Ford has issued a recall for 2,711 Maverick pickups from model years 2022-2024 for a second time because dealers might not have properly repaired them in an earlier recall.
Ford recalled about 240,000 Mavericks last year because a software defect could cause their tail lights to go dark.
The company tells federal safety regulators that some trucks “did not have the remedy…installed correctly on their vehicles but were recorded as having received the repair successfully in Ford’s records.” This is one of three incidents this week in which Ford has had to partially repeat a recall due to bad recordkeeping.
Dealers can fix the problem with a software update (the same one the trucks should have received last May). But Maverick trucks don’t receive over-the-air software updates, so owners must bring them in for the patch.
By law, dealers don’t charge for recall repairs.
Automakers recall many cars to fix safety defects, sometimes more than once. While automakers try to reach every owner to ask them to bring the vehicle in for repair, they rarely reach them all. Millions of vehicles on American roads need free recall repairs. Check the easy VIN tool at our recall center to find out if your car is one of them.