Complaints of “catastrophic engine failure” involving the 2021 Ford Bronco have led to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) initiating a Federal Safety Investigation.
The 2.7-liter EcoBoost engine in the Ford Bronco has become a source of investigation after 32 consumers complained of their engines completely failing in normal, everyday driving conditions. The investigation was opened by NHTSA on May 27.
According to NHTSA, “under normal driving conditions without warning the vehicle may experience a loss of motive power without restart due to catastrophic engine failure related to a faulty valve within 2.7 L Eco-Boost Engines”.
Editor’s note: The original headline incorrectly stated that the Bronco had been recalled. This is not the case. We have fixed the headline to more accurately reflect this and we regret the error.
As many as 25,538 Ford Broncos could be affected by this condition, according to papers Ford filed with the federal agency.
The inquiry, which was initially reported by Carscoops and Ford Authority, seeks to determine if Ford will be required to recall the vehicles for engine repairs. The Federal Office of Defects Investigation has received three petitions requesting these investigations on March 17, 18, and 29. The petitions are currently under review by the agency.
“The petitioners alleged that 2021 MY Ford Broncos vehicles are experiencing loss of motive power at highway speeds with no-restart due to catastrophic engine failures,” the federal safety agency has written on its website.
The affected 2.7-liter EcoBoost engine is available as standard equipment on the Wildcat and as an optional engine on all other models except Everglades and Raptor.
Car and Driver is reporting that Ford has told them they are aware of a select number of engines affected and that Ford is cooperating with NHTSA on the matter as well as any consumers who have the 5-year/60,000-mile powertrain warranty.
The 2021 Bronco currently has two safety recalls outstanding: One from October 2021, involving 553 vehicles for potential passenger airbag deployment issues; the other for a misaligned radar module that could cause affected vehicles to not maintain proper distance while using the adaptive cruise control feature.
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Just a matter of time before Ford Rangers start blowing up too, what with the fuel in oil issue with the 2.3 engine that Ford is denying a problem with but owners have documented.
Yep. The word is out. Another botched launch of a new Ford product.
Likely a metaphor for the Ford Motor Company (maybe they will rebrand as Ford Electric Motor Automobile, FEMA, or add Company, FEMAC).
Isn’t this pretty basic stuff? The auto industry, including Ford, have been building pretty reliable internal combusion piston engines for about a 100 years now. Did they forget? Or did they figure since they’ve been doing this so long, any engine will automatically be fine? Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
“Just a matter of time before Ford Rangers start blowing up too, what with the fuel in oil issue with the 2.3 engine that Ford is denying a problem with but owners have documented.”
Oh, did Honda finally license that to competitors?
Cost cutting. Ford is all about hiring the low bidder.
Meanwhile, I just saw a Bronco being test-driven in my town. It had “GREAT DEAL! $79,000” plastered on the windshield. Someone is being taken for a ride. The “Great Deal” is only great for the dealership.
@RHD – dealer “market adjustment” is a common occurrence these days. I showed interest in a new diesel ZR2 Colorado at one dealer and the price jumped $7k. I looked at a run of the mill XLT Ranger with a $5.5k markup. The local Ford dealer is the worst followed by the Stelantis dealer. Both are technically owned by the same slimeball. (CEO of one chain and owner of other)
Whoops! This is like an Eighties domestic issue come to life in 2022.
Good news: – This problem is confined to Ford Blue™. Ford Model e™ is just fine. – The brakes still work (maybe – no vacuum boost when engine fails?) – Planet Earth gets a brief reprieve from 17/17/17 fuel economy
Ford motors already weren’t great at the best of times, now add the constant redesigns to keep up with batshit crazy EPA rules and two years of ersatz workarounds to the post COVID supply chain and the junk they’re putting out the door shouldn’t surprise anybody.
Even Honda is selling bad motors now!
“Even Honda is selling bad motors now!”
To be fair, Honda got a huge jump on the industry with this, starting in…2006? 2007? with their V6 Variable Cylinder Management.
They used to put a “VCM” light on the dash telling you your engine was currently in the act of destroying itself. A couple years in they took that light away, after customers got savvy to its actual meaning. Of course, they left the feature itself in and silently engaged.
Then they put that engineering team onto the turbo 1.5 engine, leading the industry in fuel-in-oil problem deliverables all the while training their dealer and warranty organizations how to say with a straight face, “it’s supposed to do that, if you’re worried just change the oil more frequently”.
