Ford Galaxy, Kuga, S-Max

The risk

The cooling airflow is insufficient, causing the oil channel to be blocked. This leads the connecting rod bearing to seize and the connecting rod to tear off. This can deteriorate the combustion engine, resulting in a rupture in the engine oil tank or engine block, creating an oil tank leak. This increases the risk of fire under the bonnet. The product does not comply with the Regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles.

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Importer Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: Unknown

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Ford Galaxy
• Ford Kuga
• Ford S-Max

Other fire alerts in 2024

61 of the 370 motor vehicle alerts published in 2024 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2024

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2024

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Ford Galaxy

More Ford alerts

229 EU Safety Gate alerts for Ford since 2006; the most were issued in 2026 (25).

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