This week’s recalls:
– McLaren – rear window
– Kia – fire risk
– Nissan – seat belts
Overview of the recalls in the 20th week of 2025
Two recalls for two models of two brands were published via EU Safety Gate in week 20 of 2025. Five recalls for 15 models of five brands were released by the German Motor Vehicle Authority (KBA).
McLaren and Kia each have one recall in the European Safety Gate system this week.
Cadillac, Chevroletc, Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan are recalling via the KBA.
- Isn’t that your car? See also the recent recalls of other makes.
Falling windows and spoilers
The following review was inspired by this week’s recall for 163 McLaren 765LT Coupes, where a badly bonded rear window can fall off while driving. We don’t think McLaren has too many people in the garage, so we searched our archives and found other recalls for much more affordable cars that also had issues with windows, panoramic roofs, or spoilers falling off. The range of cars affected is really varied — judge for yourself…
- Ford Bronco: Incorrectly glued side window
- Ford Focus with faulty seat belts, side window may fall out with Skoda Octavia
- Window could drop onto the road with Citroën C1, Peugeot 107 and Toyota Aygo
- The windows may become detached with the VW Crafter
- Renault Twingo’s bonnet may detach; Dodge and Chrysler’s windscreen can fall out
- Porsche, Ford and Hyundai struggle with windows; BMW and Dacia with airbags
- The electric Ford Mustang Mach-E may lose its glass roof
- Various Mercedes-Benz models: The panoramic roof window panel may detach
- VW Polo may lose sunroof; Opel Mokka without windscreen wipers
- Do you have a panoramic sun-roof? You may have a problem…
In some cases, the reason for the recall is the risk of being pinched by a window or a roof…
- Hyundai Tucson: Rear electric windows malfunction
- Alfa Romeo Tonale: The sunroof can cause injury
- Ford Transit Custom: The anti-pinch protection may fail
…or other bodywork parts falling off…
- Body parts may detach from Volkswagen, Ford, Land Rover, Mercedes and Lamborghini
- Audi, BMW and VW announced recalls due to falling strips and spoilers
- Land Rover may lose spoiler, parked Hyundai may roll away
- Rear spoiler can detach from Dodge Durango, but also from BMW, Mercedes and Volkswagen
- Audi recalls over the faulty dashboard, Mercedes over falling spoiler
- Tesla can drop the trim strip while driving, Volkswagen may lose the entire spoiler
- Renault Espace may lose its roof spoiler while driving
- BMW X3 could lose its rear spoiler, defective brake booster with Toyota and Lexus
- With the BMW X1, the rear lights can fall onto the road while the Mercedes rear spoiler can do the same
…and also sometimes the risk of fire…
If you are interested in other recalls relating to the exterior parts of vehicles, you will find them under the bodywork tag.
Details on this week’s Rapex recalls can be found in the table below.
We write about the German KBA recalls in the following articles:
- Nissan Juke may have damaged seat belts in the front seats
- Fuse boxes may catch fire on several Mercedes
- Power steering may fail on some Chevrolet and Cadillac models
- Two Ford Mustang recalls due to steering (repeated) and clutch
- KBA Archive
What we’ve written about in recent weeks:
- Faulty cable can cause fires in several BMW models (week 19/25)
- Recalls for trailers of six brands. Don’t you have one of these? (week 18/25)
- Mitsubishi ASX under threat again from exhaust pipe cracks (week 17/25)
- Three Hyundai recalls for older and also later models (week 16/25)
What did we write about a year ago:
- Porsche, Ford and Hyundai struggle with windows; BMW and Dacia with airbags (week 20/24)
- BMW, Citroën and Opel recall cars over ten years old (Week 18/24)
- German premium brands recall thousands of cars (week 17/24)
- Fire risk recalls reported by Honda, Mercedes and Porsche (week 16/24)
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Rapex Recalls announced in the 20th week of 2025
| Značka, Model (rok výroby) | Problém |
|---|---|
| Kia Niro (2021 – 2022) | The contact area of the female-female (F-F) plug connector. |
| McLaren 765LT Coupe (2020 – 2022) | Due to a failure of adhesion the rear window may become detached. |
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