Recall · 20V222000
TransitWorks recalled 2 models over seat belts
205
Vehicles covered
2
Models
3
Model years
April 20, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:FRONT:RETRACTOR
- The defect
- TransitWorks is recalling certain Driverge vehicles based on 2019-2020 Ford Transit vans equipped with Freedman Seating Company (FSC) PT Foldaway and GO-ES 3-point Foldaway seats. The seat belt retractor block out zone may have not been set correctly, potentially resulting in a seat belt that may not properly secure the occupant. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 209, "Seat Belt Assemblies."
- What it can cause
- An unsecured occupant has an increased risk of injury in the event of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- TransitWorks will notify owners, and dealers will replace the retractors, free of charge. The recall began May 13, 2020. Dealers can contact Freedman Seating Company for parts and reimbursement information at 1-800-443-4540.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 205 vehicles this is a small campaign: 61% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 28 times before this, most recently in April 2020 as 20V217000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 177 complaints with NHTSA, 12 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 15 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V876000 (equipment adaptive/mobility), 25V720000 (engine and engine cooling), 25V572000 (back over prevention), 25V552000 (back over prevention).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by TransitWorks with NHTSA on April 20, 2020 as campaign 20V222000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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