2025 Ford Bronco
This year drew an ordinary 94 complaints for a Ford Bronco — the model's median is 216. What they were about is the unusual part: 19.1% of them mention before, against 5.5% 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.
| Complaints filed | 94 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 216 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 19 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- before — 19.1% of this year's complaints, against 5.5% across the model's other years (3.5×).
- show — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 0.6% across the model's other years (9.9×).
- huge — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.1% across the model's other years (5.9×).
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
This is in reference to Safety Campaign 26S32. My fiancé owns a 2025 Ford Bronco 5 door and her roof has the same exact issue that is described in this safety campaign. Before the vehicle had 5000 miles on it the roof had already begun to show cracks, honeycom…
Car would shut off shortly after using remote start on key fob then display a warning on digital instrument cluster for two days now. It would also show my speed going back and forth from 0 to 1mph while parked.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V770000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V164000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V260000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V308000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V311000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 25V310000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V397000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 25V396000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 19. 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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