Later than 2008. My MDX (240k and still going) has a non-VCM engine and the six speed trans. Interestingly, later versions had more problems with the VCM and 10 (?) speed tranny. Sometimes simpler is better
VCM was on some V6 engines as early as 2006. It was tied to trim level and/or vehicle in question. I had a high end 2007 Odyssey that had VCM (until I disabled it).
*Extremely* misleading headline aside (there has not been a recall yet for this issue…..as stated IN THE ARTICLE), this is yet another example of Ford’s extremely poor engineering and lack of quality with the Ranger SUV.
These are garbage and all of the delays were do to extreme quality issues, not the Covid excuse that was floated.
If Ford is this blatant in their poor engineering and pushing out low quality vehicles, then this is clearly a systemic issue. Quality is completely absent from all Ford vehicles. They can’t make an engine (which they’ve been doing for over one hundred years) and they want us to think they can make an EV? What a joke
This is not just Ford but GM and many turbo engines. That was one reason besides fuel economy that I steered away from the Ecoboost 2.0 I-4 in the Maverick which that engine has had some issues in the Escape. The hybrid system in the Maverick with the 2.5 I-4 is similar to the C-Max and earlier hybrid Escapes with some of the earlier hybrid Escapes going as much as 300k miles in NYC without any issues. For the most part I would steer clear of most turbo engines.
Nothing whatsoever to do with turbos. Millions upon millions of them work no problem at all. If we’re talking about fuel dilution in Hondas, bad direct injection spraying in sideways on cylinder walls across the combustion chamber is the problem, combined with overcooling, so that the spray liquefies and runs past the rings into the sump. You have some kind of a jag on against turbos that surpasses any understanding. You’re fixated, in my opinion, and wandering off in some direction only you theorize about.
Just to make your day, let me relate the situation my friend went through with the 2.5l Ford. He had that same 2.5l engine you have in your wonderful super-duper-beyond-all-compare Maverick trucklet in his leased 2017 Fusion. It’s a minor derivation of the Mazda MZR engine that Ford called Duratech for years and came in 2.0, 2.3 and 2.5l displacements. It’s two decades old near enough, pretty proven. The 2.0 has finally been redesigned structurally and is in the Bronco Sport and Escape in turbo version. Apparently far more sprightly than the bucking horse 2.0 turbo they made for years that was passed around anyone who’d buy it, so that even the Range Rover Evoque was saddled with its “charms”.
Back to my friend: After only 9 months, on a tight and narrow spiral downhill on-ramp on the oldest four-laner in the city, the Fusion’s engine quit. Just like that. Stopped. Would not restart. As it was rush-hour, it ended up causing a three hour traffic delay.
Once finally towed, after a WEEK the dealer could still not get it going. Ford HQ in Oakville were mystified. My pal was stuck with the loaner of the towering pile of crud called the Echosport made in India in the meantime. He finally negotiated a great deal on the lease of a 2.7TT Fusion Sport, which completed his four year lease and he recently bought it out. Been great. The dealer never told him what happened to that original Fusion naturally-aspirated wheezer four banger. And how many F150s with that 2.7TT engine have up and quit?
Nope, it’s my complete guess that there’s something other than pure engine mechanical problems that causes these Fords to quit. Likely electronic or wiring or method of assembly like a wire kink. And not limited to turbo engines, obviously. Some dumb thing Ford hasn’t thought through properly and semi-randomly hiccups.
Ever since the 2012 Escape came out, where Ford demonstrated it had lost the ability to hang doors, tailgates and hoods straight, let alone stuff the dasboard in so gaps on either side were the same, I’ve lost interested in Ford. Look at that wackaddodle Getrag/Ford dry dual clutch “automatic” Powershift that made life a misery for Focus owners. What a pile of incompetent poop!
Hope your Maverick engine doesn’t decide to suddenly quit. Probably won’t, but with Ford’s quality assembly, you never know.
The Bronco situation is almost certainly due to bad metallurgy in engine valves from a certain supplier. Not a turbo-specific problem. But the presence of turbos and the use of narrow-stem, hollow-stem, and very light valves are both indicative of measures designed to eke out every bit of MPG.
