Active exhaust problem I think

[Baldguy01]

Morning, first post on the blog. Picked up a 2024 Braptor in Azure grey with black out on Pres day. Traded in my 2022 Wildtrak and 2013 Raptor(66kmiles). In short, a 2 for 1, result is the best of both! Anyway, the other day while pulling out of my driveway, hit my "R" button that flips the vehicle into sport mode for suspension, steering, exhaust and turns auto run start off. A few seconds later, heard this hellacious loud metal bang and felt things under my seat. I had the window down so it was really obvious that the noise came from the area in front of the rear driver side tire. With nothing on the road, knew I didn't hit anything. My first instinct was that a turbo just came apart into the exhaust but have no codes or lights on the dash. I pulled over in a neighbors drive way and looked under neath. Nothing looked out of place so I ventured on. What I noticed now is that the exhaust sport mode sounds more like quiet and Baja sounds like sport. I haven't heard any more banging like something is loose in the exhaust area.

I'm planning on taking it back to the dealer as I'm thinking it was a catalytic converter or internal baffle that came apart and is now wedged somewhere in there. I've seen the blogs where folks have had problems with after an offroad venture but does anyone have an idea on what it might be?

 

[mlbraptor]

I will have to go hit my R button and see what happens.

 

[Baldguy01]

ha! should have mentioned that I was talking about the "Raptor" store settings button on the steering wheel. ARRRGH!

 

[TurboS]

Morning, first post on the blog. Picked up a 2024 Braptor in Azure grey with black out on Pres day. Traded in my 2022 Wildtrak and 2013 Raptor(66kmiles). In short, a 2 for 1, result is the best of both! Anyway, the other day while pulling out of my driveway, hit my "R" button that flips the vehicle into sport mode for suspension, steering, exhaust and turns auto run start off. A few seconds later, heard this hellacious loud metal bang and felt things under my seat. I had the window down so it was really obvious that the noise came from the area in front of the rear driver side tire. With nothing on the road, knew I didn't hit anything. My first instinct was that a turbo just came apart into the exhaust but have no codes or lights on the dash. I pulled over in a neighbors drive way and looked under neath. Nothing looked out of place so I ventured on. What I noticed now is that the exhaust sport mode sounds more like quiet and Baja sounds like sport. I haven't heard any more banging like something is loose in the exhaust area.

I'm planning on taking it back to the dealer as I'm thinking it was a catalytic converter or internal baffle that came apart and is now wedged somewhere in there. I've seen the blogs where folks have had problems with after an offroad venture but does anyone have an idea on what it might be?

Welcome to BroncoRaptor.com! Sorry to see your first post in the Problems and Issues forum.

Sounds mechanical based on the loud noise and lack of warning codes/lights. This is the first instance of this type that I've seen on this forum, and I agree a Ford dealership visit is in order for inspection and diagnosis.

If not for the associated noise, I would recommend disconnecting the negative battery cable for a few minutes to reboot the onboard computers. In this case I would Not disconnect the battery as it could erase any recorded incident information.

Please let us know what your dealership service discovers.