Ford F-150, F-450 Super Duty, F-350 Super Duty, F-250 Super Duty. Published by Transport Canada as 2018718 on 20 December 2018. System: Electrical.
What the notice says Issue:
Water and contaminants may damage and corrode the block heater cable connectors. This could cause a short-circuit, which may result in overheated or melted wiring.
Safety Risk:
Overheated or melted wiring could create the risk of a fire.
Corrective Actions:
Stop use of your engine block heater …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Ford F-150 in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Ford F-150 is named on 122 American notices, 2 European, 2 Japanese and 41 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2018718
- Recall date
- 20 December 2018
- Make
- Ford
- Models
- F-150, F-450 Super Duty, F-350 Super Duty, F-250 Super Duty
- Model years
- 2015 to 2019
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 446,041
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
Water and contaminants may damage and corrode the block heater cable connectors. This could cause a short-circuit, which may result in overheated or melted wiring.Safety Risk:
Overheated or melted wiring could create the risk of a fire.Corrective Actions:
Stop use of your engine block heater immediately. Ford will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealer to disable the engine block heater. Ford will send you another notice when replacement parts are available, and will ask you to take your vehicle to a dealer to install them. Do not use your engine block heater until the replacement parts are installed.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2018718.
Ford elsewhere in this register
Ford is named on 818 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2018629 · 15 November 2018 · Expedition, Navigator · Structure
- 2018577 · 23 October 2018 · Focus · Fuel System
- 2018555 · 9 October 2018 · GT · Structure
- 2018332 · 15 June 2018 · Edge · Powertrain
- 2018310 · 13 June 2018 · F-150, Expedition, Navigator · Fuel System
- 2018311 · 13 June 2018 · F-750, F-650 · Brakes
- 2018216 · 27 April 2018 · Transit · Electrical
- 2018129 · 14 March 2018 · Fusion, Focus · Powertrain
The same system: Electrical
686 notices in this register name Electrical. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2018709 · 18 December 2018 · Serenity · Electrical
- 2018703 · 13 December 2018 · Via, Travato, Navion · Electrical
- 2018620 · 9 November 2018 · B Touring Cruiser, Conquest · Electrical
- 2018616 · 7 November 2018 · Vision School Bus · Electrical
- 2018617 · 7 November 2018 · Vision Non-School Bus · Electrical
- 2018501 · 13 September 2018 · Crf250l · Electrical
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Ford F-350 Super Duty, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Ford: 1,346 in the register, and 704 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2018.
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