Recall · 26V101000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Explorer over suspension
412,774
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
February 20, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
SUSPENSION:REAR
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2017-2019 Explorer vehicles. The rear suspension toe links may fracture.
- What it can cause
- A rear toe link fracture can result in a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the toe links, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on March 16, 2026. Owners may contact Ford Customer Service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S08. This recall is an expansion of previous NHTSA recall number 21V537. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning February 25, 2026.
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 412,774 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 97% 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 9 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the suspension 47 times before this, most recently in May 2025 as 25V341000. 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 2,692 complaints with NHTSA, 2,426 of them before this campaign was filed. 89 of those name the suspension, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2016, 9 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 8 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V448000 (structure), 26V012000 (equipment), 25V685000 (equipment), 25V347000 (structure).
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 February 20, 2026 as campaign 26V101000. 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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