2023 FORD BRONCO SPORT — Complaint #2100263
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR:SHOCK ABSORBER filed June 13, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2100263 (ODI reference 11666698) concerns a 2023 FORD BRONCO SPORT and was filed on June 13, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 11, 2025. The vehicle had 48,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Connecticut based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:rear:shock absorber, 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 suspension:rear:shock absorber 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 2023 FORD BRONCO SPORT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2023 Ford Bronco Sport. The contact had taken the vehicle for scheduled maintenance and was informed that the rear shocks were leaking and needed to be replaced. The contact stated that the vehicle was bouncing while depressing the accelerator or while driving over a deformation in the roadway. The contact stated that the vehicle was not yet repaired. The manufacturer was informed of the failure and referred the contact to the NHTSA Hotline. The failure mileage was approximately 48,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2100263 |
| ODI Number | 11666698 |
| Date Filed | June 13, 2025 |
| Failure Date | June 11, 2025 |
| VIN | 3FMCR9B63PR |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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