Ford Recollects 400,000 F-150s for Faulty Wiper Motor

Ford has issued a recall for the Ford F-150 as a result of a attainable defect within the truck’s windshield wiper system. The recall impacts practically 454,000 late mannequin pickups within the U.S., masking each the 2021 and 2022 Ford F-150. The vans within the recall got here with a entrance windshield wiper motor that would cease working, in keeping with Automotive Information.

The probably defective wiper motors got here from a provider in Mexico cited as Trico Componentes within the recall report Ford submitted to NHTSA. These wiper motors went into hundreds of 2021-2022 Ford F-150 vans, however not these assembled on the automaker’s plant in Dearborn, Michigan, which had been constructed utilizing a unique wiper motor design as a result of microchip shortages on the time, as Auto Information stories. As a part of the recall, Ford sellers will change entrance windshield wiper motors within the affected F-150 fashions with motors that had been made extra not too long ago, both on or after August 1.

Within the occasion of wiper motor failure, the truck’s windshield wipers will cease working, decreasing visibility below sure climate situations and growing the danger of a crash. Have you ever ever tried driving in rain with out wipers? I had the misfortune of doing so when a relay in my automobile’s historic electrical system went.

It’s unbelievable how a small quantity of rain will occlude your imaginative and prescient at pace; I foolishly assumed water would simply stream off the windshield displaced by air, however even gentle rain can flip your windshield right into a Jackson Pollock portray with out the usage of windshield wipers.

In accordance with the NHTSA report from Ford, the automaker has been conscious and has been monitoring the attainable defect since Could of final yr. Ford logged 1,378 guarantee stories associated to the defect from Could 6, 2021 by means of October 12, 2022. However there have been no stories of accident or damage tracing again to the defective windshiled wiper motors.

Ford will start notifying its sellers and the homeowners of these F-150 fashions affected by the recall early subsequent yr, on January 3. As all the time, homeowners can preempt the discover by monitoring their Ford F-150 by means of NHTSA’s VIN instrument on the company’s web site. Or by utilizing the NHTSA SaferCar app, out there right here. It’s also possible to look into remembers by following our recall information right here.