Ford Maverick Recalled For A Ridiculous Reason
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It's another week and the Blue Oval has yet another safety recall, this one for the Ford Maverick compact truck. The issue that's been announced via the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is small and ridiculous, but owners will still have to take their pickup to a dealership for the repair.Yet again, even though the recall has been issued, Ford doesn't exactly have a fix for the problem. We've seen this with the Blue Oval and other automakers lately, but they eventually come up with some sort of solution.
Although sometimes Ford has to then issue a recall to fix recall work done before – that's another issue entirely.
For this recall, it applies only to 2025 Ford Mavericks, with 63,898 of them affected. For some reason, only on that model year are the retaining clips for the airbag indicator light having problems. They 'may be loose or dislodged' says NHTSA, which then means you wouldn't know if the airbag in your cute little truck is deactivated.
That's a safety risk because you don't know the safety device isn't armed and ready to explode in your face during a crash. It's also a violation of federal regulations, so it has to be fixed.
We wonder how many 2025 Maverick owners will just skip this recall until they inevitably have to take their vehicle in for another safety recall. Don't act like that isn't coming, because it definitely is.
Plus, we don't know when Ford will have a repair for this airbag indicator light's clips. It might be in a few weeks or maybe a few months, but hopefully not that long.
Likely, a lot of people won't see this recall as something so urgent. After all, it's not like your vehicle driving forward when they're supposedly in reverse gear.
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