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  1. Car Care Nut (mechanic) review of 6G Bronco

    The interior of my ā€˜23 Bronco isn’t even in the same ballpark as my wife’s ā€˜23 4Runner. For that matter, neither is my mom’s Lincoln. I’ve heard the 6th gen (2025+) 4Runner interiors feel cheaper. But our 5th gen feels very solid, durable, and well designed. The Bronco interior is trash. I’m...
  2. EPIC Roadie Removable Arm Rest for Bronco!

    $125 for this. Or Ford could just make the touch points comfortable in the first place. 🤷
  3. Trail ride today, does this tire look ok?

    How much does a beat up old 911 cost? More than a Bronco Raptor?
  4. What’s the ONE piece of advice you’d give to a new Bronco owner?

    Try to have fun with it, in spite of the fact that it is likely the most poorly-engineered, shoddily-built vehicle you’ll ever own. Oh, and when you need those inevitable repairs, just know that Ford’s service departments are the pinnacle of incompetence and carelessness. Just today I picked...
  5. High winch mount by Rough Country - how was installation?

    https://www.bartact.com/products/winch-cover-for-warn-zeon-10-and-12-patent-pending-bartact
  6. Roof Rack storage configurations - what's yours?

    That was my logic as well. Nothing touches my top except water and soap. Then, at 38k miles (how convenient) the cracks started. Now I’m like ā€œF*** it, not even babying these things will make up for Ford’s bad design.ā€ So, it looks like about $700 to Line-X and then I’m gonna get a rack and load...
  7. Roof Rack storage configurations - what's yours?

    Family of four. Three weeks from Detroit to Seattle and back. No camping but I still think this was pretty good/minimal in a 2 door.
  8. Would you cancel a road trip this weekend with a Badlands (in forecasted winter storm)?

    I wouldn’t cancel. I’d be more excited about the trip.
  9. High winch mount by Rough Country - how was installation?

    Minimal. Pulled out a large lilac root ball last summer. Made easy work of that and I was pulling from straight ahead, so no stress on the mount to speak of. Other than that, I’ve pre-tensioned the line on the drum a couple times after rinsing dirt/sand that collects on the outer wind of the...
  10. High winch mount by Rough Country - how was installation?

    Pretty well, I’d say. In spring 2025 (after the first winter), I noticed a few spots of rust starting on the welds. There were also a few rock chips on the face of the winch mount. I hit these with a brush wheel and a few sprays of flat rust oleum and it was good. Just washed the whole rig...
  11. The 2023 Shadow Black Base Experience

    Wow. Thats a lot of lift! Diff drop? What are you doing to keep the CV joints from wearing? And 235’s! That was the tire I originally had planned to run as a replacement. So, those are basically a 31ā€ tire?
  12. The 2023 Shadow Black Base Experience

    Tell me about that lift!
  13. The 2023 Shadow Black Base Experience

    Currently planning a trip to the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. July or August 2026. Planning to hit some mild/medium passes (Imogene, Engineer, Ophir, Mineral Creek). Assuming I take the Bronco, it will be a good test of current tires and clearance. I can’t imagine wanting to do anything more...
  14. The 2023 Shadow Black Base Experience

    I’ve been on a set of black diamond takeoff alloys since spring. My base steelies had been powder coated by a Ford service dept. that marred them up and agreed to make it right. But that finish made it harder to match touch up paint. So they were rusting pretty badly in the seams. I put...
  15. Paint Issues

    Yep. And then nobody will be able to afford a Bronco because AI took their job. And the whole thing will be moot.
  16. Paint Issues

    Oh, it means something. But not what we think it does!
  17. Bronco Headlights in Snow

    Last winter. 12 hours in a winter storm from Detroit to Marquette. Would have been 11 hours without the stops to ā€œchiselā€ ice off the headlights.
  18. Washer Fluid Leak - Front Wheel Well [2021 4 Dr Badlands]

    @Bdisco - I’m on this list now too. Saw your signature and I can assure you, @Ford didn’t have much more figured out by model year ā€˜23. Perfect timing, now that the winter road slop is upon us. Not sure which is sloppier, metro Detroit highways or Ford’s QC. Honest to God, this morning was the...


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