As for the anecdotal trouble with the 2.5L Duratec in the Fusion, that also sounds like a wiring or controls issue to me. Probably crank position sensor or something else in the ignition system. Possibly fuel pump. If that had been my car, I would have hounded the dealer to find out what went wrong. I would always wonder. Silly, I know. :)
(Then again, the dealer just closed a sale for many thousands of dollars, so maybe he or she wasn’t inclined to volunteer the info that the old Fusion could likely have been back on the road for $400 or less.)
“narrow-stem, hollow-stem, and very light valves”
This makes a lot of sense (and I was wondering). Thank you!
I hope the engine in my Maverick holds up. I do know someone with a 2.7 Ecoboost in a 2011 F-150 with well over 100k miles but it is mostly highway miles and he uses Royal Purple oil. You could be right but there have been issues with turbo 3s and 4s and they don’t seem to hold up. My 2.5 hybrid seems to have more than enough power but I have not hauled anything with it yet.
“ I steered away from the Ecoboost 2.0 I-4 in the Maverick”
Another win in the design department is the internal water pump. When the pump begins to leak – as any will do given enough use – the coolant ends up in the crankcase instead of dripping on the ground. Water in oil equals engine death. What a horrible design. What the hell was Ford thinking? Saving 2 bucks on assembly?
And your point? We all got it that you hate Fords. You probably hate vehicles and live in your parents basement.
At times like this I wish Ford had the foresight to stick it’s 3.0 V6 powerstroke diesel into the Bronco, instead of just dropping it like a hot potato with barely a week’s notice. I see more and more eco-diesel Wranglers and Gladiator’s on the road in my area, and from what I remember, it was a decent little torque monster, no better or worse than the any other domestic offering. Common sense says it’d be a perfect alternative to these somewhat problematic ecoboost engines, but then again, I’m pretty sure the Big 3 could all use a drowning dose of common sense.
If a modern light duty diesel (from any brand) is more reliable than the Ecoboost engines then Ford has a serious problem.
The 3.0 PSD would have been a MUCH better choice than these high strung eco bombs. The fuel economy would have been far better too. 850 miles to the tank in the F150. Average of almost 33 mpg. The most fuel sipping F150 isn’t the hybrid, it was the diesel. So the obvious choice was to kill that engine.
https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/21396/2018-ford-f-150-diesel-truck-review-how-does-850-miles-of-range-on-a-tank-sound#:~:text=The%20F%2D150%20Diesel%20covered,range%20up%20to%20850%20miles.
The non turbo V6s and the V8s have been very reliable in the F-150s.
The turbos have been reliable in the F150.
The turbos themselves have been fine but the 3.5s pre 2020 revisions eat their cam phasers in just a couple of years.
The gasketless oil pans that Ford used in both 2.7s and 3.5s through 2019 all leak too and it’s a two day, $1000 fix to put in a new one – which will also leak.
For all the money that that platform prints for Ford they’ve been awfully stingy about putting much of it back in.
I dont know, I’m pushing 90k on a 2.7 with no issues. From all of the actual data available they have been as reliable as anything else, at least in the trucks.
Not a good look on this though.
@Dan–Does Ford use some kind of gasketless sealer like a liquid sealer? Maybe that is a cost saving measure otherwise I cannot think of why they would use it knowing that it could leak. Are the cam phasers made out of softer metal. In the 77 GMs the V8s had defective cams.
They should have put the 3.3L base F150 V6 into the Bronco as standard.
Ford is one of the few car manufacturers that actually build crap vehicles. There is a reason why every month there is a recall for a fire issue or the suspension completely disassembling, or an engine failing. Mustang owners still have there class action lawsuit going on against Ford and there terrible Getrag gearbox. Just amazes me people still buy Ford in the numbers they do. Hard to feel sorry for them
Fords quality has always been questionable but usually the high profit programs like trucks and SUVs were (for the most part) unaffected.
But now even the F150 is garbage. Quality has been steadily declining since Alan Mulally took over. His business model of “profits now, recalls later” was never a good plan. Sure I’m the short term he raised cash but the result is now Ford has warranty costs that are more than double GMs.
“Ford has warranty costs that are more than double GMs.”
Deming is rolling over in his grave. Wowsers….
