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Ford's Massive Recall: 3 Surprising Details Buried in the Fine Print
Car recalls are common news, but a look beyond the headline numbers for Ford's latest action affecting nearly 625,000 F-Series trucks and Mustangs reveals a trio of troubling, and frankly bizarre, issues for America's leading automaker. Beyond the raw numbers lie surprising facts about the company's performance, an unusual low-tech failure, and a critical high-tech glitch.
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1. Ford Isn't Just Recalling Cars—It's Dominating the Recall Charts
The scale of Ford's recall activity in 2025 is staggering, and the problem isn't new. After breaking records for the most recalls in the first six months of the year, the trend continued with the automaker accounting for nearly 60 percent of all vehicles recalled by car companies in the third quarter alone.
To put that figure in perspective, over five million Ford vehicles were affected in Q3. The next closest manufacturer was Stellantis, which recalled 802,383 vehicles in the same period. This enormous disparity points to a persistent, year-long narrative of significant quality control challenges across Ford's product lines.
2. Your Winter Boots Could Weaken a Mustang's Seatbelt
The recall for 2015–2017 Mustangs stems from a seatbelt anchor pretensioner cable that can corrode and fail, but the root cause is surprisingly mundane. When investigators couldn't find a common source of water intrusion, they deduced that the vehicle's carpeting, which comes in direct contact with the pretensioner cable, was the culprit.
The carpeting can absorb corrosive liquids—most notably, salt water from snow-melting practices—through a process of "wicking and saturation." Over time, the salty water held in the carpet corrodes the critical steel seatbelt cable, potentially causing it to weaken or fail. This particular assembly was taken out of production in 2017, but the situation reveals how a minor design detail can create a major safety risk. The remedy is just as unusual as the cause: dealers will remove the carpet surrounding the assembly, inspect the part for corrosion, and replace it if necessary.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/vehicles-recalls--6499215/support.
Car recalls are common news, but a look beyond the headline numbers for Ford's latest action affecting nearly 625,000 F-Series trucks and Mustangs reveals a trio of troubling, and frankly bizarre, issues for America's leading automaker. Beyond the raw numbers lie surprising facts about the company's performance, an unusual low-tech failure, and a critical high-tech glitch.
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1. Ford Isn't Just Recalling Cars—It's Dominating the Recall Charts
The scale of Ford's recall activity in 2025 is staggering, and the problem isn't new. After breaking records for the most recalls in the first six months of the year, the trend continued with the automaker accounting for nearly 60 percent of all vehicles recalled by car companies in the third quarter alone.
To put that figure in perspective, over five million Ford vehicles were affected in Q3. The next closest manufacturer was Stellantis, which recalled 802,383 vehicles in the same period. This enormous disparity points to a persistent, year-long narrative of significant quality control challenges across Ford's product lines.
2. Your Winter Boots Could Weaken a Mustang's Seatbelt
The recall for 2015–2017 Mustangs stems from a seatbelt anchor pretensioner cable that can corrode and fail, but the root cause is surprisingly mundane. When investigators couldn't find a common source of water intrusion, they deduced that the vehicle's carpeting, which comes in direct contact with the pretensioner cable, was the culprit.
The carpeting can absorb corrosive liquids—most notably, salt water from snow-melting practices—through a process of "wicking and saturation." Over time, the salty water held in the carpet corrodes the critical steel seatbelt cable, potentially causing it to weaken or fail. This particular assembly was taken out of production in 2017, but the situation reveals how a minor design detail can create a major safety risk. The remedy is just as unusual as the cause: dealers will remove the carpet surrounding the assembly, inspect the part for corrosion, and replace it if necessary.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/vehicles-recalls--6499215/support.
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By Veljko Massimo PlavsicFord's Massive Recall: 3 Surprising Details Buried in the Fine Print
Car recalls are common news, but a look beyond the headline numbers for Ford's latest action affecting nearly 625,000 F-Series trucks and Mustangs reveals a trio of troubling, and frankly bizarre, issues for America's leading automaker. Beyond the raw numbers lie surprising facts about the company's performance, an unusual low-tech failure, and a critical high-tech glitch.
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1. Ford Isn't Just Recalling Cars—It's Dominating the Recall Charts
The scale of Ford's recall activity in 2025 is staggering, and the problem isn't new. After breaking records for the most recalls in the first six months of the year, the trend continued with the automaker accounting for nearly 60 percent of all vehicles recalled by car companies in the third quarter alone.
To put that figure in perspective, over five million Ford vehicles were affected in Q3. The next closest manufacturer was Stellantis, which recalled 802,383 vehicles in the same period. This enormous disparity points to a persistent, year-long narrative of significant quality control challenges across Ford's product lines.
2. Your Winter Boots Could Weaken a Mustang's Seatbelt
The recall for 2015–2017 Mustangs stems from a seatbelt anchor pretensioner cable that can corrode and fail, but the root cause is surprisingly mundane. When investigators couldn't find a common source of water intrusion, they deduced that the vehicle's carpeting, which comes in direct contact with the pretensioner cable, was the culprit.
The carpeting can absorb corrosive liquids—most notably, salt water from snow-melting practices—through a process of "wicking and saturation." Over time, the salty water held in the carpet corrodes the critical steel seatbelt cable, potentially causing it to weaken or fail. This particular assembly was taken out of production in 2017, but the situation reveals how a minor design detail can create a major safety risk. The remedy is just as unusual as the cause: dealers will remove the carpet surrounding the assembly, inspect the part for corrosion, and replace it if necessary.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/vehicles-recalls--6499215/support.
Car recalls are common news, but a look beyond the headline numbers for Ford's latest action affecting nearly 625,000 F-Series trucks and Mustangs reveals a trio of troubling, and frankly bizarre, issues for America's leading automaker. Beyond the raw numbers lie surprising facts about the company's performance, an unusual low-tech failure, and a critical high-tech glitch.
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1. Ford Isn't Just Recalling Cars—It's Dominating the Recall Charts
The scale of Ford's recall activity in 2025 is staggering, and the problem isn't new. After breaking records for the most recalls in the first six months of the year, the trend continued with the automaker accounting for nearly 60 percent of all vehicles recalled by car companies in the third quarter alone.
To put that figure in perspective, over five million Ford vehicles were affected in Q3. The next closest manufacturer was Stellantis, which recalled 802,383 vehicles in the same period. This enormous disparity points to a persistent, year-long narrative of significant quality control challenges across Ford's product lines.
2. Your Winter Boots Could Weaken a Mustang's Seatbelt
The recall for 2015–2017 Mustangs stems from a seatbelt anchor pretensioner cable that can corrode and fail, but the root cause is surprisingly mundane. When investigators couldn't find a common source of water intrusion, they deduced that the vehicle's carpeting, which comes in direct contact with the pretensioner cable, was the culprit.
The carpeting can absorb corrosive liquids—most notably, salt water from snow-melting practices—through a process of "wicking and saturation." Over time, the salty water held in the carpet corrodes the critical steel seatbelt cable, potentially causing it to weaken or fail. This particular assembly was taken out of production in 2017, but the situation reveals how a minor design detail can create a major safety risk. The remedy is just as unusual as the cause: dealers will remove the carpet surrounding the assembly, inspect the part for corrosion, and replace it if necessary.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/vehicles-recalls--6499215/support.