You seem to care a lot with your passionate response.
People that "just deal" with small problems in life are inherently lazier than someone looking for/ creating a solution.
It's not that big of a deal, and look it appears a solution has pretty much been created...
On point with this thread:
I was removing the factory bash plate on my 24 raptor a few weeks ago and noticed the two rear most bolts on the little skid plate under the engine were just started in their holes, finger tight.
While I've never thought the black flares looked bad, I've also always been a bigger fan of them painted.
I think what kills it for me is the number of different colors on the vehicles with unpainted flares.
Like you have a gray top, gray grille, silver bash plate, black textured trim, and...
Over the last couple days I cleaned it up really good and applied Adam's advanced graphene ceramic coating to the whole vehicle. Left it in my shop for a couple days to cure and just now pulled it outside for the first time.
Hard to drive and get it dirty when it looks this good clean lol.
Here's a close up. Like I said it's not really close to the factory bumper texture, it all blends in pretty well when looking at the whole front end though.
I painted and finally reassembled my dash.
And painted/reassembled my "bash plate"
Funny story, when I was taking off my bash plate I realized the farthest back two bolts that hold on the engine skid plate were literally just started in the holes.
I took them out by hand. Guess it was a...
Yeah, just to check I just went an stored my R mode with everything set to normal, turned ASS off, stored again, and when double tapping the R button the ASS disabled notification pops up as if I just hit the button on the dash.
Does the plug in eliminator still cause the notification to pop up...
A few days ago while already in my R mode I turned the ASS off with the button. I then stored my R mode again.
Now every time I start my bronco I double tap the R button and the notifications for "offroad use only" as well as "auto start/stop has been disabled" pop up.
Like you said sport mode...