Recall · 26V369000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Focus over fuel system, gasoline
257,868
Vehicles covered
1
Model
7
Model years
June 9, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:EVAPORATIVE EMISSIONS:CANISTER
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2012-2018 Focus vehicles previously repaired incorrectly under recall number 18V735. The Canister Purge Valve (CPV) may malfunction, causing the engine to stall unexpectedly while driving.
- What it can cause
- An engine that stalls while driving increases the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the powertrain control module (PCM) software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 29, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S40. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 6,2026.
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 257,868 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 2012 to 2018, so the oldest vehicles on it were 14 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the fuel system, gasoline 87 times before this, most recently in September 2025 as 25V597000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 12,385 complaints with NHTSA, 12,245 of them before this campaign was filed. 380 of those name the fuel system, gasoline, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2011, 15 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V376000 (power train), 26V012000 (equipment), 26V011000 (equipment), 23V905000 (engine and engine cooling).
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 June 9, 2026 as campaign 26V369000. 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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