Greater than 450,000 Ford F-150 fashions have been recalled in america due to a difficulty with the windshield wipers.

A Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) discover reveals that impacted 2021-2022 Ford F-150 fashions have a windshield wiper motor that will change into inoperative. Ford says this might occur due to injury brought about to the wiper’s built-in circuit board by excessive transient voltage spikes and poor-quality wiper motor electrical terminals. This might imply the entrance wipers are inoperative or carry out poorly.

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Impacted 2022 Ford F-150 fashions had been produced between March 23, 2021 and August 8, 2022. A complete of 453,650 autos are concerned within the recall. Nonetheless, F-150 fashions that had been constructed on the Dearborn Truck Plant from Might 3, 2021 by September 10, 2021 are excluded from the recall as they had been constructed with a distinct wiper motor design because of the microchip shortages skilled on the time.

Ford will start to inform each sellers and homeowners of impacted fashions between January 3 and January 6, 2023. Homeowners can be instructed to take their automobile to a Ford or Lincoln supplier to have the wiper motor changed freed from cost. Ford can even reimburse these homeowners who’ve beforehand paid to have the problem mounted.

To resolve the problem, technicians will merely take away the wiper motor and substitute it with one which was produced after August 1, 2022.