Ford recalls just keep coming in 2025

Ford Motor Co. just issued a new recall, this time on the 2025 Ford Super Duty, which includes a do not drive warning. Since this only involves 2,345 vehicles, it’s not something we would normally cover. However, this seems to be indicative of a quality bigger issue. Ford recalls have been off the charts not just this year, but for the last decade.

We find this interesting and surprising since we just toured the Kentucky Truck Plant, and they placed a great emphasis on increasing quality, showing us a iPhone hooked up to AI that examines every vehicle on the line and taking us for a ride on the “squeaks and rattles” track that every finished vehicle drives at every plant after it’s built.

How many Ford recalls are there?

The Consumer Shield website records 69 Ford recalls so far in 2025, as of June 2. So, that doesn’t even include this most recent recall with the Super Duty.

In just the last month we, ourselves, have reported on two big recalls from Ford: the F-150 Lightning recall for loose steering and a recall for a rearview camera glitch. That last one affected 1.1 million vehicles and affected everything from the Mustang Mach-E to the (you guessed it) Super Duty.

But as Consumer Shield charts show, this isn’t just a 2025 thing. Ford has more recalls than any other automaker during the last 10 years. It logs 458 recalls from 2015 to 2024. The only manufacturer in the automotive space that has more recalls is Forest River, Inc., and they make RVs.

What’s going on with the Ford recalls?

Ford seems to know it has a quality problem, and CEO Jim Farley has made tackling quality issues a priority. In a 2024 Automotive News article (subscription required), Farley acknowledges the automaker would be “much stronger” if he had focused on this issue sooner.

In early 2024 Farley tied employee bonuses to improved quality scores. Then later in 2024, he appointed a new head of quality. This is in addition to using AI to try to catch quality issues earlier and tasking more workers to identify safety concerns.

The Super Duty recall specifics

With regard to the Super Duty recall that inspired this article, the affected trucks are looking at a sudden loss of brake function due to (get this) a brake booster pushrod retaining spring that may not have been installed. This recall affects 2025 F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 Super Duty trucks, which are all-new for the 2025 model year.

As always, if you have one of these trucks, make sure you go to the NHTSA.gov website to type in the specific VIN of your truck to see if it’s affected. Letters to owners are expected to be mailed today.  

Our take

Building vehicles is hard. We get that. There are so many moving parts (literally), and there are bound to be misfires. But a part that’s altogether missing from a truck? That seems like a big oversight. While Ford did catch this early, and only 2k trucks are affected rather than 1.1 million, we still have to wonder how this happened with so much increased focus on quality at Ford plants.