Safety Recall 22S41 - 2021-2022 Mach E - HVBJB Recall [high voltage battery main contactors may overheat]

[Secret Sauce]

I took delivery of my MME and it is sitting in my garage now. Great car! I’m fully expecting them to call on Monday requesting me to return it. They certainly can’t say I didn’t try to educate them on the recall!

So, what happened today, did they call you?

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[PharmilyMan]

So, what happened today, did they call you?

Crickets. Here’s hoping Tuesday is the same!

 

[Secret Sauce]

Crickets. Here’s hoping Tuesday is the same!

Cool. Maybe a sleeping dog but did you look up your VIN here?

https://www.etis.ford.com/vehicleRegSelector.do

I'd be interested to know if your car appears in this database. Mine did, even though it was missing from both the NHTSA and the Ford recall databases. This lead my dealership to incorrectly tell me the car was not included and then reverse themselves the next day.

 

[Progress]

For anyone trying to get a summary of the Safety Recall of the Mach-E, here is my take on the previous 119 pages. Approximately 290 out of the 49,000 MMEs (0.6% in 2 years) sold in the US have had a failure of the high voltage battery main contactors, which can result in a contactor that remains open or a contactor that welds closed. In either case the car will either stop running or fail to re-start after being turned off. The cause of the 0.6% failure is that the design and part-to-part variation of the high voltage battery main contactor are not sufficiently robust. So far there have been no reported accidents due to this problem.
The recall notice from Ford
( https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2022/06/15/mustang-mach-e-recall-faq.html ) states that the Secondary On-Board Diagnostic Control Module and the Battery Energy Control Module software for all MMEs manufactured between 05/27/2020 and 05/24/2022 are subject to recall and the software needs to be updated. The new software will monitor the temperature of the main contactors and intelligently prevent them from failing as they have previously.
All MMEs manufactured after 5/24/2022 have the new software. They also have a new part number for the high voltage battery main contactor, but that is not part of the recall. Dealers will receive detailed information on July 13, and letters to consumers who need to have updates will start going out on July 18. Fixes to the software will go out over-the-air as well as through the dealer. It is hoped, but not directly stated, that the updates will be started in mid-July.
Because the failure rate is so low, current MME owners can confidently wait for the updates and not worry too much. The biggest problem is with expectant owners who cannot take ownership of their new cars while they are under a recall.
That is about it for facts. For speculation, I think that the new software updates will perform like a warning before the contactors actually fail, as JDW has suggested. If there was too much variability in the manufacture of the contactors so that 0.6% have failed so far, a seat of the pants guess suggests that about 5% are faulty and would eventually fail over the next several years. Following this logic, the new software will detect when a main contactor has started to fail, take steps to prevent failure, and warn the owner to take the car in for repair. One could expect that the contactors with the new part number are more robust and have a lower failure rate than the current one. This interpretation also explains why a hardware fix is not part of the recall. The hardware in 95% of the cars is fine, and the updated software will detect the 5% that need replacing and protect against any future problems with the main contactor. In this scenario the only degradation of performance in the car caused by the updated software is between the time a problem is detected by the new software and fixed by the dealer. Of course, only time will tell what the new software actually does.

 

[Bucket]

On the bright side, I woke up this morning thinking
1 Clean and gap points in distributor
2 Pull spark plugs clean and gap. Make sure to sand and remove pits with sand paper.
3 The good old days.

 

[ooke]

Has anyone with build date > May 24th been able to take delivery of their Mach e?
Mine is already at the dealership but my dealer says they are still waiting to hear from ford before they can sell even though mine was built May 26th.

 

[Av8tor]

Has anyone with build date > May 24th been able to take delivery of their Mach e?
Mine is already at the dealership but my dealer says they are still waiting to hear from ford before they can sell even though mine was built May 26th.

@Sealevel just took delivery of his car built after 5/24

 

[yngwenli]

This recall stop sale brings back the nightmares of chiphold for a lot of us (which added 2 months to our build time?).

 

[AKgrampy]

I do not know if it means anything but our local Ford dealer received a Field Service Action alert today identifying the recall and containing a list of affected VIN’s. I hope this is a step forward in the process of releasing the FSA.

 

[MRyan7465]

Two people on the Reddit MACH E forum just posted that the recall software is out and that it took about 40 mins to install.

Can anyone vouch that this is true?

 

[generaltso]

Two people on the Reddit MACH E forum just posted that the recall software is out and that it took about 40 mins to install.

Can anyone vouch that this is true?

I can confirm that their are updates for the affected modules available in FDRS. They are likely for the recall, but there seem to be some typos in the recall document for one of the module versions, so it's not 100% confirmed.

https://www.macheforum.com/site/thr...obdmc-sobdmb-updates-available-in-fdrs.19011/

 

[AKgrampy]

I know a Field Service Action alert came out today so hopefully the software will soon be supplied to the dealers.

 

[Neil4Real]

I know a Field Service Action alert came out today so hopefully the software will soon be supplied to the dealers.

Any way to get a copy of it?

 

[Sealevel]

@Sealevel just took delivery of his car built after 5/24

Blue Note's build date was May27 and I picked it up on June 22.

 

[AKgrampy]

Any way to get a copy of it?

All it gives the dealer is a copy of the recall and a list of VIN numbers. Have to have a Ford account and password to view the list.

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