Customized OBX Grill On Badlands

[FishKzor]

Be the looks of your disassembly, the BRONCO letters are removable from the grill. Can anyone confirm if the letters are removable on the base? I'd like to swap the letters from a base grill to my BL grill. Keeping the BL look, but have black letters. Anyone know if that would work? Maybe I'm working too hard here? I haven't poked around to see if the Base letter kit is available.

Yes, they are interchangeable. However, they have plastic posts that have been melted onto the grill So you will need to drill the melted caps off from the back to pull them off. I then epoxyed back over the post holes to get them to re-attach

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[Brullitt]

Thanks! Great info.

 

[OuterJersey]

There are currently four grille designs. Obviously once Heritage enters production that list will increase, but for now we got four.

• Base/Black Diamond
  • Base comes with black lettering instead of white
• Big Bend/Outer Banks
  • OBX grille is painted shadow black
• Badlands/Wildtrak
  • WT grille is painted shadow black
• Raptor

Personally I’m a big fan of the Base/Black Diamond grille, as it is the closest match to the older full-sized Broncos. My father owned a 4th gen, I basically grew up in that Bronco, and it was the vehicle I learned how to drive in. So there is some sentimental attachment to that look for me.

I definitely don’t mind the grille on my Badlands, but I’ve been keeping an eye out on the forums for someone who wants to swap their Black Diamond grille for a Badlands grille. So far no luck.

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Also… just a heads up for someone who is also looking to swap their grille: While there are only four designs, there is actually many more grille variations once you account for the the variants that have a front camera cutout for those with the High/Lux package.

There is a plastic part listed for the back of the grills. Is that something that can be moved from grill to grill? I know the letters you can but it looks like a process to drill etc. thanks!

 

[Zeeks]

So, I addressed an oversight by Ford (in my opinion). The Outer Banks/Big Bend grill, to me, is the nicest/coolest grill on the Broncos. I’m not sure if I had been swayed by the reveal Broncos, but it just looks cool to me.

However, I always felt the Big Bend looked better than OBX, and I think that’s because the grills details get lost in gloss black. But also, nothing really matched the Big Bend carbonized grey grill color.

Same with the Badlands carbonized grey grill. With it being right next to the flares, bumper, and trailsights, it just looks peculiar (to me at least)

So I finally got my hands on an OBX grill, and went ahead with prepping and painting it a matte black, finishing it with a satin gloss clear coat.

While I was at it, I decided to attached small mesh grill inserts into the pill-shaped openings. This helped camouflage the radiator openings and hood latch mechanism and cover, and also should aid in keeping debris from entering those spots.

Overall, I’m ecstatic with the results. The grill is an almost spot-on match the bumper and trailsights.

Looks awesome. Can I ask what matte black paint you used?

 

[OrlandoOBX]

This what I want to do with my Badlands, but I want to keep the gloss black look, it looks good on the Oxford white. To find an OBX grill though.

 

[OuterJersey]

This what I want to do with my Badlands, but I want to keep the gloss black look, it looks good on the Oxford white. To find an OBX grill though.

I’m looking to go the other way and switch to badlands grill. When I get one I’ll be selling my OBX grill

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