2024 Ford Bronco
This year drew an ordinary 72 complaints for a Ford Bronco — the model's median is 216. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.3% of them mention soft, against 1.4% across the model's other years.
Generation 1 of the Ford Bronco, which began in 2021. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 72 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 216 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 16 |
| EPA combined | 17.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- soft — 8.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the model's other years (5.8×). Owners wrote it as: soft, manufacture.
- wife — 9.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: wife, respond, children.
- shift — 8.3% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: shift, engage.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
While vehicle was on a boat ramp the vehicle”s gear shift was put into the park position. The vehicle’s park gear failed to engage and it continued to roll backwards. Additional attempts to then put the vehicle into drive also failed to respond. My brand new 2…
Soft top cable that secures stop top became loose or broke. Only opened the top 5-10 times. There is now i rattle and the top is not secure. This is horrible. I have found this mentioned mulitple online threads trying to figure out how to fix. This is obviousl…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V142000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 24V189000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 24V770000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V025000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V164000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V308000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V303000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 25V310000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 16. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Bronco was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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