You may be correct.
My Alfa Romeo used the following parts to secure the suspension during transport
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Broken front axle at CV joint on my Bronco Badlands 4-Door 2.7L
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My Alfa Romeo used the following parts to secure the suspension during transport
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No ford is going to make things right again im sure of it
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Better ship them with every part in bubble wrap then.
This is a tough off road vehicle, not a dozen eggs... My God...
Sorry about your bad break. Hopefully this is a one off issue. I picked up a new 2017 Mustang GT back in 2017 and it threw a rod in less than 24 hours. I was furious but thankfully ford made it right and I never had anymore issues after that. Nothing like being excited to bring home a new vehicle only to have it sit in a repair shop for a few weeks (mine was there for almost a month!) Hopefully yours will be back up and running shortly!
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Let me throw this out there, the OP states he has been off-roading 30+ years and we all have been waiting for this truck forever. Not likely he took it out first week and attempted to destroy his rig or 4 low donuts, especially with the scarcity of spare parts. I hope it get fixed soon and no one else is forced to ride in a tow truck home this soon after delivery!
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Still shouldn't break. If you can go on rocks with both axles locked, which it is designed to do, then you should be able to do donuts on dirt all day long. I've seen new cv axles go bad, and I've seen new cv axles that didn't have any lube in them. Hope this was just a defective part. BTW, we've seen axles break when the diff isn't locked from wheelspin when the tire is in the air and then come down on a hard surface. This was flat, and the OP said the diffs weren't locked. On flat dirt? Shouldn't have broken.
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We can always do something to bind an axle and break it, but it will be quite a bit more than gassing it on flat dirt. Imagine being on a rock trail with both lockers locked, turning on the hard surface and going up ledges and over boulders. There is binding between the tires and axles all the time. Axles typically break from binding a tire in a hole, up against a ledge, binding/squeezing against a couple rocks, wheel speed then hitting a hard surface, etc. Once folks start taking Broncos out on trails, and putting bigger tires on them, there will be broken axles. But not what the OP was doing. The typical broken axle will be from putting 37's on a non SAS/BL Bronco that has the M190 front end. Upgraded front CV axles are already in the aux parts catalog for the M210, and you know RCV is going to come out with axles for it.
With 40" stickies and f&r steer, that's why I have 300M axle shafts f&r on my rock buggy, at 2k per side...X4.
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that looks more like hard pack gravel, rather than loose gravel.. lockers engaged in a tight turn, there might not have been enough wheel slip. also sometimes if there is load on the drive train, the lockers don't disengage instantly. also in the initial post there was some mention of wheel cameras... there might have been attempts to perform tasks which might be outside of the design parameters... we need more tick-toc videos... my vote is operator error which will be repaired under warranty.Photos of break down and gravel parking lot that it happened and got towed from
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Like I said earlier, you can hang a wheel on the IFS all day long.
But when all 4 wheels are strapped down to a transporter and hit a few big dips in the road, you have 5k+ pounds heading up, and the trailer trying to pull it back down at the same time.. That's what causes the issues.
The GT350s and GT500s are shipped with spacers in the suspensions that are removed when doing the Post Delivery Inspections. They're to prevent overextending and bottoming out.
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Yah your right they probably have delivered at least 17 of them. One of them is bound to break.
Ford know most no one is watching...
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I'm sure Ford is looking at this closely. I'm sure Ford isn't just writing this off.
None of that changes the fact that it's the only incidence we're aware of so far of the thousands of Broncos that have been delivered, including a couple dozen that are doing Off Roadeo and media testers.
Not saying it doesn't suck, not saying it should happen. But I can acknowledge that until there are more of the same issue, there's no reason to jump to any conclusion beyond at least one faulty CV joint made it into a Bronco.
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