Try our newest merchandise
The stop-delivery order positioned on the Ford F-150 by Ford Australia in July has now been lifted.
The US-built full-size pickup, which is remanufactured to right-hand drive (RHD) for Ford Australia by RMA in Melbourne, was not topic to a ‘stop-sale’ motion and Ford sellers continued to take orders, nevertheless, RMA was requested to stop delivering autos to sellers.
“A maintain was positioned on cargo of remanufactured RHD F-150s whereas we labored via some inside necessities,” Ford mentioned in a press release offered to CarExpert in July.
“We count on to have the ability to present an replace to our sellers by the tip of July,” Ford mentioned beforehand.
CarExpert can prevent hundreds on a brand new automobile. Click on right here to get an ideal deal.
CarExpert realized concerning the supply maintain – which we perceive was on account of an absence of elements required for recall work – after Ford offered solely 11 examples of the F-150 in June, when rivals together with the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Ram 1500 and Toyota Tundra discovered 258, 279 and 48 new houses respectively.
Gross sales of the F-150 fell to zero in July because of the stop-delivery order, with simply three gross sales recorded in August and just one in September.
January was the long-lasting pickup’s finest month of gross sales this 12 months, with 230 registrations, and simply 549 F-150s have been delivered to the tip of September in 2025 (in comparison with 2112 Ram 1500s, 1636 Silverado 1500s, and 618 Tundras.
Whereas Ford Australia wouldn’t specify any particulars about what led it to pause deliveries, the transfer got here forward of a US recall for a number of Ford fashions, impacting 646,000 autos together with the F-150 in North America.
Ford Australia’s F-150 has been the topic of a number of product security remembers regionally, together with one in August on account of faulty rear wheel hub bolts which will turn out to be unfastened or break, doubtlessly inflicting harm to the axle, lack of energy, and/or autos to roll away when parked.
A July recall was issued on account of a doubtlessly faulty rear-view digicam, and there have now been a complete of eight remembers for the F-150 in Australia because it went on sale right here in early 2023.
With the supply maintain now lifted, and 2023 model-year autos nonetheless in native showrooms, Ford will now be seeking to shift outdated shares of the F-150, which has acquired updates within the US since then.
MORE: Discover the Ford F-150 showroom
