Recall · 21V653000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD F-150 over seat belts
16,430
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
August 23, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:FRONT:WEBBING
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2021 F-150 Super Cab vehicles. The front seatbelt webbing may be incorrectly routed.
- What it can cause
- A misrouted seatbelt may not adequately restrain an occupant in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised to perform a preliminary self-inspection of the front seatbelts. If the passenger-side seatbelt fails inspection, owners should not use the passenger seat until the repair is performed. If the driver-side seatbelt fails inspection, owners should not drive their vehicle until the repair is performed. Dealers will inspect the front seatbelts and, if the webbing is misrouted, will replace the seatbelt retractor and pretensioner, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on October 14, 2021. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 21C20.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| FordF-150 | 2021 | 2021 |
How this campaign compares
At 16,430 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 82% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2021, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2021, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 35 times before this, most recently in July 2021 as 21V592000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 994 complaints with NHTSA, 16 of them before this campaign was filed. 5 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 28 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V489000 (back over prevention), 26V402000 (power train), 26V104000 (electrical system), 25V729000 (visibility).
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 23, 2021 as campaign 21V653000. 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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