18V894000
ENGINE
When the heater is plugged in, prolonged corrosion could cause a resistive short, increasing the risk of overheated or melted wiring which can increase the risk of a fire.
2018 FORD F-250
1 safety recall campaign, 3 defect investigations (1 open), 616 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations31 open
Owner complaints616
Complaints citing a crash10
Complaints citing a fire13
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
- 243STEERING
- 193SUSPENSION
- 44UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 28WHEELS
- 14ENGINE
- 13POWER TRAIN
- 13STRUCTURE:BODY
- 12FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2018 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.