We’re just some weeks into spring, and Ford already has a truckload of remembers within the US for 2025. From January 1 by April 18, the automaker has posted at least 40 remembers. That features a brake recall for 123,611 F-150s, Expeditions, and Lincoln Navigators we coated yesterday. At this price, Ford is averaging one recall each 2.7 days. However within the grand scheme, the automaker is definitely doing higher in comparison with final yr.
That is as a result of the whole variety of recalled automobiles is down by a major margin. Particularly, 1,235,256 Fords have been recalled this yr. That is practically 1 million much less in comparison with the identical interval in 2024.
Photograph by: Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration
Perusing Ford remembers posted on the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA), nearly half have an effect on lower than 1,000 automobiles every. Going additional down the rabbit gap, 5 remembers are for lower than 100 automobiles. The bottom? Ford recalled two 2022 Mavericks on February 28 to right a software program downside addressed by a earlier recall.
That brings us to a different caveat in Ford’s recall saga. Roughly half of the remembers are a part of an audit the corporate introduced on March 20, targeted on automobile software program enhancements. Per Ford’s announcement:
“We’re conducting an audit of earlier remembers that included software program as a part of the treatment. The preliminary outcomes are encouraging: the overwhelming majority of recall repairs had been profitable, with the right software program model put in on the related module. Whereas most of those remembers had been carried out accurately to this point, now we have issued 18 remembers to double test on sure automobiles.”
A Ford spokesperson informed Motor1 that the quantity has risen to 21 since that March announcement.
That stated, the official recall depend nonetheless stands at 40. Even with 21 of these being a part of the audit, Ford nonetheless leads all different automakers for each whole variety of remembers and automobiles affected. Volkswagen has issued 12 remembers this yr, adopted by Basic Motors at 9. Honda and Stellantis have issued 8 every.
As for affected automobiles, Ford is the one automaker presently over 1 million. Tesla holds second with 661,810, simply over half of Ford’s whole. Volkswagen comes subsequent at 346,401, adopted by Toyota at 317,359 and Honda with 316,489 automobiles.
