- Ford is recalling nearly 300,000 electric vehicles and hybrid pickups, but the fix is not yet available.
- The all-electric F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E, as well as the hybrid Maverick, are affected.
- The American automaker has issued nearly 150 recalls this year.
Ford is recalling over a quarter of a million electric and hybrid vehicles sold in the United States because they may roll away due to an issue with the integrated park module. In total, 272,645 cars are affected, including 104,113 F-150 Lightning electric pickups, 88,064 Mustang Mach-E electric crossovers, and 80,468 Maverick hybrid pickups.
On these cars, the transmission may not lock into Park in some instances, which increases the risk of a crash, especially if there’s a fault with the parking brake or the driver disengages it.
According to official documents, the root cause of the issue has been traced to the integrated parking module’s pawl, which can bind against an adjacent slider, preventing it from returning to its fully engaged park position. However, after analyzing faulty parts, Ford concluded that there is no actual mechanical fault and that a software update is enough to fix the problem.
The update, which affects the Secondary On Board Diagnostic Module C (SOBDMC), can be installed at a dealer or over-the-air. Having said that, the actual software that is supposed to fix the problem is not available yet, with Ford anticipating rolling it out “in the future.”
If the transmission pawl binds to the slider, the car will not show P on the dashboard when the gear lever is set to Park, and a service icon will pop up. In this case, owners should make sure that the parking brake is engaged and in working condition.
This is just Ford's latest recall in 2025, in what is shaping up to be a record-setting affair. The American automaker has issued nearly 150 recalls this year alone, spanning millions of vehicles. Meanwhile, the car company with the second-highest number of recalls, Stellantis, is at 53, while General Motors is third, with 27 recalls.
