Ford recalls over 1 million vehicles for glitchy rearview cameras

The 2023 Bronco is 1 of galore models affected.

Ford is recalling much than 1 cardinal vehicles successful the US owed to a bundle contented causing the rearview camera to show delayed, frozen, oregon blank images, as reported earlier by Reuters. The callback affects a scope of vehicles, including immoderate made betwixt 2021 and 2024, specified arsenic the Ford Bronco, Edge, and F-150.

The automaker is rolling retired a bundle update that drivers tin instal implicit the aerial oregon by visiting their section dealer. In a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Ford says the “frozen oregon missing rearview camera representation tin trim the driver’s presumption down the vehicle, expanding the hazard of a crash.”

Other impacted vehicles see the 2023-2024 Escape, 2022-2024 Expedition, 2024 Mustang, 2021-2023 Mustang Mach E, 2022-2024 Lincoln Navigator, and 2021-2023 Lincoln Nautilus. You tin presumption the afloat database of vehicles on the NHTSA’s website.

Ford says it archetypal received reports astir the rearview camera occupation successful January, and its engineering squad reproduced the contented successful April. It besides received a study of “a insignificant crash” allegedly caused by the issue, “resulting successful spot damage,” but says it’s not alert of immoderate injuries.

Last year, NHTSA fined Ford $165 million for moving excessively dilatory connected a akin callback it issued successful 2020 and aboriginal expanded. The much than 600,000 impacted vehicles had a rearview camera that could sometimes amusement a “blank oregon distorted image.” In April, Ford besides issued 2 recalls affecting 289,000 Bronco, F-Series, and Expedition models implicit faulty rearview cameras that dealerships indispensable replace.