Ford Explorer, Aviator. Published by Transport Canada as 2020391 on 25 August 2020. System: Airbag.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the fasteners that attach the side airbag to the front seat backs may not have been tightened properly. As a result, the side airbag may not deploy properly in a crash.
Safety Risk:
An airbag that does not work properly could increase the risk of injury in a crash.
Corrective …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Ford EXPLORER in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Ford EXPLORER is named on 91 American notices, 15 British, 13 European and 71 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2020391
- Recall date
- 25 August 2020
- Make
- Ford, Lincoln
- Models
- Explorer, Aviator
- Model years
- 2020
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Airbag
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 34
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the fasteners that attach the side airbag to the front seat backs may not have been tightened properly. As a result, the side airbag may not deploy properly in a crash.Safety Risk:
An airbag that does not work properly could increase the risk of injury in a crash.Corrective Actions:
Ford will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealer to verify that the fasteners for the side airbags and seat back modules are properly tightened.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2020391.
Ford elsewhere in this register
Ford is named on 818 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2020454 · 24 September 2020 · Escape, F-250 Super Duty, Edge · Visual System
- 2020333 · 20 July 2020 · Transit · Airbag
- 2020334 · 20 July 2020 · F-650, F-750 · Structure
- 2020524 · 3 November 2020 · Police Interceptor Utility (explorer), Explorer · Suspension
- 2020536 · 11 November 2020 · Edge, MKX, Taurus · Powertrain
- 2020537 · 11 November 2020 · Explorer, Aviator · Powertrain
- 2020231 · 27 May 2020 · Transit Connect · Seats And Restraints
- 2020232 · 27 May 2020 · Mustang · Other
The same system: Airbag
734 notices in this register name Airbag. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2020375 · 14 August 2020 · Galleria, Isata, Sunseeker · Airbag
- 2020367 · 10 August 2020 · Qwest, Melbourne Prestige, Melbourne · Airbag
- 2020412 · 2 September 2020 · Passat · Airbag
- 2020350 · 30 July 2020 · Silverado, Acadia, Enclave · Airbag
- 2020333 · 20 July 2020 · Transit · Airbag
- 2020311 · 8 July 2020 · Nitro, Town & Country, Grand Caravan · Airbag
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Ford: 1,346 in the register, and 536 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2020.
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