Hi there, Dave! Go ahead and send us a private message with your VIN and dealer info and I’ll look into this hood ajar warning for you. Thanks!
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Hood ajar notification while driving down the road?
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I have had to deal with Hood Flutter.... the corners of the hood flutters on highway rides.... turn the Plastic support up and that cancels the flutter but in no time the flutter is back and have to redo the process again. Seems in design they left out something like supports with lock screws. Anyone else have this issue??
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I had the flutter too.
I’ll post back if anything gets fixed.
I have the flutter too. I raised the bump stops and it helped but still got the hood alarm. I put them back down to see if it was related and the alarm still activated. I’m just dealing with Ford Corp and stopping by a dealer today.
I’ll post back if anything gets fixed.
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Do you happen to know if the SSM has a reference number or happen to have a link?
The FMC representative plugging on this thread opened a case with the customer team for me, but when I called, the customer team “looked at” me like a deer in the headlights when I was explaining to them my issue…have an apt at my dealer (earliest was 3 weeks) but was hoping to avoid the hem haw shuffle for what seems to be a clear issue.
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So. What @Ducati1098 said. What I learned and you can see that @Ford Motor Company asked for me to contact them with my VIN. I was excited. They are here to help. Like the government. They reached out and were very responsive. However, I was told via email I had another recall on my vehicle and don’t drive it until I talk to them. I responded and said I see the “lug nut torque” recall but my VIN is not one of them. Turns out it does not pertain to me. I asked “I thought this was about my hood issue.” She said you need to contact a dealer. Well thank you. I already knew that.
Sorry for being long winded and I’m going to post this in all hood latch questions in here.
So from lessons learned. Don’t even bother with the social media people reaching it to you. It’s a smoke screen
Print off what Ducati posted for the SSM, screen shot the Ford Pass notifications and print them. Bring them to your dealer. It should save you a diagnostics visit and they will order you the part and schedule you. That’s what I did with a dealer I didn’t even buy mine from. As everyone knows appointments are always 3-5 weeks. So save yourself some time. Makes answering the questionnaires so difficult. Do you trust ford? The answer is no, but you don’t want to screw with the nice person that works for ford.
I hope this helps out our community.
Sorry for being long winded and I’m going to post this in all hood latch questions in here.
So from lessons learned. Don’t even bother with the social media people reaching it to you. It’s a smoke screen
Print off what Ducati posted for the SSM, screen shot the Ford Pass notifications and print them. Bring them to your dealer. It should save you a diagnostics visit and they will order you the part and schedule you. That’s what I did with a dealer I didn’t even buy mine from. As everyone knows appointments are always 3-5 weeks. So save yourself some time. Makes answering the questionnaires so difficult. Do you trust ford? The answer is no, but you don’t want to screw with the nice person that works for ford.
I hope this helps out our community.
I had the hood ajar warning error on my 2023 Wildtrak as well. Started occurring with about 700mi on the odometer and would sporadically reoccur. Finally took it in after eating lunch on Easter and the car alarm went off because it thought the hood was open. Took the a total of 3 days to diagnose and replace the hood latch assembly. Put about 500 miles on it since getting it back but I have not had the hood open either. Fingers crossed that the fix holds.
That’s why I posted my experience. You wouldn’t have had to waste diagnostics time if Ford sent the info out faster. It was the first my service department has seen but since I had a copy of the SSM it was supper easy. So pass the word. Forums are great to get the word out that something sucks. But you never get how it worked out. Thanks for posting your results and hope it stays that way. If it wasn’t for this forum I never would have known that was an issue.
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I need FORD to fix my F&*king wipers before I can contemplate the non-dangerous aspect of the "hood ajar" warning showing up while driving.
I did adjust the Bumps... but since they are plastic they return to the wrong position just by the vibrations. I used plumbers tape but still not working. Who else has this problem and what did you do to elevate it.... if it did??
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I’ve also received the hood ajar warning several times since picking up my Bronco. Haven’t had the alarm go off though. For me it has only happened while driving off road though. Figured something to do with the rough terrain. Pretty annoying to have beeping at you while trying to navigate a difficult obstacle. Opening and closing the hood usually does the trick. I don’t have any alerts in my Ford Pass app but, will take a copy of the SSM to my dealer and see what can be done.
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So a few months ago, i played with the rubber stops a bit and thus far, this notification has gone away (knock on wood).
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I had the same issue. The dealer replaced the hood latch (under warranty). This corrected the problem.
i had this happen a few times a couple weeks ago and it was annoying as all get out as i was on a 7200 mile trip across the country... i physically pushed the spring mechanism up and down a few times and it hasnt came back since. worth a try anyway for yall.
Well I am joining this club of hood ajar and alarms going off at all hours of the day and night in my garage. I have had in the shop 3X for this problem and 3 times for parking sensors which has been resolved. I live a 100 miles from the dealership and asked them to come up and pick the Bronco up and do not return it until it is resolved or take the Bronco back. I am so pissed at this point it is souring me on Ford products. This is from someone who has bought a dozen + Fords over the years! Very upsetting! Any solid resolution to this problem.
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