Recall · 20V305000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Transit Connect over seat belts
1,616
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
May 27, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:FRONT
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2016-2017 Transit Connect vehicles. The front driver and/or passenger seat belt pretensioner initiators could contain an improper generant mix ratio that may prevent the seat belt pretensioners from deploying in the event of a crash.
- What it can cause
- In the event of a crash, the front driver and/or passenger seat belt pretensioners may not deploy, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Ford will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and replace seat belt assemblies as necessary, free of charge. This recall began August 7, 2020. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 20S25.
- 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 1,616 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 64% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2016 to 2017, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 30 times before this, most recently in May 2020 as 20V250000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 132 complaints with NHTSA, 40 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2016, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 8 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V572000 (back over prevention), 24V294000 (visibility), 23V502000 (latches/locks/linkages), 22V413000 (power train).
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 Ford Motor Company with NHTSA on May 27, 2020 as campaign 20V305000. 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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