Vehicle Recall

Recalls filed in 2017

Manufacturers filed 897 US vehicle safety recalls in 2017, covering 42,654,416 vehicles. 2021 remains the busiest year on record, with 1,094. Mercedes-Benz filed the most that year, with 45.

Campaigns
897
Vehicles covered
42,654,416
Largest recall
3,100,000
Rank by volume
#10 of 60

Makes that filed most in 2017

  1. Mercedes-Benz1,072,616 vehicles45 recalls
  2. Forest River377,444 vehicles43 recalls
  3. Ford3,769,571 vehicles39 recalls
  4. BMW2,143,178 vehicles29 recalls
  5. Toyota720,761 vehicles17 recalls
  6. Thor Motor Coach124,828 vehicles16 recalls
  7. Audi1,222,019 vehicles15 recalls
  8. Honda3,328,446 vehicles15 recalls
  9. Freightliner63,367 vehicles14 recalls
  10. Hyundai3,035,560 vehicles14 recalls
  11. Mazda1,189,263 vehicles13 recalls
  12. Thomas Built Buses4,050 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 2017

  1. Equipment: Labels73 recalls
  2. Equipment62 recalls
  3. Air Bags: Inflator Module45 recalls
  4. Steering24 recalls
  5. Seat Belts23 recalls
  6. Equipment: Recreational Vehicle/Trailer21 recalls
  7. Electrical System: Wiring18 recalls
  8. Service Brakes, Air16 recalls
  9. Seats15 recalls
  10. Structure15 recalls

Largest recalls of 2017

  1. Takata — Air Bags: Inflator Module17E0010003 January 20173,100,000
  2. Takata — Air Bags17E03400010 July 20172,700,000
  3. Kidde — Equipment17E06200020 October 20172,500,000
  4. Ram — Power Train: Column Shift17V82100020 December 20171,482,874
  5. Takata — Air Bags: Inflator Module17E0020003 January 20171,300,000
  6. Keystone — Equipment17V75500022 November 20171,205,997
  7. Honda — Electrical System: 12V/24V/48V Battery17V41800029 June 20171,148,550
  8. Ford — Latches/Locks/Linkages: Latch17V65200016 October 20171,101,107
  9. Ram — Air Bags17V3020009 May 20171,021,279
  10. Hyundai — Seat Belts: Anchorage17V1520008 March 2017977,778
  11. Honda — Air Bags: Inflator Module17V03000010 January 2017977,708
  12. Honda — Seats: Mid/Rear Assembly17V72500017 November 2017806,936
  13. BMW — Engine and Engine Cooling: Crankcase (pcv)17V68300030 October 2017740,561
  14. BMW — Electrical System: Wiring17V67600025 October 2017702,965
  15. Chevrolet — Steering: Electric Power Assist System17V41400029 June 2017690,685
  16. Ford — Air Bags: Inflator Module17V02400010 January 2017654,695
  17. Dodge — Service Brakes17V57200018 September 2017646,394
  18. Kia — Engine and Engine Cooling: Engine17V22400031 March 2017618,160
  19. Lexus — Air Bags: Inflator Module17V0060009 January 2017577,875
  20. Hyundai — Engine and Engine Cooling: Engine17V22600031 March 2017572,000
  21. Diono — Child Seat17C00300014 September 2017519,052
  22. Nissan — Air Bags: Inflator Module17V44900017 July 2017515,394
  23. Mercedes-Benz — Air Bags: Frontal17V6270006 October 2017495,290
  24. Continental — Fuel System, Gasoline17E03100022 June 2017456,106
  25. Ram — Engine and Engine Cooling: Diesel17V56200012 September 2017443,874

The 25 largest of 897 filed in 2017. See every recall or the largest on record.

Urgent advisories in 2017

14 of the 2017 recalls tell owners to stop driving the vehicle.

Have they been repaired?

Manufacturers report progress quarterly on 874 of the 2017 campaigns. Across those, 55.2% of the 35,043,266 vehicles involved have been repaired, leaving 14,062,136 outstanding.

The remaining 2017 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

2017 here is the year the recall was filed with NHTSA, not the model year of the vehicles. A 2017 filing routinely covers vehicles built years earlier, and a car of model year 2017 appears in filings for years afterwards.

“Vehicles covered” sums the manufacturer’s own estimate for each campaign. A vehicle recalled twice in 2017 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.