Though Ford issued a recall of its Mavericks earlier this year, Kelley Blue Book reports it’s having to issue another recall for the same issue due to dealers not completing the prescribed repairs—unbeknownst to drivers.
Back in April, the automaker recalled over 400,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick vehicles due to the vehicle failing to detect a failing battery, leading to loss of power.
In response, dealers were told to recalibrate the body and power train control modules on recalled vehicles; the problem is, this simply wasn’t done on some of the vehicles brought in.
According to documents filed with NHTSA from Ford, dealers recorded some Mavericks as being repaired, despite not implementing the software update. As a result, many vehicle owners left the dealership, mistakenly thinking their trucks were safe to operate again.
757 of model year 2022 Ford Mavericks are now recalled. Dealers are, once again, instructed to install the software update to repair these vehicles.
In a time when many recall notices are failing to even reach consumers in the first place, it’s crucial to get the fix right when vehicle owners are alerted.
This isn’t the first time such an incident has happened with Ford, either; back in February, a federal whistleblower revealed that Ford had loosened its requirements for recall repairs, allowing lower-level service technicians to carry out the jobs.
