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Ford Transit Connect. Published by Transport Canada as 2020486 on 16 October 2020. System: Engine.

What the notice says Issue: On certain vehicles equipped with a 2.5 L engine, there may be a problem with the programming of the Powertrain Control Module. As a result, the engine could overheat. In certain cases, this could result in engine damage. Safety Risk: Overheating that causes engine damage could create the risk of a …

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 TRANSIT CONNECT in the other registers

This site holds seven national and European registers. Ford TRANSIT CONNECT is named on 21 American notices, 11 British and 10 European. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.

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
2020486
Recall date
16 October 2020
Make
Ford
Models
Transit Connect
Model years
2019 to 2020
Vehicle class
Light Truck & Van
System
Engine
Raised as
Safety MFR
Vehicles affected
584
Register
Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database

Issue:
On certain vehicles equipped with a 2.5 L engine, there may be a problem with the programming of the Powertrain Control Module. As a result, the engine could overheat. In certain cases, this could result in engine damage.

Safety Risk:
Overheating that causes engine damage could create the risk of a fire.

Corrective Actions:
Ford will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealer to update the Powertrain Control Module software.

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 2020486.

The Canadian register on this site

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.

The same system: Engine

287 notices in this register name Engine. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.

Reading this against the source

This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.

What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.

This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Ford Transit Connect, 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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