Recall · 25V829000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Escape over structure
108,762
Vehicles covered
1
Model
4
Model years
December 1, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:HATCHBACK/LIFTGATE:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2020-2022 Escape and 2025 Escape vehicles. The liftgate hinge covers may not be properly secured and detach from the vehicle.
- What it can cause
- A detached liftgate hinge cover can create a distraction or a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and reinstall, or replace any missing liftgate hinge covers as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 3, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25SD6. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 3, 2025.
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 108,762 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 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 structure 41 times before this, most recently in October 2025 as 25V732000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,170 complaints with NHTSA, 1,697 of them before this campaign was filed. 782 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2019, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 35 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V123000 (back over prevention), 26V122000 (engine and engine cooling), 26V117000 (visibility), 25V862000 (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 December 1, 2025 as campaign 25V829000. 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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