Recall · 21V977000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Transit Connect over visibility
311
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
December 16, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:FIXED PANARAMIC ROOF/SKY LIGHT ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2014 Transit Connect vehicles equipped with a Panoramic Fixed-Glass Vista roof. An improper bond may exist between the panoramic roof and the vehicle body, which may result in the panel separating from the vehicle.
- What it can cause
- Panoramic roof panel separation while driving can increase the risk of an injury or crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will remove, clean, and reinstall the panoramic roof panel, free of charge. This recall is an expansion of NHTSA recall number 16V-695. Owner notification letters were mailed January 21, 2022. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 16S35.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| FordTransit Connect | 2014 | 2014 |
How this campaign compares
At 311 vehicles this is a small campaign: 55% 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 one model year, 2014, so the oldest vehicles on it were 7 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the visibility 26 times before this, most recently in October 2021 as 21V809000. 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 127 complaints with NHTSA, 77 of them before this campaign was filed. 3 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2014, 7 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 5 other recalls published here, the newest being: 23V502000 (latches/locks/linkages), 22V413000 (power train), 21V376000 (power train), 20V331000 (latches/locks/linkages).
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 December 16, 2021 as campaign 21V977000. 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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