Ford recalled more than 272,000 vehicles for a potential rollaway condition due to a failure to lock into Park.
We’re coming up on the end of 2025, and no matter which way you slice it, it’s been a rough year for recalls. Specifically, it’s been a rough year for Ford with recalls, as the Blue Oval alone instigated 147 recall campaigns throughout the year. Fundamentally, while that shows a significant number of issues with its vehicles, these steps are an effort to correct those issues — and the story continues with the F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E EVs, as well as the Maverick Hybrid.
In total, Ford is recalling 272,645 vehicles to address a potential roll-away condition. According to what the automaker told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the impacted vehicles may have defective Integrated Park Module (IPM) parking pawls, which may not fully engage, even when drivers put their vehicles into Park. If the pawl doesn’t fully engage as it should, that could increase the risk of a rolling incident and crash, as well as put the affected vehicles out of compliance with federal safety standards.
According to Ford: “Binding of the vehicle’s IPM (Integrated Park Module) pawl against the IPM slider component may impede the slider from returning to its fully engaged park position.” The binding could occur due to material or manufacturing variations, but the net result is the same: The pawl will not completely engage when the vehicle is put in Park, allowing the vehicle to possibly roll away if the electronic parking brake is not also engaged.
Of the 272,645 vehicles in the recall population, here’s the breakdown by model:
- 2025-2026 Ford Maverick Hybrid: 80,468 units built between April 11, 2024 and November 17, 2025
- Ford says this only impacts 2.5-liter hybrid models; the 2.0-liter EcoBoost Mavericks are not included here
- 2022-2026 Ford F-150 Lightning BEV: 104,113 units built between October 14, 2021 and October 7, 2025
- 2024-2026 Ford Mustang Mach-E: 88,064 units built between July 27, 2023 and October 1, 2025
What’s the fix?
If the binding situation occurs, owners will see no illuminated range position (so ‘P’ won’t illuminate when it should). A wrench light and shift system fault message should also display in the instrument panel cluster.
Ford says it identified the problem on July 14, with a Mustang Mach-E throwing a diagnostic code during a pre-delivery inspection. The technician did not experience a persistent issue after shifting into drive, then back to park again. Nevertheless, the assembly plant removed the suspect IPM from the vehicle and sent it to Ford’s third-party supplier for analysis. The automaker’s Critical Concern Review Group further investigated the issue over the following months. In early October, Ford’s Hermosillo plant that builds the Maverick Hybrid x-rayed a transmission removed from another problematic vehicle, eventually leading the engineering team at Ford’s Research and Innovation Center to measure issues between the sliders and pawls within the module. From there, Ford instituted an enhanced screening procedure at plants that build the F-150 Lightning, Maverick Hybrid and Mach-E to watch for the issue.
To-date, the company claims it has received 22 Mach-E warranty claims, 4 Maverick warranty claims and 16 F-150 Lightning claims with the P07E4-00 diagnostic trouble code. That is the code triggered by a failure for the IPM pawl to fully engage the electronic parking brake.
Through the supplier’s and Ford’s own investigations, the teardowns “identified no evidence of a mechanical issue, and all components of the IPM were found to be within specification”.
Because the investigation team ran tests that concluded the potential for a roll-in-park condition was low and vehicles tended to return to normal operation after the pawl bound up due to increased friction with the slider, Ford’s solution is not a mechanical replacement. Instead, Ford plans to deploy an over-the-air software update that will unbind the IPM slider if it detects a condition where Park is not fully engaging.
