Ford Bronco, Ford Bronco Sport, Ford Escape, Ford Explorer, Ford Fusion, Ford Maverick, model years 2016 to 2024. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 10 October 2025. 59,006 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2016-2019 Lincoln MKC, 2016-2023 Explorer, 2019-2020 Fusion, 2019-2024 Ranger, 2020-2022 Lincoln Corsair, Escape, 2021-2024 Bronco, Bronco Sport, and 2022-2024 Maverick vehicles. The engine block heater may crack and develop a coolant leak, causing it to short circuit …
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: 25SA4. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V685 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 25V685 cover?
- Ford Bronco, Ford Bronco Sport, Ford Escape, Ford Explorer, Ford Fusion, Ford Maverick, Ford Ranger, Lincoln Corsair, model years 2016-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2016-2019 Lincoln MKC, 2016-2023 Explorer, 2019-2020 Fusion, 2019-2024 Ranger, 2020-2022 Lincoln Corsair, Escape, 2021-2024 Bronco, Bronco Sport, and 2022-2024 Maverick vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An electrical short circuit can increase the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Owners are advised not to plug in their block heater until the vehicle is remedied. Dealers will replace the block heater, free of charge. Owners will also have a alternative option to replace engine block heater element with a threaded blanking plug, and remove the block heater electrical cord.
- 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 25SA4, 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: “An electrical short circuit can increase the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V685 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ford Motor Company |
| System at fault | Equipment:Electrical:Engine Block Heater |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 October 2025 |
| Model years | 2016-2024 |
| Vehicles named | FORD BRONCO, FORD BRONCO SPORT, FORD ESCAPE, FORD EXPLORER, FORD FUSION, FORD MAVERICK, FORD RANGER, LINCOLN CORSAIR, LINCOLN MKC |
What the notice says today
The defect
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2016-2019 Lincoln MKC, 2016-2023 Explorer, 2019-2020 Fusion, 2019-2024 Ranger, 2020-2022 Lincoln Corsair, Escape, 2021-2024 Bronco, Bronco Sport, and 2022-2024 Maverick vehicles. The engine block heater may crack and develop a coolant leak, causing it to short circuit when the block heater is plugged in.
The consequence
An electrical short circuit can increase the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to plug in their block heater until the vehicle is remedied. Dealers will replace the block heater, free of charge. Owners will also have a alternative option to replace engine block heater element with a threaded blanking plug, and remove the block heater electrical cord. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed December 3, 2025. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available, anticipated September 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25SA4. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on October 15, 2025.
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 84116e339a22c4b9e6270b052a38ebe6…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Ford Bronco recalls: 47 US campaigns since 2016
- Ford Bronco Sport recalls: 32 US campaigns
- Ford Escape recalls: 78 US campaigns
- Ford Explorer recalls: 81 US campaigns
- Ford Fusion recalls: 46 US campaigns
- Ford Maverick recalls: 45 US campaigns
- Ford Ranger recalls: 38 US campaigns since 2016
- Lincoln Corsair recalls: 36 US campaigns
- Lincoln MKC recalls: 14 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 25V685, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v685/
The copy quoted above hashes to 84116e339a22c4b9e6270b052a38ebe6…. 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 25V685 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
b617b4bb - Consequence
c433a597 - 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 25V685 · how the whole register is watched
342 days after this was filed with the regulator, the register still carries no date for the letter to owners. The sixty days 49 CFR 577.7 allows have passed. A blank there is a gap in the record, which is not the same as a gap in the post: where this maker stands on the sixty days.
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