Ford has issued a recall that applies to about 7,500 items of the Bronco constructed in the course of the 2023 and 2024 mannequin years. The off-roaders included within the marketing campaign had been constructed with hardtop quarter home windows that won’t have been correctly put in, so that they danger falling off whereas driving.
Assigned recall quantity 24V-142 by the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA), the recall applies to 7,527 items of the 2023 and 2024 Bronco constructed between November 6 and December 6, 2023. Ford estimates that the issue is current in about 46% of the recalled fashions, and it provides that the Heritage Collection model isn’t a part of the recall as a result of its home windows have a unique attachment mechanism.
Ford explains that the rear quarter home windows “require a two-step priming course of previous to set up onto the hardtop floor.” Nevertheless, in a number of the recalled SUVs one of many primer layers “could not have been utilized to the glass floor at a sub-assembly facility.” This drawback will increase the danger of the home windows changing into unfastened and falling off, which creates a highway hazard and in flip will increase the danger of an accident. The corporate provides that drivers could expertise wind noise, a rattling noise, or a water leak earlier than both window falls off.
The corporate factors out that it found the defect whereas finishing up inner checks on December 4, 2023. It discovered the foundation of the issue by finishing up an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy evaluation and by interviewing a few of its provider’s personnel. It hasn’t acquired guarantee claims, buyer complaints, or subject experiences associated to the difficulty. It is also not conscious of accidents or accidents attributable to a falling window.
House owners of affected SUVs will probably be notified by mail beginning April 8. They will be requested to take their Bronco to a licensed dealership so {that a} technician can examine the hardtop home windows and re-install them if wanted in keeping with the corporate’s accredited service process.