Ford has also built some good vehicles but all the manufacturers are cutting costs to where quality suffers. This is not just in autos and trucks but this is in almost every consumer product where the manufacturers have cut costs to the bone and buy the cheapest component versus paying a little more for a better component. I have a Kenmore Elite side by side refrigerator that was about $2,500 new in the Fall of 2015. Before the refrigerator was 6 years old I have had to replace the door shelves in both the refrigerator and freezer and that was after being careful not to put too heavy or too many items on the shelves. I have replaced almost all the shelves and just recently the ice maker and ice dispenser stopped working because the wires were broken to the wires in the door being to short to where they broke from the freezer door being opened and closed over the years (you open the freezer door to have access to the freezer). I had to order a whole new freezer door because the wires are too short to splice and built into the door. I have waited over 3 months for that door at a cost of over a thousand dollars. The refrigerator is made by Whirlpool and Whirlpool will not give a timeline as to when that door might be available but they wanted $500 payment before they would take the order. I will probably never have another Whirlpool appliance after have 3 of their refrigerators that have made it just short of 10 years and this is with 2 people using it and doing regular maintenance. Whirlpool is the largest manufacturer of appliances in the US and owns many brands. If I had it to do over I would have just bought another refrigerator for a little more. LG and Samsung are actually worse and harder to get parts for. I am not defending Ford, GM, or Stellantis but quality has taken a nose dive and short term earning and stock price not quality are what drives most corporations. If I owned one of those Broncos I would be very angry and would probably not buy another Ford just as I will not buy another appliance made by Whirlpool. Hopefully my Maverick will not have any major issues but I would steer clear of any turbo engines especially 3 and 4 cylinders which will not last with the stress of the additional power from being turbo charged. If the manufactures decide to go all turbo 3s and 4s then I might go EV despite the issues with them in the meantime I plan to run both my vehicles for a long long time.
“I am not defending Ford, GM, or Stellantis”
Second Bold Prediction of the Week: You will see better and better news out of Stellantis regarding quality, and fewer and fewer recalls.
@ToolGuy–I hope you are right about Stellantis they had reached the bottom and it would be good to see them get better quality. In an era of overall declining quality that would be welcome news. If that happens if could give Ram an opportunity to grow and knock at the door of the F series.
Making consumers replace a $1000 door because of wires that were made a few inches too short? That’s inexcusable. I wonder how many virtue-signaling actions Whirlpool took so they could brag about sustainability and ESG, while also generating millions of pounds of waste because of cheap construction.
I’m guessing there was $1000 of profit baked into that $2500 refrigerator from the start. And now they have forced you to buy another $1000 door, probably making another $700 of profit. The gall of some people is just amazing.
Yes I am furious. I don’t expect appliances to last forever but when they start falling apart when they are 5 to 6 years old is inexcusable. In the future I might look for refrigerators without the door water and ice dispenser and for the ice maker not built into the door but into the freezer. Whirlpool builds their ice makers into the door on the side by sides and the french door models so I am willing to bet all their refrigerator with door mounted ice makers have the same issue with the wires in the door. Might get a top freezer model next time and not a Whirlpool.
“Making consumers replace a $1000 door because of wires that were made a few inches too short? That’s inexcusable.”
People dying because GM used a detent plunger that was 1.6mm shorter than it should have been? And then covering it up?
https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/no-accident-inside-gms-deadly-ignition-switch-scandal/
I wouldn’t buy a GM anything from those crooks.
10 years out of a fridge? That is about a third of what it should be. I replaced an early 70s Amana with a LG 11 years ago. The Amana is now a beer fridge for a nearby neighbor who still uses it to this day…LG lunched its icemaker under warranty but all has been fine since.
I had a plain Roper top freezer model that I just gave away that was 27 years old and still going strong. Appliances like everything else are getting made cheaper with less longevity.
If this turns out to be true, I’m curious what the differences between these motors installed in the Bronco and these very same motors that show up in other models.
What about the 2.5L motor in the hybrid Maverick? I have one on order and I’m more than a little concerned. It’s basically the same as in the Escape, and I’ve not heard of any issues with that….
Totally different engine family, and has not been problematic to date.
@Lynchenstein–I have an XLT hybrid Maverick since April 8 and so far it is flawless. Hopefully no problems but so far I love it and I have been getting between 40 and 50 mpg city. Reading about others who have the same hybrid and they are having no issues.
“ I have an XLT hybrid Maverick since April 8 and so far it is flawless.”
Wow two in the same thread! Impressive!
And congrats on your brand new fake truck being “flawless” for two months. Ford quality is back!
