Ford recently reached 80 recalls for the year, and now there’s another one, this time affecting all F-Series pickup trucks. According to recall 26V653, announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, certain 2025 and 2026 model F-Series trucks have problems with their analog gauges, with needles becoming stuck or moving erratically. It’s a problem that affects 102,159 vehicles across the entire range, from F-150 all the way to F-750 Super Duty, and because the issue lies in a module, it cannot be resolved with a simple software update over the air, meaning affected customers will need to visit a dealer for a fix.
Cluster Issues Affect Multiple Ford Pickups
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According to the NHTSA recall report, Ford is recalling 91,588 examples of the 2025-2026 F-Super Duty altogether, with 43,300 of those F-250s, 26,354 F-350s, 6,847 F-450s, and 2,827 F-600s, all produced between December 14, 2024, and April 17, 2026. In addition, 10,570 2026 F-150 pickups produced between August 22, 2025, and May 12, 2026, are also being recalled. Those with good arithmetic skills will have noted a shortfall of one: a single 2026 F-750 Super Duty produced on November 21, 2025, is also being recalled. The problem first came to the attention of Ford’s Critical Concern Review Group on May 28 of this year, and the automaker quickly concluded that “supplier process deficiencies” at Visteon Corporation were responsible for the sticky or jumpy needles.
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Although Ford determined that, strictly speaking, the fault was not serious enough to make the speedometers non-compliant with the stated requirements in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 101, “Controls and Displays,” it and the NHTSA agreed that inaccurate needles may not meet the intent of the standard; an accurate speed reading is not being provided as required, hence the recall. Basically, Ford could have gotten away with doing nothing, but Ford didn’t want to take the risk that somebody crashes because they were distracted by the irregular cluster or didn’t know how fast they were going.
What Affected F-Series Owners Can Expect
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The recall remedy is a simple one: replace a module in the instrument cluster, not the entire cluster. Dealers are already aware of what to do, VINs are already searchable on nhtsa.gov, and owners will be informed of the recall via mail from October 26 to October 30, but the replacement part is only expected to be ready for installation into customer vehicles between December 7 and 11.
