Ford Explorer recalls: 81 US campaigns

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5 of these notices were reworded after they were announced. The authority changed the remedy on 26V548, 26V532, 26V451 and 26V448; the remedy and the summary on 26V470. The register shows only the current wording. This site keeps both, with the date each was read and a fingerprint of the text, so the change is provable.

NHTSA has recorded 81 distinct safety campaigns against the Ford EXPLORER since 2016. The Dutch register holds 23, for the 7,240 of them registered on Dutch roads.

82US safety campaigns
2016–2025

23Dutch campaigns
all years on file

7,240registered on
the Dutch road

American regulators have recorded 59 more distinct campaigns against the Ford EXPLORER than the Dutch register holds.

What those campaigns were about

NHTSA files every campaign against the system at fault. For the Ford EXPLORER, the American record breaks down like this: counted once per campaign, not once per model year.

Back over prevention	11
Power train	10
Fuel system, gasoline	8
Seats	8
Engine and engine cooling	7
Suspension	7
Structure	6
Parking brake	3

What this does not mean. A larger count on one side is not proof that the other country's owners were abandoned. Model variants differ between markets, an American campaign can cover an engine or body never sold in Europe, and a privately imported car has no national importer obliged to write to its owner, which is itself worth knowing. We publish the difference as a measured fact and an open question, never as an accusation.

Check whether a Ford EXPLORER recall was quietly rewritten · check your own car, by country

US figures are distinct NHTSA campaign numbers for vehicle recalls, read from NHTSA's published bulk file, last read 17 September 2026. Dutch figures are campaigns recorded by the Netherlands vehicle register; the fleet count is the Netherlands vehicle register's vehicle register. One campaign counts once however many model years it covers.

What the EXPLORER record is mostly about

Recalls are not interchangeable, and this model’s are not spread evenly. The single largest group is back over prevention, with 11 of the 81 American campaigns filed against it, followed by power train (10) and fuel system, gasoline (8). The full breakdown is in the table above, counted once per campaign rather than once per model year: a single campaign covering six years of EXPLORER production counts once here, which is not how most recall counts are quoted.

Check a Ford EXPLORER

A recall lookup tells you what is open on your car today. It does not tell you whether the notice was edited after it was published: manufacturers revise them, and the new version replaces the old one on the public record. We keep the originals, hashed and dated. Check a Ford EXPLORER against ours, or look your own car up by country.

How these two registers are compared, why most models cannot be compared at all, and which forty can: the method is here. Figures rebuild themselves from NHTSA’s bulk file and the Netherlands national vehicle register’s open data; freshness is public on the status page.

Every campaign, as the authority wrote it

84 of these campaigns are listed below. The page behind every number carries the fault, the fix and the wording as filed - and any later change to that wording.

Ford Explorer across the registers

This site holds seven national and European registers. Ford Explorer is named on 91 American notices, 123 Canadian, 15 British, 13 European and 71 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules. Nothing here says any one of them is another one in a different country.

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Ford Explorer, 313 recall notices held in 5 registers, every version kept at CarsMultiverse

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The figure is recounted as the registers publish, so the badge does not go stale.

The Ford Explorer in other countries

Israel

Matched by meaning across the registers we hold; check the models and years on each notice. Check one car by VIN or number plate. Email me when the Ford Explorer gets a new recall.

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