Ford Explorer, Police Interceptor Utility (Explorer). Published by Transport Canada as 2021438 on 16 July 2021. System: Suspension.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the outer ball joint for the rear suspension toe link may seize. If this happens, the toe link could break while driving. This could cause a sudden loss of vehicle stability.
Note: This recall only affects vehicles equipped with a rear ball joint manufactured by ZF.
Safety Risk:
A …
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.
Transport Canada carries this recall as 2021438, dated 16 July 2021. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 21V537, dated 15 July 2021. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, 21S32.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2021438 | 21V537 |
| Dated | 16 July 2021 | 15 July 2021 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
| Make | Ford | |
The two registers are 1 day apart: the American entry is dated first, the Canadian one second.
These are the dates each register records against its own notice. They are separate administrative acts in two countries, recorded by two authorities under two sets of rules, and this page does not claim that one caused the other or that owners in either country were contacted on those days. What it shows is that the same manufacturer campaign reached the two registers on different dates.
This campaign code also appears in a third register. The European alerts covers the European Union side.
Read the American notice 21V537, including every earlier version of its wording this site holds. The Canadian register explains why the manufacturer code is published there and what that makes possible. Canada and America sets every matched pair side by side.
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.
The American register
The British register
The European register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2021438
- Recall date
- 16 July 2021
- Make
- Ford
- Models
- Explorer, Police Interceptor Utility (explorer)
- Model years
- 2013 to 2017
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Suspension
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 56,917
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the outer ball joint for the rear suspension toe link may seize. If this happens, the toe link could break while driving. This could cause a sudden loss of vehicle stability.
Note: This recall only affects vehicles equipped with a rear ball joint manufactured by ZF.Safety Risk:
A loss of vehicle stability could cause a loss of control and increase the risk of a crash.Corrective Actions:
Ford will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealer to replace the rear suspension toe links and inspect the ball joints. If a ball joint requires replacement, the dealer will replace the rear suspension knuckle.
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 2021438.
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.
- 2021437 · 16 July 2021 · F-350 Super Duty · Powertrain
- 2021508 · 12 August 2021 · Escape, Bronco Sport, Corsair · Fuel System
- 2021525 · 23 August 2021 · Explorer, Aviator · Airbag
- 2021526 · 23 August 2021 · F-150 · Seats And Restraints
- 2021337 · 31 May 2021 · F-150 · Steering
- 2021307 · 24 May 2021 · F-150 · Powertrain
- 2021308 · 24 May 2021 · Edge · Seats And Restraints
- 2021309 · 24 May 2021 · Transit Connect · Powertrain
The same system: Suspension
746 notices in this register name Suspension. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2021464 · 16 July 2021 · RC, WC, LRC · Suspension
- 2021432 · 8 July 2021 · Transhipment Trailer - Transbordement, Walking Floor Trailer - Plancher Mobile, Low Bed Standard Trailer · Suspension
- 2021429 · 7 July 2021 · Semi-Trailer · Suspension
- 2021416 · 6 July 2021 · Dump Trailer, Refuse Trailer, Scrap Metal Trailer · Suspension
- 2021470 · 29 July 2021 · Fec9t · Suspension
- 2021443 · 30 June 2021 · Live Bottom Trailer, Crop Hopper Trailer, Hycube Trailer · Suspension
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Ford Explorer, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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 658 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2021.
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