2024-2025 Ford Escape: Passenger Airbag Cover Defect Recall
Ford is recalling 2024-2025 Escape vehicles with a defective passenger airbag cover that may prevent proper deployment, increasing injury risk and failing to meet federal safety standards.
What this means for you
Our assessment, not the agency’s: severity 3/5 (High).
Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.
Our severity reasoning: This recall affects a critical occupant protection system (airbag deployment). The defect is real and manufacturing-based, not theoretical. However, no injuries or deaths have been reported. This matches the rubric criterion for High (3): risk-of-harm product where injury has not yet been reported.
Plain-English summary
Ford Motor Company is recalling certain 2024-2025 Ford Escape vehicles due to a manufacturing defect in the passenger side instrument panel cover. The cover may be manufactured incorrectly, which can cause the airbag not to deploy as intended during a crash. These vehicles fail to comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
If an airbag is deployed, the defective cover may break and project fragments into the vehicle, or the airbag may not deploy properly, increasing the risk of occupant injury. Approximately 15 vehicles are affected. Ford will replace the passenger side instrument panel cover free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on February 18, 2025.
Owners should contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332 (Ford recall number 24C38) to schedule service. For additional information, contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153) or visit nhtsa.gov.
The recalled product
- Product
- FORD ESCAPE
- Brand
- FORD
- Manufacturer
- Ford Motor Company
- Category
- Vehicle — Occupant Protection
- Affected units
- 15
Is your product affected?
Check your packaging against the codes below. If any of them match, the product is part of this recall.
Model numbers (1)
- ESCAPE
Distribution
Distributed nationwide across the United States.
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