SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER BALL JOINT
A detached control arm can cause a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
12 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 38 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
1 campaign covering the 2025 FORD MAVERICK carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
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.
A detached control arm can cause a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
An overheated engine block heater can increase the risk of a fire.
Failure to correctly detect a passenger may result in the air bag not deploying as intended, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
A detached glass panel may become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
An unexpected loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash.
Trailer lights or brakes that do not function can reduce the driver’s ability to control the trailer and decrease the trailers visibility to other road users, increasing the risk of a crash.
Two 2025 FORD MAVERICKs 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.