The stop-delivery order placed 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 subject to a ‘stop-sale’ action and Ford dealers continued to take orders, however, RMA was asked to cease delivering vehicles to dealers.
“A hold was placed on shipment of remanufactured RHD F-150s while we worked through some internal requirements,” Ford said in a statement provided to CarExpert in July.
“We expect to be able to provide an update to our dealers by the end of July,” Ford said previously.
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CarExpert learned about the delivery hold – which we understand was due to a lack of components required for recall work – after Ford sold only 11 examples of the F-150 in June, when rivals including the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Ram 1500 and Toyota Tundra found 258, 279 and 48 new homes respectively.
Sales of the F-150 fell to zero in July as a result of the stop-delivery order, with just three sales recorded in August and only one in September.
January was the iconic pickup’s best month of sales this year, with 230 registrations, and just 549 F-150s have been delivered to the end of September in 2025 (compared to 2112 Ram 1500s, 1636 Silverado 1500s, and 618 Tundras.
While Ford Australia would not specify any details about what led it to pause deliveries, the move came ahead of a US recall for multiple Ford models, impacting 646,000 vehicles including the F-150 in North America.
Ford Australia’s F-150 has been the subject of multiple product safety recalls locally, including one in August due to defective rear wheel hub bolts that may become loose or break, potentially causing damage to the axle, loss of power, and/or vehicles to roll away when parked.
A July recall was issued due to a potentially defective rear-view camera, and there have now been a total of eight recalls for the F-150 in Australia since it went on sale here in early 2023.
With the delivery hold now lifted, and 2023 model-year vehicles still in local showrooms, Ford will now be looking to shift superseded stocks of the F-150, which has received updates in the US since then.
