Recall Register

Ford Bronco II: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Ford Bronco II, model years 1982 to 1996. NHTSA has 214 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 12 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19820
  2. 19842
  3. 19850
  4. 19864
  5. 19873
  6. 19880
  7. 19891
  8. 19901
  9. 19920
  10. 19930
  11. 19940
  12. 19960
Ford Bronco II: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1996 Ford Bronco II NHTSA page016%
1994 Ford Bronco II NHTSA page0422%
1993 Ford Bronco II NHTSA page0211%
1992 Ford Bronco II NHTSA page016%
1990 Ford Bronco II126146%792,000
1989 Ford Bronco II139219%25,000
1988 Ford Bronco II045252%
1987 Ford Bronco II336202%3,617,504
1986 Ford Bronco II433185%3,728,450
1985 Ford Bronco II NHTSA page01373%
1984 Ford Bronco II21373%533,320
1982 Ford Bronco II NHTSA page016%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

269 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Ford Bronco II: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System226.861
Engine and Engine Cooling14539
Fuel System, Gasoline111.530
Vehicle Speed Control78.121
Service Brakes, Hydraulic70.619
Seat Belts66.918
Power Train63.217
Structure48.313
Tires44.612
Visibility44.612

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford Bronco II, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1991, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Ford Bronco II, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 61 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 202 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford Bronco II: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/bronco-ii/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Ford Bronco II model years have the most recall campaigns?
1986 with 4, 1987 with 3, 1984 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford Bronco II model year has the most complaints?
The 1988 model year, with 45 of the 214 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford Bronco II name?
Electrical System: 226.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 145 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 111.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford Bronco II?
13 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.