Ford Bronco Sport, Ford Ecosport, Ford Edge, Ford Escape, Ford Expedition, Ford Explorer, model years 2018 to 2024. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 27 June 2025. 200,237 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2018-2022 Transit Connect, 2019-2020 MKZ, MKX, Edge, Continental, F-150, Nautilus, Fusion, 2019-2023 Ranger, Mustang, 2020-2021 EcoSport, Expedition, Navigator, 2020-2022 Escape, F-250 SD, Corsair, 2020-2023 Aviator, Transit, 2020-2024 Explorer, 2021-2024 Bronco Sport, …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: 25S72. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V442 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 25V442 cover?
- Ford Bronco Sport, Ford Ecosport, Ford Edge, Ford Escape, Ford Expedition, Ford Explorer, Ford F-150, Ford F-250 SD, model years 2018-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2018-2022 Transit Connect, 2019-2020 MKZ, MKX, Edge, Continental, F-150, Nautilus, Fusion, 2019-2023 Ranger, Mustang, 2020-2021 EcoSport, Expedition, Navigator, 2020-2022 Escape, F-250 SD, Corsair, 2020-2023 Aviator, Transit, 2020-2024 Explorer,...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A rearview camera that displays a blank image can reduce the driver's view behind the vehicle. A rearview image that continues to be displayed after the vehicle is shifted out of reverse may distract the driver. Both of these situations can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the rearview camera software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 4, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25S72.
- 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 25S72, 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 rearview camera that displays a blank image can reduce the driver's view behind the vehicle. A rearview image that continues to be displayed after the vehicle is shifted out of reverse may distract the driver. Both of these situations can…”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V442 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ford Motor Company |
| System at fault | Back Over Prevention:Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 June 2025 |
| Model years | 2018-2024 |
| Vehicles named | FORD BRONCO SPORT, FORD ECOSPORT, FORD EDGE, FORD ESCAPE, FORD EXPEDITION, FORD EXPLORER, FORD F-150, FORD F-250 SD, FORD FUSION, FORD MAVERICK, FORD MUSTANG, FORD RANGER, FORD TRANSIT, FORD TRANSIT CONNECT |
What the notice says today
The defect
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2018-2022 Transit Connect, 2019-2020 MKZ, MKX, Edge, Continental, F-150, Nautilus, Fusion, 2019-2023 Ranger, Mustang, 2020-2021 EcoSport, Expedition, Navigator, 2020-2022 Escape, F-250 SD, Corsair, 2020-2023 Aviator, Transit, 2020-2024 Explorer, 2021-2024 Bronco Sport, and 2022-2024 Maverick vehicles. A software error may cause the rearview camera to display a blank image, or the image may remain on the display after the backing event has ended.
The consequence
A rearview camera that displays a blank image can reduce the driver's view behind the vehicle. A rearview image that continues to be displayed after the vehicle is shifted out of reverse may distract the driver. Both of these situations can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the rearview camera software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 4, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25S72.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 0c669c2f747ae2e858b61f2405871cf8…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 246 notices in the record whose component field names back over prevention. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2025360, recorded 27 June 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 25S72, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Ford Bronco Sport recalls: 32 US campaigns
- Ford Ecosport recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Ford Edge recalls: 25 US campaigns since 2016
- Ford Escape recalls: 78 US campaigns
- Ford Expedition recalls: 52 US campaigns
- Ford Explorer recalls: 81 US campaigns
- Ford F-150 recalls: 94 US campaigns since 2016
- Ford F-250 SD recalls: 61 US campaigns
- Ford Fusion recalls: 46 US campaigns
- Ford Maverick recalls: 45 US campaigns
- Ford Mustang recalls: 41 US campaigns
- Ford Ranger recalls: 38 US campaigns since 2016
- Ford Transit recalls: 57 US campaigns
- Ford Transit Connect recalls: 31 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 25V442, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v442/
The copy quoted above hashes to 0c669c2f747ae2e858b61f2405871cf8…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 25V442 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8196a6c0 - Consequence
94071f78 - 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.
The wording we hold for 25V442 · how the whole register is watched
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