Safety Recall 21S05 – Airbag Module Inspection and Replacement – 2004-2006 Ford Ranger

February 17, 2021 NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 21V076000

Frontal Air Bag Inflator May Explode

In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the frontal air bag, an inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.

 

NHTSA Campaign Number: 21V076

Manufacturer Ford Motor Company

Components AIR BAGS

Potential Number of Units Affected 144,340

 

Summary

Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2004-2006 Ranger vehicles that may be equipped with a driver or passenger frontal air bag inflator used as a replacement service part, that may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, temperature and temperature cycling.

 

Remedy

Ford will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the driver and passenger air bag module, and replace either the module or the inflator, if necessary, free of charge. The recall began March 17, 2021. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford’s number for this recall is 21S05.

 

Notes

Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.

 

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SERVICE PROCEDURE

Safety Recall 21S05 Certain 2005-2014 Mustang, 2005-2006 Ford GT, 2004-2011 Ranger, 2006-2012 Fusion and MKZ/Zephyr, 2006-2011 Milan, and 2007-2010 Edge and MKX Vehicles Airbag Module Inspection and Replacement

 


IMPORTANT SAFETY RECALL NOTICE

 

February 2021

 

Safety Recall Notice 21S05 / NHTSA Recall 21E013

Ford Motor Company has determined that a defect which relates to motor vehicle safety may exist in certain replacement frontal airbag modules that were sold as service replacement parts between May 2016 and March 2019. Affected part numbers and potential vehicle applications are listed on the following page.

 

What is the risk?

Certain service replacement frontal airbag modules sold at this dealership between March 2016 and March 2019 may contain a defective airbag inflator. Defective airbag inflators may explode in a crash that causes deployment of the airbags. If an inflator explodes, sharp metal fragments could strike vehicle occupants, causing serious injury or death.

 

What should you do?

If you purchased an affected airbag module or believe that an affected airbag module may have been installed in your vehicle, please contact your local Ford dealer without delay and request a service date for Recall 21S05.

Ford Motor Company has authorized your dealer to inspect and replace the frontal airbag modules if necessary, free of charge (parts and labor).

If you do not already have a servicing dealer, you can access owner.ford.com for dealer addresses, maps, and driving instructions.   

Ford Motor Company wants you to have this safety recall completed on your vehicle. The vehicle owner is responsible for making arrangements to have the work completed.

 

If you have questions or concerns, please contact our Ford Customer Relationship Center at 1866-436-7332 and one of our representatives will be happy to assist you. If you wish to contact us through the Internet, our address is: owner.ford.com.

If you are still having difficulty getting your vehicle repaired in a reasonable time or without charge, you may write the Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20590 or call the toll free Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY: 1-800-424-9153) or go to www.safercar.gov.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Ford Motor Company
Ford Customer Service Division
P. O. Box 1904
Dearborn, Michigan 48121

 

Post until September 30, 2021

 


Affected Airbag Module Part Numbers

Safety Recall Notice 21S05 / NHTSA Recall 21E013

 

Engineering Part Number Service Part Number Vehicle Application
4L54 10043B13 AN3JA64L5Z-10043B13-AAA2004-2006 Ranger
6L54 10044A74 BB32N46L5Z-10044A74-BB2004-2006 Ranger
6L54 10044A74 BB33TC6L5Z-10044A74-BC2004-2006 Ranger
9A13 78044A74 AB7A1Z-78044A74-A2007-2010 MKX
8L54 10044A74 AA32N47L5Z-10044A74-AB2007-2011 Ranger
7R3V 63043B13 AB35B87R3Z-63043B13-AA2005-2014 Mustang
8R3V 63044A74 AASMGN7R3Z-63044A74-AA2005-2009 Mustang
8R33 63043B13 AA35B88R3Z-63043B13-AA2005-2014 Mustang
8R33 63043B13 AB35B88R3Z-63043B13-AB2005-2014 Mustang
8R33 63043B13 BBSMIN8R3Z-63043B13-BB2005-2014 Mustang
8R33 63044A74 AA3ZU88R3Z-63044A74-AA2005-2009 Mustang
8R33 63044A74 BASMEN8R3Z-63044A74-BA2005-2009 Mustang
AE53 54044A74 AHAE5Z-54044A74-A2010-2012 Fusion and 2010-2011 Milan
AH63 54044A74 AHAH6Z-54044A74-A2010-2012 MKZ
BR33 63044A74 DA3AM6AR3Z-63044A74-AA2010-2014 Mustang
CR33 63044A74 BASMKTAR3Z-63044A74-BA2010-2014 Mustang
CR33 63044A74 CASMKUAR3Z-63044A74-CA2010-2014 Mustang
CR3V 63044A74 ABSMKVAR3Z-63044A74-DA2010-2014 Mustang
CR3J 63044A74 CASMLSBR3Z-63044A74-AA2010-2014 Mustang
CR33 63043B13 AB35B8CR3Z-63043B13-AA2005-2014 Mustang
DR3V 63043B13 AC35B8DR3Z-63043B13-AB2005-2014 Mustang
DR3V 63044A74 ABSMN3DR3Z-63044A74-AA2010-2014 Mustang

