Good material to read about...

[Megakatx]

https://jalopnik.com/multiple-ford-bronco-sports-overheated-off-road-lets-t-1846450499

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[McBrideless]

https://jalopnik.com/multiple-ford-bronco-sports-overheated-off-road-lets-t-1846450499

I love how they referenced the people arguing about it on this forum ???.
But yeah, great read.

 

[Cabezone]

Just so people have a better idea of the type of situations it will overheat in. It's not going to be from rock crawling or driving along regular dirt roads. All wheel drive systems struggle with overheating when doing two things, climbing continuously through loose soil or aggressive driving through sand. It's not very often most people going to have trouble with these overheating.

You can combat this a number of ways. One is to use larger PTUs so they don't slip when sending power to the rear. Another is cooling them either with air or liquid. Another way is a low range transfer case.

All the models of the Sport have some form of cooling on these units so they'll do better than most all wheel drive vehicles in this category.

 

[tRex]

Just so people have a better idea of the type of situations it will overheat in. It's not going to be from rock crawling or driving along regular dirt roads. All wheel drive systems struggle with overheating when doing two things, climbing continuously through loose soil or aggressive driving through sand. It's not very often most people going to have trouble with these overheating.

You can combat this a number of ways. One is to use larger PTUs so they don't slip when sending power to the rear. Another is cooling them either with air or liquid. Another way is a low range transfer case.

All the models of the Sport have some form of cooling on these units so they'll do better than most all wheel drive vehicles in this category.

I believe the BL/FE PTU is liquid-cooled (engine coolant). I did also read about testers overheating in extended *sand* play, as ought to have been expected. The system tells you (and I think eventually disables 4WD), you take a break and resume after some minutes. Still I think heat = wear/damage over the long term. At least Ford built in these bits of protection, the PTU is already in a vulnerable spot anyway. I'm curious to see what this PTU looks like v. the Escape, etc.

 

[Cabezone]

I thought I'd also mentioned that when Jeep first came out the new Cherokee back in 2014 it had issues like this in the first couple of years. I haven't heard about it in the newer 2019+ Cherokee Trailhawks. It's one of the reasons the new Cherokees got a bad rap when they first came out.

 

[DakotaTimber]

I thought this was bring up an old issue. How many of these were in the low differential oil recall?

 

[Central Jersey]

I thought this was bring up an old issue. How many of these were in the low differential oil recall?

If you are talking about the recent Ford recall . I think it was 1,066 vehicles.

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