What I find weird is, like today, the BS goes into sleep mode when not used for a while with the battery maintainer connected with the battery at full charge.
Is 80K highway miles severe duty? Maybe, maybe not. I don't follow automanufacturers' recommendations on many things. Oil and trans would be two. I do many sooner.
Many owners read this and fail to perform any transmission maintenance.
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For a Ford Bronco Sport, Ford officially recommends changing the automatic transmission fluid (ATF) at
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True. With that number of miles, other things may pop up but he is in a very tough position but being retired means less miles per. Like you say, the only option may be the $8200 trans job.
He can also try a buy another vehicle now and let Ford pick up the BS. Credit shot but he would have...
130K is a lot of miles on a BS. I'm curious if you ever had any maintenance done on the trans. If I were a on road salesman, I would never have gone with a BS. I would have gone with a Toyota or Honda. You are lucky you never had issues with the 1.5L.
You are in a tough position. I wouldn't put...