 


FORD MOTOR COMPANY ISSUES TWO SAFETY RECALLS IN NORTH AMERICA

FEB 18, 2021 | DEARBORN, MICH.

DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 18, 2021 – Ford Motor Company is issuing two safety recalls in North America.

 

Safety recall for select vehicles that may have had obsolete Takata service parts installed in collision and theft repairs after the Takata recall was completed

Ford identified that certain Takata airbag modules were not purged from service stock after the parts for the permanent service fix became available. Following extensive investigation and tracing, Ford could not account for some of the obsolete Takata service parts, indicating they may have been installed on vehicles as part of collision or theft repairs.

Ford is not aware of any reports of accident or injury related to this issue. This recall involves two distinct vehicle populations:

 

Population 1

  • Ford used dealer records to identify 1,117 vehicles with collision repairs that may have been done with an obsolete service part after the Takata recall was completed. This involves 1,067 vehicles in the U.S. and federal territories, 49 in Canada and one in Mexico.
  • The group comprises certain 2004-11 Ford Ranger, 2005-14 Ford Mustang, 2006 Ford GT, 2008-12 Ford Fusion, 2009-11 Mercury Milan, 2010-12 Lincoln MKZ, 2007-10 Ford Edge and 2007-10 Lincoln MKX vehicles.
  • Dealers will inspect the driver or passenger airbag inflator or module and replace, if necessary.

 

Population 2

  • Ford was unable to locate 45 single-stage inflators that are compatible with 2004-06 Ford Ranger vehicles. It is possible that these obsolete Takata service parts were installed for repairs after collision damage or theft.
  • This population involves 2004-06 Ford Ranger vehicles that had the Takata recall permanent repair performed before the service parts were purged, including 144,340 in the U.S. and federal territories, 8,762 in Canada and five in Mexico.
  • At the request of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Ford is issuing a safety recall for all 153,107 of these vehicles, notifying owners that they can visit their dealer for an inspection and, if necessary, an airbag inflator replacement.

Customer notifications will begin the week of March 8. The Ford reference number for this recall is 21S05.

 

Safety recall for 1,666 Ford Bronco Sport vehicles

Affected 2021 Ford Bronco Sport vehicles were produced with rear suspension modules that may not be fully secured to the subframe. Rear suspension modules with loose or missing bolts may affect the vehicle’s stability, increasing risk of an accident, and may result in reduced rear impact crash performance, increasing the risk of injury.

This action affects 1,640 vehicles in the U.S. and federal territories, 24 in Canada and two in Mexico.

Ford is not aware of any accidents or injuries related to this condition.

Affected vehicles were built in Mexico at Hermosillo Stamping and Assembly Plant from July 22 to Nov. 24, 2020.

Dealers will confirm that the rear suspension bolts are secured properly and replace them, if necessary. The Ford reference number for this recall is 21S04.

