Ford Crown Victoria, Lincoln Town Car, Mercury Grand Marquis, model years 2005 to 2011. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 29 August 2013. 355,000 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ford is recalling certain model year 2005-2011 Ford Crown Victoria (including Crown Victoria Police Interceptors), Mercury Grand Marquis, and Lincoln Town Car vehicles. The affected vehicles are currently registered or were originally sold in Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, …
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.
Ford's own number for this recall: 13S08. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 13V385 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 13V385 cover?
- Ford Crown Victoria, Lincoln Town Car, Mercury Grand Marquis, model years 2005-2011.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ford is recalling certain model year 2005-2011 Ford Crown Victoria (including Crown Victoria Police Interceptors), Mercury Grand Marquis, and Lincoln Town Car vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the lower bearing separates, the vehicle may experience a loss of steering, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Ford will notify owners and dealers will replace the lower intermediate shaft, free of charge.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Ford calls this recall 13S08, 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: “If the lower bearing separates, the vehicle may experience a loss of steering, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 13V385 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ford Motor Company |
| System at fault | Steering |
| Reported to NHTSA | 29 August 2013 |
| Model years | 2005-2011 |
| Vehicles named | FORD CROWN VICTORIA, LINCOLN TOWN CAR, MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the lower bearing separates, the vehicle may experience a loss of steering, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Ford will notify owners and dealers will replace the lower intermediate shaft, free of charge. The upper intermediate shaft and steering column lower bearing will be inspected to identify any damage that may have occurred as a result of lower intermediate shaft corrosion, and repaired or replaced as necessary. If the steering column lower bearing has separated, a retainer clip will be installed. The recall began on October 23, 2013. Owners may contact Ford at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's recall number is 13S08.
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 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 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
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 13V385, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13v385/
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.
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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 13V385 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
0c874cc8 - Consequence
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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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