The same car, the same defect, the same manufacturer campaign: announced once in the United States and once in the European Union. 136 of them can be identified as the same recall on both sides, and this is what the two records say about when.
Read this first: the two dates are different acts
- The American date is the day the manufacturer notified owners.
- The European date is the day the alert was published in the Safety Gate.
The Safety Gate holds no owner-notification date at all. That is a finding in its own right and it is recorded on what your register tells you. It means no honest comparison of “when were owners told” exists between these two systems, and this page does not pretend to be one.
What it compares is when each system made the danger public. That is a real question with a real answer, and the words here stay exact throughout: published for Europe, notified for America, never “told” for both.
What the two records show
The median gap is 4 days: the European alert is published that long after American owners were notified.
- 69 where the European alert came after the American notification.
- 64 where it came before.
- 3 on the same day.
- 41 with more than three months between them.
The widest gaps, both ways
| Campaign | Make and model | US owners notified | EU alert published | Raised by | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16V384 | Ford Mustang, Fusion, MKZ, Lincoln Town Car, Edge, MKX, Rang | 2 February 2018 | 18 September 2020 | United Kingdom | 959 days later in the EU |
| 24V797 | Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC | 12 December 2024 | 26 June 2026 | Germany | 561 days later in the EU |
| 22V484 | Ford Kuga | 19 August 2022 | 26 January 2024 | Germany | 525 days later in the EU |
| 22V956 | Suzuki Jimny | 18 January 2023 | 12 April 2024 | Poland | 450 days later in the EU |
| 22V191 | Ford Fiesta, Focus, Kuga, Puma | 18 April 2022 | 28 April 2023 | France | 375 days later in the EU |
| 24V550 | Indian Motorcycle CHALLENGER, CHIEFTAIN, PURSUIT, ROADMASTER | 22 August 2024 | 8 August 2025 | Germany | 351 days later in the EU |
| 23V790 | Land Rover Range Rover Sport, Range Rover | 18 January 2024 | 20 September 2024 | Germany | 246 days later in the EU |
| 22V346 | Ford Expedition (3.5L V6 GTDI) | 21 July 2022 | 24 March 2023 | Germany | 246 days later in the EU |
| 22V897 | Porsche 911 | 14 June 2023 | 13 January 2023 | Germany | 152 days earlier in the EU |
| 23V592 | Bentley Continental GTC | 20 October 2023 | 12 May 2023 | Germany | 161 days earlier in the EU |
| 24V215 | Porsche Taycan | 8 October 2024 | 26 April 2024 | Germany | 165 days earlier in the EU |
| 23V626 | Ford Explorer, Transit Custom | 8 April 2024 | 20 October 2023 | Germany | 171 days earlier in the EU |
| 22V471 | Audi A4, A6, A8, TT | 21 September 2021 | 12 June 2020 | Germany | 466 days earlier in the EU |
| 23V241 | Porsche Carrera GT | 17 October 2024 | 12 May 2023 | Germany | 524 days earlier in the EU |
| 24V901 | LMC Innovan 590 Ford | 25 September 2026 | 20 October 2023 | Germany | 1,071 days earlier in the EU |
| 23V212 | Audi Q7 | 10 May 2023 | 10 January 2020 | Germany | 1,216 days earlier in the EU |
Every European date links to the Commission’s own page for that alert, and every campaign number to what we hold on the American side. Nothing here has to be taken on trust.
Which member state raised the European alert
| Raised by | Of these joined recalls |
|---|---|
| Germany | 95 |
| France | 10 |
| Belgium | 10 |
| Portugal | 10 |
| Poland | 9 |
| United Kingdom | 1 |
| Sweden | 1 |
How a European alert is known to be the same recall as an American one
On the manufacturer’s own campaign code, and on nothing else. It is a field in the European record; in the American record it is a sentence inside the remedy text: “Ford’s number for this recall is 18S07”. Exact match after normalising punctuation and case.
Nothing is paired on make and date. That would pair recalls that merely happened at the same time, and would produce a much bigger table that meant much less. The same code-matching routine that joins the American and Dutch registers on who gets told first is called here rather than rewritten, so the two pages can never disagree about which campaign owns a code.
Where several member states raised alerts for one American campaign, the earliest European publication is used. Counting each country separately would let the most active reporter weigh more than once.
What was dropped, and counted
- 6,392 European motor-vehicle alerts held; 3,826 American campaigns whose remedy text states a maker code.
- 3,703 European alerts carry no maker code and cannot be joined by anything.
- 2,538 carry a code that matches no American campaign we hold, which for a European-market recall is often simply the truth: that car was never recalled there.
- 7 matched but the American record carries no usable notification date, and 0 had no readable European date.
- 136 joined with a date on both sides. Every figure above is drawn from those and from nothing else.
The European alerts are a snapshot read on a fixed date rather than a live feed, and the reason for that is set out on the European alerts page. Sources: European Commission Safety Gate, and NHTSA. The joining, the counting and any mistake in them are ours, and go on the corrections page.
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