Recall · 24V294000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Transit Connect over visibility
1,315
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
April 26, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:FIXED PANARAMIC ROOF/SKY LIGHT ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2017-2019 Transit Connect vehicles. An improper bond may exist between the panoramic roof and the vehicle body, which can result in the panel detaching from the vehicle.
- What it can cause
- A roof panel that detaches while driving can create a road hazard and increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will remove, clean, and reinstall the panoramic roof panel, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 4, 2024. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 24S29.
- 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 1,315 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 61% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2017 to 2019, 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 37 times before this, most recently in February 2024 as 24V142000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 101 complaints with NHTSA, 60 of them before this campaign was filed. 7 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 October 2017, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 10 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V572000 (back over prevention), 25V442000 (back over prevention), 25V196000 (power train), 22V413000 (power train).
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 April 26, 2024 as campaign 24V294000. 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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