Recall · 26V374000
Ford Motor recalled the FORD Escape over visibility
18,124
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
June 9, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS
- The defect
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2017 Escape vehicles previously repaired incorrectly under recall number 16V617. The power-operated windows may exert excessive force when encountering an object, before they automatically reverse. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 118, "Power-Operated Window Systems."
- What it can cause
- A closing window that does not reverse direction as expected can pinch a driver or passenger before retracting, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the power window operating system software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 22, 2026. Owners may contact customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26C29. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 6, 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| FordEscape | 2017 | 2017 |
How this campaign compares
At 18,124 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 83% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2017, 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 visibility 53 times before this, most recently in March 2026 as 26V204000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,665 complaints with NHTSA, 2,505 of them before this campaign was filed. 3 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2016, 9 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 26V011000 (equipment), 22V413000 (power train).
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 June 9, 2026 as campaign 26V374000. 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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