Completely different system. That 2.5 runs on the Atkinson cycle, with the hybrid part giving low end torque. Incredibly reliable drivetrain. Or at least it was when we had several Escape hybrids in our fleet. All of them did 300k before either being traded in because rust, or totaled because ice.
Right? This engine is hardly a new quantity; it’s been in the F-150 for years.
This engine in the F-150 has a decent rep. I’m curious what they changed. Some reports on the Bronco forums was it was a series of manufacturing defects from one supplier rather then a design issue.
A buddy has an oil sucking 5.0 in his F-150 and it’s been rebuilt twice at the dealer on warranty (first time new cylinder heads, second time new short block). Which includes pulling the cab off the truck. I can only imagine what those warranty bills look like. Impressive part though is that most of the dash and such still works properly. I guess the techs are getting a lot of experience on these.
“The affected 2.7-liter EcoBoost engine is available as standard equipment on the Wildcat”
Who knew? I thought those were supercharged Hemis?
All those lucky few who paid an exorbitant premium to be the first on their block to have one…
After the Powershift Transmission Debacle why would you ever consider a Ford ever again…..
At this rate, the 6.2L is going to be the only reliable motor Ford makes.
That is one of the reasons why my next car will be EV. Ford hybrids are very reliable too.
My thought as well with all the complexity and reduced life of turbo 3s and 4s and multi geared and CVT transmissions EVs are starting to look better. Add higher fuel prices especially if they stay high it makes ICE less attractive.
Not only that. you also do not have to change motor oil and transmission fluid. Consider how much damage to environment does motor oil.
Very good points. I did get a battery lawn mower last year and it seems to do just as good of a job as my gas one. About 20 years ago I bought a DR Trimmer Mower Neutron battery mower and the power was weak and went about half the time on a charge that my new one does so the battery technology has improved. I only used the DR for about a year and gave up on it. My new mower is on its 2nd year and going strong but in a year I will be in my new home and no more mowing.
It seems the Jack Welch business model is spreading like cancer throughout the US industry. The problems Ford is having are not much different than what Boeing went through during the 737Max and Dreamliner debacle. Welch believed profits and shareholder value were more important than innovation and quality. Ford’s profits are high, but their quality is going back to Pinto-levels. When Boeing started hiring former GE personnel quality immediately start declining. Ford has not hired any former GE people, but they did adopt the GE sigma six quality system. Like GE, Ford has adopted a shareholder value culture, where cost-cutting is of paramount importance. This means using cheaper parts with less quality control. About 15 years ago Boeing tried this with the 787 Dreamliner with disastrous results. The problems the 737max has had have already been well documented. You would think after so many bad results companies would stop implementing the GE business model from the 80s.
I cannot think of one Jack Welch-trained CEO who has been successful. One of the worst automotive CEOs ever was another Jack Welch protege’ Bob Nardelli, who helped run Chrysler into the ground. Many autos journalist was shocked at how little Nardelli knew about the car business. These types of CEO know how to cut costs, but when it comes to running the company they are clueless. Unfortunately, GM is being run in almost the same way with equally poor results. If Ford and GM don’t change their ways the future looks bleak indeed.
Alan Mulally must have been a Jack Welch protégé.
Alan Mulally frequently makes many best CEOs lists. He was an engineer and had great instincts when it came to product design. Mulally helped oversee the Boeing 777 Boeing program, which many consider the best passenger airliner ever. Mulally was replaced by several GE-trained CEOs, who had little interest in plane design. The worst of these CEOs was Harry Stonecipher, who cut design and engineering in favor of appeasing shareholders. They even moved Boeing’s headquarters to Chicago, which further isolated engineering and management. The quote below pretty much sums up Stonecipher’s business philosophy.
“When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.” -Harry Stonecipher.
Alan Mulally left Boeing and went on to save Ford motor company. Under his leadership, Ford produced some of the best cars the company ever produced. The popular and reliable Fusion was typical of the cars favored by Mulally. I have a Fusion closing in on the 200,000 miles barrier. The Fusions replacement the Escape has been a big disappointment in both sales and reliability. I have also heard stories of blow engines concerning the Escape.
Something negative started happening at Ford about 5 years ago. It has been downhill since.
Well, they already had the Fusion when Mulally came on board.
