Ford Expedition

CURTAIN: PROSE — Safety Canopy 'mounted … above each row of seats', activates 'regardless of which seats are occupied' (manual p.58/PDF p.58) — row-covering language, Explorer precedent. LATCH: 2 lower-anchor positions, third-row OUTBOARD — VERIFIED BY OPERATOR 2026-08-28 from the rendered manual figures (PDF p.38): the Second Row Bench Seat lower-anchor diagram marks child-restraint icons with anchor bars at the two outboard third-row positions and none at center; the bucket-config diagram shows the same two. TETHERS: 3 — VERIFIED BY OPERATOR (PDF p.39): the Second Row Bench Seat top-tether diagram draws six anchor symbols, three on the second-row seatback and THREE across the third-row seatback. REMINDER = TRUE, FIGURE-DERIVED (owner-confirmed, operator-verified 2026-08-29 in the browser at Ford's own host). The PROSE is generic — 'provides an audible or visual alert when you or an occupant unfastens a seatbelt', alert clears when 'you fasten the seatbelt for any seat that is occupied' — and never names row 3, which is why the first pass said ambiguous. The SEATBELT REMINDER INDICATORS figure (printed p.49) settles it: Ford's own cluster graphic renders the cabin as THREE ROWS of per-seat status icons — front row 2 (one red X, one green check), second row 2 (captain's chairs), and THIRD ROW 3 across a bench — i.e. the 2+2+3 seven-seat layout, with every third-row position individually monitored. Caption: 'This warning displays if an occupant unfastens the rear seatbelt buckle or it becomes unfastened.' Not text-labelled by row like Mazda's, so figure-derived rather than prose-stated.

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