Recall · 26V344000
Ford Motor recalled 2 models over seat belts
419,967
Vehicles covered
2
Models
10
Model years
May 27, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:PRETENSIONER
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2018-2022 Expedition and Lincoln Navigator vehicles. The seat belt pretensioner in the driver and/or front passenger seat may inadvertently lock the seat belt, which will not allow the belt to retract or extend.
- What it can cause
- Seat belts that do not retract or extend can fail to restrain an occupant as intended, increasing the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the seat belt retractors as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed June 8, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available, anticipated in August 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S34. This recall replaces and expands previous NHTSA recalls 24V099 and 25V197. Vehicles previously inspected or repaired under the prior recalls will need the new repair completed.
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 419,967 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 2018 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 8 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ford vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 46 times before this, most recently in March 2026 as 26V159000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 10 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,802 complaints with NHTSA, 1,538 of them before this campaign was filed. 163 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2018, 8 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 35 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V402000 (power train), 26V372000 (electrical system), 26V368000 (structure), 26V204000 (visibility).
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 27, 2026 as campaign 26V344000. 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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