The defect
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2020-2025 Explorer, Lincoln Aviator, 2020-2024 Escape, Lincoln Corsair, 2018-2024 F-150, Expedition and Lincoln Navigator vehicles. The air bag warning label may be missing from the dashboard. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirement Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
The risk
Without a label that shows the proper restraint usage guidelines, the occupants may have an increased risk of injury in the event of a crash.
The remedy
Ford will mail owners the warning labels, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 19, 2024. Owners may call Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 24C39.
NHTSA's own wording · initiated by MFR
Vehicles covered
| Model | Model years |
|---|---|
| Ford Escape | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Ford Expedition | 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Ford Explorer | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Ford F-150 | 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Lincoln Aviator | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Lincoln Corsair | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Lincoln Navigator | 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
Components: EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS
Model years in this recall
NHTSA complaints and the number of recall campaigns for each model year this recall covers.
| Model | Year | Complaints | Recalls |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Escape | 2020 | 1,612 | 23 |
| Ford Escape | 2021 | 350 | 19 |
| Ford Escape | 2022 | 236 | 19 |
| Ford Escape | 2023 | 101 | 11 |
| Ford Escape | 2024 | 76 | 8 |
| Ford Expedition | 2018 | 382 | 14 |
| Ford Expedition | 2019 | 518 | 11 |
| Ford Expedition | 2020 | 425 | 18 |
| Ford Expedition | 2021 | 238 | 12 |
| Ford Expedition | 2022 | 116 | 12 |
| Ford Expedition | 2023 | 65 | 8 |
| Ford Expedition | 2024 | 78 | 7 |
| Ford Explorer | 2020 | 1,241 | 33 |
| Ford Explorer | 2021 | 447 | 26 |
| Ford Explorer | 2022 | 271 | 24 |
| Ford Explorer | 2023 | 111 | 15 |
| Ford Explorer | 2024 | 21 | 10 |
| Ford Explorer | 2025 | 107 | 20 |
| Ford F-150 | 2018 | 2,324 | 18 |
| Ford F-150 | 2019 | 1,340 | 9 |
| Ford F-150 | 2020 | 738 | 11 |
| Ford F-150 | 2021 | 1,033 | 29 |
| Ford F-150 | 2022 | 598 | 23 |
| Ford F-150 | 2023 | 415 | 13 |
| Ford F-150 | 2024 | 194 | 11 |
| Lincoln Aviator | 2020 | 110 | 30 |
| Lincoln Aviator | 2021 | 40 | 28 |
| Lincoln Aviator | 2022 | 46 | 21 |
| Lincoln Aviator | 2023 | 24 | 16 |
| Lincoln Aviator | 2024 | 7 | 8 |
Other equipment recalls in 2024
156 of the 950 recall campaigns reported to NHTSA in 2024 concerned the equipment; Ford Motor Company filed 737 campaigns in all.
| 24V958000 20 Dec 2024 | Gillig, LLC |
| 24V952000 20 Dec 2024 | Altec Industries, Inc. |
| 24V934000 17 Dec 2024 | Cummins, Inc. |
| 24V929000 13 Dec 2024 | Forest River, Inc. |
| 24V931000 13 Dec 2024 | Featherlite Trailer Manufacturing, LLC |
| 24V912000 6 Dec 2024 | Forest River, Inc. |
| 24V902000 29 Nov 2024 | Kuntry Kustom RV, LLC |
| 24V893000 26 Nov 2024 | Volvo Bus Corporation |
NHTSA recalls (public domain) · all recalls of 2024