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Ford Motor Company recall 11V352 (11C18): Ford Excursion, Ford F-250, Ford F-250 SD and 6 more (2002 to 2011)

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Ford Excursion, Ford F-250, Ford F-250 Sd, Ford F-350, Ford F-350 Sd, Ford F-450 Sd, model years 2002 to 2011. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 13 July 2011. 26,715 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Ford is recalling certain model year 2011 ranger trucks built from january 25, 2011, through april 25, 2011 at the twin cities assembly plant, and service parts distributed to dealers for certain 2004 through 2011 model year ranger trucks, 2002 through 2005 model year excursion vehicles, and 2002 through 2007 model …

Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, 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.

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The maker's own number for this recall: 11C18. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 11V352 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.

What owners ask about this recall

Which vehicles does recall 11V352 cover?
Ford Excursion, Ford F-250, Ford F-250 SD, Ford F-350, Ford F-350 SD, Ford F-450 SD, Ford F-550 SD, Ford F250, model years 2002-2011.
What is wrong with them?
FORD IS RECALLING CERTAIN MODEL YEAR 2011 RANGER TRUCKS BUILT FROM JANUARY 25, 2011, THROUGH APRIL 25, 2011 AT THE TWIN CITIES ASSEMBLY PLANT, AND SERVICE PARTS DISTRIBUTED TO DEALERS FOR CERTAIN 2004 THROUGH 2011 MODEL YEAR RANGER TRUCKS, 2002 THROUGH 2005 MODEL YEAR EXCURSION VEHICLES, AND 2002...
What can happen if it is not put right?
NON-FUNCTIONING LIGHTS COULD INCREASE THE RISK OF A CRASH.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. DEALERS WILL REPLACE THE SWITCHES FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON AUGUST 15, 2011. OWNERS MAY CONTACT FORD MOTOR COMPANY CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP CENTER AT 1-866-436-7332.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 11C18, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.

Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.

What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “NON-FUNCTIONING LIGHTS COULD INCREASE THE RISK OF A CRASH.”

26,715vehicles potentially
affected
9models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 13 July 2011owners told 15 August 2011today
The defect reached the regulator on 13 July 2011. Owners were written to 33 days later, on 15 August 2011. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign11V352
Filed byFORD MOTOR COMPANY
System at faultExterior Lighting:Tail Lights
Reported to NHTSA13 July 2011
Model years2002-2011
Vehicles namedFORD EXCURSION, FORD F-250, FORD F-250 SD, FORD F-350, FORD F-350 SD, FORD F-450 SD, FORD F-550 SD, FORD F250, FORD RANGER

What the notice says today

The consequence

NON-FUNCTIONING LIGHTS COULD INCREASE THE RISK OF A CRASH.

The remedy

DEALERS WILL REPLACE THE SWITCHES FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON AUGUST 15, 2011. OWNERS MAY CONTACT FORD MOTOR COMPANY CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP CENTER AT 1-866-436-7332.

What it said before

This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.

This is one of 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

How to cite this record

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CarsMultiverse, recall 11V352, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/11v352/

The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.

The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.

The fingerprint of this notice

We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 11V352 on 17 September 2026, they were:

We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.

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