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Safety and security
A Transit Connect can cover huge distances every year, so keeping you and your loads safe and secure at all time is of paramount importance.
Safety
Security
Transit Connect exterior
A solid design
We’ve designed Transit Connect to survive the cut and thrust of today’s roads by incorporating outstanding vehicle and occupant safety. Using advanced computer modelling, we have developed a body structure that combines energy-absorbing crumple zones with a rigid shell. There is also a range of bulkhead options from full width, to full height mesh, most of which are DIN compliant. And there’s a wraparound driver bulkhead option that comes with the fold-flat passenger seat, to ensure maximum occupant protection.
Transit Connect exterior
Under the dynamic body shell, and inside both front doors, there are high-strength steel beams that help prevent intrusion in a side impact. There is also a boron steel cross-member behind the front bumper, designed to absorb and safely channel crash energy away from the occupants.
Transit Connect airbags
In addition, all Transit Connect vans benefit from the following standard features:
• Driver's airbag
• Height-adjustable inertia reel seat belts with grabbers and driver's seat belt pre-tensioner
• Anti-lock brakes (ABS) with electronic brake-force distribution (EBD)
• Anti-submarining ramps in front seat bases
• Height-adjustable head restraints
• 15-inch, five-stud wheels
• Electronic Stability Programme (ESP)
 
There are also extra safety features available as options on all Transit Connect models:
• Passenger's airbag*
• Side airbags (not available with fold-flat passenger's seat)
• Traction Assist and rear disc brakes
 
*Please note: A rear-facing child seat should never be placed in the front passenger seat when the vehicle is equipped with an operational front passenger’s airbag.
Transit Connect exterior
Peace of mind
Transit Connect comes with class-leading levels of security, so you can rest easy, no matter where your van’s parked. A robust lock-in-latch system, incorporated into a single steel-shielded unit, is designed to stop thieves gaining access to the cab or loadspace, plus there’s a key-operated bonnet lock. Even if someone did manage to gain entry, they would still face the Passive Anti-Theft System (PATS) immobiliser, which requires your key’s unique, security identification for the engine to start. You can also add an optional perimeter alarm, and remote entry, central double locking for further peace of mind.
Highlights
Interior styling
Transit Connect interior
With a contemporary cabin and a host of features, including the availability of integrated satellite navigation, the Transit Connect is ergonomically designed to improve productivity and profitability.
Load box
Transit Connect exterior
With integrated DIN-compliant tie down fixings, it is designed to maximise your payload.
Fold-flat passenger seat
Transit Connect interior
Makes longer and more awkward loads easier to carry.
Driving control
Transit Connect exterior
Remain composed whatever the situation and get even greater control with Electronic Stability Programme (ESP), now standard.
Side load doors
Transit Connect exterior
To ensure you can reach every corner of the loadspace, and to prevent damage to your vehicle or those around you when unloading in a tight space, Transit Connect comes with the option of sliding side load doors on one side or both.