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Between 3 September 2026, 01:16 UTC and 3 September 2026, 07:32 UTC, the text of the remedy (what the manufacturer will do about it) on campaign 26V448, filed by Ford, was replaced. The authority publishes one version at a time. This is both.
What changed
7 words were removed and 4 were added.
Removed from the earlier version
Added in the version now published
Both versions in full
As we read it on 3 September 2026
Dealers will inspect the roof rail covers and as necessary, repair or replace the push-pins, rail clips, or roof rail covers, free of charge. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, are expected to be mailed August 24, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available, anticipated in September 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S54. This recall expands previous NHTSA recall number 21V316. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 16, 2026.
As we read it on 3 September 2026
Dealers will inspect the roof rail covers and as necessary, repair or replace the push-pins, rail clips, or roof rail covers, free of charge. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed August 28, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available, anticipated in January 2027. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S54. This recall expands previous NHTSA recall number 21V316. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 16, 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 26V448 is one of 1,470 notices sealed on 4 September 2026.
- Fingerprint of this notice
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- 1,376 of 1,470
- Seal published that day
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The record has moved on since that seal; the current root is f2183e7910ae25dad4428185458f040255b18c70df4900f39170e35572112f93.
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 26V448, 3 September 2026." https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/26v448-remedy-2026-09-03/ Sealed 4 September 2026. Notice fingerprint 7a8067159a8ab7a06d8f9dfcbb110fb71bb3483ef0fba63e85cc2c3982adf1eb. Seal 5bbe3ba384f682a77c48eaa79102103516378da4f273b862d951b0d0d1163dab.
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 3 September 2026 no longer matched the one we took on 3 September 2026. Nothing here is an interpretation of what the manufacturer meant; it is the difference between two files.
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