Recall Register

1977 Ford Maverick: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the 1977 Ford Maverick. The newest campaign is 77V218000. NHTSA received the report on 14 Dec 1977. The NHTSA record gives the component Steering / Gear Box (Other Than Rack and Pinion). NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model year.

The NHTSA recall file shows no do-not-drive advisory and no park-outside advisory on these campaigns.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

Remedy of the newest campaign, 77V218000, in the NHTSA record

The dealer will inspect and, if necessary, replace the ball bearings of the steering gear, without charge to owner.
NHTSA VIN lookup

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

2 campaigns, newest first. 42,751 units in total.

  1. 77V218000Received . 40,000 units.

    Steering / Gear Box (Other Than Rack and Pinion)

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    On the involved vehicles, the manual steering gears may contain steering gear recirculatory balls that could fracture. This fracturing is a result of improper heat-treatment during manufacture and can eventually cause increased steering effort.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    The dealer will inspect and, if necessary, replace the ball bearings of the steering gear, without charge to owner.

    Report filed by FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

  2. 77V045000Received . 2,751 units.

    Latches/Locks/Linkages / Doors / Latch

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    The involved vehicles may have been built with left door lock assemblies that contain pawl spring retainers that were not produced to engineering specifications. Consequently, the spring could break, causing the latch pawl to disengage from the latch cam.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealer will inspect and, if necessary, install a new pawl spring and correct the flange alignment, without charge.

    Report filed by FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

The campaign number opens the NHTSA record. Each quotation is the text of the NHTSA recall file.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

1 complaint, 1 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1977 Ford Maverick: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Tires1
Complaints that report a crash
0
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
0
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
20 May 2007

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 1977 Ford Maverick, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2007, with 1 complaint.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19701
  2. 19713
  3. 19721
  4. 19731
  5. 19741
  6. 19751
  7. 19762
  8. 19772
  9. 202228
  10. 202321
  11. 202415
  12. 202512
  13. 20267

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1977 Ford Maverick: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/maverick/1977/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

The NHTSA record is the authority. A complaint count is the number of different complaint numbers for the make, the model and the model year. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

How many units are in the recall campaigns for the 1977 Ford Maverick?
42,751 units in 2 campaigns. A campaign can name other models and model years, and its units include them.
How many recall campaigns does the Ford Maverick have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 55 recall campaigns for the Ford Maverick, model years 1970 to 2026. 2 of them name the 1977 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1977 Ford Maverick name most often?
Tires: 1 of 1 component mention.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1977 Ford Maverick open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.