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Ford rewrote the remedy on recall 26V403, 9 September 2026

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Owners of this vehicle were written to on 1 September 2026. The remedy was reworded on 9 September 2026, 8 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Both versions are shown on this page. Back to the campaign.

CarsMultiverse/What changed

This is an independent copy of the official notice, kept so you can see what changed. CarsMultiverse is not a safety authority: to act on this recall, use the authority’s own version at NHTSA, or the official register for your country (linked at the foot of this page).


Between 9 September 2026, 01:34 UTC and 9 September 2026, 07:06 UTC, the text of the remedy (what the manufacturer will do about it) on campaign 26V403, filed by Ford, was replaced. The authority publishes one version at a time. This is both.

What changed

25 words were removed and 5 were added.

Removed from the earlier version

Dealers will inspect and repair, or replace the fender flares as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed August 11, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available, anticipated in late August 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S47. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning August 7, 2026.

Added in the version now published

Dealers will inspect and repair, or replace the fender flares as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 1, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S47. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning August 7, 2026.

Both versions in full

As we read it on 9 September 2026

Dealers will inspect and repair, or replace the fender flares as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed August 11, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available, anticipated in late August 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S47. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning August 7, 2026.

As we read it on 9 September 2026

Dealers will inspect and repair, or replace the fender flares as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 1, 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S47. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning August 7, 2026.

Sealed

The version now published is fingerprinted, and that fingerprint is folded into a single number we publish once a day and cannot quietly recompute. It was fixed before you read this page. Follow the path below and you arrive at the seal we had already published: how the seal works.

The wording we publish for 26V403 is one of 1,485 notices sealed on 17 September 2026.

Fingerprint of this notice
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Position in that day’s seal
1,335 of 1,485
Seal published that day
e7c8 6f59 5a51 8db9 9725 6229 1714 66dd 7bf6 a65d a9fa e34f 5cb5 01b2 4189 fd88

This notice still matches the seal published on that date.

The audit path, 11 steps
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Cite this version

CarsMultiverse (A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd). "Ford rewrote the remedy on recall 26V403, 9 September 2026." https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/26v403-remedy-2026-09-09/ Sealed 17 September 2026. Notice fingerprint e52becad63401ce0bf3640421e510d8159ee7b0acd59a6ca731f34bef5033708. Seal e7c86f595a518db997256229171466dd7bf6a65da9fae34f5cb501b24189fd88.

If this is your car

The fix itself was reworded. If this recall has already been carried out on your vehicle, it was carried out to whatever the instruction said at the time. If it has not been, book it - the repair is free either way.

A notice being edited is not by itself evidence of anything. Wording is corrected for ordinary reasons as well as significant ones, and we record that it changed without claiming to know why.

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How we know

We re-read the wording of every campaign we hold on a rolling cycle and keep a dated copy with a SHA-256 of the text. This page exists because the hash we recorded on 9 September 2026 no longer matched the one we took on 9 September 2026. Nothing here is an interpretation of what the manufacturer meant; it is the difference between two files.

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