Bronco's unexpected quirks. What'cha got!?

[boxwood]

I put mine between the seat and pillar and it hasn't moved or made a peep. Maybe move that seat more rear ward.

Seat changes position every day....kid...lots of access to back.
thinking of just adding these a little higher up

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[RyanRallyX]

Still trying to get used to the door storage, or lack thereof. The bungee net doesn't hold my gum wrappers or snotty tissues like my other cars with a plastic compartment. Had to latch one of those car trash bins to the center grab handle.

 

[topher3134]

I am pretty damn happy overall. I am not a fan of the mirror being folded in cant open the doors. Wouldn't be a ig deal but I go thru the car was I don't want to have to roll my windows down to push the mirrors back out and then get water marks all over the damn Windows. Other than that I am super happy with it. Would love to have a winch on my FE but my ram can do that for me if needed...

 

[esquirebdc]

Time and temperature on the screen is almost fully obscured by the lip on the dash... kind of have to move my seat back a bit to see it fully, or duck my head a bit.

 

[mike8675309]

I would say the digital tach is a quirk. Seems like that design came from people who never drove a real car before. Speed doesn't tell you anything useful but when driving on the highway, but the tach tells you so much information about your vehicle. I may be tempted to install an aftermarketet tach myself, take advantage of that rail system on the dash that I've yet to see actually exist.

 

[WuNgUn]

• Windows don’t drop fast enough when opening door and shakes.
• Rear AC “vents” are completely useless but that wasn’t an unexpected quirk.
• Analog speedometer placement. Should of just made the whole thing digital screen
• Wireless charger is useless and wireless CarPlay sucks battery juice. I’m still tethered
• Tailgate shock needs a major redesign.
• Lip that hangs over the 12" screen blocks the upper portion of screen where time and temp are. Its really a 11" screen for me.
• The steering wheel is smaller than the kids go-cart. I measured! Why the huge camel hump of a horn honker?

Tailgate has 3 "detent" positions in it....
Lip on screen? How how up is your seat??? Jeezus.... Lol

 

[WuNgUn]

Try out a Mustang. Ford already knows how to do this 1000 times better than the Bronco implementation. I agree, I see this as a major problem in the future.

Maybe an OTA update coming.

 

[BreezyNVegas]

Stay strong!

Stay Pumped!

 

[Paul Gagnon]

Time and temperature on the screen is almost fully obscured by the lip on the dash... kind of have to move my seat back a bit to see it fully, or duck my head a bit.

Yes! This is super annoying. It's like they designed it for someone who is 5'2" tall.

 

[Perfect-Beast-2]

Enh, that's all a 'quirk' is. A complaint that's not worth fixing, I'd suppose.

Mine is that I find i really like the soft top, but the fact that it in no way shape or form can be fully opened without getting out of the truck is tedious.

But, unlike the jeep, it's one handed to open and close. Inside latches can both be locked from driver's or passenger seat.

 

[Perfect-Beast-2]

ok, I have 2.

That the volume control is on the left hand of the steering wheel. Maybe I'm just more of a left handed driver. But it drives me nuts that I can easily access volume in 2 places with my hands, left hand on the wheel, right hand on the gear shifter (easily access the volume dial right in front of it) but to change the station I need to move my hands all over the place! I change the channel more than I adjust the volume.

No volume auto reset. (is this maybe a Ford thing?) But in like the last 3 cars I owned, if you had the volume turned all the way up, and you shut the car off, you could set an auto volume level when you turned the car back on. I've scared the crap outta myself a few times already because of this! haha

oh wait. 3.

Windshield wipers don't go down when you turn off the car. (again, maybe a Ford thing?)

I second that with the volume, and add that things are backwards from my F150.

Some are probably "whiny", some repetitive, some legit?:

• As a first time 4x4 owner on larger tires, getting in and out of the damn thing has been an adjustment for this 50 year old....my issue not Bronco's but figured you'd get a laught.
• Tail gate is a nuisance. Need a workout to get it open.
• Rearview mirror feels like it consumes a lot of the field of view.
• I don't know if it's me and my prior vehicle but it feels like most of the steering wheel controls are now left-handed when they were right-handed on my prior ("OK" button, volume button, advancing an audit track, etc).
• Cup storage has been a complaint on a lot of recent vehicles. With the increase in popularity of "Yeti" sized bottles, why not have somewhere to store. I found the small cargo net on door does OK. I know, "first world problems" but for a vehicle targeted to outdoor use, think of those who might carry stuff like this.
• Other than that, have about 400 miles on it, rides great on pavement. Finally got some dirt on it this weekend cutting down Xmas tree(didn't need 4x4 yet but fun nonetheless) and I'm getting flashes from a Raptor and another Bronco, not sure that's the best choice for "jeep wave" equivalent but seems to be trending out here....just a few, caught me off guard before I realized why.

Ditto on the steering wheel controls. My F150 is a Ford and still opposite.

 

[Perfect-Beast-2]

Complaint: Steering wheel controls, as others have pointed out. Strange placement of buttons compared to other vehicles I've owned.

Quirk: When washing the windshield, you have to bend the passenger side windshield wiper blade to clear the antenna.

Stubby antenna solves that.

 

[BroncocnorB]

• Windows don’t drop fast enough when opening door and shakes.
• Rear AC “vents” are completely useless but that wasn’t an unexpected quirk.
• Analog speedometer placement. Should of just made the whole thing digital screen
• Wireless charger is useless and wireless CarPlay sucks battery juice. I’m still tethered
• Tailgate shock needs a major redesign.
• Lip that hangs over the 12" screen blocks the upper portion of screen where time and temp are. Its really a 11" screen for me.
• The steering wheel is smaller than the kids go-cart. I measured! Why the huge camel hump of a horn honker?

Yeah I don’t get that huge airbag horn thing. So many cars and trucks are so much more elegant

 

[HotdogThud]

But, unlike the jeep, it's one handed to open and close. Inside latches can both be locked from driver's or passenger seat.

true, I'm just whining that I can't give it a shove from the driver's seat and have it go all the way back. Even being tall, I just can't get the leverage.

Pretty sure Ford owes me a new truck for this gargantuan engineering oversight.

 

[Paul Gagnon]

I second that with the volume, and add that things are backwards from my F150.

Ditto on the steering wheel controls. My F150 is a Ford and still opposite.

Yeah, it is bizarre that they suddenly switched the volume controls to the left hand side of the steering wheel after being on the right for decades. Even the gauge cluster is left handed. It makes no sense.

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