Ford Recalls 600,000 Vehicles To Keep Brakes From Failing Due To Sticking Valve

Good luck to all that have their vehicle at the dealer waiting for the defective HCU part. My 07 Milan with 76000+ miles has been sitting at Lincoln of ??? lot since 5/12/21. I was informed a week earlier by their service advisor that they had all the parts in to do the recall on the brakes, recall 19S54. I took the car in on 5/12 for the brake recall, was informed later that day that they didn’t have the HCU part that failed fords test. After being promised several part delivery dates, now they’re telling me 8/24/21. This will be 3.5 months if they hit this date. I never had any prior trouble with my brakes and still original brakes. Here’s the bottom line on this recall. There were 600,000 06-10 fusions, Milan’s, and MKZ’s recalled that are all 11 to 15 years old. Some GENIUS at Ford said there would only be a 1% failure rate or 6000 vehicles. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know this is an unrealistic figure. The actual failure rate is over 30% I’ve been informed or probably 200,000+ vehicles. At first I was told it was the pandemic as to why they didn’t have the part. I’ve since been told that the part was discontinued in manufacture at some time in the past. Ford has been lying to everyone about these parts. I don’t think they have them or ever will.Ford, like many manufacturers, have many new vehicles sitting on large lots waiting for chips that are in short supply due to the pandemic. What do you think their main focus would be, getting all the new vehicles to dealers to relieve their cash flow, of manufacturing an obsolete part for 11 to 15 year old vehicles?

I have 2009 ford fusion, ABS light has been on and won't go off, got the recall notice about the brake fluid, toke it to ford dealer to have fixed, them can back to me and said I have to get the ABS light fixed before they will change the brake fluid for the recall, the cost would be $995, in PA the ABS light can be on and it passes inspection, do I have to have the ABS light fixed to have the recall done ? could it be that the ABS light is on due to the old brake fluid ? thanks

Ford Fusion 2009 is the worst car I've ever owned in my life. And Ford motors is unprofessional to customers who's going through this problem with the breaks completely going out while driving. Well after 2 months of my car at a dealership, waiting on the parts for the recall. They tell me I need a master cylinder and it will cost me over 800 dollar's. So even after the recalls were done for the recall. I had to pay for a master cylinder. No rental car from Ford motors company and they were very unprofessional in my situation with their production of a car that not safe to even sell.

Took my recalled 2006 Fusion in for air bag and brake recall. They did a scan and got a bad thermostat code. That light has been on for years and over a hundred thousand miles. I was told the only issue was the possibility of the heater not working. Heater works fine. Anyway, Ford refused to perform the brake recall unless the thermostat issue is fixed. Guess they want to be certain your heater works more than they want to prevent an accident.

On August 18,2021 I took my 2008 Ford Fusion with less than 62,000 miles on it into Champaign Ford City located in Champaign, Il to handle the issue of the 19S54 recall. I was told that the vehicle was taken care of. I experienced brake failure on 12/01/2021 and brought the vehicle back to Ford City mentioning that it was just in for a recall. They looked it over said they could not see a problem with the brakes ABS. I advised them to look it over more thoroughly. After hanging up I researched this issue and realized that they had not done a full fix on the recall issue and that the ABS HCU was bad. When I next spoke to my service person they said that it was an expensive part that they could not justify paying for that the warranty manager said it was not going to be taken care of by Ford that I would pay out of pocket. I reminded them about the recall only to be furnished with a customer service number to Ford with Dave saying that sometimes the customer gets a better result. When I called that number and after many frustrating transfers I was told by a recall customer service person that because they had deemed that part good on August 18th they had done the recall properly. I suggested that had that part been a good part I would not have lost the use of the brakes just miles later. The recall service person said that once I picked up the vehicle from Ford City on August 18th they were done with that recall and then proceeded to just kept repeating the same rant to me and we were getting no where ..so I asked for to speak with someone above her and was told that I would get the same result. I asked that the person still contact me. Still waiting for that call. I am now in the position of not trusting Ford City as they were the ones to make the call on not repairing the recall properly. I contacted the NHTSA who has a reference # 19V904 about the 19S54 recall. Please contact the NHTSA and report your incident to them. I also filled out the NBC 5 Consumer Complaints form and hope to hear back from them. Now I know that this needs to be fixed but who can I trust to take care of it..and why should I give money to Ford City to fix the probem when they were blatantly neglectful?

2006 F150 have the same problem as the cars. The ABS valving or bypass valve randomly actuates leaving the driver with only limited rear brakes at the very bottom of the brake pedal stroke which is useless if you're going faster than 5mph. Accidents just waiting to happen. Ford know about the problem but will not act until the numbers of accidents and injuries exceed some formula. Good luck all that own these ford products.

I have a 2012 Ford Edge with the same problem. What Ford needs to do is recall all vehicles with this brake system.