Ford "Harvest Program 25H05"

[mmff88gt]

Has anyone else recently gotten a letter from Ford which includes the following: "Ford Motor Company is voluntarily conducting a study on certain customer-owned vehicles to evaluate the software currently installed on one or more electronic modules in your vehicle?" It asks me to contact my servicing dealer for an appointment. Ford says my dealer will need my vehicle for at least one day. Rental vehicles are authorized.
I wonder why they are so vague as to what they might be evaluating. There is no indication that there is any issue to be fixed, just a chance for Ford to snoop through my vehicle's modules. Do they want to see how often I am "driving in Mexico?" I am not too excited about this. Others' thoughts?

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[WItoTX]

Had one a few years back. Threw it out and moved on. Mostly because I still had a warranty and didn't need Ford having my data.

 

[Jccams]

No way I would risk damage to my vehicle at a dealership for something that does nothing for me. That is laughable.

 

[geep81]

How could you be at all interested or curious about this for what they offered is my question.

Oh yeah let me give up my brand new at the time GT for a week for a tiny amount of money and a lot of risk and let some other person drive it and do who knows what ... to help out the multi billion dollar company?

Total joke of a request and offer from them. Should put you in a Ford Raptor as an incentive while your car is gone instead of the much lesser of a car loaner they offered. Hard hard hard pass.

They aren't trying to look at you individually come on dude. They'd probably be happy if they find a car beat on because they get data about how it's holding up. They want to see how the emissions and other stuff is holding up after real world use for a while.

 

[I Bleed Ford Blue]

I got one back in 23 right after I bought my mach, Ford and roush wanted it for a month to develop aftermarket parts for it and even offered to pay me like 400 bucks. I said hell no.

 

[4sdvenom]

I got one back in 23 right after I bought my mach, Ford and roush wanted it for a month to develop aftermarket parts for it and even offered to pay me like 400 bucks. I said hell no.

So Ford can't give Roush a Mustang to work with and Roush can't afford to buy one! Sounds like BS to me. (from whoever sent the letter, not you IBFB)

 

[I Bleed Ford Blue]

My thoughts exactly. With Roush's close relationship with Ford they could just give him a mach to develop parts for it, they sure as hell don't need mine.

 

[Brittany Blue 500]

The end goal of the Harvest Program 25H05 is for Ford to gather real-world data to prevent future safety recalls or performance bugs. When a manufacturer uses the word "harvest," it literally means they are gathering data (or physical parts sometimes but not for this one it seems) from a small group of customer vehicles to study them. The specific objectives Ford aims to accomplish by reading your car's software modules include:

Spotting Software "Drift" and Glitches because in a lab, software acts predictably. In the real world, exposure to unique conditions—like extreme weather, varying battery voltages, or interacting with different phones over Bluetooth—can cause software to glitch or "drift" from its original coding. Ford is checking to see how the software behaves after months of real-world driving.

They are also validating any current fixes to a problem because if your vehicle previously received a software update (either at a dealership or via an over-the-air update), Ford is verifying that the code actually installed correctly. They want to ensure it is performing the way their engineers intended across a wider population of vehicles.

Also, by extracting the data logs from your electronic modules, Ford engineers can see hidden errors or "fault codes" that haven't triggered a dashboard warning light yet. This data allows them to build more stable software updates for future vehicle models or head off a problem in current cars or make a factory change to stop an error from becoming bigger.

Because this is a proactive "investigatory" program rather than a safety recall, the car is not currently deemed broken or dangerous. Ford is essentially using a limited number of customer vehicles as a real-world test group. The dealership will pull the necessary data logs, verify everything is working smoothly, and update your software to the newest baseline version if needed.

Will they see any personal information? Maybe. But how many people rent a car, connect their phone and contacts, and never do a factory reset before turn in? Sure the next renter likely won't be able to access it as it nowadays is tied to a phone but it is still there. I wouldn't worry too much about that. What I would worry more about is the loaner vehicle they give you causes you to buy a new car!

Here is the TSB on it. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2025/MC-11026013-0001.pdf

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