Recall · 20V414000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over seats
19,299
Vehicles covered
2
Models
5
Model years
July 17, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:POWER ADJUST
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company, Inc. (Ford) is recalling certain 2016-2018 Lincoln MKX and 2019-2020 Nautilus vehicles equipped with 16-way electric tilt seats. The seat cushion frame edge may contact the wire harness when the seat occupant uses the tilt function of the seat, potentially damaging one or more wires within the harness, which can result in either inadvertent deployment of the air bag or nondeployment of the air bag in the event of a crash.
- What it can cause
- An air bag that deploys inadvertently increases the risk of a crash. An air bag that does not deploy in the event of a crash increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Ford will notify owners, and dealers will install protective flocking tape onto the exposed edge of the 16-way seat cushion frames, and inspect the wire harness for damage, and repair or replace it as needed, free of charge. This recall began August 12, 2020. Owners may contact Ford/Lincoln customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 20S37.
- 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 19,299 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 84% 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 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Lincoln vehicles have been recalled over the seats 5 times before this, most recently in June 2020 as 20V366000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 368 complaints with NHTSA, 108 of them before this campaign was filed. 5 of those name the seats, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2015, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 8 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V377000 (lane departure), 26V372000 (electrical system), 25V544000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 25V442000 (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 Ford Motor Company with NHTSA on July 17, 2020 as campaign 20V414000. 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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