Automatic Emergency Braking problems of the 2025 Ford Bronco

The contact owns a 2025 Ford Bronco. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle lost motive power, and the forward collision avoidance automatic emergency braking and several unknown warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer several times; however, no cause for the failure was found. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 14,000.

Flat towing a 2025 Bronco behind a 2025 newmar dutchstar using a blue ox tow bar with demco airforce braking system. Ford has a setting called neutral towing. It allows you to tow behind a motorhome with brake lights, braking, etc. When the Ford is in neutral tow, and in neutral gear, all 4 wheel roll freely and you can tow safely. What's happening is the Ford is waking up out of neutral tow when the 12v battery gets low. This isn't supposed to happen as there is a 7 pin electrical connector from the motorhome to the 6 pin electrical connected to the Bronco. Once the 12v battery gets low, the Ford computer wakes up, see's it moving the back tow tires, so the system is applying the emergency brake locking up the 2 back tires. This has now happened three times as we have traveled from [xxx] to [xxx] (had it looked at crossroads of Ford of apex where I bought it). I took it in to schmop Ford in denver and after almost a deadly accident on xxx near [xxx], to xxx. They found the back two tires destroyed. Ford replaced the tires at no charge, but the issue remains. This SUV should not be approved for flat towing. It is dangerous and could be deadly. You have no way of knowing unless someone else tells you. Thanks to the stranger on xxx on xxx. They told us of our issue so we pulled over. If we were to continue driving the motorhome, the tires would've been totally destroyed, a fire, or cause us to flip over. There are so many complaints on the internet about this issue. You must make Ford fix this issue with a software fix immediately. Don't make my complaint for another unlucky traveler like myself. I have enclosed the back tire picture. You can see one tire with the tread completely gone, the other tire tread missing is not shown. You can also see how the tires are mis-shaped from rubbing across the highway cement. I am trying to upload pictures but your system is giving me an error for a jpeg less than 10mb information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u. S. C. 552(b)(6).

The pre-collision assist false-triggers on turns daily, flashing the red collision warning and actively applying autonomous emergency braking without any obstruction present. This phantom braking is a severe safety hazard. The vehicle has been serviced before for this issue - and is going back to the shop next week (for the same issue).

Loss of braking. Note weather was cold in single digits fahrenheit and midly snowy. I drove my 2025 Ford Bronco that was purchased in octorber about 20 minutes to drop off my child at daycare. Going into the daycare I turned to slippery/4a mode. After about 5 minutes inside I pulled out and switched back to normal/2h mode. Less than half a mile later I got multiple warnings that the brakes, ebb, collision detect, and abs had faulted, and I should service now. I only had the electronic parking brake available. I was able to use it and engine braking with my manual transmission to get to off the road to a parking lot, although I did also receive a parking brake overheat fault the turn before getting into the parking lot. I shut the vehicle off without the parking brake on. I turned it back on and the dash warning lights all disappeared after a few seconds. Brake function returned and I drove it to a Ford service center about 1 mile away. They were not able to reproduce the problem or find any dtcs. I did get notifications of some of the faults to my Ford app on my phone. I am uploading the redacted ro and screenshots of the Ford notifications. Losing braking obviously put myself and my passenger pregnant wife at risk. Thankfully I was moving at lower speeds on a flat section of road and not taking a highway exit at the time of failure.