Recall · 21V805000
Ford Motor recalled 5 models over air bags
777
Vehicles covered
5
Models
5
Model years
October 15, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:SIDE IMPACT
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2022 Super Duty F-250, F-350, 2021 F-150, Expedition, and Lincoln Navigator vehicles. The front-door side impact pressure sensor modules may have been damaged during supplier assembly, which can cause the side impact air bags to not deploy properly in a crash. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 214, "Side Impact Protection."
- What it can cause
- An air bag that does not deploy properly during a crash increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the driver and passenger front door side impact sensors, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 3, 2021. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 21C26.
- 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 777 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 56% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 to 2022, 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 air bags 45 times before this, most recently in October 2021 as 21V770000. 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 1,481 complaints with NHTSA, 37 of them before this campaign was filed. 11 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 43 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V489000 (back over prevention), 26V402000 (power train), 26V368000 (structure), 26V344000 (seat belts).
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 October 15, 2021 as campaign 21V805000. 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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