Recall · 22V337000
Ford Motor recalled 4 models over air bags
310,203
Vehicles covered
4
Models
4
Model years
May 13, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER CLOCKSPRING/SPIRAL CASSETTE
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2016 Super Duty F-250, F-350, F-450, and F-550 vehicles. Dust may accumulate in the steering wheel clock spring, causing a disconnection in the electrical connection resulting in the driver's air bag not deploying as intended.
- What it can cause
- A disconnected driver's air bag can result in it not deploying, as intended, during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the steering wheel clock spring, free of charge. Remedy parts are expected to become available in the 3rd Quarter of 2023. An interim notification letter informing owners of the safety risk was mailed on July 6, 2022. Owner notification letters were mailed July 10, 2023. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 22S35.
- 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 310,203 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 96% 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, 2016, 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 air bags 49 times before this, most recently in February 2022 as 22V083000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 495 complaints with NHTSA, 244 of them before this campaign was filed. 56 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2016, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 25V572000 (back over prevention).
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 May 13, 2022 as campaign 22V337000. 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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