Recall · 26V373000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD F-150 over exterior lighting
91,198
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
June 9, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2018-2020 F-150 vehicles previously repaired incorrectly under recall number 20V097. When the headlight switch is turned from "Autolamps" to "Headlamps On," the Daytime Running Lamps (DRLs) may remain fully bright instead of dimming to parking lamps as intended. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices and Associated Equipment."
- What it can cause
- Daytime Running Lamps that do not dim may reduce the visibility of other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- ,Dealers will reprogram the body control module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 17, 2026. Owners may contact customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26C28. 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 91,198 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 92% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 8 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 57 times before this, most recently in March 2026 as 26V155000. 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 4,310 complaints with NHTSA, 3,916 of them before this campaign was filed. 37 of those name the exterior lighting, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in December 2017, 8 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 13 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V375000 (power train), 25V442000 (back over prevention), 25V236000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 24V852000 (equipment).
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 26V373000. 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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