Recall · 25V541000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Ranger over air bags
100,900
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
August 22, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW:CURTAIN
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2024-2026 Ranger vehicles. The side curtain air bags may contact the B-Pillar inner reinforcements and tear during deployment. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 226, "Ejection Mitigation."
- What it can cause
- Air bags that deploy improperly during a crash increase the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will install protective shields, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 26, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25C41.
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 100,900 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 92% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2024 to 2026, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 59 times before this, most recently in June 2025 as 25V439000. 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 114 complaints with NHTSA, 23 of them before this campaign was filed. 5 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 22 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V548000 (engine and engine cooling), 26V343000 (engine and engine cooling), 26V335000 (equipment), 26V268000 (seats).
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 August 22, 2025 as campaign 25V541000. 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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