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By vehicles covered, this is one of the largest campaigns on the American register we hold.
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V695 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ford Motor Company |
| System at fault | Back Over Prevention: Sensing System: Camera |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 October 2025 |
| Model years | 2015-2020 |
| Vehicles named | FORD C-MAX, FORD ESCAPE, FORD EXPLORER, FORD FIESTA, FORD FLEX, FORD FUSION, FORD MUSTANG, FORD TAURUS, LINCOLN MKT, LINCOLN MKZ |
What the notice says today
The defect
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2019 Flex, 2015 Explorer, Lincoln MKT, Lincoln MKZ, 2015-2016 C-Max, Escape, Taurus, 2016 Fusion, 2018-2019 Taurus, 2019 Lincoln MKT, Fiesta, and 2020 Mustang vehicles. The rearview camera may display a distorted, intermittent, or blank image when the vehicle is in reverse.
The consequence
A rearview camera that fails to properly display an image can reduce the driver’s view behind the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the rearview camera as necessary, free of charge. This will be a phased campaign, with the remedy becoming available in different phases based on model and model years. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed on October 25, 2025. Additional letters will be mailed once the final remedy is available on each phase. Mustang owner notification letters were mailed January 2, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25SA9. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on October 14, 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 92b648acd5c1cc4a81b30d3a3f7cadf9…, 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 models named here, across their whole recall history
- Ford C-Max recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Ford Escape recalls: 78 US campaigns
- Ford Explorer recalls: 81 US campaigns
- Ford Fiesta recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Ford Flex recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Ford Fusion recalls: 46 US campaigns
- Ford Mustang recalls: 41 US campaigns
- Ford Taurus recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Lincoln MKT recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Lincoln MKZ recalls: 32 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 25V695, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v695/
The copy quoted above hashes to 92b648acd5c1cc4a81b30d3a3f7cadf9…. 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 25V695 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
4d01e020 - Consequence
da5b82e8 - 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 25V695 · how the whole register is watched
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