Ford F-150 recall for wiper motors expanded with 450,000 extra vehicles

In March of this yr, Ford recalled the 2021 F-150 for defective windshield wiper motors. Provider manufacturing points compelled 157,036 pickups to return to the vendor to have the motors changed as a result of they may burn out and cease working inside a number of months. Paperwork cite attainable “circuit board injury as a consequence of excessive transient voltage spikes and poor-quality wiper motor electrical terminals,” and erratic wiper motion may come earlier than failure. The March recall affected vehicles constructed on the Dearborn Truck Plant from January 8, 2020 to March 22, 2021, and vehicles constructed on the Kansas Metropolis Meeting Plant from February 12, 2020 to March 22, 2020. It seems the entire at-risk vehicles did not get flagged in that motion, so Ford’s initiated a brand new recall for a similar challenge. This time the F-150 automobile inhabitants is 453,650 vehicles from the 2021 and 2022 mannequin years, nevertheless it excludes vehicles constructed on the Dearborn Truck Plant from Could 3, 2021 to September 10. Throughout the time these vehicles have been constructed, the Dearborn plant was being equipped with a brand new wiper motor design. 

Ford’s inner reference for the March recall was 22S12; the automaker’s quantity for the brand new recall is 22S71. Homeowners can get in contact with Ford customer support at 1-866-436-7332 with questions. The automaker instructed NHTSA it could start sending letters to house owners of doubtless affected vehicles starting January 3, 2023. The corporate says it does not know of any accidents or crashes associated to the problem, and it believes just one% of the entire inhabitants could possibly be bothered.

There was one other, separate recall in April of this yr that coated 650,000 autos, together with some 2020 and 2021 Ford F-150 fashions, for an unrelated downside with their windshield wipers.

Homeowners can get extra data by going to the Nationwide Freeway Transportation Administration’s recall web site and getting into the VIN, or name the NHTSA Security Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 and point out marketing campaign quantity 22V842.

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