Do Not Drive 2004-2014 Ford Cars With Unrepaired Takata Airbags

The airbags in these vehicles could spray metal shards throughout the passenger cabin—a potentially deadly outcome from a supposedly lifesaving device. High humidity, high temperatures, and time can increase the risk. The faulty airbags, made by the now-defunct Takata Corporation, have been associated with 27 deaths and more than 400 injuries in the U.S.

Although Ford first recalled some of these vehicles nine years ago, the automaker says that nearly 375,000 of them still haven’t had their airbags fixed despite multiple attempts to reach owners, including letters, emails, phone calls, and even visits to vehicle owners’ homes.

Over 67 million faulty Takata airbags have already been replaced in vehicles made by 34 brands, an effort that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has called “the largest and most complex safety recall in U.S. history.”