Ford has issued a recall that applies to about 7,500 items of the Bronco constructed through the 2023 and 2024 mannequin years. The off-roaders included within the marketing campaign have been constructed with hardtop quarter home windows that will not have been correctly put in, so that they threat falling off whereas driving.
Assigned recall quantity 24V-142 by the Nationwide Freeway 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 shouldn’t be a part of the recall as a result of its home windows have a special attachment mechanism.
Ford explains that the rear quarter home windows “require a two-step priming process prior to installation onto the hardtop surface.” Nevertheless, in a number of the recalled SUVs one of many primer layers “may not have been applied to the glass surface at a sub-assembly facility.” This drawback will increase the danger of the home windows changing into free and falling off, which creates a street hazard and in flip will increase the danger of an accident. The corporate provides that drivers might 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 inside 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 discipline reviews associated to the problem. It is also not conscious of accidents or accidents attributable to a falling window.
House owners of affected SUVs can be notified by mail beginning April 8. They’re going to be requested to take their Bronco to a certified dealership so {that a} technician can examine the hardtop home windows and re-install them if wanted in keeping with the corporate’s authorised service process.