Recall · 25V393000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over seats
304,662
Vehicles covered
2
Models
12
Model years
June 13, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS:MID/REAR ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2020-2025 Aviator, and Explorer vehicles. The switch for the easy-entry second-row outer seats may bind or stick, resulting in the seats unlatching, folding, or sliding unexpectedly while driving.
- What it can cause
- A seat that moves unexpectedly may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing their risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the second-row seat switch, and replace the bezel around the switch as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 7, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25S67.
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 304,662 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 model years 2020 to 2025, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the seats 46 times before this, most recently in May 2025 as 25V311000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 12 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,319 complaints with NHTSA, 1,389 of them before this campaign was filed. 74 of those name the seats, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2019, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 69 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V451000 (seats), 26V402000 (power train), 26V371000 (power train), 26V343000 (engine and engine cooling).
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 June 13, 2025 as campaign 25V393000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2025-06-13.
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