The first week of March has been full of recalls for Ford, from separating driveshafts causing a recall of over 11,000 Super Duty trucks, to almost 605,000 crossovers and SUVs being recalled for faulty windshield wipers. Now, two new recalls announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have impacted many of the same crossovers and SUVs mentioned earlier in the week, along with every model year of the current U725 Bronco and several Edge crossovers.
Each recall spans over 800,000 vehicles, with the first affecting 849,310 examples of the 2021-2026 Bronco and the 2021-2024 Edge. The second recall names 889,950 examples of the 2020-2022 Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair, along with the 2020-2024 Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator. If you add up each model year, a grand total of 1,739,260 vehicles over 26 associated products are affected, and although the causes are different, both negatively affect the rearview cameras of these vehicles in unique ways. Let's take a closer look.
Two Ford Recalls, Two Issues, One Result
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The first recall, for the Bronco and Edge, says that the Accessory Protocol Interface Module (APIM) could overheat, reaching temperatures as high as 105° C (221°F) and shut down, causing the rearview camera to stop displaying images as intended. In fact, the entire touchscreen becomes inoperable until the system cools. The second recall for the EscapeExplorer, Corsair, and Aviator states that the image on the center display could flip or invert, which would no doubt be confusing for a driver trying to avoid something on the rear left or rear right of the vehicle. Either way, the problems make affected vehicles noncompliant with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111 for Rear Visibility.
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The first recall's overheating APIM problem is "the result of a stack-up of certain, specific vehicle and hardware configurations," reads the recall report, which is translated as a problem with the proximity of HVAC ducts and the audio head unit to the APIM module. Essentially, these components naturally heat up, but they're too close together for the existing software. The second recall report says the touch integrated circuit on the display printed circuit board may cause a pulse on the inter-integrated circuit data bus during startup, which can rewrite a register in the display microcontroller, inverting the graphics and even the buttons on the screen.
Customers Must Wait for a Fix to Be Developed
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The first recall's problems were first brought to the attention of Ford's Critical Concern Review Group in November last year, while the second was earlier, in September 2025. Sadly, while Ford expects both recalls to be addressed with new software, updates for either are not yet available. Ford expects Bronco and Edge customers to get their remedy by the end of March, with a planned remedy owner notification date set for March 30-April 3, but the other recall doesn't have an expected remedy owner notification date, so it could be months before that issue is resolved.
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