2025 Bronco Sport Badlands PASSENGER SIDE WINDSHIELD WIPER

[Paradocks]

Work can wait. This is much more important...

 

[Glamdring70]

Oh no, this is the whole "rear wiper 180 degree arc" all over again.

I can totally see how that is annoying. My '21 wiper does the peek a boo but I think I have grown used to it. In fact, the driver one almost goes too far down. Maybe there is way to fix it by moving the arm on the splines. If someone proves it, I'll move mine too.

 

[Suncity]

On my 25 Badlands, the passenger side wiper is all the way down against the bottom of the windshield as far as it can go as you can see. It sticks up a slight bit higher than the driver’s side wiper. Doesn’t bother me at all and never noticed it until this thread. Maybe the blade is slightly longer on the 25 Badlands models. If it really bothers you, you could replace it with a 1” shorter wiper blade. Hope this is helpful.

Thank you, at Ford yesterday I thought "why can't we just put a smaller wiper on?" But he said that would cause an issue when you use them (e.g., the middle half of the windshield might not get clean). Thank you for your response.

 

[Suncity]

Work can wait. This is much more important...

Thanks for putting work to the side. Thanks for the photo. That's now how my 2022 wiper looked, it completely disappeared (as it should).

 

[Mark S.]

Always look on the bright side of life.

If you've never quite caught the lyrics you should really listen. NSFW!

 

[Dannyp56]

My 2024 when I bought it last year the pax wiper was under the hood. I had the windshield replaced and now it sticks up. It's rather easy to realign the wiper, hoping it doesn't have a blind spline.

 

[Shadow Bronc]

Hello! I have a 2025 Bronco Sport Badlands (I bought it in January of this year). I'm anal ex-military so this issue is driving me nuts! This is my 2nd Bronco Sport Badlands. In the 2022 Bronco Sport Badlands I had, the PASSENGER side windshield wiper, when turned FULLY OFF, laid totally FLAT. You could not stand in front of the car and see ANY part of the windshield wiper. NONE OF IT. NOW . . . I have a 2025 and when the *passenger* wiper is turned FULLY OFF it sticks up! So when you stand in front of the car, one windshield wiper lays flat (driver's side) and one STICKS UP. 1. My local Ford dealer said the right size wipers were on the right side (the driver's is a little longer); 2. I KNOW when you're using the wipers intermittently, the passenger side wiper sticks up a little, but in my 2022 when you turned the wiper FULLY OFF, it laid flat and you could stand in front of the car and not see it. Is this a design defect? My Ford dealer is telling me it was designed that way. See the photo. So someone at Ford said "you know, it looks too clean to have each wiper go far down so you don't see them when they are off, how about we do something stupid and make one wiper STICK UP when it's fully off." I mean what the hell is going on here? I'm already livid that some idiot said "hey! You know how people like that we light up the USB and C port? Let's take that away and make them struggle to find the hole." haha. So Ford's "redesign" of the 2025 is already lame. Just wondering if anyone else is having this issue with the PASSENGER side windshield wiper. Thank you!

Ahh, TY so much, I feel better now. My new 2024 badlands is exactly the same way. So it is supposed to be like that I take it. I'm tired and in bed when reading this, and I don't have the time to tell you about the calls I made to the dealership. Well, TY and goodnight!

 

[BLUEOVALRACER]

Jake? I see you're a Big Bend. I'm asking for 2025 Bronco Sport Badlands folks. Is that your car?

So you think the Badlands use different Wipers than the Big Bend?

 

[NMhunter]

This thread made me leave my coffee and my Lazy Boy and go check mine. It sticks up.

I know this is the right thread to ask a question I've wondered about for decades. Is anal retentive supposed to be hyphenated? LOL

 

[Prr]

On my 25 Badlands, the passenger side wiper is all the way down against the bottom of the windshield as far as it can go as you can see. It sticks up a slight bit higher than the driver’s side wiper. Doesn’t bother me at all and never noticed it until this thread. Maybe the blade is slightly longer on the 25 Badlands models. If it really bothers you, you could replace it with a 1” shorter wiper blade. Hope this is helpful.

My 2024 BL has the passenger blade slightly visible when resting. I checked my other car, and it's the same. I checked my neighbors' cars, and they were the same. All four vehicles have the passenger blade slightly raised and resting at the edge of the passenger side windshield. I hope this helps.

 

[Bucko]

Simple enough to solve with the dealership.....take the service manager out to the new Bronco Sports in their lot and see how the passenger side wiper lays. If it is fully down, you win, and they have to correct yours.

If the others lay up slightly, they win.

 

[Dude]

Simple enough to solve with the dealership.....take the service manager out to the new Bronco Sports in their lot and see how the passenger side wiper lays. If it is fully down, you win, and they have to correct yours.

If the others lay up slightly, they win.

What if their lot has a 50:50 mix?

 

[BLUEOVALRACER]

Maybe some of them don't have the right length Passenger Side Wipers on them maybe a mix up on the assembly line?

 

[Bucko]

What if their lot has a 50:50 mix?

Easy. Pick one of the ones that has the wiper arm down, and tell them to make yours do the same.

 

[elvisimprsntr]

BACKGROUND

Here is some data from my '25 to hopefully end the discussion so we can all move on with life.

Just ignore my misspelling of "passenger."

Drivers side length: 23"

Passenger side length: 21"

If I decode the OEM replacement P/N correctly, the '21-'24 are the same length.

Passenger side windshield parked position indicator mark. When I shine a light it almost looks like a photo sensor. If it is, not sure if it is used to confirm the wipers are in the parked position and/or working in combination with the lane assist camera. I covered it with a piece of tape and it still seemed to work. There does not appear to be one for the drivers side wiper.

Passenger side in parked position

Passenger side over camera and rain sensor (if equipped)

SUMMARY

• In order to install the passenger side such that is it parked below the hood line, seems like it would have to be ~8-10" shorter (4-5" from the center of the wiper blade mount point) to not interfere with the cowl window trim.
• In doing so, it might not wipe the water from in front of the rain sensor (if equipped) or lane assist camera due to length of wiper and sweep range.
• For those who report the wiper is parked below the hood line, I would check if you have the correct length blades and/or if the blades are actually sweeping over the cowl plastic.