Differential Brace & Warranty

[RFC1992]

I like the thought of the differential brace yet am concerned about warranty. I have 38k remaining on the warranty. I am thinking of postponing this upgrade until after the warranty period (APR 2028 or 42k miles). Thoughts!

 

[Cdubya]

I'd probably do the same. I don't see anyone on the forum posting that the revised diff mount had failed.

 

[Caster]

The point of a diff. brace on the affected Explorers is to prevent failure in the first place. If you are worried, you could either get permission from your dealer or remove it if something happens since they are easy bolt-on items. I put mine on my 25' within a day or two of buying the vehicle. I will deal with the dealer if / when an issue occurs but I am doing my better part by trying to prevent an issue all together during, or after, the warranty expires.

Furthermore, if you want to get down and dirty, Ford would need to prove, not just "say" the brace caused the failure in the first place before denying a warranty claim.

To each is their own but the failures related to the newer single bolt set-up became a huge issue and resulted in a recall. The original 2-bolt design did not. Ford's fix to the issue and sticking to the single bolt set-up is laughable.

 

[2020FordRaptor]

I like the thought of the differential brace yet am concerned about warranty. I have 38k remaining on the warranty. I am thinking of postponing this upgrade until after the warranty period (APR 2028 or 42k miles). Thoughts!

It couldn’t void warranty because it won’t cause any problems and it’d hard for them to say it caused the problem. Here’s two articles I did that explains that:

https://explorerst.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/lets-talk-differential-braces-and-why-they-are-needed/

https://explorerst.wordpress.com/2025/04/12/will-modding-void-warranty/

 

[2020FordRaptor]

I'd probably do the same. I don't see anyone on the forum posting that the revised diff mount had failed.

The reason why people haven’t had bolt snapping problems on these cars yet is either because:

1) People know the problem and immediately put on a differential brace
2) The people that run these cars hard didn’t upgrade because of no tuning
3) Ford new updated tune which pulls power from a launch works