{"id":265439,"date":"2026-06-13T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265439\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:09:07","slug":"ford-recalls-more-than-250000-focus-models-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265439\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford recalls more than 250,000 Focus models \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is recalling more than 250,000 vehicles that were incorrectly repaired under a previous recall meant to fix a problem that caused the engine to stall while driving.<\/p>\n<p>The recall includes 255,404 Ford Focus automobiles, model years 2012-2018. Ford said the canister purge valve may malfunction, causing the engine to stall unexpectedly while driving, increasing the risk of crash and injury.<\/p>\n<p>To fix the problem, dealers will provide a powertrain software update free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed July 6. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. <\/p>\n<p>Ford\u2019s number for this recall is 26S40. The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration&#8217;s number for this recall is 26V369. The original NHTSA recall number for this issue is 18V735.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle identification numbers involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ford is recalling more than 250,000 vehicles that were incorrectly repaired under a previous recall meant to fix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,32062],"class_list":["post-265439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-recalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}