11V582000
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
THIS WILL ALLOW THE OPERATOR TO INADVERTENTLY SHIFT THE VEHICLE INTO GEAR WITHOUT THE BRAKE PEDAL BEING DEPRESSED, INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH OR INJURY TO A NEARBY PEDESTRIAN.
2012 FORD F-250
1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation, 423 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints423
Complaints citing a crash5
Complaints citing a fire8
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 120SUSPENSION
- 112STEERING
- 27ENGINE
- 25UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 16WHEELS
- 15ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 14POWER TRAIN
- 14FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 FORD F-250s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.