Ford Remembers 450,000 F-150 Vehicles For Potential Wiper Motor Failure

Ford has issued a recall for sure 2021-2022 F-150 vehicles. The entrance windshield wiper motor may fail, leaving the wipers inoperable, which might result in an accident. The recall impacts 453,650 vehicles.

The recall doesn’t have an effect on fashions constructed on the firm’s Dearborn Truck Plant from Might 3, 2021, to September 10, 2021. Throughout this time, Ford made these vehicles with a special wiper motor design resulting from pandemic-induced microchip shortages. Ford just isn’t conscious of any accidents or accidents associated to this concern. Nonetheless, the automaker mentioned it’s conscious of 1,378 guarantee studies globally associated to inoperative or intermittently functioning windshield wipers.

Ford will contact house owners with affected vehicles, with the automaker sending out proprietor notification letters on January 3, 2023. Sellers will exchange the entrance windshield wiper motor freed from cost.

The microchip scarcity in 2021 crippled a lot of the business as automakers struggled to construct automobiles. Ford needed to pause some car manufacturing, placing the Mustang on a quick hiatus, and making F-150 pickups with lacking options. And that was on prime of the truck’s excessive demand from customers who flocked to the brand new pickup, which Ford redesigned for the 2021 mannequin 12 months. Normal Motors additionally struggled with manufacturing, idling the manufacturing unit constructing the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra.

Ford has needed to concern a number of remembers this 12 months, together with a number of for the F-150. In September, the Blue Oval recalled sure F-150 Raptors for free wheel lug nuts. In June, FoMoCo issued a security compliance recall for the electrical F-150 Lightning. The truck’s tire strain monitoring system on fashions with 20- or 22-inch wheels may not have illuminated.

Ford recalled the F-150, and a number of other different automobiles, earlier this 12 months for defective wiper blades. Nonetheless, the automobiles 600,000 affected by the brand new recall weren’t lined by the sooner one, which additionally concerned the Expedition, Tremendous Responsibility, and Lincoln Navigator. It’s been a tricky 12 months for the Dearborn-based automaker, which has needed to recall hundreds of widespread fashions just like the Mustang Mach-E, Bronco, and Maverick.