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Between 27 August 2026, 03:46 UTC and 27 August 2026, 10:01 UTC, the text of the defect summary (what is wrong) on campaign 26V470, filed by Ford, was replaced. The authority publishes one version at a time. This is both.
What changed
1 word was removed and 1 was added.
Removed from the earlier version
Added in the version now published
Both versions in full
As we read it on 27 August 2026
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2026-2027 Explorer and Lincoln Aviator vehicles. An unoccupied driver's seat may recline unintentionally during certain scenarios, such as remote unlock or remote start.
As we read it on 27 August 2026
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2025-2027 Explorer and Lincoln Aviator vehicles. An unoccupied driver's seat may recline unintentionally during certain scenarios, such as remote unlock or remote start.
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 26V470 is one of 1,485 notices sealed on 17 September 2026.
- Fingerprint of this notice
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This notice still matches the seal published on that date.
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Cite this version
CarsMultiverse (A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd). "Ford rewrote the defect summary on recall 26V470, 27 August 2026." https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/26v470-summary-2026-08-27/ Sealed 17 September 2026. Notice fingerprint 3e201dfc25553833aa7715b61a071fd202a8d4531d1c4274dd6386ce55585d46. Seal e7c86f595a518db997256229171466dd7bf6a65da9fae34f5cb501b24189fd88.
If this is your car
The description of the fault was reworded. What the manufacturer has undertaken to do about it sits in the remedy on the same notice and is not affected by this edit.
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 27 August 2026 no longer matched the one we took on 27 August 2026. Nothing here is an interpretation of what the manufacturer meant; it is the difference between two files.
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