What did you do TO / WITH your Bronco today? 👨🏻‍🔧🧰🚿🛠

[jgrant68]

Did some exploring in the hills above my neighborhood. Still learning about the truck and what it can do.

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[C6ZZGT]

Did some exploring in the hills above my neighborhood. Still learning about the truck and what it can do.

That is why you go to OFFROADEO !

 

[jgrant68]

That is why you go to OFFROADEO !

That would be fun for sure! I bought mine used so I don't get that full day option. I might do the half day though.

 

[C6ZZGT]

That would be fun for sure! I bought mine used so I don't get that full day option. I might do the half day though.

I just did TX on Friday, I would think a half day would still be better than nothing, these things are so capable.

 

[tourproto]

I just did TX on Friday, I would think a half day would still be better than nothing, these things are so capable.

There were things I did at the off-rodeo that will never do with my own Bronco. And for the hard-core Bronco guys, they probably rate the toughest thing you do at the off-rodeo as a 4 out of 10 (and probably even less)

I probably take my Bronco to a 2 or 3 out of what it is capable of offroad and that is OK with me. It is nice to know I could do something stupid if I had to and the Bronco could handle it (like escaping from a bunch of Mad Max zombies or something like that), but ordinarily I am just traversing rutted out county back-roads or climbing 15* incline snow-covered hills to get to a good hunting spot.

Totally recommend going if you can, especially if you are not an experienced off-roader. If you are like me, you don't know what you don't know, and the off-rodeo is a great eye-opener for what a Bronco can do, in a relatively safe environment.

 

[C6ZZGT]

There were things I did at the off-rodeo that will never do with my own Bronco. And for the hard-core Bronco guys, they probably rate the toughest thing you do at the off-rodeo as a 4 out of 10 (and probably even less)

I probably take my Bronco to a 2 or 3 out of what it is capable of offroad and that is OK with me. It is nice to know I could do something stupid if I had to and the Bronco could handle it (like escaping from a bunch of Mad Max zombies or something like that), but ordinarily I am just traversing rutted out county back-roads or climbing 15* incline snow-covered hills to get to a good hunting spot.

Totally recommend going if you can, especially if you are not an experienced off-roader. If you are like me, you don't know what you don't know, and the off-rodeo is a great eye-opener for what a Bronco can do, in a relatively safe environment.

Sounds like my point exactly , I may not use all of it BUT I know now it will do things I wouldn`t think of doing . If we are out somewhere and someone suggests something like the tx 2 step I now know both how to go about it and that it can be done, with confidence.

 

[mpeugeot]

Sounds like my point exactly , I may not use all of it BUT I know now it will do things I wouldn`t think of doing . If we are out somewhere and someone suggests something like the tx 2 step I now know both how to go about it and that it can be done, with confidence.

I am no off-road expert or hard core off-roader, but seriously I didn't learn anything at Off-Roadeo... The instructor even apologized for not having anything more advanced for us to do.

In all fairness, it was exactly as expected and a great learning experience for my girlfriend (who had 0 off-road experience). I still enjoyed the day off-road and Moab was absolutely beautiful. The staff was very nice and accommodating. I have absolutely no complaints about the difficulty being too low for the intended audience, but don't expect too much from the course if you have ANY off-road experience and any advanced driving education.

I do have to give my instructor points for letting me run the Bronco hard on the fast part of the day, even caught a little air with his encouragement. LOL, he remarked that he had never taken the trail that fast as a passenger (big smile on his face), unfortunately we had to keep stopping every two minutes to allow the group to catch up.

 

[GPPBronco]

Was a simple question on what you hoped to get out of them?

To me it seems like a 60 pound penalty towards your GVWR for ~$300 that increases the chances of body damage on any moderate to difficult trail. For instance, I don't think you could use a hi-lift to jack on these safely by any means.

But if you like how it looks, you do you by all means! Will definitely help prevent door dings at the grocery store if nothing else!

Nobody asked for a referee here, but I gotta say…if you are unwilling to see a usefulness for these to protect the rocker panels beyond the grocery store, you’re just trolling, dense, or both.

Not everybody is rock crawling with their bronco. Here in the Great Lakes, we don’t deal with a lot of rocks/breakover tests on the trails. But there are plenty of fallen branches and limbs that can get kicked up against the rockers and doors. You don’t need a frame mounted rail to protect against that.

“But if you like how it looks, you do you by all means!”

The same could be said for those fender flares on your Braptor.

 

[tonytexchappy]

Wheel and tire day…

 

[AZ_Craig]

Nobody asked for a referee here, but I gotta say…if you are unwilling to see a usefulness for these to protect the rocker panels beyond the grocery store, you’re just trolling, dense, or both.

Not everybody is rock crawling with their bronco. Here in the Great Lakes, we don’t deal with a lot of rocks/breakover tests on the trails. But there are plenty of fallen branches and limbs that can get kicked up against the rockers and doors. You don’t need a frame mounted rail to protect against that.

“But if you like how it looks, you do you by all means!”

The same could be said for those fender flares on your Braptor.

Look, maybe you didn't read all of my responses. I'm coming from ~7 years of 4Runner ownership where body mounted rails, especially out west are a major liability to cause body damage. If I didn't have a proper frame mounted slider on my vehicle there are many times where I would have taken body damage for sure the last 10 years.

Additionally, just because you don't plan to wheel your truck out west doesn't mean an opportunity to take a road trip to Colorado or Utah may never present itself...

A body mounted rail can definitely protect from brush and door dings and I'm the first to admit that they can aesthetically look pretty good also. My point simply was that you cannot high-lift jack on one safely and they could give people a false sense of security who don't know any better if they drop their vehicle on rocks. I've seen many vehicles out here in Arizona with pretty significant rocker panel damage from exactly this. I can no longer count the number of times I've seen a bro-dozer with body mounted tube steps pushed up into the door.

As for the Raptor flares, you're talking about something from the factory that you get whether you want them or not versus something that costs several hundred dollars to add in the aftermarket. Personally I'd be happier if my Raptor flares were a bit narrower and the vehicle had more wheel poke. Ford was probably overly conservative with making sure the whole wide track was covered though based on what a pieced together mess fender laws are in the US and Canada (for instance, I find it hard to believe a Jeep 392 is actually legal in some states in its stock configuration where they add a little plastic extension over the 35s). If I damage a flare at some point, I'll probably go to an aftermarket option like ADV to accomplish exactly this.

 

[Jazer]

New tires (34" Toyos) and a bath!

 

[RedThor]

New shoes!

 

[Dino]

Going in tomorrow to get my Diode Dynamic knuckle lights and hitch light mounted and wired up, and the BroncBusters tie rod braces put on then heading out for my first trip to Moab! Super stoked!

 

[ncarter124]

I sat online and spent an inordinate amount of time trying to comprehend how adding fog lights to my mod bumper is going to cost a THOUSAND ****ING DOLLARS. Guess I’m just staying stock forever.​

 

[RoLyMa27]

New tires (34" Toyos) and a bath!

34 x 10.5???

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