Ford Bronco, Ford Ranger, model year 2025. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 10 October 2025. 9 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2025 Bronco and Ranger vehicles. During manufacturing, the windshield may not have been properly bonded to the vehicle, allowing it to detach in a crash. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number …
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Ford's own number for this recall: 25C52. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V683 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 25V683 cover?
- Ford Bronco, Ford Ranger, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2025 Bronco and Ranger vehicles. During manufacturing, the windshield may not have been properly bonded to the vehicle, allowing it to detach in a crash.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event of a crash, windshield detachment can increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Dealers will remove and replace the windshield, free charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 20, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25C52.
- 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 25C52, 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: “In the event of a crash, windshield detachment can increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V683 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ford Motor Company |
| System at fault | Visibility:Windshield |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 October 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | FORD BRONCO, FORD RANGER |
What the notice says today
The defect
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2025 Bronco and Ranger vehicles. During manufacturing, the windshield may not have been properly bonded to the vehicle, allowing it to detach in a crash. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 212, "Windshield Mounting."
The consequence
In the event of a crash, windshield detachment can increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will remove and replace the windshield, free charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 20, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 25C52. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on October 14, 2025.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to f9589e882809c5a66062c8af3595c36d…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 463 notices in the record whose component field names visibility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 34 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
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 25V683, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v683/
The copy quoted above hashes to f9589e882809c5a66062c8af3595c36d…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 25V683 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
10757ace - Consequence
7fef3183 - 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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