Over the past few years, Ford has issued more recalls than any other automotive manufacturer, news that many are well aware of at this point in time. Even as initial quality has improved for the 2025 model year and warranty costs are starting to decline, problems from recent model years continue to haunt The Blue Oval, as well as owners of many of its vehicles. In fact, with the first half of the year nearly in the record books, Ford is easily on track to close out H1 with more recalls than the rest of the pack – by a large margin.
As of this writing, Ford has issued a total of 82 recalls in 2025 thus far, just a few days before the conclusion of H1. Unfortunately for The Blue Oval, that number is light years ahead of second-place Forest River, a recreational vehicle maker that has issued 19 recalls, as well as the rest of the pack. Volkswagen Group and Chrysler are tied for third place with 15 recalls each, followed by Mercedes-Benz (13), Honda (12), General Motors (12), and a few others that aren’t direct competition. Add it all up, and this means that Ford has issued more recalls in the first half of 2025 than five of its competitors combined.
These recalls range in scope from minor inconveniences to major problems, and cover nearly the entire Ford and Lincoln lineup for the most part. A large portion of them center around rearview camera woes, which have affected millions of models as of late, and resulted in a large fine from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). However, as Ford Authority recently reported, many of these recalls are also followups to previous ones, for a very good reason.
Turns out, a number of recalls that require software updates applied by dealerships weren’t completed correctly, which prompted Ford to make some changes to its processes and issue followup recalls. As part of its consent order and agreement with the NHTSA, Ford is required to review every recall issued over the last three years (dating back to November 2021) to ensure they’ve been properly handled and to issue a new recall if necessary, too.
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Farley said it would take a couple of years to fix Quality Control well it’s now well over two years and QC is getting worse. Evidently Farley and Ford don’t feel the need to fix QC as long as people are still buying.
You also have to consider the total number of recalled vehicles, Ford has had a ton of recalls centering around dozens or hundreds of cars. Other recalls have been solved by OTAs, such as the Lincoln Nautilus window regulator recall.
Mr Farley says: “Nothing to see here… I’m going racing !”
Unbelievable metrics – bad news for a great company.
UGG
Warranty costs are decreasing? That’s because Fraud Farley and his band of merry men (criminals) are denying claims. You can color this any way you want, but the truth will always percolate to the surface.
They didn’t take money from the Gub, however the unions twisted their arm, prices are throught the roof, and quality has declined.
What’s not to like?
Job 1 !!!
I guess Quality isn’t Job 1 anymore.
We keep seeing Farley falling on his face, and still collecting $24 million per year in salary. So Ford’s sales are up for the quarter. Uh-oh. That means more vehicles out there for warranty work and recalls.
Then Farley says Chinese cars are excellent and his are junk. Nice work, Farley. You’ve been there for quite a while. Why aren’t things better? (Hint – he’s more concerned with political correctness than building good cars).
Then Farley says Ford’s customers are stupid because they buy the wrong cars. Think the may be so, Farley – they buy your cars – is that what you mean?
Then Farley decides we are not going to buy what he doesn’t want us to have. Cancel the Fusion. Cancel the Escape. Cancel the Focus. Cancel the Edge. Great, Farley. People can go buy Chevys, Toyotas, and Hondas.
Then Farley says “no more boring cars”. Step 1- take the goodies out of the Escape so it is only a “stripper” and lower the price $100 – that’ll drive ’em away so we can cancel that thing and build what WE want them to have. And to make sure, while Toyota and Honda offer dozens of colors, offer the Escape in black, white, and 5 shades of grey.
Then Farley presides over a quarter when the F-150, the largest selling vehicle for many, many years, falls from its #1 position. Another Farley “notch” on the gun handle.
Then he posits that in the future, Ford will no longer build ICE engines – they will buy them from someone else when needed. Great. That may reduce recalls a bit. Can’t wait to get an F-150 with a Nissan 4-banger and CVT.
Then I read that Ford’s whole focus (no pun intended) is to reduce cost, not improve quality, it all make sense. Cut jobs – fire engineers and people who know cars – but keep bloated management salaried people in their jobs. What a way to run a railroad – oops – a car company.
So if Ford management would get back into the automobile business, stop spending billions playing with train stations, stop becoming political puppets and making what they want instead of what customers are buying – forget it; it may be too late already.