I've driven auto and manual off-road, mainly slow speed trail work in the Rocky Mountains. Not King of the Hammers level, but the type of trails where some passengers would freak and demand to get out and walk. From those experiences, I'd say it's kind of hard to argue against auto, given...
Discount Tire wouldn't rotate the tires on my son's car, he wanted the rear tires moved to the front, as those tires had more tread for winter front wheel drive traction. Apparently they quoted some policy about tread depth, but the result was he ended up driving with a less safe setup.
Wow 23lbs, that's one of the lighter wheels I've heard about. Nice.
The overall weight difference between the lightest 2-door and heaviest 4-door is around 900lbs. Include aftermarket items for additional weight. There's no free lunch, all that weight is going to negatively impact acceleration...
Simplicity ftw. Planning to keep my Bronco for a long time, and figured these sort of items would cause trouble at some point. My base rear bumper got hit earlier this week, might have been in same boat as OP if I had sensors to worry about.
My updates have been turned off since Oct 2023, and my Bronco seems no worse for it. I'd like a detailed change log to see what's being updated, and if it's anything I'd care much about. Overall when something is working fine why mess with it.
Round flush taillights on back of a CJ and that sort of thing I'm down. But personally I would not cut into the Bronco hardtop due to it's double wall composite nature, thin outer wall, and possibly letting water or whatever inside or getting delamination of the layers. Unless maybe there is a...
On a 2-door? When the weather warms, I'll take some measurements of my CJ Bestop and extrapolate, to see how it might fold on a Bronco. Hard to believe no one has a solution.
Too bad there isn't a way to increase spring rate or at least rear lift on a temp basis, only when the Bronco is loaded up. Back in the day air shocks were a thing, my buddy had the back of his '72 Skylark jacked up with them. The amount of lift could be adjusted with an air pump. Probably not...
Interesting watching the 4-Runner climb the obstacle at the 16:55 mark no problem without rear diff locked. Related to that, seems like Toyota and some other manufacturers have done a better job with brake actuated traction control than Ford has with the Bronco. Basing that on a previous TFL...
What sort of engine power is Rory working with on his vehicles? I wonder if the 2.3L would be less of a pinion gear risk, especially if not used for extreme recovery type activities.
Maybe. I work in IT and when coding sometimes include famous quotes or other nonsense comments mixed in with the logic. A few other coders do as well, adds some levity.
For now that probably would be the ticket, although the complexity of gasoline and electric motivation in a hybrid is less appealing. A gasoline Bronco and reasonable cost EV urban commuter type car would be a nice combo at least for my household usage.
Jim Farley indicating larger EV SUVs is not where it's at. And Ford will focus on smaller more efficient EVs. Wonder what that means for Bronco.
I agree with him in the sense that smaller efficient urban vehicles are the sweet spot right now in terms of EV bang for the buck. But Ford mostly...
That's what another forum member indicated. If steel then I'm wondering if I can weld something onto it at some point. I wouldn't be able to do that easily if having to remove plastic costing or if aluminum.
Oddly the aftermarket clones of this plate are billed as aluminum.
As long as they're ok with you driving out of state, I'd put the trip miles on the Mustang and be off to the races. I'm from Chicagoland, how bad could the weather be on the coast.