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2025 FORD BRONCO — Complaint #2178571

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES filed February 19, 2026

NHTSA complaint #2178571 (ODI reference 11719134) concerns a 2025 FORD BRONCO and was filed on February 19, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 18, 2026. The report was geocoded to Missouri 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
Missouri

Complaint Description

I have experienced three total brake failures in my 2025 Ford Bronco. During the most recent incident on 2-18-2026 the brake pedal traveled completely to the floorboard, requiring extreme force and multiple pumps to stop the vehicle. This appears to be the exact failure described in Ford Recall 25S77 (NHTSA Campaign 25V488) regarding the Electronic Brake Booster (EBB) module. The vehicle was presented to Suntrup Ford twice previously for this issue, but the defect was not corrected. I am reporting a life-threatening safety failure. After February 18th 2026 brake failure I had bronco towed to Suntrup Ford in Kirkwood Missouri and that's where it will stay. I am too frightened to drive it again.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2178571
ODI Number 11719134
Date Filed February 19, 2026
Failure Date February 18, 2026
VIN 1FMDE8BH3SL

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