100% agreed. My 2024 has small cracks around the rear windows – I don't believe for a second that Ford/Webasto made any effective changes to the design and manufacturing process to resolve this issue.
Hit 10,000 miles and two years of ownership. Sat in the driveway with the A/C blasting and watched fireworks from the driver’s seat. I was house sitting in the area so I checked out McConnells Mill State Park before driving home.
Overall fun weekend with the Bronco aside from narrowly avoiding...
Cleaned and touched up some chips on the bumper with truck bed liner. One of the end caps had a couple chips that were starting to rust so I wanted to sand it and seal it off as best as possible.
Whatever you want to call it, Ford is aware of an inherently defective part and continues to use that part. Ford put the defective Texas Instruments cruise control switch into cars/trucks/vans for YEARS despite the design itself being a fire hazard.
The initial switch recall started with early...
That's exactly what Ford did for the cruise control switch recall years ago, and that was absolutely more hazardous than a delaminating hard top.
https://www.autosafety.org/ford-cruise-control-deactivation-switch-recalls-and-history/
Ford's response was to recall the affected vehicles in...
At this point they need to get rid of the Webasto MIC top entirely.
BTW, Webasto was somehow nominated for an award for the MIC top technology: https://fordauthority.com/2024/09/ford-bronco-hardtop-roof-tech-finalist-for-2025-pace-awards/