Scary situatuon child locks

[SnowBronco]

Adhesive issue. They have to remove the windshield and the Adhesive and put new Adhesive in and then install the windshield

Ohhh. Right. Heard about that one. I do not have that recall. Yet. Lol

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[shoelessjoe]

Ohhh. Right. Heard about that one. I do not have that recall. Yet. Lol

When was your Bronco built?

 

[atx_chance]

My 2 door looking a little more family friendly right about now LOL

 

[SnowBronco]

When was your Bronco built?

Nov.29th... delivered Jan. 5th

 

[shoelessjoe]

Nov.29th... delivered Jan. 5th

You should be fine with the windshield issue, pretty sure it is builds from December 2021 until April 2022

 

[JohnnyBronco]

Are you saying you can't figure out how to enable the child locks, or your child lock malfunctioned? The way you wrote it above, it looked like the former.

There IS a recall and it IS important.

 

[LarryZiegler]

I took delivery July 12th, so i guess no email from Ford since I wasn't an owner yet. I don't see anything on the app that talks about recalls.

The dealer should have taken care of this with the pre delivery prep

 

[Razorbak86]

Haven't seen this covered before, but anyone with small children this should be a huge concern. I was dropping my 15 year old at the movies tonight with my 3 year old in the back car seat. When coming to a stop to drop her off traveling around 10mph, I got the rear door ajar chime. My 3 year old was able to unlock the rear door and OPEN it while I was still moving. When I came to a stop the rear door opened. I'm researching the manual and I don't see anything about child locks. Now I see last month Ford quietly put out a recall for 4 door broncos to fix it. Just something to be mindful of with little kids in the in the back seat.

Did you activate the child safety locks? They must be manually activated with a key or screwdriver by the owner. They are not activated by default at the factory.

Child safety locks are covered in the Bronco Owners Manual. For 21MY, they are covered on pages 50-51. For 22MY, they should be covered in a similar location…

If the safety recall affects your vehicle, you will receive a recall letter delivered by US Mail that says the following, which is an excerpt from the letter I received…

 

[JediMcMuffin]

There IS a recall and it IS important.

The recall won't help you if you don't enable the locks

 

[rtazz17]

so this was user error? never assume anything. I would not think child locks would be enabled from factory. This has always been something I enabled myself.

 

[ET13]

This reads like you just expected the child lock to be engaged when you took delivery and it wasnt. So im finding it hard to see the "huge concern" as you should check that before you put your child in that seat. Seems like its on you not ford.

 

[JohnnyBronco]

The recall won't help you if you don't enable the locks

Child locks are one thing. This is worse than that, the OP said he was still moving at 10 mph and the doors could be unlocked. Unless he disabled the auto lock feature for all doors that all our vehicles have (auto-lock at a certain speed, no auto-unlock as you don't want doors unlocking when you stop at a red light. Being able to unlock and open doors while under motion is more than a child lock malfunction

 

[RUZ]

Child locks are one thing. This is worse than that, the OP said he was still moving at 10 mph and the doors could be unlocked. Unless he disabled the auto lock feature for all doors that all our vehicles have (auto-lock at a certain speed, no auto-unlock as you don't want doors unlocking when you stop at a red light. Being able to unlock and open doors while under motion is more than a child lock malfunction

Per the manual, that is not a malfunction if the child lock is not engaged.

 

[BroncoSarge]

I don’t personally assume things. I am glad no one was hurt. For sure check the recall.

 

[zombie]

There IS a recall and it IS important.

Not to me, I don't have kids and rarely take rear passengers. I don't plan on getting the recall done.

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