# 2026-12401: Ford Asks to Skip Recall Over Van Display Rules

2026-12401, Ford Motor Company, Receipt of Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance, is a Federal Register notice from Transportation Department, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published 2026-06-22, effective Send comments on or before July 22, 2026.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-29).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-12401
- As of: 2026-06-29
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2026-12401
- Title: Ford Motor Company, Receipt of Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Transportation Department; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Citation: 91 FR 37225
- Published: 2026-06-22
- Effective: Send comments on or before July 22, 2026.
- Comments close: 2026-07-22
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-29

## In one line

Ford Asks to Skip Recall Over Van Display Rules

## Summary

Ford found that some 2022-2025 Ford Transit vans don’t fully meet a safety rule about controls and displays. They asked the government to decide if this issue is minor enough to ignore for safety reasons. People have until July 22, 2026, to share their thoughts, and no money or recalls are expected right now.

## Abstract

Ford Motor Company (Ford) has determined that certain model year (MY) 2022-2025 Ford Transit motor vehicles do not fully comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 101, Controls and Displays. Ford filed a noncompliance report dated July 25, 2025, and subsequently petitioned NHTSA (the "Agency") on August 13, 2025, for a decision that the subject noncompliance is inconsequential as it relates to motor vehicle safety. This document announces receipt of Ford's petition.

## Effects PRIA read

- 19,341 Transits have mislabeled Start button: cost, low. About 19,341 model year 2022–2025 Ford Transit vehicles built between June 4, 2021 and June 25, 2025 at the Kansas City Assembly Plant have a Push To Start (PTS) button labeled "Power Start Stop" instead of the FMVSS No. 101 required "Engine Start Stop" label. This is a noncompliance with FMVSS No.…
- Ford petitioned to avoid owner notification and remedy: cost, low. Ford filed a petition with NHTSA on August 13, 2025 asking that this labeling noncompliance be declared inconsequential so Ford would be exempted from the statutory duties to notify owners and to provide a remedy under 49 U.S.C. 30118 and 30120. A grant would exempt Ford only from those notificatio…
- Labeling corrected in production after June 25, 2025: benefit, low. Ford states it corrected the labeling error in production and that all Ford Transit vehicles built after June 25, 2025 will bear the compliant "Engine Start Stop" label on the Push To Start button. Future purchasers of Transit vehicles produced after that date should not receive the noncompliant la…
- Dealers remain prohibited from selling noncompliant vehicles: cost, low. NHTSA notes that even if a petition exempts Ford from owner notification and remedy duties, any decision does not relieve vehicle distributors and dealers of the prohibition on sale, offer for sale, or introduction into interstate commerce of the noncompliant vehicles under their control after Ford…

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## Sources
- [2026-12401 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/22/2026-12401/ford-motor-company-receipt-of-petition-for-decision-of-inconsequential-noncompliance)
- [2026-12401 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-22/pdf/2026-12401.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-12401 (as of 2026-06-29).