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2025 FORD BRONCO — Complaint #2171925

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES filed January 31, 2026

NHTSA complaint #2171925 (ODI reference 11714693) concerns a 2025 FORD BRONCO and was filed on January 31, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 28, 2026. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, 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 cohort independently describe similar service brakes 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 2025 FORD BRONCO shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2025 FORD BRONCO
Component
SERVICE BRAKES
State
Pennsylvania

Complaint Description

Loss of braking. Note weather was cold in single digits Fahrenheit and midly snowy. I drove my 2025 Ford Bronco that was purchased in Octorber about 20 minutes to drop off my child at daycare. Going into the daycare I turned to Slippery/4A mode. After about 5 minutes inside I pulled out and switched back to Normal/2H mode. Less than half a mile later I got multiple warnings that the brakes, EBB, collision detect, and ABS had faulted, and I should service now. I only had the electronic parking brake available. I was able to use it and engine braking with my manual transmission to get to off the road to a parking lot, although I did also receive a parking brake overheat fault the turn before getting into the parking lot. I shut the vehicle off without the parking brake on. I turned it back on and the dash warning lights all disappeared after a few seconds. Brake function returned and I drove it to a Ford service center about 1 mile away. They were not able to reproduce the problem or fin

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2171925
ODI Number 11714693
Date Filed January 31, 2026
Failure Date January 28, 2026
VIN 1FMDE4DH6SL

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.