Alarm keeps triggering

[Ixr]

My alarm keeps going off every 15 or 20 min this afternoon. This has not happened before. Checking my fordpass it says the hood attempted to open triggering the alarm. I opened the hood and Gabe it a good slam shut and it is still happening.

Any ideas my neighbors gonna hate me tonight....

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[UniBroncorn]

My alarm keeps going off every 15 or 20 min this afternoon. This has not happened before. Checking my fordpass it says the hood attempted to open triggering the alarm. I opened the hood and Gabe it a good slam shut and it is still happening.

Any ideas my neighbors gonna hate me tonight....

Mine doing it too. Mine is random and not as often. Will let dealer know when I take it in.

 

[Bugkillah]

It happened to me today. Bronco had been sitting a few hours when I got the notification that the alarm was going off (didn’t say why). Checked the security camera and nothing/nobody was around it.

 

[Classic28]

Yeah it’s been discussed on the site. Mine does it randomly, fortunately hasn’t happened at night yet. I dropped mine off for the transmission noise and the hood alarm and to my surprise instead of adjusting the sensor on the latch they ordered a whole new latch.

 

[Ford Motor Company]

My alarm keeps going off every 15 or 20 min this afternoon. This has not happened before. Checking my fordpass it says the hood attempted to open triggering the alarm. I opened the hood and Gabe it a good slam shut and it is still happening.

Any ideas my neighbors gonna hate me tonight....

Hi there, I'd be happy to look into your Bronco concerns on my end. Will you send us a message with your VIN and dealership info? I can look into things on my end.

 

[G-Waggin]

Same issue. Seems to be common. My dealership is ordering a new hood latch assembly.

 

[Ixr]

Same issue. Seems to be common. My dealership is ordering a new hood latch assembly.

Yes my dealer ordered a hood latch for me as well, no surprise it's on backorder.

They were able to disable the sensor for me though so the alarm will stop going off every 20 minutes.

 

[MikeC10]

I just picked up my 2023 Wildtrak last Wednesday and now the hood latch goes off once or twice when I get home after an hour or so later. I've adjusted the hood height adjusters but I still get the hood alarm once in a while.

 

[0ne]

Yes my dealer ordered a hood latch for me as well, no surprise it's on backorder.

They were able to disable the sensor for me though so the alarm will stop going off every 20 minutes.

Do you know how they disabled it?

 

[Ixr]

Do you know how they disabled it?

Looked like they unplugged it and just put a wire nut on it and tapped it up.

 

[0ne]

Looked like they unplugged it and just put a wire nut on it and tapped it up.

Like a jumper wire to complete the circuit without including the hood latch connection?

 

[Ixr]

Like a jumper wire to complete the circuit without including the hood latch connection?

Yes almost positive that is what they did. I didn't check but saw the wires tapped together. All I know is my alarm has not gone off since, so I'm happy with what ever they did.

They had to warn me the car wouldn't tell me if the hood was open....which we had a good laugh about.

 

[0ne]

Yes almost positive that is what they did. I didn't check but saw the wires tapped together. All I know is my alarm has not gone off since, so I'm happy with what ever they did.

They had to warn me the car wouldn't tell me if the hood was open....which we had a good laugh about.

This was in another thread:

You have to take the full front end apart (grille, headlights, flares, lower trim piece and rad shroud) look up YouTube it’s very easy to do and takes at most 10 mins.

After that plug is accessible and I just used a small wire, soldered both ends and put them in the plug. Electrical taped both open plug ends and zip tied them together.

would like to try and find the actual plug ends and jump it with that but for now this will do. Hoping Ford just comes out with a OTA update to fix it.

 

[spiG]

As @0ne showed above, I took mine apart this weekend and jumped the OEM side of the harness. Purchased mine 2/17 (i think) and drove 13 hours home and no issues. Next day took it to the car wash to get all of the MI salt off and within 5 mins of parking in the driveway it went off for hood ajar. In a week it went off a total of 3 times for same issue while sitting in the driveway. Not a daily so parked it in the garage to avoid it going off in the middle of the night. For 2 weeks didn't go off once while inside.

Took it out this past Saturday on a windy day and parked it in the parking lot of Drive Shack and went inside. Again, went off within 5 mins and had to leave it unlocked the rest of the day to avoid it going off. I think its not the hood latches themselves but the sensitivity of the alarm for the hood is way to high.

I'll leave mine jumped until an actual fix is found, either by a forum member or Ford.

 

[UniBroncorn]

Dealer is replacing my hood latch under warranty. Backorder for the latch though.

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