2021 FORD BRONCO SPORT — Complaint #2013835
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY:TRUNK LID filed August 6, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2013835 (ODI reference 11606827) concerns a 2021 FORD BRONCO SPORT and was filed on August 6, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 9, 2024. The vehicle had 7,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body:trunk lid, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same FORD BRONCO SPORT cohort independently describe similar structure:body:trunk lid failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2021 FORD BRONCO SPORT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2021 Ford Bronco Sport. The contact stated that while parked and opening the liftgate on the trunk of the vehicle, the ball that held the driver's side rear liftgate detached. No warning lights were illuminated. The vehicle was driven to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the rear driver's side liftgate and the glass on the windshield needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 7,500.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2013835 |
| ODI Number | 11606827 |
| Date Filed | August 6, 2024 |
| Failure Date | July 9, 2024 |
| VIN | 3FMCR9B69MR |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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