2007 FORD E-250 Recalls — Canada & USA

The 2007 Ford E-250 has 8 recalls, all involving Ricon-brand wheelchair lifts installed by various mobility equipment upfitters, where platform failures can injure a lift occupant. All eight recalls center on the same family of Ricon platform-style wheelchair lifts. In some cases, the lift platform's side plates can crack and cause the platform to separate from the lift assembly, dropping against the vehicle's lift door while someone is on it. In others, bearing components can shift out of position in the folding link arms, causing the stowed platform to move excessively and the mounting to fail. Two of the recalls address safety interlock failures: the anti-stow interlock may not detect that a wheelchair user is present, allowing the lift to begin stowing while occupied, and a threshold warning sensor may fail to detect a user in part of the threshold zone, again allowing unintended lift movement. All of these recalls apply only to vans that were modified with these specific Ricon lift models by aftermarket mobility upfitters.