Owner complaint 11765273: FORD RANGER 2024

Owner complaint, unverified, from NHTSA Owner Complaints

Published by NHTSA: Sep 18, 2026
Manufacturer: Ford Motor Company
NHTSA ID: 11765273
Applies to, as stated by NHTSA: FORD RANGER 2024
Component, as stated by NHTSA: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

Text of the owner complaint

The drive mode suddenly changes without input from the driver. Sometimes the vehicle will change from 2H to 4H without touching the mode selector knob. this is dangerous for the vehicle to randomly change drive settings without the driver knowing. There is an electrical issue or short in the mode selector dial.

Date of incident: 2026-09-18

View original source on NHTSA.gov

NHTSA reuses some ID numbers across record types. If its page lists more than one record, this one is the owner complaint dated Sep 18, 2026.

For the 2023 Ford Bronco

Badlands 4-Door

Ignored

Relevance of 5% is under one half, so the notice is ignored whatever the other figures say.

Vehicle relevance: 5%
Attention: 37%
Interrupt probability: 37%

Importance to this owner: 0.7 of 4, minor
Vehicle area the notice is about: Electrical

This owner complaint does not appear to warrant attention for this vehicle. Owner complaints are unverified reports.

Decided by jev-1.13.0 in 157 ms from 1,595 input tokens. Jev returns these figures and nothing else. It gives no reasons, and none are written for it here. The figures describe how relevant the notice is, not the condition of any vehicle.

Checked by code against NHTSA's fields

A plain comparison with the structured fields NHTSA filled in. Separate from Jev's decision.

YesNHTSA names this make
NoNHTSA names this model
n/aNHTSA lists model year 2023 for this model

The same notice, every vehicle

Relevance	Attention	Interrupt	State
5%	37%	37%	Ignored
4%	38%	31%	Ignored
2%	20%	19%	Ignored
2%	18%	18%	Ignored
2%	23%	22%	Ignored
2%	16%	16%	Ignored
2%	26%	22%	Ignored
1%	15%	13%	Ignored
1%	17%	15%	Ignored
1%	15%	16%	Ignored
1%	13%	15%	Ignored
1%	18%	16%	Ignored
1%	10%	13%	Ignored
1%	13%	16%	Ignored
1%	16%	17%	Ignored
1%	16%	13%	Ignored

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