Ford Transit, model years 2026 to 2027. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 9 September 2026. 1,945 vehicles potentially affected.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Ford's own number for this recall: 26S67. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V579 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A faulty seat belt status indicator may fail to alert occupants to an unfastened seat belt, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V579 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ford Motor Company |
| System at fault | Seat Belts: Rear/Other:Buckle Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 9 September 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2027 |
| Vehicles named | FORD TRANSIT |
What the notice says today
The defect
Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2026-2027 Transit vehicles. The wireless seat belt reminder system (SBR) within the rear seat belt buckles may malfunction and fail to show a change in buckle status.
The consequence
A faulty seat belt status indicator may fail to alert occupants to an unfastened seat belt, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the rear seat belts and replace the wireless seat belt buckles, as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, are expected to be mailed September 21, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available, anticipated in December 2026. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 26S67. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on September 10, 2026.
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 89b3527e770a3a9703b30ffd1db6d1c5…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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 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 26V579, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v579/
The copy quoted above hashes to 89b3527e770a3a9703b30ffd1db6d1c5…. 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.
Other Ford notices we hold
- 26V578: 2023-2027 F-150
- 26V577: 2026 F-150
- 26V576: 2026 F-150
- 26V550: 2026 Maverick, F-150, and Bronco Sport
- 26V548: 2026 Explorer, Bronco, Bronco Sport, Mustang, and Ranger
- 26V547: 2024-2026 Mustang
- 26V532: 2026 Explorer
- 26V489: 2021-2023 F-150 and 2023-2026 F-250 SD
All 776 Ford campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 26V579 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8681df94 - Consequence
4a230747 - Remedy
06a2af5b
We first read this notice on 12 September 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 26V579 · how the whole register is watched
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