Lincoln Aviator, Lincoln Corsair, model years 2020 to 2023. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 23 December 2022. 101,001 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2020-2023 Lincoln Aviator and 2020-2022 Lincoln Corsair vehicles equipped with a Revel Audio System. When the driver's seat belt is not buckled and the vehicle is started, the seat belt warning system may activate the audible warning chime for an insufficient amount of …
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Ford's own number for this recall: 22C35. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V953 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 22V953 cover?
- Lincoln Aviator, Lincoln Corsair, model years 2020-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2020-2023 Lincoln Aviator and 2020-2022 Lincoln Corsair vehicles equipped with a Revel Audio System.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An audible warning chime that does not properly alert of an unbelted seat belt can increase the risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the audio control module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 7, 2023. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 22C35.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Ford calls this recall 22C35, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An audible warning chime that does not properly alert of an unbelted seat belt can increase the risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V953 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ford Motor Company |
| System at fault | Seat Belts:Front:Warning Light/Devices |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 December 2022 |
| Model years | 2020-2023 |
| Vehicles named | LINCOLN AVIATOR, LINCOLN CORSAIR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An audible warning chime that does not properly alert of an unbelted seat belt can increase the risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the audio control module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 7, 2023. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 22C35.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2022743, recorded 27 December 2022 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 22C35, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 22V953, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22v953/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 22V953 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
a1fc536e - Consequence
ec308e7e - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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