With Ford issuing more recalls than any other automaker over the past few years – and breaking the all-time record for a calendar year in the first six months of 2025 already – it’s no surprise that these problems are also proving to be quite expensive to rectify. It’s not always terribly clear just how much money The Blue Oval is shelling out for these fixes, but we do know exactly how much it expects to pay for a very recent recall involving defective fuel injectors in nearly 700k vehicles.
In its most recent Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the automaker wrote “Ford Motor Company is announcing a field service action related to fuel injectors in certain model year 2021-2024 Bronco Sport vehicles, 2020-2022 Escape vehicles, and 2019-2024 Kuga vehicles. We estimate the aggregate cost of the action, based on the remedy options we are evaluating, to be about $570 million and will be reflected in our second quarter 2025 results. Consistent with our corporate policy, which considers the magnitude of individual field service actions, the expense will be treated as a special item. Accordingly, it will not impact our total Company adjusted EBIT, adjusted earnings per share, or adjusted free cash flow.”
As Ford Authority reported earlier this week, the automaker is referencing its recall issued for nearly 700k different 2021-2024 Ford Bronco Sport and 2020-2022 Ford Escape models equipped with the turbocharged 1.5L I-3 EcoBoost engine, which also apparently includes some Kuga crossovers sold in Europe as well. That recall is actually an expansion of some previously-issued recalls, addressing fuel injectors that can crack and leak fuel inside the engine compartment.
Ford doesn’t have a permanent fix for this issue yet, though it’s currently working on developing precisely that. In the meantime, it’s instructing dealers to update the engine control software to compensate, and perhaps prevent fires from occurring, which can happen if fuel leaks are ignited by a hot engine or exhaust components
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No permanent fix? How about replace the injectors with updated versions that won’t crack and get the injector supplier (Dumarey Flowmotion Technologies) to cover the cost? What DV and durability tests were passed to put this injector in production, or was some testing skipped, test failures written off as anomalies or did the supplier have a manufacturing issue (part not to print). Ford is trying to be transparent here but not giving the important information.
Completely agree!
Low bidder wins again
A VERY pathetic situation.
Don’t worry guys, “It’s all part of the plan”! – Ford COO Kumar Galhotra
I don’t really care. $570M is peanuts compared to the billions thrown away on EV’s and autonomous vehicles.
Kumar says it’s normal, he’s trying to maintain the recall lead.
As of yesterday 7-17-2025 Ford has issued 90 recalls that pathetic. The entire upper management including Farley should be fired.
I agree the top management should be fired. Nothing will happen until Bill Ford gets off his butt and do what needs to be done.
The Ford Recall Express keeps getting worse by the day, however Failure Farley doesn’t care. Failure Farley only cares about his podcast, participating in racing events and spending hours on the website Bring a Trailer bidding on automobiles.