Ford recalls 1.5 million vehicles to fix brake, wiper issues

Yahoo Finance automotive correspondent Pras Subramanian joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss a recall involving 1.5 million Ford vehicles.

Video Transcript

- Pras, we're also watching shares of Ford right now that were down more than 4.5%. This is after the company announced a recall. So tell us about that.

PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: You know, we wrote about this a couple weeks ago about how Ford is suffering from recalls. They have the most cars recalled since 2022 of any manufacturer. So in this case, 1.3 million cars recalled for a brake line failure for Lincoln MKX and Ford Fusion. This is a big safety issue, right, because it's basically stopping becomes much harder without brake fluid.

So big problem here in that Ford says only 2% of cars have this issue potentially. One crash so far. But so that's 26,000 vehicles that will potentially go and have a problem. So they're going to fix that. Also separately they had a 220,000 F-150 with a lesser issue, a windshield wiper motor problem. Not the end of the world there, but still a safety issue nonetheless.

- Pras Subramanian, thanks so much and have a good weekend.