10 Ford models behind a record year of more than 150 US recalls

Ford closed out 2025 with more recalls than any automaker has ever issued in a single US year, more than doubling General Motors’ old record set back in 2014. The tally touched everything from a best-selling pickup to a brand-new electric crossover, with problems ranging from leaking fuel lines to cameras that simply go blank. Here are ten Ford and Lincoln models that made up that record-breaking year of recalls.

1. Ford Bronco Sport (2021-2024): Cracked Fuel Injector

Ford’s compact Bronco Sport anchored a 694,271-vehicle recall, campaign 25V467000 and one of the single largest campaigns of that entire record year, after finding a cracked fuel injector could leak fuel directly inside the engine bay.

That size alone made the Bronco Sport one of the single largest campaigns in Ford’s entire record 2025 recall year, and it shared the underlying fuel-injector fault closely with several other related Ford models built and sold nationwide around that exact same period of production.

2. Ford Escape (2020-2022): Fuel Pump Failure

The 2020 through 2022 Escape was pulled into an 850,318-vehicle recall, campaign 25V455000, over a low-pressure fuel pump failure risk that Ford eventually traced to a specific supplier component used across several models in its lineup.

A failed fuel pump on the road can leave the compact SUV stalled in the middle of traffic without any warning at all, and its sheer size makes this single campaign one of the widest-reaching entries behind Ford’s record-setting recall year overall, by raw vehicle count.

3. Ford F-150 (2021-2023): Best-Seller, Recalled Too

Even America’s best-selling pickup truck was not spared, as the 2021 through 2023 F-150 shared the same fuel pump recall campaign as the Escape and separately drew its own complaints tied to a brake-assist malfunction on certain trucks.

Its enormous sales volume means the F-150’s share of that single recall alone touches a huge slice of American driveways, making its full recall history worth a quick check before any used purchase of this widely owned, long-running generation of pickup truck.

4. Ford Maverick (2025-2026): Panel Cover Detaches

Ford’s compact Maverick pickup, barely a year old in some cases at the time of the recall, was recalled after 6,897 units from the 2025 and 2026 model years showed an instrument panel cover that could detach while driven.

A loose panel cover near the dashboard is more of a distraction and an interior-damage risk than an outright crash hazard, but it still added one more small entry to Ford’s already record-setting recall tally for that entire calendar year overall.

5. Ford Mustang Mach-E (2025-2026): Headlights May Fail

More than 45,000 new Mustang Mach-Es from the 2025 and 2026 model years were recalled nationwide because their headlights may fail outright, cutting visibility on the electric crossover at the worst possible moment out on the road.

Losing headlights at night is a different kind of hazard entirely than a fuel leak or a loose panel, but it still landed the electric Mach-E on the very same record-setting recall list as Ford’s more traditional gasoline-powered models did that same year.

6. Ford Bronco (2021-2022): Camera Stays Blank

Ford’s revived off-road Bronco SUV was recalled nationwide because its own rearview camera may fail to switch off again after the driver shifts the vehicle out of reverse gear and back into drive on the road.

The glitch affects the 2021 and 2022 model years specifically, another clear reminder that even a brand-new, off-road-focused SUV built on its own dedicated body-on-frame platform was not immune to the software-related recalls that piled up steadily across Ford’s entire lineup that particular year.

7. Ford Explorer (2015-2020): 1.4 Million Cameras

The Explorer’s rearview camera recall alone covered a massive 1.4 million vehicles nationwide after owners across six separate model years repeatedly reported distorted, intermittent or blank images appearing on the dashboard display screen itself while backing up.

Spanning six full separate model years in total, from 2015 through 2020, this single sprawling recall did more on its own to inflate Ford’s overall 2025 total than almost any other individual campaign named on this particular list of Ford and Lincoln models.

8. Ford Expedition (2022-2024): Brake Line Rubs Through

Ford recalled 223,315 full-size Expeditions from the 2022 through 2024 model years after finding the front brake lines can rub repeatedly against the engine’s air cleaner outlet pipe over time and eventually leak fluid.

A slow brake fluid leak like this one can go completely unnoticed for a long stretch until the pedal itself starts to feel noticeably soft underfoot, so owners of this generation of Expedition should confirm the fix was actually completed at an authorized Ford dealer nearby.

9. Lincoln Navigator (2022-2024): Same Brake Flaw

Lincoln’s Navigator, which shares its underlying body-on-frame platform with the related Ford Expedition, saw 50,474 of its own 2022 through 2024 units swept into that identical brake-line leak recall filed with regulators the very same year.

The shared platform explains why this full-size luxury SUV wound up needing the exact same fix as its more mainstream Ford twin, right down to the recall paperwork itself being filed with federal safety regulators on that very same exact date and campaign number.

10. Ford Super Duty (2015 F-250/F-350/F-450): Decade-Old Trucks Recalled

Ford reached all the way back a full decade to the 2015 model year for this one, recalling 96,305 F-250, F-350 and F-450 Super Duty trucks after finding corrosion inside the rearview camera could blank its image entirely.

That a decade-old heavy-duty truck could still be swept into a 2025 recall shows just how far back Ford’s record-setting year genuinely reached, well beyond its newest models and deep into trucks that had long since been sold used to new owners.

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