NHTSA Safety Recalls
2020 Ford Fusion Recalls
The 2020 Ford Fusion has 3 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on October 10, 2025.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2020 Ford Fusion. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 3
- Owner complaints
- 184
- Crashes reported
- 10
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
3 fires
overall, 5 stars max
On a 2020 Ford Fusion, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
3 recalls on the 2020 Ford Fusion
Equipment: electrical: engine block heater
- Campaign
- 25V685000
- Reported
- October 10, 2025
- Vehicles affected
- up to 59,006
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2019 Fusion, 8 other models
Back over prevention: software
- Campaign
- 25V442000
- Reported
- June 27, 2025
- Vehicles affected
- up to 200,237
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2019 Fusion, 19 other models
Electrical system: propulsion system: traction battery: management system/energy control module (bms/becm)
- Campaign
- 23V440000
- Reported
- June 23, 2023
- Vehicles affected
- up to 14,452
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and fire
- Same campaign
- also 2019 Fusion
2020 Ford Fusion complaints by year
NHTSA has received 184 owner complaints about the 2020 Ford Fusion, the newest on October 20, 2026. Of these, 10 describe a crash (5%) and 3 a fire; owners reported 5 injuries.
In complaints about the 2020 Ford Fusion, the component group named most often is the power train (36%), followed by the engine (28%) and the electrical system (21%).
1 of the 2020 Ford Fusion's 3 recalls also concerns the electrical system.
Where 2020 Ford Fusion owners gave the mileage (57 complaints), the median was 71,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Power Train67
- Engine52
- Electrical System38
- Unknown Or Other28
- Steering12
- Fuel/Propulsion System11
Complaints received, by year
| 2020 | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | |
| 2022 | 22 | |
| 2023 | 25 | |
| 2024 | 32 | |
| 2025 | 56 | |
| 2026 | 36 |
Complaints about the 2020 Ford Fusion peaked in 2025, when NHTSA received 56. 33% arrived between 2019 and 2023, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2020 vehicles, the 2020 Ford Fusion drew 0.3× the complaints of the median Ford Fusion year in the same window: 11th highest of the 15 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: ★★★★★
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 4/5
The 184 complaints about the 2020 Ford Fusion are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Ford Fusion by model year
Other 2020 Ford models
Newest record on this page: October 20, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted