2013 Ford Taurus: backup camera failure

Filed Jul 10, 2026 · VA

Back up camera goes upside down or unavailable.

Filed May 9, 2026 · UT

The backup Camera goes upside down. The car hesitates when accelerated when needing a boost like getting on freeway Parking brake won’t catch. This is 2nd time and needs to be fixed again

Filed Nov 12, 2025 · Electrical, Visibility · NY

The backup camera has failed. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. I have seen other reports on the federal safety agency here specifying the same problem. Visibility in this car is poor and is augmented by the backup camera. Car serviced by ford dealerships only. If left unrepaired, other drivers of this make and model 2013-2019 Taurus have an increased susceptibility to collisions.

Filed Nov 3, 2025 · Driver assistance, Visibility · WY

The reverse camera is integrated into the rear view mirror of my ‘13 POLICE INTERCEPTOR SEDAN and the camera has lighted up blue and then disappears leaving a dark tint to my rear view mirror when I’m in reverse making it ineligible to use either features to ensure backing up.

Filed Jun 27, 2025 · Electrical · IN

The backup camera in my car randomly stops working. The screen will appear black when I put it in reverse and a note pops up saying “rear camera unavailable please contact dealership.” Then the next day it will work again, then go out again. It’s random but happens too frequently.

Filed Nov 17, 2024 · Driver assistance, Electrical · PA

My back up camera is not working for many year even when I got repaired.

Filed Sep 1, 2024 · Driver assistance · MD

Back up camera It’ll work when you start to back up and then all of a sudden it just stops working it’s been doing this often for about month.

Filed Mar 18, 2024 · Driver assistance · IL

My rear backup camera in my rearview. Mirror shows the image upside down sometimes I just get a blue screen. This Has started over a year ago.

Filed Sep 26, 2022 · Driver assistance · OH · crash

The problem is I have a faulty backup camera that shows distorted images, the projection on the screen is upside down, and suddenly goes black, displays a warning message with black screen and a triangle caution symbol with exclamation mark. (However, it does not immediately show that warning message). With this back-up camera not properly working it poses a dangerous risk to others and myself. Luckily, I have not hit anyone yet such as a young child, or any individuals. If this were to happen it could cause serious harm and leave an individual with permeant injuries, or even life threating injuries, or death. Since the camera stopped working, I have come awful close to getting into accidents with other vehicles upon backing out of parking spots, backing into the streets, etc. Since then, I had to also replaced my passenger side mirror that I took off when suddenly the camera stopped working when I was backing out of my garage and the picture from camera immediately went black and I panic and took off my passenger side mirror by hitting the side of my garage door opening. The vehicle has been taken to the dealership, to where they repaired the passenger mirror, and I explained to them about the backup camera. The Ford dealership did their inspection and confirmed that the camera is indeed not working properly, and they advised that I needed a new Camera. However, I was told that the camera is on back order, and they have no idea when it will be available. The first time I noticed that the back-up camera was not working was early August 2022, exact date unknown. Up until this happening, things were fine and never had an issue.

Filed Aug 31, 2022 · Driver assistance · MO

8/31/22 Ford announced a rear view camera recall for foggy cloudy images resulting in a lack of functionality due to poor visibility on select vehicles and production years. That recall needs to be expanded significantly. My 2013 Taurus rear view camera has been foggy/cloudy for years making it unusable and unsafe. The Ford dealership is aware of the issue as it does not seem uncommon to the servicemen but is ridiculously expensive to fix therefore rendering the safety mechanism nonfunctional.

Filed Sep 2, 2020 · Airbags, Driver assistance · NY · crash · 5 injuries

I I purchased this 2013 ford taurus sho awd twin turbo about 3 yrs ago used from the first owner so I'm the second owner. The car was in perfect condition. No accidents super clean totally loaded except no nav and screen controls for all the other cell phone apps and I even went for upgrade from sync 2 my touch w/no nav to the newest sync 3 3.5 from a 2018 vehicle changed everything it works great. I can tell the car was taken care of by him he put very nice tsw wheels and very expensive continental contitrack tires that are abut 300.00 a piece weathertech rain guards mats front and rear as well as the trunk.it was such a beatiful car. I bought it in the summer,when winter came all the problems started front suspension creaking struts no more back up camera working but fuzzy and upside down.and to replace it 300.00 now and this is the kick in the ass my wife was driving with my 2 newborn twin grand daughters my 6 yr old niece as well as my 88 yr old mother just exiting off a jug handle thats how you make a left turn in the state of nj,and it's a circle well she straight into the divider blowing out both front tires and cracking the left front rim and bending the right one. Lower front bumper valance as well as damage to the under carriage .I thank god that my family wasn't killed.I'm furious and I may be taking legal action holding ford personally liable the recall with the steering needs t be taken care of by ford always on its not drivable and unsafe

Filed Jun 16, 2019 · 71,319 miles · IN

Rear back up camera does not work at random times will get a notice to contact dealer ship error on screen. Sometimes it is upside down or no camera at all. Been happening for months going to ford dealer ship to confirm issue on july 16 2019. Back up sensors will still work.