2023 Ford Bronco
This year drew an ordinary 216 complaints for a Ford Bronco — the model's median is 94. What they were about is the unusual part: 38% of them mention wipers, against 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 | 216 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 94 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 18 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- wipers — 38% of this year's complaints, against 4% across the model's other years (9.5×).
- speed — 30.6% of this year's complaints, against 12% across the model's other years (2.5×).
- constantly — 6% of this year's complaints, against 0.4% across the model's other years (13.4×).
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
Wipers function for about 30 seconds on continuous, then go to intermittent, then stop. Does this at all speeds and all rain settings (heavy to light rain). Constantly having to turn wiper off and on to get it to function. Makes it difficult to see in rainy we…
Windshield wipers when set to full on, either slow or fast, will slow down on their own in moderate and heavy rain. This leads to poor visibility. The wipers sometimes stop all together. I constantly have to adjust the wiper control to another setting to get t…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V070000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 23V155000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 23V283000 WHEELS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V358000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V379000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 23V546000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 24V142000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 24V189000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 18. 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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