Black Diamond High Package

[centra28]

just give me the tunes man, and let me roll out in my Black Diamond rocking out!

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[Badplaid72]

I'll just add that for the $6k between the BD and BL you get a lot of capability. I am going to take SAS out of the Math.

- 33" tires vice 32" riding on Machined alloy rims vice steel
- Advanced 4x4 vice 4x4 Part time Selectable
- Baja over Sport GOAT mode... Not sure how much I care.
- Bilstein suspension on your HOSS System vice whatever.
- M210 Dana Front end vice the 190 Dana.
- Locking Front Diff, you gotta buy the SAS if you want this on the BD
- Of course Stabilizer bar.

I don't know about you, but if you're not going to buy the SAS, where you would get most of this, then it is better to get the BL. There is no way you could increase the functionality of a BD over the BL at this level for $6k.

BD is a great vehicle. However, I think if you are really going to take your Bronco out into the wild the BL is ready to go today, to handle damn near anything a regular person would throw at it.

 

[Lab00Rat]

I bet the cost difference the BL with High and BD with Sas and High (if available) would be similar.
BL comes with most of the Sas included.
We will see when B&P is released.... some day.

 

[KindaOrange]

I want the lane keeping because its 2020.

Bro wut
you staring at thots while driving?

 

[Badplaid72]

I bet the cost difference the BL with High and BD with Sas and High (if available) would be similar.
BL comes with most of the Sas included.
We will see when B&P is released.... some day.

Yes, that ?

Even if the BL was just a little more, having the BL for resale later would be better than an optioned BD. We look at the options, resale looks at the badge.

 

[Zinn]

I'll just add that for the $6k between the BD and BL you get a lot of capability. I am going to take SAS out of the Math.

- 33" tires vice 32" riding on Machined alloy rims vice steel
- Advanced 4x4 vice 4x4 Part time Selectable
- Baja over Sport GOAT mode... Not sure how much I care.
- Bilstein suspension on your HOSS System vice whatever.
- M210 Dana Front end vice the 190 Dana.
- Locking Front Diff, you gotta buy the SAS if you want this on the BD
- Of course Stabilizer bar.

I don't know about you, but if you're not going to buy the SAS, where you would get most of this, then it is better to get the BL. There is no way you could increase the functionality of a BD over the BL at this level for $6k.

BD is a great vehicle. However, I think if you are really going to take your Bronco out into the wild the BL is ready to go today, to handle damn near anything a regular person would throw at it.

OTOH the $4500 jump to add Sasquatch to Black Diamond is still cheaper than the price increase to Badlands. That stabilizer bar disconnect is looking quite expensive at that rate, and of course the privilege of adding the High+ package.

I’m on the fence but I still think Black Diamond is the sweet spot for my use.

 

[Rydfree]

Speaking of evil bean counters, limiting the garage door openers to the lux package was just cruel. I could understand it not being in the mid but leaving it out of the high as well?

The good thing is you can buy a home link off Ebay for 30 bucks and mount it somewhere easily .

 

[BroncOBX]

The thing that makes the BD appealing is it doesn't have all that extra crap on it.

Correction: extra "unnecessary" crap on it. JMHO.

 

[BroncOBX]

I need the heated seats from mid, keyless access is also nice.

Both are stand alone options you can buy without going to the Mid (if I'm not mistaken which is how I read the marketing propaganda.)

 

[mdonathan56]

I too was looking at a Sas BD but would like some of the features in the high pkg. Still waiting for B&P to see what the Ala Carte options look like. It may be that you will be able to pick and choose some of the options/upgrades. Off course it will cost more than getting them in a pkg, but they may be available.
So once again we are back to B&P!

 

[KindaOrange]

for my use I think it would be a waste of money.

I'm buying an offroader...

Not a PornHub Netflix machine

 

[thd]

I priced out the BD with Sasquatch vs a Badlands with the 4.7 rear ratio. My understanding is the only difference between the Badlands and the BD with Sasquatch are the wheels and tires. If I need 35"s I can upgrade when the 33" need to be replaced. There is also a wheel option for the BLs for beadlock capable wheels.

The price difference was less than $800 so for me the Badlands seems like a no brainer to have the on-the-fly sway bar disconnect and access to the high package.

 

[Homer Rice]

Well planned marketing by Ford as they hold out on just enough "wants" on each model to motivate you to upgrade and spend more jack. No secret there. At the end of the day, it is a personal choice and I decided I didn't need the extra BL stuff (not an off roader) so we sacrificed the 12" screen to stick with the BD mid package. We are taking the soft top but curious of others think that is a bad play if this will be an ever day driving car for us? thx

 

[Mustang Mike]

I might goes as far as purchasing the Outer Banks 12" headunit trim & head unit for my Black Diamond and swap it out myself when parts can be sourced from the Dealer just so I can utilize Carplay on a 12" and have Vinyl washout/drain floors w/ my Black Diamond.

I did this in my mustang to both the head unit and digital dash, it’ll probably happen in the Bronco too!

 

[flatlander40]

Wouldn’t it be cool if we could all get exactly what we want for a dirt cheap price!!! If the high Package was part of the Black Diamond build then the Big Bend camp would complain that it’s not available to them

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