But he did preside over the 2013 redesign. And the North American introduction of the “One Ford” models like the 2012 Focus, 2011 Fiesta, and C-Max. Those were much better-driving cars than their predecessors. So I guess I will give him a share in the credit for that.
And he supposedly improved some things within Ford’s culture, including facing problems head-on.
Yet the PowerShift debacle began under his watch. And he trained Mark Fields to be in charge, which didn’t go so well. So maybe there were some flaws under the surface of his management?
“Alan Mulally frequently makes many best CEOs lists.”
He was a cancer at Ford. He cut quality to the bone, “One Ford” was a disaster and led to Ford not being able to make any money on cars, the 2013 Escape was garbage and had an amazing amount of recalls, PowerShift, egoboost, etc.
He was horrible for Ford.
““One Ford” was a disaster…”
“Three Fords” is gonna be Awesome: https://www.ford.com/ford-blue-ford-model-e/
That Ford press release is very amusing! Thanks for that.
I wonder which business the junior weatherstrip or ball joint engineer thinks he works for?
I wonder what dealers think of this? I guess Ford has put them on notice by announcing haggle-free, direct sales. Of course, they’ll be expected to make investments to charge and fix the electric cars. And probably build separate showrooms too.
Based on stock option prices 6-18 months out, Wall Street is not convinced that “Ford Model e” is the next Tesla.
@akear–Well said you have gotten to the heart of the problem with most US Corporations. Short term Welch and GE did well under his management but long term his management destroyed GE but then he was gone and collected his retirement and bonuses. GE stock went drastically down after he was gone and much of that is because their quality declined and hurt their reputation. Nardelli didn’t start Chryslers decline but he helped suck out what ever life was left in Chrysler. The private equity firm that owned Chrysler bought them to get what they could out of Chrysler (pick over Chrysler’s carcass and then get rid of it and fortunately for them they had the Government to bail them out). Chrysler has never been the same since Daimler and then Nardelli. I don’t know if Mulally is a disciple of Welch but he left a mess at Boeing and then Ford and his successor almost finished Ford off. Poor quality eventually catches up with a corporation and when less people buy your product and complain about the quality few want it and profits go down.
Welch did not start the shareholder business-based philosophy, but he help popularize it. His short-term success on Wall Street made him a legend. However, as you said it was not sustainable. This year GE has been broken up into several smaller companies. In the long term, the Jack-Welch experiment was a failure. Welch’s name is seldom brought up when pundits produce their best CEO of all-time lists today.
Jack Welch’s name will fade into history.
Agree the shareholder business-based philosophy started long before Jack Welch but he was definitely a disciple of it. Nothing wrong with increasing profit per share as long as the overall quality does not suffer. When quality suffers the reputation of the product is tarnished and it is much harder to get a reputation back than it is to earn it. GE is just a shadow of its former self and likely will never get back to what it was. So many once great companies have disappeared or are a shadow of their former selves. GM comes to mind when at one time they were the leaders and had over 60% of the US market and now GM is a company that is cutting its way to profitability and focusing on China. GM or gm should just sell itself off then Barra and the board can take their golden parachutes.
Just get the V8, don’t look back. Sure it’s not offered everywhere, but anything midsize isn’t so small, nor very fuel efficient either.
V8’s need to make a comeback in midsize pronto, around a 4.6 or 7 would be perfect. No it doesn’t need to set the Burgerkingring on fire, skunk striping, side/hood scoops, chrome exhaust exits and whatnot. Just a discrete little badge and you’d hardly know it’s there.
Unfortunately V8s are being phased out as the manufacturers turbo more small engines for compliance. Toyota went from the million mile V8 Tundra to the turbo V6 which has had teething problems. Stellantis will be ending V8 Hemis replaced by turbo straight 6s (I believe these are called Hurricanes). GM has added turbo 4s to Silverados and Sierras but does have a few V8s left but for how long.
So, we’ve gone from engines that had lots of little problems with emissions and fuel injection and ECUs to engines that are super reliable until they prematurely catastrophically fail.
“Over the past nine months, more Wrangler owners have defected to the Bronco than any other brand, with defection rates reaching between 9-10 percent in the first three months of 2022.”
Both Bronco and Wrangler owners have been found at the side of the road.
@Jeff S – A friend of mine had an engine failure with his 2.0 turbo in his brand new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon. His Jeep was 6 weeks old. He also had an engine failure with his 3.6 V6 in his old Jeep just off of warranty.
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