- First Name
- Bryan
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2021
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- Location
- New England
- Vehicle(s)
- Ford Bronco, Escape, Focus
- Your Bronco Model
- Badlands
I 100% still would have bought it.Would you consider not accepting the vehicle? If I bring a new vehicle home, and my wife starts asking what's up with the transmission noise, and I tell her "Oh, it's a known issue and there isn't really a fix and I still bought it" ... maybe I'm headed for divorce court, lol. Seriously though, she'll read me the riot act for accepting the vehicle, and she'd have a point.
It’s a brand new vehicle that is only a few months into its 2nd full year of production. I expected issues like this. Admittedly I expected it to be the sway-bar system or lockers, and not the transmission… but it’s a given to have issues in a brand new vehicle. Those who are risk adverse probably should have waited before buying.
That said, for me the Bronco isn’t a daily driver. I don’t need it to get to my job, I don’t need it for my day-to-day life. I have another vehicle for that, so if the Bronco has to sit at the dealership for a few weeks waiting for parts it isn’t a deal-breaker for me.
I could see how situations like this could cause a lot of stress if the Bronco was the only vehicle in the household, or you were really stretching your budget to buy one. For me it’s all about risk management… I personally would NOT have bought a Bronco (or any newly released vehicle) if I needed it in my daily life. Instead I would have bought something with a longer track record—and perhaps more importantly—a wealth of parts already available in the market should something break.
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