 


 


3 Affected Products

Vehicle

MAKEMODELYEAR
FORDRANGER2004-2006

 


13 Associated Documents

Recall Acknowledgement

RCAK-21V076-7749.pdf 705.546KB

 


Manufacturer Notices(to Dealers,etc) – Dealer Bulletin re Safety Recall 21S05 Certain 2005-2014 Mustang, 2005-2006 Ford GT, 2004-2011 Ranger, 2006-2012 Fusion and MKZ/Zephyr, 2006-2011 Milan, and 2007-2010 Edge and MKX Vehicles Airbag Module Inspection and Replacement

RCMN-21V076-1868.pdf 10623.22KB

 


Defect Notice 573 Report

RCLRPT-21V076-4601.PDF 216.702KB

 


Owner Notification Letter(Part 577)

RCONL-21V076-6066.pdf 215.279KB

 


ISSUED Renotification Notice

RCRN-21V076-9768.pdf 364.113KB

 


Recall Quarterly Report #2, 2021-2

RCLQRT-21V076-2351.PDF 211.248KB

 


Recall Quarterly Report #1, 2021-1

RCLQRT-21V076-3168.PDF 211.137KB

 


Recall Quarterly Report #3, 2021-3

RCLQRT-21V076-3275.PDF 211.339KB

 


Manufacturer Notices(to Dealers,etc) – Dealer Notification Letter

RCMN-21V076-0976.pdf 136.2KB

 


Manufacturer Notices(to Dealers,etc) – Dealer Notification Letter

RCMN-21V076-0832.pdf 136.269KB

 


Manufacturer Notices(to Dealers,etc) – Media release re Safety recall for select vehicles that may have had obsolete Takata service parts installed in collision and theft repairs after the Takata recall was completed

RCMN-21V076-0904.pdf 288.469KB

 


Manufacturer Notices(to Dealers,etc) – Recall Notice for Dealers to Post re Safety Recall Notice 21S05 / NHTSA Recall 21E013 Ford Motor Company has determined that a defect which relates to motor vehicle safety may exist in certain replacement frontal airbag modules that were sold as service replacement parts between May 2016 and March 2019

RCMN-21V076-5928.pdf 128.262KB

 


Recall Quarterly Report #4, 2021-4

RCLQRT-21V076-2016.PDF 211.454KB

 


Latest Recalls Documents

 


1 Associated Investigation

Air Bag Inflator Rupture
NHTSA ID: EA15001
Dated opened: February 24, 2015

The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened PE14-016 in June 2014 based on six inflator rupture incidents involving consumer owned vehicles produced by five vehicle manufacturers. All six vehicles were operated in Florida or Puerto Rico at the time of the rupture and for the majority of their service life, and were equipped with inflators produced by Takata, a tier-one supplier of automotive air bag systems.

During the course of PE14-016, ODI determined that five additional vehicle manufacturers used inflators of a similar design and vintage also supplied by Takata. No evidence of field failures was found in vehicles produced by these five additional manufacturers. Nonetheless, at ODI’s insistence, all 10 vehicle manufacturers initiated a regional recall within approximately two weeks of the opening of the investigation. The regions recalled initially included Florida, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, areas with high absolute humidity and climatic conditions believed to be a significant factor in the inflator ruptures. As part of the recall actions, inflators removed from remedied vehicles are to be returned to Takata for testing.

Takata’s initial test results on passenger inflators from remedied vehicles indicated a much higher than anticipated rupture frequency for inflators returned from Florida. Accordingly ODI requested all 10 manufacturers expand the regional recalls for passenger inflators to include other geographic areas where high absolute humidity conditions exist, including the Gulf States and other coastal areas. Takata’s testing of the passenger inflators to date continues to indicate this geographic area as having the highest risk, with no ruptures occurring from inflators returned from outside the expanded recall regions. During PE14-016 four additional passenger inflator field events occurred, all in vehicles from the same expanded geographic region.

Also during PE14-016 four additional driver inflator field events occurred including two in vehicles from regions not known for high absolute humidity, specifically California and North Carolina. Accordingly, ODI requested all five of the affected vehicle manufacturers currently using the subject Takata driver inflators expand to nationwide recalls. Significantly, neither of the affected vehicle manufacturers or Takata provided any explanation to account for these two driver air bag inflator ruptures outside the area of high absolute humidity. Takata testing of returned driver inflators indicates a lower rupture frequency as compared to passenger inflator testing. All test ruptures reported by Takata to date have occurred on inflators returned from high absolute humidity areas.

The investigation now includes all manufacturers and vehicles known to be affected at this time. ODI’s investigation will focus on, among other things, root cause analysis, other potential defect consequences, identification of affected vehicles scope, and adequacy of the remedy.

The five ODI reports cited above can be reviewed online at https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchNHTSAID under the following identification numbers: 10537899, 10568848, 10585224, 10605877, 10651492


 

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