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Overall, I like my Bronco, but it isn't perfect. I feel like Ford really missed the mark in a few areas (windows rattle, soft quarter windows pop out on the highway, auto-start-stop is garbage, infotainment is clunky and annoying, doors never properly aligned, hood skin separated from the...

'14 GT500 -> '18 Mustang GT Premium 'Vert -> '23 Bronco I loved that GT500 but I had surprise surgery and my insurance had a ridiculously high annual max and deductible, so trading the GT500 in allowed me to pay off the 11 bills from surgery. Long story there... If my appendix had exploded...

I totally understand, but I don't accept it. I've been working with automotive OEMs for many years in engineering. Unfortunately, project management at the OEM level cares more about arbitrary launch dates pulled from a bean-counter's rectum and MS Project than they do anything else. I'd get...

If I buy something, I expect it to work and not require updates. I refuse updates on anything and everything as long as I can. Forced connectivity is not a good thing.

Not to hijack the thread, but that's similar to what our situation was. We were offered something like (estimating, it has been a while) $15k and $12k for $42k (Jeep) and $90k (medical) in damages due to state minimum coverage and 5 victims. We opted to put it under our own insurance and had...

That's very rare, and more power to you if you can manage a deal like that. My point from earlier is, most do not and cannot find a deal or scenario such as yours. Most people operate with "monthly payment" mentality and pine for top trim just so they can get more likes and shares on social...

Pressure-sensitive door claymores. You know, for door-dingers.

That's an entirely different situation, but I feel your pain though. My wife and I bought a brand new JKU 9 years ago- first new vehicle I had ever bought. Zero miles. My wife started driving it daily and one day within the first year some idiot kid came flying across the double-yellow at...

I'll probably get bashed for this, but I have NEVER bought a vehicle with the intention of trading it back in within a year or two. I see so many posts on Facebook of people trading in a vehicle they just bought to get one of a higher trim for online clout, and it's essentially rolling negative...

"Your [thing] isn't a real [thing] because I say so" It's a cry for attention from pretentious people who base too much of their identity on exclusivity in ownership. I can absolutely assure you, the molecules that make up the vehicle don't care what you name them. If your life is so peachy...

Mine had the sub delete, which was conveniently passed over on the invoice when I bought the vehicle. While I feel it was really crappy on Ford's part to put a hollow amplifier and the crummiest sub without a magnet or wiring in my vehicle, it prompted me to do better. I replaced everything...

Take it from me, ALWAYS return a vehicle as close to stock as possible before doing a trade-in. Obviously there's a line of diminishing returns (such as engine internals, etc) where it just doesn't make sense to do so... but, a solid weekend of removing parts to sell separately can save you...

I have used that for automotive and industrial applications. That stuff is so good, when applied right, that some medical device companies even allow its use in lieu of stainless framework in washdown applications. I also use it for externally-coating steel gas tanks. As for powder-coating...

Our neighborhood is a porch-pirate magnet around this time of year. We had a few expensive packages nabbed a few years ago so I decided to get even. I leave a decoy box out on my porch around this time just in case of porch-pirates. I put a turkey baking bag in a box, fill it with expired...

Mabett floor mats and cargo area protectors Aeroshield II Deflector Full Kicker speaker, key, sub, and sub-amp replacement of the OEM embarrassment That's probably as far as I'll go. I have no desire to mod vehicles anymore. Some textaholic is going to slam into it anyways, and insurance...

If someone waves to me, I'll always wave back. No reason to not be pleasant. But don't touch my vehicles... Keep that Jeeper-furry duck-stuff away from me. Most of the Bronco owners I have seen don't seem to engage, which I am absolutely fine with.

That's why I do the installation myself on practically everything (except shortblock and transmission internals). Everything else, I do myself. I got scammed badly 7 years ago in a case of runaway scope, even when I was trying my absolute best to mitigate it. I was reconciling the parts and...

I have witnessed similar behavior in executives at a former employer. One had three cell phones- a company-issued one listed in his email signature, his personal cell, and the 3rd one was for undocumented correspondence. If you got a call from the 3rd number, you could feel the air get cold...

Dilbert is my spirit animal

Most people bury their heads in the sand because they've been conditioned to. They see retaliation against those who push back and collectively determine it's easier to just nod and fall in line. It's really sad. I lost many friends over their cowardice. One of the absolute dumbest things...