Recall · 21V765000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Ranger over seats
37,625
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
September 30, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS:MID/REAR ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Ranger Super Cab vehicles equipped with rear seats containing fixed head restraints. The fixed head restraints may interfere with proper installation of certain types of child seats. Additionally, the child seat may not attach properly to the lower-rear anchors. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 225, "Child Restraint Anchorage System."
- What it can cause
- An improperly attached child seat can increase the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the rear-lower child restraint anchorages for correct alignment and adjust as necessary. Separately, dealers will replace the non-removable head restraints with removable head restraints, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters were mailed on November 5, 2021. Owner notification letters were mailed on March 17, 2022. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 21C24.
- 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 37,625 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 87% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2021, 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 seats 41 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 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 238 complaints with NHTSA, 18 of them before this campaign was filed. 3 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 February 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 7 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V685000 (equipment), 25V442000 (back over prevention), 23V379000 (equipment), 21V982000 (forward collision avoidance).
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 September 30, 2021 as campaign 21V765000. 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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