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Just curios out of the 553 Broncos with the airbag folded wrong. How many are being held at the dealership as a stop sale. I know mine is. Built first week of August, held at dirt mountain for a while, and now is being held at the dealership with no answer or timeline from Ford. 4dr hardtop FE
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Just curios out of the 553 Broncos with the airbag folded wrong. How many are being held at the dealership as a stop sale. I know mine is. Built first week of August, held at dirt mountain for a while, and now is being held at the dealership with no answer or timeline from Ford. 4dr hardtop FE
Not sure of the data, but I know the demo unit I test drove had this issue. Took 2-3 days to fix, but it seemed to be something they were aware of to look for.
 

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My guess, based on the build weeks is that most of these are still sitting at DM, including mine.
 

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My guess, based on the build weeks is that most of these are still sitting at DM, including mine.
Mines at the dealership. 4 DR FE. They won't sell it to me and can't even give an estimate of when they can fix. Meanwhile it's serving as a nice dealer mannequin. BTW has 120 miles on it already...
 

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Nice to see all these examples, of Quality is Job #1 at Ford. :unsure:
 

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Mines at the dealership. 4 DR FE. They won't sell it to me and can't even give an estimate of when they can fix. Meanwhile it's serving as a nice dealer mannequin. BTW has 120 miles on it already...
I would raise hell with them about letting people test drive it, that is just wrong. They are essentially going to sell you a demo even though you ordered it.
 

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🤔 Ok but why can't the great Ford just send an airbag to the dealer and have them install it. Doesn't seem like a huge ask...
They are for the ones that have been shipped.....fix the ones at the factory before shipping and won't have to pay the dealer to install.... not rocket science...
 

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I would raise hell with them about letting people test drive it, that is just wrong. They are essentially going to sell you a demo even though you ordered it.
It arrived the evening the day before yesterday. I went in the next afternoon and it already had those miles. They say it was not them, and that's what it had on it when they got it. Said it was probably racked up with trips around dirt mountain. It was built 8/9 and sat around waiting for a MIC 2.0 top. I tend to believe them. The dealer also pointed out some problematic areas on the MIC 2.0 to and said he let ford know that they should replace this one too. I took a picture of the miles...
 

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Mine is on the way via rail and it has a stop order on it. Dealer can't release it until the airbag recall is fixed. They apologized profusely for the wait I've had (8/6 blend) and now this airbag recall. They said they are going to do everything in their power to get it in my hands as soon as humanly possible. They're good guys.

But, I'm like others on this forum... Why can't Ford just have a properly folded airbag sent to the dealership for the dealer to install and then voila! Done. I don't understand the middle of November answer.
 
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I think it is odd as well. Especially when there is only a handful of us that are held at the dealerships. It can't be that much of a constraint on the system to fedex out 5 or 10 of them.
 

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So wouldn't an honest dealer be mortified to send out a test drive unit of any model without a working airbag? What if there was an accident and there were injuries? Imagine the liability knowing this before you let a car out. Isn't that the same reason you can’t have it? It's too unsafe? Go figure.
 
 


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