Motor vehicles from South Africa
19 official alerts and recalls concern motor vehicles made in South Africa, 2 of them in 2025 (data to 1 October 2026).
19 EU Safety Gate alerts concern motor vehicles made in South Africa. The first dates from 15 April 2020, the latest from 25 June 2026. The hazards named most often are injuries (95%) and fire (5%). 0% of the EU alerts were marked as sold online, and 0% name an online marketplace. The most common outcome was recalled from consumers (100% of EU alerts); 0% included a measure ordered by an authority. Chemicals named in the official risk descriptions include lead.
- Alerts per €1B of EU imports, 2025
- –
- Sold online
- 0%
- Name a marketplace
- 0%
- Marked counterfeit
- 0%
No rate: fewer than 5 alerts in 2025, or less than €50M of EU imports, or no clean customs-code match for this category.
Rates divide EU Safety Gate alerts by the value of extra-EU imports in the same customs codes (UN Comtrade, EU-27, converted from US dollars at the ECB annual average rate). They measure how often regulators flag products from this origin against the trade in them, not the share of products that are unsafe.
Official alerts and recalls per quarter
EU Safety GateQ4 2026 is incomplete: counted to 1 October 2026.
Show the numbers by year
| Year | EU Safety Gate | US CPSC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (to date) | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 7 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 |
What to test for
- Lead3
Substances named in the official risk descriptions, by number of alerts.
Most common hazards
Which authorities flag it
- Germany17
- Portugal1
- United Kingdom1
What happened to the products
- Recalled from consumers100%
Latest alerts
Download these 19 alerts (CSV) English column names; reuse with attribution to the official sources.
| Date | Product | Platform | Notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-25 | Pick-up truckRangerBrand: Ford · model e5*2007/46*0080*13-*15 (2AB) · barcode 26S35 · batch 4.03.2025-12.02.2026 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | SR/01907/26 | |
| 2026-06-17 | Pickup truckRanger Brand: Ford · model 2AB, e5*2007/46*0080*13-*14 · barcode 25S77 · batch 27.6.2024 - 27.02.2026 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | SR/00250/26 | |
| 2026-04-29 | Pick-up truckRangerBrand: Ford · model e5*2007/46*0080*14 (2AB) · barcode 25S98 · batch 7.05.2025 to 8.05.2025 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | SR/01312/26 | |
| 2025-09-11 | Passenger carPoloBrand: Volkswagen · model e1*2007/46*1783* (AW) · barcode 42A9 · batch 10.04.2025 - 11.04.2025 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | SR/03282/25 | |
| 2025-05-13 | Passenger carC-classBrand: Mercedes-Benz · model R2CW, e1*2018/858*00016*04-*09 · barcode 9192004 · batch 29.09.2021 - 24.07.2024 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | SR/01846/25 | |
| 2024-12-17 | Pickup truckRangerBrand: Ford · model 2AB, e5*2007/46*0080*10 · barcode 24S68 · batch 20.05.2022 - 02.04.2024 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | SR/03742/24 | |
| 2024-04-02 | Pickup truckRangerBrand: Ford · model e5*2007/46*0080*09-*11 (2AB) · barcode 23S67 · batch 17.08.2022 - 27.11.2023 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/00862/24 | |
| 2024-01-29 | Pickup truckRanger Brand: Ford · model 2AB, e5*2007/46*0080*10-*11 · barcode 23S58 · batch 21.7.2022 - 6.4.2023 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/00187/24 | |
| 2023-11-23 | Pickup truckRangerBrand: Ford · model e5*2007/46*0080*10, *10 Rev. 01, *11 (2AB) · barcode 23S43 · batch 12.12.2022 – 5.6.2023 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/02808/23 | |
| 2023-11-16 | Pickup truckRangerBrand: Ford · model e5*2007/46*0080*10-*11 (2AB) · barcode 23S42 · batch 17.03.2023 - 25.03.2023 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/02741/23 | |
| 2022-12-21 | Passenger carPoloBrand: VW – Volkswagen · model AW, e1*2007/46*1783* · barcode 66N3 · batch 11.08.2021 - 23.09.2021 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/01833/22 | |
| 2022-11-08 | Pickup truckRangerBrand: Ford · model 2AB, e5*2007/46*0080*09 · barcode 22S64 · batch 12.01.2022 - 17.09.2022 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/01568/22 | |
| 2022-10-12 | Pickup truckRangerBrand: Ford · model 2AB, e11*2007/46*0154*12-*18, e5*2007/46*0080*02 · barcode 22S46 · batch 01.12.2016 - 28.02.2019 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/01427/22 | |
| 2022-07-14 | Pickup truckRangerBrand: Ford · model e11*2007/46*0154*17, e5*2007/46*0080*00-*02, 2AB · barcode 22S30 · batch 1.09. 2018 - 31.05.2019 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/00970/22 | |
| 2022-02-18 | Passenger carPoloBrand: VW · model AW, e1*2007/46*1783* · barcode 70I4 · batch 21.8.2020 - 29.10.2020 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/00286/22 | |
| 2022-01-27 | Passenger carEverest / RangerBrand: Ford · model e5*2007/46*0080*03, 2AB · barcode 21S14 · batch 2.6.2020 - 23.7.2020 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/00179/22 | |
| 2022-01-13 | Passenger carPoloBrand: VW · model e1*2007/46*1783*##, AW · barcode 60F2 · batch 10.08.2021 - 09.12.2021 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/00057/22 | |
| 2020-12-09 | Passenger carHiluxBrand: Toyota · model e11*2007/46*2587*06 · barcode 20SMD-105 · batch The affected vehicles were manufactured between 23 August 2018 and 30 May 2019. Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/01771/20 | |
| 2020-04-15 | Passenger car / Pick-up truckRanger, EverestBrand: Ford · model Individual type approval · barcode 20S10 · batch 29/11/2017 to 15/10/2019 Why: Vehicle defect (brakes, airbags, steering…)Recalled from consumers | A12/00593/20 |