2023 Ford Bronco Sport
This year drew an ordinary 150 complaints for a Ford Bronco Sport — the model's median is 99. What they were about is the unusual part: 10% of them mention tried, against 1.5% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 150 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 99 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 14 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 24.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- tried — 10% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the model's other years (6.9×). Owners wrote it as: tried, shut down, ear, ear piercing.
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
I went to start my 2023 Ford Bronco badlands edition. Upon ignition a loud bang comes from the speakers. It sounded like a gun went off inside the vehicle. My ears were ringing. Then a loud crackling sound could be heard continuously without going away. I trie…
I had parked and turned off my Bronco after a 2 hour drive. When I went back outside about 30 minutes later, I started the vehicle only to get an ear piercing noise coming out of the speakers. I turned off the radio and car but it lasted about 30 seconds and t…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V686000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 22V859000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 23V021000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 24V223000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 24V187000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 24V267000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 24V594000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 25V019000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 14. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Bronco Sport 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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