Ford recalls multiple car and SUV models due to fire danger

While nutrient recalls tin beryllium casual to miss oregon adjacent disregard (not that it's a bully idea), ignoring a conveyance callback is other risky, adjacent life-threatening. One should ne'er bash it.

That's particularly existent erstwhile the conveyance callback is owed to a occurrence risk, arsenic is the lawsuit with Ford's latest recall.

Ford is recalling 116,672 Ford and Lincoln models owed to a unsafe contented that could origin vehicles to short-circuit and drawback fire.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued Recall No. 26V011 this week. The callback affects 3 models outfitted with motor artifact heaters.

"The motor artifact heater installed successful [some Ford and Lincoln] vehicles with a 2.0L motor whitethorn acquisition overheating and make a coolant leak done its constituent pins. This could origin a resistive abbreviated portion the conveyance is parked and the artifact heater is plugged into an electrical supply," NHTSA said.

This is not the archetypal clip Ford’s motor artifact heaters person posed a occurrence risk. A 2025 NHTSA callback successful 2025 linked astir identical heater wiring flaws and coolant leaks to aggregate underhood occurrence reports, underscoring a recurring pattern, a CBS study found.

The existent callback affects cars and SUVs that are astatine slightest 5 years aged and successful immoderate cases much than 10 years old. The existent callback includes:

• 2013-2018 Ford Focus
  Number of models successful this recall: 49,080

• 2015-2016 Lincoln MKC
  Number of models successful this recall: 1,909

• 2013-2019 Ford Escape
  Number of models successful this recall: 65,683

This is conscionable the latest successful a agelong tally of recalls for Ford Motor Company, which issued the astir information recalls among automakers successful 2025, with much than 103 alerts, according to a study from Kelley Blue Book.

The fig of recalls Ford has announced successful the past mates of years came up repeatedly during the company's Q2 2025 net calls. "We are not satisfied with the existent level of recalls oregon the fig of vehicles impacted," Ford Chief Operating Officer Kumar Gahotra said astatine the time.

“As progressively analyzable vehicles go progressively normal, Ford has stumbled with respect to quality,” Autotrader Executive Editor Brian Moody told Fox Business astir the company's erstwhile recalls. "While astir modern recalls are voluntary, the sheer fig from Ford is origin for concern.”

If you ain 1 of the vehicles listed above, interaction Ford close distant to docket a repair. Ford advises owners not to usage the motor artifact heater until the repair is completed. Repairs are escaped of charge, and notifications are being mailed this month.

Some telltale signs that your conveyance is affected by the callback see "coolant spots connected the driveway oregon store floor, a nonaccomplishment of compartment heat, powertrain portion overheating, oregon a informing indicator for a debased coolant level," according to the NHTSA statement. "Additionally, the information tin origin vigor harm to the artifact heater electrical wiring and connector and the lawsuit whitethorn announcement an odor oregon smoke."

Related: Honda forced into different callback implicit perchance unsafe issue

Ford and Lincoln owners tin inactive thrust their vehicles, but Ford recommends "not utilizing the artifact heater until repairs are made." Ford said it's developing a caller artifact heater constituent and that erstwhile it becomes available, customers tin sojourn a Ford trader for a escaped replacement, Ford told CBS News.

Another enactment is to person the vehicle's artifact heater removed and a threaded plug installed astatine a Ford dealer, the institution said. Ford said dealers volition supply that work escaped of charge.

1. 2024-2025: Ford rearview camera failures. 1+ cardinal vehicles recalled due to the fact that the rearview camera representation tin freeze, delay, oregon fail, expanding clang risk, arsenic reported by Reuters.

2. 2025: Fordlow-pressure substance pump defect. About 850,000 vehicles recalled owed to fuel-pump nonaccomplishment that tin origin motor stalling portion driving, according to NHTSA.

3. 2024-2025:Jeep/Stellantis plug-In hybrid artillery occurrence risk. Approximately 375,000 Jeep Wrangler 4xe and Grand Cherokee 4xe vehicles recalled implicit artillery defects that whitethorn origin fires; owners advised to parkland outdoors, per Reuters.

4. 2024-2025:General Motors 6.2L V8 motor nonaccomplishment risk. About 597,000 vehicles (Chevy Silverado, Tahoe, Suburban; GMC Sierra, Yukon; Cadillac Escalade) tied to motor nonaccomplishment concerns, according to Consumer Reports.

5. 2021-2023: Hyundai & Kia's occurrence hazard for ABS/trailer hitch wiring. More than 3 cardinal vehicles recalled crossed aggregate campaigns owed to electrical issues that could origin engine-compartment fires, NHTSA reported.

6. 2023-2025: Toyota's multimedia/backup camera show failures. Nearly 400,000 vehicles were recalled for screens going blank oregon freezing, affecting backup camera visibility, according to Autoweek.

This communicative was primitively published by TheStreet connected Jan 24, 2026, wherever it archetypal appeared successful the Automotive section. Add TheStreet arsenic a Preferred Source by clicking here.