There’s a new Ford recall to watch out for, affecting the 2025 F-150 and 2025-2026 Super Duty trucks.
Ford hasn’t had a great track record this year when it comes to vehicle recalls. In fact, in 2025 alone, this campaign marks the automaker’s 105th, putting it well ahead of the industry average with a few months of this year left to go. Nevertheless, you obviously still want these recalls to happen since the Blue Oval is trying to put things right — and this time it’s F-150 and Super Duty owners (from F-250 up to F-550) who need to pay attention. This latest campaign, per documents submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), covers 355,656 F-Series trucks.
Specifically, this recall (NHTSA number 25V-540, Ford number 25S88) impacts all 2025 F-150s and 2025-2026 F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 models in the recall population. According to what the automaker told safety regulators, instrument cluster screens can go blank on startup, making it impossible for the driver to get critical information like vehicle speed and warning lights “in certain conditions”.
For the technically inclined folks out there, during affected vehicles’ ignition cycle and the sleep entry sequence for the instrument panel cluster display, a CAN wakeup interrupt can occur within a small timeframe, triggering a memory protection fault that renders the screen inoperable on startup. Ford claims it first became aware of the issue back in May, when allegations of blank cluster screens on the 2025 F-150 first came to the company’s internal Critical Concern Review Group (CCRG). Ford’s supplier of the displays, Visteon, narrowed down the issue to a software-related memory protection fault over the following months.
The problem impacts these F-Series trucks built within time frames spanning from May 2024 to July 2025:
- Ford F-150: 278,376 trucks impacted
- 2025 Ford F-150, built between May 14, 2024 and July 25, 2025 (278,376 units)
- Super Duty: 77,280 trucks impacted
- 2025-2026 Ford F-250, built between June 6, 2024 and July 22, 2025 (41,216 units)
- 2025-2026 Ford F-350, built between June 6, 2024 and July 22, 2025 (30,551 units)
- 2025-2026 Ford F-450, built between June 6, 2024 and July 22, 2025 (4,977 units)
- 2025-2026 Ford F-550, built between June 6, 2025 and July 22, 2025 (536 units)
To-date, Ford says its aware of 95 warranty claims for the issue, with the first claim received on January 30 of this year.
What’s the fix?
Ford’s solution to the problem is simply to disable the memory protection feature through a software update. Dealers are already aware of the issue as of August 25 — it sent a notice to dealers that new vehicles shouldn’t be demonstrated or delivered to customers until an update is performed — while owners will receive notifications between September 2 and September 5.
When impacted F-Series owners do get their letters, they’ll be told to take their trucks into their local Ford or Lincoln dealer to have the instrument panel module’s software updated, free of charge. Owners shouldn’t have had to pay out-of-pocket for this repair since the affected trucks should still be under warranty.
