Recall · 25V197000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over seat belts
112,951
Vehicles covered
2
Models
6
Model years
May 23, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:PRETENSIONER
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2018-2020 Expedition and Lincoln Navigator vehicles. The seat belt pretensioner in the driver and/or front passenger seat may inadvertently lock the seat belt, which will not allow the belt to retract or extend.
- What it can cause
- Seat belts that do not retract or extend can fail to restrain an occupant as intended, increasing the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the seat belt retractors as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 22, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25S31. Some vehicles in this recall that were previously inspected under recall 24V-099 and did not have parts replaced will need to have this new recall remedy completed.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY: 1-888-275-9171), 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 112,951 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 93% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2020, 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 seat belts 41 times before this, most recently in February 2025 as 25V093000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,411 complaints with NHTSA, 909 of them before this campaign was filed. 158 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2018, 7 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 21 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V402000 (power train), 26V372000 (electrical system), 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 May 23, 2025 as campaign 25V197000. 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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