Ford F-150. Published by Transport Canada as 2020069 on 21 February 2020. System: Electrical.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain trucks with a 3.5-L engine, there could be a problem with the engine block heater cable. The wrong cable may have been installed when your vehicle was repaired under a previous recall. The cable that was installed may not have enough heat protection and could be damaged by high engine temperatures. …
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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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Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2020069
- Recall date
- 21 February 2020
- Make
- Ford
- Models
- F-150
- Model years
- 2015 to 2016
- Vehicle class
- Light Truck & Van
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 19,679
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain trucks with a 3.5-L engine, there could be a problem with the engine block heater cable. The wrong cable may have been installed when your vehicle was repaired under a previous recall. The cable that was installed may not have enough heat protection and could be damaged by high engine temperatures. When plugged in, this could cause a short circuit to occur, resulting in overheated or melted wiring. It could also cause the block heater not to work, and/or it could cause a household circuit breaker to trip. For details of the previous recall, please see Transport Canada recall no. 2019-174 (Ford no. 19S11/19G01).Safety Risk:
Overheated or melted wiring could create the risk of a fire.Corrective Actions:
Do not use your block heater until the recall inspection and repairs are completed. Ford will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealer to inspect the block heater and cable. Depending on the results of the inspection, the heater element and/or block heater cable will be replaced, as necessary. If the replacement parts are not available, the dealer will disable the engine block heater. Ford will send you another notice w
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 2020069.
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.
- 2020071 · 21 February 2020 · F-150 · Lights And Instruments
- 2020023 · 23 January 2020 · F-150 · Electrical
- 2020126 · 24 March 2020 · E450, E350 · Electrical
- 2020131 · 26 March 2020 · Fusion · Structure
- 2020204 · 11 May 2020 · Transit Connect · Structure
- 2020202 · 11 May 2020 · Expedition · Other
- 2020203 · 11 May 2020 · Expedition, Mustang · Powertrain
- 2020231 · 27 May 2020 · Transit Connect · Seats And Restraints
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.
- 2020031 · 28 January 2020 · Cameo, Sunset, Hampton · Electrical
- 2020107 · 19 March 2020 · Trophy Se · Electrical
- 2020023 · 23 January 2020 · F-150 · Electrical
- 2020126 · 24 March 2020 · E450, E350 · Electrical
- 2020217 · 18 May 2020 · 5700, 4700 · Electrical
- 2020229 · 27 May 2020 · Four Winds · Electrical
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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 536 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2020.
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