Owner complaint 11766053: FORD EXPLORER 2024

Owner complaint, unverified, from NHTSA Owner Complaints

Published by NHTSA: Sep 22, 2026
Manufacturer: Ford Motor Company
NHTSA ID: 11766053
Applies to, as stated by NHTSA: FORD EXPLORER 2024
Component, as stated by NHTSA: AIR BAGS

Text of the owner complaint

Officer was involved in a crash where the vehicles airbags were deployed. When the driver side seat airbag deployed it vented its gas towards the driver. When this happened the heat from the deployed air melted components on his police utility belt. If not for the police belt there is a high probability that the driver would have suffered burns similar to one of our other officers. We would like ...

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Date of incident: 2026-09-02
Crash reported: Yes

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For the 2022 Ford F-150

Lariat SuperCrew

Ignored

Relevance of 2% is under one half, so the notice is ignored whatever the other figures say.

Vehicle relevance: 2%
Attention: 17%
Interrupt probability: 21%

Importance to this owner: 0.1 of 4, none
Vehicle area the notice is about: None

This owner complaint does not appear to warrant attention for this vehicle. Owner complaints are unverified reports.

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NoNHTSA names this model
n/aNHTSA lists model year 2022 for this model

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Relevance	Attention	Interrupt	State
2%	17%	21%	Ignored
2%	17%	25%	Ignored
2%	17%	18%	Ignored
1%	12%	12%	Ignored
1%	17%	19%	Ignored
1%	11%	12%	Ignored
1%	10%	17%	Ignored
1%	14%	17%	Ignored
1%	9%	15%	Ignored
1%	18%	19%	Ignored
1%	10%	17%	Ignored
1%	9%	16%	Ignored
1%	11%	16%	Ignored
1%	14%	14%	Ignored
1%	10%	16%	Ignored
1%	14%	20%	Ignored

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