And the hits just keep coming! Awful Bronco quality!!

autoevolution: “The Quality Is Below Any Other Vehicle I Have Ever Owned,” Says Ford Bronco Owner.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-quality-is-below-any-other-vehicle-i-have-ever-owned-says-ford-bronco-owner-193078.html

Imagine putting down a $100 refundable deposit on a brand-new Bronco. More dollars later, the reservation morphs into a firm order. But as it’s often the case with the 2021+ Bronco, the delivery window for your off-road utility vehicle has been pushed back on more than one occasion.

The aforementioned isn’t merely a product of imagination, but a true story. Arnold1 of the Bronco6G forums waited a whopping two years for delivery, which is borderline inexcusable. Something else that’s definitely inexcusable is the appalling build quality of his long-awaited Outer Banks.

“The quality of this truck is below any other vehicle I have ever owned. Ford quality control must be either sleeping all day or they are not existing,” he vented off his irritation. The question is, what is Arnold1 referring to?

His account begins with a door trim that had to be adjusted and pushed back into place. The trim above the front bumper isn’t aligned with the rest of the body. Adding insult to injury, there is a 1.5-inch scratch on the same trim.

“The hard top is a joke. Look at the pictures and look how it looks from the inside. I don’t know what they were smoking as they decided to build it the way they did.” He’s right, you know, and the blame falls on both Ford for the awful design and the supplier for accepting Ford’s horrendous design.

An excess weld that wasn’t addressed at the factory and all sorts of scratches and dirt on the inside pretty much sum up this disaster story.

Arnold1 correctly notes that he didn’t purchase a cheap-and-cheerful Maverick, but an off-road vehicle that costs nearly the same as the Mercedes GLE 350. “I hope Ford Motor Company listens and will do something about it,” the OP ends his post. The question is, does Ford even care at this point considering that many others have been ignored by FoMoCo?

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I've driven a few of the Broncos now for extended periods of time. EVERYONE in my family or that touches the things are highly disappointed and talk about how cheap everything feels. The Bronco & Ranger are my least favorite vehicles to drive. They ride like cr-p, everything rattles & squeaks, they get horrible mpg, they feel cheap, and they have so much damn noise. The doors on both Bronco and ranger feel like they're about to break off and sound like empty tin cans. The audio system in bronco is embarrassing and sounds like a cr---y bo-m box that you can pick up at a garage sale. I've advised people to look at Jeep if they want that type of vehicle.

talk about thankless jobs: PD and Quality. if you do a good job, it means you are spending too much and you need to be cut. if there are quality problems, you're still spending too much money and don't know what you're doing and you should be outsourced.

T6 is a matured platform. It will be relatively easy to find out the error states by identifying what/why were changed/added for NA.

Why is a tophat not a tophat at the end?

It's not originally a Farley problem. High model output was the strategy since Hackett. And I think it's Bill pushing that as well. A few years ago it was normal to push models out continuously, in fast succession. It's what the competition had been doing for a while and Ford finally albeit too late caught onto it.
I think times are changing now so they could reduce the pace a little and work up those issues.

When will FARLEY be held accountable?

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