What’s your most annoying feature on the Bronco?

[Seacat]

The poor rear speaker volume and sound quality of the PREMIUM B&O sound system. Come on Ford.

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[Some Gamer]

After a little over a year, the only thing that still gets on my nerves consistently is the Auto Start Stop.

 

[M&M Beer]

I don't have one Love my Bronco and everyone else does too. This has been the coolest vehicle I have ever owned!

 

[TrailDust]

So after 4 months driving, and just doing a 1500 mile road trip my only real complaint is the awful gauge cluster and lack of interior lighting. Wish the cluster was more like my old JL Rubicon and the interior is a black hole (plan to add the IAG lighting). Otherwise all good!

 

[Down 2 Bronco]

I have learned that people close the doors to hard. You can pull or push the door shut inches from the latch. No reason to launch it.

 

[Sandbergo]

The rain rolling off the soft top directly in the window if it is open. I know I can fix this with aftermarket rain guards but all of them are hideous. So I’ll deal with it.

 

[jrollo7]

All the lovely squeaks and rattles Ford designed into this thing.

And no extra charge

 

[Bikeric]

I know I previously posted about the seat belt on my 2-door, but this is B6G so multiple complaints are acceptable.
I dislike how easily the alarm button on my remote can be set off. The key fob is in my pocket and I reach into the back and just leaning my leg on the bumper will set off the alarm. Sometimes it goes off when I’m raising my leg to get in.
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[CalvinT]

Electric parking brake. Not annoying, but not as useful as a manual parking brake.

Also that the main display doesn't remember how I left it. I want to keep it on Navigation, but when I start it shows Phone.

 

[nametaken]

The unresponsive entertainment screen, have to press it 2 or 3 times sometimes.

 

[PrepVet]

I know it has been said before and I have already posted here, but the awful base radio. It was/is fine with the top up but as soon as you put it down forget it. You can't hear it and if you turn it up it is just bassed out to sounds like hot crap. The stock radios I have had in other soft top SUV's have not been this horrid.

 

[timhood]

The poor rear speaker volume and sound quality of the PREMIUM B&O sound system. Come on Ford.

My wife and I have a theory that this is a Bronco XL problem. Is yours a 4-door? Because volume is definitely not a problem for us. We normally run volume 6-8, depending on whether conversation is involved. If I'm alone, I'll go to 10. Today I cranked it up to 20 to see if I could replicate the vibration people talk about with the sub. No vibration, but it was uncomfortably loud.

I did go into the sound settings and adjust the EQ and sound stage slightly. I think it benefits from moving the sound stage to ear level of the front driver/passenger. That's a bit rearward of where Ford thinks it is centered, but it the logical place for it to be.

 

[Tex]

My wife and I have a theory that this is a Bronco XL problem. Is yours a 4-door? Because volume is definitely not a problem for us. We normally run volume 6-8, depending on whether conversation is involved. If I'm alone, I'll go to 10. Today I cranked it up to 20 to see if I could replicate the vibration people talk about with the sub. No vibration, but it was uncomfortably loud.

I did go into the sound settings and adjust the EQ and sound stage slightly. I think it benefits from moving the sound stage to ear level of the front driver/passenger. That's a bit rearward of where Ford thinks it is centered, but it the logical place for it to be.

Mine definitely had the subwoofer rattle, and a lot of others do as well, it sounds like a blown speaker when it reaches a certain volume and frequency (55-75hz usually). After I isolated where it was coming from, I can say with reasonable confidence that you'll eventually have it too, unless Ford completely changed how they're mounting the subwoofer. The nutplate will eventually loosen and vibrate inside the square hole in the sheetmetal due to fretting corrosion. A permanent solution is to dampen with kilmat and use loctite on the bolt, weld a nut on the sheetmetal, or find some other way of securing it with solid hardware.

 

[KirchTX]

Finally have one. Now I know what the OP meant when he said "Keep your hands on the steering wheel"

I actually like lane keeping features in modern cars, but it messaging to keep my hands on the wheel when they clearly are is really annoying.

Double honk is bad. I thought the GM triple honk was bad and it's probably still worse. Japanese and German cars seem to be able to have a different beep sound than the horn blaring.

Base speakers need replacing but I knew that would be the case.

Overall I do love it. MPG from Iowa to Texas in a Sas BD was 18.9 on 93 octane two fillups. Mostly highway 70-75 MPH. I reset the clock and have been trying to see what I can get out of Shell 87 octane locally and I'm above 21 MPG with very soft pedal and cruise control at 60 MPH to work. Mostly straight country roads.

 

[B Miller]

I gotta go with the double honk, followed up by rattles coming from the tailgate area.

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