Ford F-150, Ford F-250 Sd, Ford F-350 Sd, Ford F-450 Sd, Ford F-550 Sd, model years 2015 to 2019. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 8 April 2019. 131,068 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2019 Ford F-150 and 2017-2019 Ford F-250 Super Duty, F-350 Super Duty, F-450 Super Duty, and F-550 Super Duty pick-up trucks equipped with an engine block heater and previously remedied under recall 18V894. During the previous repair, the block heater cable's splice …
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The maker's own number for this recall: 19S11. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V278 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 19V278 cover?
- Ford F-150, Ford F-250 SD, Ford F-350 SD, Ford F-450 SD, Ford F-550 SD, model years 2015-2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2019 Ford F-150 and 2017-2019 Ford F-250 Super Duty, F-350 Super Duty, F-450 Super Duty, and F-550 Super Duty pick-up trucks equipped with an engine block heater and previously remedied under recall 18V894.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A damaged cable could cause a resistive short, increasing the risk of overheated or melted wiring, increasing the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Ford will notify owners, and dealers will disable the engine block heater from being used. When replacement cables become available, a second notice will be mailed and dealers will replace the engine block heater cord, free of charge. The recall began May 31, 2019.
- 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 19S11, 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: “A damaged cable could cause a resistive short, increasing the risk of overheated or melted wiring, increasing the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V278 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ford Motor Company |
| System at fault | Engine |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 April 2019 |
| Model years | 2015-2019 |
| Vehicles named | FORD F-150, FORD F-250 SD, FORD F-350 SD, FORD F-450 SD, FORD F-550 SD |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A damaged cable could cause a resistive short, increasing the risk of overheated or melted wiring, increasing the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Ford will notify owners, and dealers will disable the engine block heater from being used. When replacement cables become available, a second notice will be mailed and dealers will replace the engine block heater cord, free of charge. The recall began May 31, 2019. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 19S11.
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 116 notices in the record whose component field names engine. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 50 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Ford F-150 recalls: 94 US campaigns since 2016
- Ford F-250 SD recalls: 61 US campaigns
- Ford F-350 SD recalls: 71 US campaigns
- Ford F-450 SD recalls: 61 US campaigns
- Ford F-550 SD recalls: 50 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 19V278, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v278/
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 19V278 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
fd70286f - Consequence
61f75fbc - Remedy
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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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