Recall · 26V415000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over back over prevention
66,383
Vehicles covered
2
Models
7
Model years
June 30, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
BACK OVER PREVENTION:WARNINGS:EXTERNAL/PEDESTRIAN ALERT
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2024-2027 Lincoln Nautilus Hybrid and 2025-2027 Explorer Hybrid vehicles. A software error may prevent the vehicle from making the pedestrian warning sound at certain speeds.
- What it can cause
- A vehicle that does not produce a warning sound may fail to alert pedestrians of an approaching vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Note: This is an expansion of Recall 25V691. Any vehicles previously repaired under 25V691 must have the new remedy completed. Ford will release an over-the-air (OTA) update or dealers will update the APIM software, free of charge. Additionally, dealers will replace the digital signal processing module in Nautilus Hybrid vehicles equipped with 28 speakers, free of charge. This will be a phased campaign, with the remedy becoming available in different phases based on model and model years. Owner notification letters were mailed August 7, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S51. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning July 7, 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 66,383 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 90% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2024 to 2027, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the back over prevention 43 times before this, most recently in March 2026 as 26V165000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 21 complaints with NHTSA, 18 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in August 2024, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 25V691000 (back over prevention).
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 30, 2026 as campaign 26V415000. 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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