2022 Bronco Badlands Sasquatch 40,000-Mile Long Term Wrap [Car and Driver]

[Newbie]

40,000-Mile Wrap:

https://www.caranddriver.com/review...o-badlands-sasquatch-reliability-maintenance/

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[timhood]

“Ford did it right and resisted slapping the venerated nameplate on some characterless, blob-shaped crossover.”

No subtle dig at the Blazer!

 

[Poppavein]

40,000 miles on a clutch, lol.
My XJ had 150,000 on the original clutch before my kid blew the engine after a hose went out.

 

[Cux211]

Hmm well mine barely made it to 1200 lol now it’s sitting at the dealer with the motor pulled

 

[EasternSierra]

40,000 miles on a clutch, lol.
My XJ had 150,000 on the original clutch before my kid blew the engine after a hose went out.

I got around 175,000 on my first Toyota T100 clutch. I didn't expect it would go that far.

Thanks to the OP for posting this article. It's useful information.

 

[FourHorses]

So what is the real life expectancy of the clutch?

 

[heavyD]

40,000 miles on a clutch, lol.
My XJ had 150,000 on the original clutch before my kid blew the engine after a hose went out.

That clutch beared the brunt of their acceleration tests and a bunch of different drivers, probably some of them not as kind on it as others. A clutch should last longer but these long term vehicles are treated like rental cars so it's hard to say what led to it requiring early replacement.

 

[Blue Hen]

I have a Toyota Tacoma with 175K still with original clutch. With my Bronco and 35 inch tires I hope to get at least 120K only time will tell.

 

[0ne]

Edmunds long term 1st Edition

 

[doublebullout]

What I took from the C&D long term test was that I need to push the Procal tune to the top of my mod list when I take delivery.

 

[CitrusBronco]

Seems like a pretty good and honest review. Even with the one Bronco hater, always will have someone with a bias in a group.
Only time will tell with the clutch but many different drivers abusing the vehicle, look at the cover photo with about a foot of air under all the tires. I suspect they tried to do burnouts what treat it like a shorts car.
I had a Ford Ranger and the clutch was still going at over 230k when we sold it.

 

[mike8675309]

The clutch in my 1993 Thunderbird SC lasted over 100k miles until I replaced it with something stronger during my engine upgrade. (190 crank hp to 440 rw HP)
The Dual Clutch module in my 2014 Ford Focus was replaced 3 times before 30k due to design problems, though the last one made it to 80k before I sold the vehicle.
At 26k now with the Bronco and clutch is doing fine.

 

[Dom]

“Ford did it right and resisted slapping the venerated nameplate on some characterless, blob-shaped crossover.”

No subtle dig at the Blazer!

Forget the Blazer. what they did to the Wagoneer is just a total miss!!!!! Even my wife is like, they screwed that one up big time.

 

[RoteBarron]

40,000 miles on a clutch, lol.
My XJ had 150,000 on the original clutch before my kid blew the engine after a hose went out.

Yep, had ~110,000 miles on our Bronco II when the clutch went south. The reason it "went south" is daughter was teaching her college girlfriends how to drive a stick. Kids, whatta ya gonna do. Rock on! ;-)

 

[SHANUT]

So what is the real life expectancy of the clutch?

I have vehicles with hundreds of thousands of miles on the original clutch. There’s no reason for a clutch to go out if driven properly.

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