Ford’s Growing Recall List—Trapping Seats, Moving Seats And Engine Fires—Adds 80,000 SUVs

Jul 28, 2026 08:33 PM - 2 hours ago 3

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Ford connected Tuesday issued a callback for astir 80,000 SUVs complete defective driver’s seats that could recline connected their own, perchance pinning rear passengers, adding to a increasing database of notices from the bequest automaker this twelvemonth aft an earlier callback for seats that could move unexpectedly and different for motor occurrence risks.

A driver’s spot that reclines connected its ain could pin rear passengers, regulators said.

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Key Facts

Ford’s callback covers Explorer and Lincoln Aviator vehicles from the 2026 and 2027 exemplary years, aft the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recovered the driver’s spot could recline connected its ain without anyone sitting successful it, according to a regulatory filing.

The unintended reclining tin hap erstwhile a driver remotely unlocks aliases remotely starts the vehicle, and the resulting activity could pin a second-row passenger, expanding the consequence of injury, regulators said.

Ford told the NHTSA that a hole is still nether improvement and a schedule for notifying affected drivers has not been determined, though owners tin interaction Ford for imaginable assistance successful the meantime.

There are nary known reports of an mishap aliases wounded related to the defect, Ford said.

big number

61. That’s the number of recalls issued by Ford successful the U.S. this year, which is much than the adjacent 3 automakers—Chrysler (24), General Motors (19) and Hyundai (17)—combined. Ford issued a grounds 153 recalls successful 2025 involving 12.9 cardinal vehicles, according to national data. That again surpassed the adjacent 4 automakers combined, including Chrysler (53), Forest River (36), General Motors (28) and International Motors (26).

key background

Ford has maintained its record-setting gait of conveyance recalls successful 2026. Many of its notices see a smaller number of vehicles, including a recall of conscionable 315 Aviator and Explorer cars complete second-row seats that whitethorn move unexpectedly past week, while others screen hundreds of thousands, arsenic a notice for 500,000 Bronco SUVs affixed pinch a wiring rumor that could commencement a occurrence successful the engine. Ford recalled much than 4 cardinal vehicles successful 1 of the largest-ever recalls successful U.S. history, aft notifying regulators that immoderate of its top-selling F-series trucks had a package glitch. Another 1.4 cardinal F-150s were recalled successful April, aft the bequest automaker said a defect whitethorn origin the vehicles to downshift unexpectedly.