Recall · 26V237000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD F-150 over power train
1,392,935
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
April 14, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2017 F-150 vehicles. A loss of signal between the transmission range sensor and the powertrain control module can cause the transmission to unexpectedly downshift into second gear.
- What it can cause
- Unexpectedly downshifting into second gear may result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the powertrain control module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 24, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S28. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on April 15, 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 1,392,935 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 99% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2015 to 2017, so the oldest vehicles on it were 11 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the power train 126 times before this, most recently in March 2026 as 26V119000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 5,139 complaints with NHTSA, 4,713 of them before this campaign was filed. 1,485 of those name the power train, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2015, 11 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V370000 (electrical system), 25V236000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 22V150000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 20V332000 (service brakes, hydraulic).
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 April 14, 2026 as campaign 26V237000. 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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