U0159 on Ford vehicles

A model year is listed because the code is named in its own record — a bulletin filed against it, or an owner’s complaint about it — not because every one of these vehicles sets it. Counts are documents in NHTSA’s files, not failure rates.

Bulletins and campaigns Ford filed with NHTSA whose summary names U0159. Quote the document number at the service desk — it is a diagnosis the maker has already written down.

• SSM 51486 Service bulletin
  2023-03-24 · Back Over Prevention
• Some 2023 F-Super Duty vehicles may set diagnostic trouble codes (DTCS) U023A:00, U0159:00, and/or U0146:00 in the anti-lock brake system (ABS) module after the vehicle is remote started. This may be due to the image processing module A (IPMA) not communicating on the controller area network (CAN) during the remote starting event. Replacement or reprogramming of the ABS module or IPMA will not res
• SSM 53521 Service bulletin
  2025-03-25 · Unknown Or Other
• Some 2023-2025 F-Super Duty vehicles may set diagnostic trouble codes (DTCS) U023A:00, U0159:00, and/or U0146:00 in the anti-lock brake system (ABS) module after the vehicle is remote started.
• SSM 53892 Service bulletin
  2025-06-11 · Service Brakes
• Some 2023-2025 F-Super Duty vehicles may exhibit a "Hill Start Assist Unavailable" and/or "Parking Brake Limited Function" message at vehicle start-up with diagnostic trouble codes (DTC) U0151, U023A, U0159, and/or U0146 stored in the anti-lock brake system (ABS) module. These DTCs and/or U0415 may also be present in various other modules related to "invalid data received from the ABS control modu
• SSM 54160 Service bulletin
  2025-08-22 · Service Brakes
• Some 2023-2025 F-Super Duty vehicles may exhibit a "Hill Start Assist Unavailable" and/or "Parking Brake Limited Function" message at vehicle start-up with diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) U0151, U023A, U0159, and/or U0146 stored in the anti-lock brake system (ABS) module. These DTCs and/or U0415 may also be present in various other modules related to "invalid data received from the ABS control mod
• SSM 54420 Service bulletin
  2025-12-03 · Service Brakes
• Some 2023-2026 F-Super Duty vehicles built on or before 01-Oct-2025 may exhibit a "Hill Start Assist Unavailable" and/or "Parking Brake Limited Function" message at vehicle start-up with diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) U0151, U023A, U0159 and/or U0146 stored in the anti-lock brake system (ABS) module. These DTCs and/or U0415 may also be present in various other modules related to "invalid data rec

A stored code names the test that failed, never the part that caused it. The record above is what Ford and its owners have filed about it; the code’s page across every make has the whole file.