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I just purchased a new 2024 Bronco Badlands SAS 2.7 on 6/24/24. My wife and I were super excited to see what kind of adventure we could get into with this new vehicle, and it was our first big purchase together. We took a ~250mi trip to San Antonio for our first weekend with it and on 6/30/24 (6 days after purchase) we were on our way back home. We were driving down the highway then I felt the vehicle start to surge and lose power. Several warning lights came on and the vehicle lost almost all power and wouldn't keep speed. It felt like it was chugging. I managed to get off on the shoulder through traffic. The lights on the dash were the wrench, the engine light, the pre-collision assist light, and the stability control light. I shut off the vehicle and started it again and the lights went out. I would drive only a couple feet and all the errors would pop up again with very weak power and surging/chugging the whole time. The Ford app showed an alert for "Powertrain Malfunction/Reduced Power" along with 5x "Service Engine Soon" warnings, and a "Pre-Collision Assist Not Available" warning. There seemed to be another warning on the list but did not have any information in it. I used the app to request a tow but we waited and waited for it to find someone to take the job and it never found anyone. We were in the middle of nowhere Texas on a Sunday when everything is closed almost 200mi from home. Luckily a good samaritan passing by offered to help pull us to the next town where there happened to be a Ford dealership. I had to leave my car there and had family pick us up to get us back home.
This is very discouraging for a brand new vehicle that I haven't even owned for a week. I have done no offroad driving with it. I haven't even taken it out of 2H. The only mode I have used other than "normal" was "eco" (I liked it for the softer throttle response). I was in normal mode in this instance though since there were moderate to high traffic conditions. I texted my dealer and informed him of the situation, he told me that he was taking a few months off but that he would relay my message to the dealership in the morning. Well how convenient. I bought the car from a dealer that was not really near my hometown, I left the car at a totally different dealer, and I live somewhere else. So now I don't know who to discuss the issue with or how I am going to handle being out of a car for who knows how long. This is very disappointing and makes me feel very uncertain about this car.
I will try to post pictures of the errors and any other information I discover soon.
This is very discouraging for a brand new vehicle that I haven't even owned for a week. I have done no offroad driving with it. I haven't even taken it out of 2H. The only mode I have used other than "normal" was "eco" (I liked it for the softer throttle response). I was in normal mode in this instance though since there were moderate to high traffic conditions. I texted my dealer and informed him of the situation, he told me that he was taking a few months off but that he would relay my message to the dealership in the morning. Well how convenient. I bought the car from a dealer that was not really near my hometown, I left the car at a totally different dealer, and I live somewhere else. So now I don't know who to discuss the issue with or how I am going to handle being out of a car for who knows how long. This is very disappointing and makes me feel very uncertain about this car.
I will try to post pictures of the errors and any other information I discover soon.
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