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- Justin
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- Loveland, CO
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- 2022 Bronco BadSasquatch, 2019 F-250 PowerStroker
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- Badlands
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Since picking up this bronco I've been extremely happy with it. Road manners dominate the JLUR I traded in (I have other posts about that).
But, since I picked this up in November, I haven't been able to do much "dry trail" wheeling. All our seasonal access trails are well...closed. But I have been out snow bashing a few times, and the 1st time I was out, I beached on a drift and winched myself off. In the process of ram rodding the gas to try and get traction, I quickly went from 0 to 30 MPH and saw that warning pop up to "service sta-bar system."
Once i winched myself off the drift, I shut the bronco off. Restarted, and the message went away. Everything was normal again.
Fast forward a month and I went back out again with the intention of really seeing what this was capable of in the snow, and proceeded to get stuck over and over and over. Except this time, the warning popped up as soon as I got stuck and wouldn't clear no matter how many times I shut the bronco off.
I figured it had something to do with the way the snow packs above the skid plates. And I was right. After the bronco dripped off in the driveway, I crawled under there and found the snow (which was really packed hard around the sway bar mechanism) seemed to have unplugged a harness.
I plugged it back in, and the warning did not clear. So I tired a battery pull, and it still did not clear. Read the codes, and sure enough a C1B03 code existed (and was un-clearable).
Fast forward a few more weeks now, and I finally was able to get up to my dealership for a service call. The results of that were basically update the CHCM, cleared the code after the update, and everything is good to go. No broken wiring, no modules replaced, nothing. Just a simple software glitch.
I had them check a few other things that were just nit-picky and irrelevant to this post, so i'll skip those. Hoping to get back out here in the next couple weeks and test this again to make sure the problem doesn't return.
Still super happy with this, and one little hiccup doesn't even matter to me!
But, since I picked this up in November, I haven't been able to do much "dry trail" wheeling. All our seasonal access trails are well...closed. But I have been out snow bashing a few times, and the 1st time I was out, I beached on a drift and winched myself off. In the process of ram rodding the gas to try and get traction, I quickly went from 0 to 30 MPH and saw that warning pop up to "service sta-bar system."
Once i winched myself off the drift, I shut the bronco off. Restarted, and the message went away. Everything was normal again.
Fast forward a month and I went back out again with the intention of really seeing what this was capable of in the snow, and proceeded to get stuck over and over and over. Except this time, the warning popped up as soon as I got stuck and wouldn't clear no matter how many times I shut the bronco off.
I figured it had something to do with the way the snow packs above the skid plates. And I was right. After the bronco dripped off in the driveway, I crawled under there and found the snow (which was really packed hard around the sway bar mechanism) seemed to have unplugged a harness.
I plugged it back in, and the warning did not clear. So I tired a battery pull, and it still did not clear. Read the codes, and sure enough a C1B03 code existed (and was un-clearable).
Fast forward a few more weeks now, and I finally was able to get up to my dealership for a service call. The results of that were basically update the CHCM, cleared the code after the update, and everything is good to go. No broken wiring, no modules replaced, nothing. Just a simple software glitch.
I had them check a few other things that were just nit-picky and irrelevant to this post, so i'll skip those. Hoping to get back out here in the next couple weeks and test this again to make sure the problem doesn't return.
Still super happy with this, and one little hiccup doesn't even matter to me!
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