 2022-2023 F-250 SD, F-350 SD, F-450 SD, F-550 SD, and F-600 SD vehicles. The windshield wiper arms may break, causing the wipers to fail.
- What it can cause
- Windshield wiper failure can reduce visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the wiper arms, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 5, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S24.Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on April 1, 2026.
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 422,613 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 97% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 to 2023, 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 visibility 51 times before this, most recently in March 2026 as 26V157000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 13 of the 16 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 809 complaints with NHTSA, 645 of them before this campaign was filed. 38 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in July 2021, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 40 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V489000 (back over prevention), 26V402000 (power train), 26V368000 (structure), 26V344000 (seat belts).
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 March 31, 2026 as campaign 26V204000. 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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