Vehicle Recall

Recalls filed in 2016

Manufacturers filed 1,031 US vehicle safety recalls in 2016, covering 76,071,445 vehicles. That is the fifth busiest year on record. Forest River filed the most that year, with 37.

Campaigns
1,031
Vehicles covered
76,071,445
Largest recall
8,500,000
Rank by volume
#5 of 60

Makes that filed most in 2016

  1. Forest River12,481 vehicles37 recalls
  2. Ford5,969,214 vehicles32 recalls
  3. Mercedes-Benz1,036,899 vehicles26 recalls
  4. Chevrolet6,085,242 vehicles24 recalls
  5. Newmar8,851 vehicles21 recalls
  6. Hyundai634,491 vehicles17 recalls
  7. Toyota3,185,580 vehicles17 recalls
  8. Honda5,953,189 vehicles16 recalls
  9. BMW1,300,082 vehicles15 recalls
  10. Jeep2,430,337 vehicles15 recalls
  11. Nissan5,225,730 vehicles15 recalls
  12. Audi655,991 vehicles13 recalls

Counted by the make named on each filing, so a manufacturer that sells several brands appears once per brand.

Parts recalled most in 2016

  1. Equipment62 recalls
  2. Equipment: Labels58 recalls
  3. Air Bags: Inflator Module33 recalls
  4. Equipment: Recreational Vehicle/Trailer32 recalls
  5. Seats32 recalls
  6. Electrical System: Wiring31 recalls
  7. Parking Brake25 recalls
  8. Electrical System24 recalls
  9. Steering23 recalls
  10. Suspension: Non-Powered Axle Assembly22 recalls

Largest recalls of 2016

  1. Takata — Air Bags: Inflator Module16E04200016 May 20168,500,000
  2. Takata — Air Bags: Inflator Module16E04300016 May 20165,100,000
  3. Continental Automotive — Air Bags16E00700027 January 20165,000,000
  4. Dodge — Air Bags: Inflator Module16V35200024 May 20164,648,270
  5. Takata — Air Bags: Inflator Module16E00500025 January 20163,900,000
  6. Chevrolet — Air Bags: Frontal16V6510008 September 20163,640,162
  7. Nissan — Air Bags: Occupant Classification16V24400026 April 20163,296,947
  8. Honda — Air Bags: Inflator Module16V34600024 May 20162,719,386
  9. Acura — Air Bags: Inflator Module16V0610003 February 20162,232,187
  10. Ford — Latches/Locks/Linkages: Latch16V6430006 September 20162,046,297
  11. Ford — Air Bags: Inflator Module16V38400031 May 20161,892,343
  12. Honda — Air Bags: Inflator Module16V34400023 May 20161,790,894
  13. Lexus — Air Bags: Inflator Module16V34000023 May 20161,754,517
  14. Jeep — Air Bags16V66800015 September 20161,435,625
  15. Takata — Air Bags: Inflator Module16E00600025 January 20161,200,000
  16. Toyota — Seat Belts: Rear/Other16V09600019 February 20161,123,752
  17. Chevrolet — Seat Belts16V20900012 April 2016895,232
  18. Nissan — Latches/Locks/Linkages: Latch16V02900022 January 2016846,000
  19. BMW — Air Bags: Inflator Module16V0710005 February 2016840,000
  20. Chrysler — Power Train: Control Module (tcm/PCM/Tecm)16V24000025 April 2016811,290
  21. Toyota — Structure: Door16V85800029 November 2016744,437
  22. Mercedes-Benz — Air Bags: Inflator Module16V08100011 February 2016711,159
  23. Volkswagen — Air Bags: Inflator Module16V07800010 February 2016659,493
  24. Nissan — Air Bags: Occupant Classification16V24200026 April 2016645,898
  25. Honda — Seats: Mid/Rear Assembly16V93300027 December 2016633,753

The 25 largest of 1,031 filed in 2016. See every recall or the largest on record.

Urgent advisories in 2016

17 of the 2016 recalls tell owners to stop driving the vehicle.

Have they been repaired?

Manufacturers report progress quarterly on 972 of the 2016 campaigns. Across those, 61.7% of the 51,332,033 vehicles involved have been repaired, leaving 15,727,944 outstanding.

The remaining 2016 campaigns are not in the quarterly file at all, so this is a rate across those that report, not across everything filed that year. See repair completion in full.

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Every year on record, with the long-run trend.

About this figure

2016 here is the year the recall was filed with NHTSA, not the model year of the vehicles. A 2016 filing routinely covers vehicles built years earlier, and a car of model year 2016 appears in filings for years afterwards.

“Vehicles covered” sums the manufacturer’s own estimate for each campaign. A vehicle recalled twice in 2016 is counted twice, so the figure is not a count of distinct vehicles.

Compiled from NHTSA’s published recall files, which are US government open data and rebuilt daily. Figures on this page reflect the record as of 18 September 2026. Read the methodology, or check a specific vehicle at nhtsa.gov.