Recall · 26V239000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over equipment
55
Vehicles covered
2
Models
2
Model years
April 14, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:ENGINE BLOCK HEATER
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2025 Maverick and 2026 Bronco Sport vehicles equipped with a 1.5L or 2.0L MPC engine and an engine block heater. The engine block heater may overheat when the vehicle is parked with the block heater plugged in.
- What it can cause
- An overheated engine block heater 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, and inspect and replace the electrical cord if necessary, free of charge. Owners will also have an alternative option to replace the engine block heater element with a threaded plug, and remove the block heater electrical cord. Owner notification letters were mailed June 10, 2026. This recall expands previous NHTSA recall number 25V343. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25S52. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on April 14, 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| FordBronco Sport | 2026 | Not published here |
| FordMaverick | 2025 | 2025 |
How this campaign compares
At 55 vehicles this is a small campaign: 77% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2025 to 2026, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 60 times before this, most recently in January 2026 as 26V012000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 1 of the 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 24 complaints with NHTSA, 18 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2025, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 14 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V550000 (structure), 26V548000 (engine and engine cooling), 26V340000 (suspension), 26V201000 (air bags).
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 26V239000. 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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