Greater than 500 examples of the specially-equipped Ford Explorers being utilized by police round the USA have to be introduced again to sellers, as a result of a difficulty with the in-built 12.1-inch laptop display.

Ford has revealed that when somebody is driving one in every of its Explorer Police Interceptor autos and turns off the pc display previous to inserting the car in reverse, the backup digital camera picture won’t be displayed. The difficulty has been brought on by an issue with the Built-in Pc Display (ICS) software program that doesn’t override the state of the ICS show from Off to On because it ought to when the car is put into reverse.

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The automaker’s engineering staff found the difficulty throughout testing on March 8, 2023, after which on March 21, Ford’s Crucial Concern Overview Group reviewed a buyer concern when the display didn’t show the reversing picture after being switched off. Ford doesn’t know of any guarantee claims, accidents, or accidents which were brought on by the issue.

A complete of 521 Ford Explorer fashions are concerned within the recall, manufactured between June 26, 2020, and October 7, 2022.

Ford will begin to mail out notification letters to homeowners from Might 29, 2023. Police fleets that personal an Explorer Police Interceptor can be requested to deliver the SUV right into a Ford dealership the place the ICS software program can be up to date free of charge.

An unrelated second recall impacting the Ford Explorer was additionally issued in March. This recall entails 674 examples of civilian fashions constructed between February 2, 2019, and April 4, 2022. On this case, plenty of Explorers didn’t obtain the treatment for a earlier recall the place autos don’t embrace an automated digital park brake when the SUV is shifted into Park.