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Ford recall 26V237: automatic transmission, 1,392,935 vehicles

Ford F-150, model years 2015 to 2017. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 14 April 2026. 1,392,935 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2017 F-150 vehicles. A loss of signal between the transmission range sensor and the powertrain control module can cause the transmission to unexpectedly downshift into second gear.

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.

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Ford's own number for this recall: 26S28. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V237 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.

By vehicles covered, this is one of the largest campaigns on the American register we hold.

1,392,935vehicles potentially
affected
1model named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 14 April 2026owners told 24 July 2026today
The defect reached the regulator on 14 April 2026. Owners were written to 101 days later, on 24 July 2026. The median across the 14,853 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign took longer than most.
Campaign26V237
Filed byFord Motor Company
System at faultPower Train:Automatic Transmission
Reported to NHTSA14 April 2026
Model years2015-2017
Vehicles namedFORD F-150

What the notice says today

The defect

Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2017 F-150 vehicles. A loss of signal between the transmission range sensor and the powertrain control module can cause the transmission to unexpectedly downshift into second gear.

The consequence

Unexpectedly downshifting into second gear may result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.

The remedy

Dealers will update the powertrain control module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 24, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S28. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on April 15, 2026.

What it said before

Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 9 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.

That copy hashes to 8e55f00fd5bfc27be9317a0e31d12c82…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.

This is one of 815 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 2026189, recorded 15 April 2026 (within a week of the American filing)

Matched on 26S28, 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

How to cite this record

Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:

CarsMultiverse, recall 26V237, wording as read on 9 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v237/

The copy quoted above hashes to 8e55f00fd5bfc27be9317a0e31d12c82…. 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.

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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 26V237 on 23 August 2026, they were:

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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