Ford Ranger. Published by Transport Canada as 2020094 on 10 March 2020. System: Heater And Defroster.
What the notice says Issue:
A defective blower motor may have been installed on some trucks that were repaired under recall 2019-512 (Ford recall 19S34). The replacement motor may have been built incorrectly and could short circuit. As a result, a second repair may be required.
Safety Risk:
A short circuit could cause overheating, …
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 RANGER in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Ford RANGER is named on 44 American notices, 38 British, 29 European and 6 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European register
The Israeli register
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
- 2020094
- Recall date
- 10 March 2020
- Make
- Ford
- Models
- Ranger
- Model years
- 2019
- Vehicle class
- Light Truck & Van
- System
- Heater And Defroster
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 418
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
A defective blower motor may have been installed on some trucks that were repaired under recall 2019-512 (Ford recall 19S34). The replacement motor may have been built incorrectly and could short circuit. As a result, a second repair may be required.Safety Risk:
A short circuit could cause overheating, melting, smoke, and create the risk of a fire.Corrective Actions:
Ford will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your truck to a Ford or Lincoln dealer to inspect the blower motor. It will be replaced if it was made during an identified time period.
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 2020094.
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.
- 2020126 · 24 March 2020 · E450, E350 · Electrical
- 2020131 · 26 March 2020 · Fusion · Structure
- 2020071 · 21 February 2020 · F-150 · Lights And Instruments
- 2020023 · 23 January 2020 · F-150 · Electrical
- 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: Heater And Defroster
113 notices in this register name Heater And Defroster. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2020328 · 20 July 2020 · A Class · Heater And Defroster
- 2019512 · 10 October 2019 · Ranger · Heater And Defroster
- 2019142 · 18 March 2019 · Accent · Heater And Defroster
- 2021247 · 26 April 2021 · GLS Class, Gle Class · Heater And Defroster
- 2021444 · 20 July 2021 · W990, T680, T880 · Heater And Defroster
- 2021686 · 9 November 2021 · T680, T880, W990 · Heater And Defroster
Reading this against the source
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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 Ranger, 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 536 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2020.
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