Owner-reported complaints naming the brake system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming service brakes, the antilock braking system, brake hoses, master cylinders or the parking brake. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1996 Ford Bronco submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 16 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
WHILE APPROACHING AN INTERSECTION, THE CONSUMER APPLIED THE BRAKE PEDAL, AND IT HAD GONE TO THE FLOOR. THE CONSUMER PUMPED THE BRAKES, AND VEHICLE HAD COME TO AN ABRUPT STOP. PH THE CONSUMER FOUND THAT THE BRAKE LINE HAD RUSTED AND BURST WHICH CAUSED THE BRAKING FLUID TO LEAK. SCC
WHILE DRIVING VEHICLE WOULD NOT GO FORWARD. CONSUMER STATED TRANSMISSION WENT OUT. DEALER CONTACTED. *AK CRUISE CONTROL AND DOOR LOCKS ARE INOPERATIVE. EMERGENCY BRAKE LIGHT STAYS ILLUMINATED. FRONT END IS OUT OF ALIGNMENT AND PULLS TO THE LEFT. HEAD LIGHTS WILL NOT SHUT OFF. THERMOSTAT, RADIATOR, RADIATOR CAP, AND WATER PUMP WERE REPLACED. THE STRUTS THAT HOLD THE BACK WINDOW AND DOOR DID NOT HOLD, SPRINGS FOR THE BACK DOOR ARE INOPERATIVE. TRANSMISSION NEEDED ADJUSTMENT, BALL IN TRANSMISSION FAILED, VEHICLE WILL NOT SHIFT INTO 4-WHEEL DRIVE, AND UNIVERSAL JOINT WAS REPLACED. DRIVER SIDE SEAT BELT INOPERATIVE. ELECTRICAL SWITCH THAT ADJUSTS THE DRIVER SEAT SHORTED OUT AND CAUGHT FIRE IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT, GROUND CABLE ON THE BATTERY BROKE CAUSING COMPUTER TO BE INOPERATIVE, STARTER SWITCH, SOLENOID, LOCK CYLINDER, CIRCUIT BREAKER, AND TEM SENSOR WERE REPLACED. AIR CONDITIONER FAILED AND VENTS DO NOT WORK. *SLC
WHILE DRIVING THE ABS BRAKING SYSTEM MALFUNCTIONED, CAUSING EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE WHICH MAY RESULT IN A CRASH. ALSO, THE PASSENGER SIDE FRONT WHEEL LUG NUT SHEARED OFF, ALMOST CAUSING A LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL. *AK
WHEN DRIVING AT ANY SPEED ON WET PAVEMENT AND APPLYING THE BRAKES, BRAKES LOCKED UP, CAUSING VEHICLE TO SLIDE. *AK
CONSUMER STARTED VEHICLE, PUT GEAR INTO DRIVE AND VEHICLE SUDDENLY ACCELERATED, CONSUMER STEPPED ON BRAKES HARDER, BREAKING THE BRAKE LINE. DRIVER UNABLE TO CONTROL VEHICLE, RESULTED IN CRASH. *AK
COMING TO A STOP VEHICLE WOULD BOUNCE. TOOK TO DEALER & TOLD ROTORS OUT OF ROUND. HAD THEM RESURFACED. PROBLEM REAPPEARED. TOOK BACK TO DEALER & WAS TOLD PADS WERE WORN. BRAKES REPLACED ONCE MORE. HAPPENED 5 OTHER TIMES. WAS TOLD ALL & ALL IT WAS NORMAL WEAR. *AK
ABS FAILURE. AT TIME VEHICLE HAS NO BRAKES OTHER TIMES ABS WILL LOCK UP.
BRAKE BEARINGS CORRODED. TRANSMISSION SLIPS UNDER HEAVY ACCELERATION AND SOMETIMES SURGES AT STOP LIGHTS.
BRAKE PADS AND LINING WORN.
BRAKES FAILED.
WHEN DRIVING ON ROUGH SURFACE, BRAKES HAVE EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. *AK
ANTILOCK BRAKES FAILED TWICE. *DH
BRAKES PULL TO THE LEFT WHEN STOPPING. *AK
WHEN APPLYING THE BRAKES, TRUCK PULLS TO THE SIDE. *AK THE VEHICLE HAS INTERMITTENTLY PULLED LEFT AND RIGHT DURING BRAKING SINCE PURCHASING VEHICLE.*JB
REAT WHEELS LOCK UP UNDER HARD BRAKING. *AK
BRAKES FAIL TO RESPOND TO PEDAL APPLICATION, ALLOWING TRUCK TO ROLL. BRAKES FEEL LIKE THEY AREN'T RESPONDING. *AK
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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