Recall · 26V299000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Bronco over structure
16,200
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
May 12, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:ROOF AND PILLARS
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2021-2022 Bronco vehicles. The 3-door and 5-door Molded-In-Color (MIC) hardtop roof panels may have been manufactured improperly, which can allow sections of the outer roof panel to separate and detach from the vehicle.
- What it can cause
- A detached section of roof can create a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the hard top as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed May 28, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available, anticipated in November 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S32. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on May 12, 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 16,200 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 82% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 to 2022, 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 45 times before this, most recently in April 2026 as 26V238000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 594 complaints with NHTSA, 510 of them before this campaign was filed. 32 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 October 2021, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 25 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V468000 (engine), 26V403000 (structure), 26V236000 (power train), 26V124000 (back over prevention).
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 12, 2026 as campaign 26V299000. 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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