Recall · 21V631000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Transit over parking brake
30
Vehicles covered
1
Model
6
Model years
August 11, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL:LINKAGE AND CABLE
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2015-2020 Transit vehicles. An incorrect driveshaft torsional damper service kit may have been installed, which can allow the damper shield to contact the parking brake cable, possibly resulting in parking brake failure.
- What it can cause
- Parking brake failure can result in unintended vehicle movement, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the passenger side parking brake cable with a cable that provides sufficient clearance to the damper shield, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters were mailed on September 24, 2021. Owner notification letters were mailed on March 14, 2022. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 21S39.
- 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.nhtsa.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 30 vehicles this is a small campaign: 83% 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 2015 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the parking brake 11 times before this, most recently in May 2018 as 18V319000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 619 complaints with NHTSA, 272 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the parking brake, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2015, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 10 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V876000 (equipment adaptive/mobility), 25V572000 (back over prevention), 25V442000 (back over prevention), 23V499000 (fuel system, gasoline).
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 August 11, 2021 as campaign 21V631000. 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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