Ford Expedition, Ford Explorer, Ford F-150, Lincoln Aviator, Lincoln Navigator, model years 2018 to 2021. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 24 June 2026. 741,195 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2018-2021 Navigator, Expedition, 2020-2021 Explorer, Lincoln Aviator, and 2021 F-150 vehicles. The transmission park pawl may engage while the vehicle is in motion, resulting in park system damage.
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.
Ford's own number for this recall: 26S48. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V402 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.
affected
in the notice
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| Campaign | 26V402 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ford Motor Company |
| System at fault | Power Train:Automatic Transmission |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 June 2026 |
| Model years | 2018-2021 |
| Vehicles named | FORD EXPEDITION, FORD EXPLORER, FORD F-150, LINCOLN AVIATOR, LINCOLN NAVIGATOR |
What the notice says today
The defect
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2018-2021 Navigator, Expedition, 2020-2021 Explorer, Lincoln Aviator, and 2021 F-150 vehicles. The transmission park pawl may engage while the vehicle is in motion, resulting in park system damage.
The consequence
Park system damage may result in a vehicle rollaway, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the powertrain control module software, and inspect and replace any damaged transmission components as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed July 10, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available, anticipated in April 2027. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S48. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on June 26, 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 c7f0dc621eff015bbdc31a88b8605c7d…, 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 2026311, recorded 24 June 2026
Matched on 26S48, 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 Expedition recalls: 52 US campaigns
- Ford Explorer recalls: 81 US campaigns
- Ford F-150 recalls: 94 US campaigns since 2016
- Lincoln Aviator recalls: 50 US campaigns
- Lincoln Navigator 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 26V402, wording as read on 9 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v402/
The copy quoted above hashes to c7f0dc621eff015bbdc31a88b8605c7d…. 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.
Other Ford notices we hold
- 26V550: 2026 Maverick, F-150, and Bronco Sport
- 26V548: 2026 Explorer, Bronco, Bronco Sport, Mustang, and Ranger
- 26V547: 2024-2026 Mustang
- 26V532: 2026 Explorer
- 26V489: 2021-2023 F-150 and 2023-2026 F-250 SD
- 26V487: 2023-2025 Mustang Mach E
- 26V470: 2026-2027 Explorer and Lincoln Aviator
- 26V468: 2021-2026 Bronco and Bronco Raptor
All 772 Ford campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 26V402 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
56172a71 - Consequence
becb0413 - 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 26V402 · how the whole register is watched
77 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.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Ford Expedition, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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