Bronco questions

[Psny]

Few random questions maybe you guys can help me out with, sorry if they're covered elsewhere.
1) Does anyone know of a source for the factory 4 door Wildtrak body graphics? We ordered without and would like to add them now to break up the paint a little.
2) Has anyone rigged something up to remove the hardtop? I have an electric hoist & 10' ceilings in the garage looking for some different ideas for a rigging system.
3) Anyone making front splash guards to fit the sasquatch with side steps yet or an update as to when?
4) Why do some people refer to Broncos as trucks haha, is it a regional thing or nationwide? Around here trucks have beds was just curious.

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[RagnarKon]

4) Why do some people refer to Broncos as trucks haha, is it a regional thing or nationwide? Around here trucks have beds was just curious.

Ooo!! I can do that one. I has to do with the origins of the Bronco, how vehicles have been traditionally built, with some regional differences added in.

There are two types of basic vehicle designs these days: body-on-frame, and unibody. Body-on-frame is how vehicles have traditionally been built since the beginning of mass-produced vehicles. In the 1960s, manufactures started switching to the unibody platforms on their cars, but the trucks largely remained body-on-frame due to their added strength and rigidity.

It is still largely the same today. Trucks are body-on-frame, cars are unibody. For most of its life, the Bronco was based on the F-100/F-150 pickup truck, which obviously had a body-on-frame platform. The new Bronco is based on the T6 platform, which is also a body-on-frame platform used in the modern Ford Ranger. Therefore, the Bronco is a truck, because it is based on a truck platform and has a body-on-frame design.

Admittedly things get really messy when you deal with crossovers and SUVs. Generally speaking most SUVs are body-on-frame, and most crossovers are unibody but that isn't a universal truth. The Jeep Cherokee XJ is considered by many to be the best SUV of the 1990s, but it is a unibody platform. The brand new Ford Maverick is also a unibody platform, and considered by many to be a "fake" truck, despite having a pickup bed like most trucks. And the Bronco Sport is marketed as an SUV, but is based on the same C2 unibody platform as the Maverick. That C2 platform also happens to be the same platform used for the Ford Focus, which most people would probably agree is definitely a car. So yeah, it gets messy.

(Hopefully that wasn't too incredibly confusing.)

 

[2w1se]

Ooo!! I can do that one. I has to do with the origins of the Bronco, how vehicles have been traditionally built, with some regional differences added in.

There are two types of basic vehicle designs these days: body-on-frame, and unibody. Body-on-frame is how vehicles have traditionally been built since the beginning of mass-produced vehicles. In the 1960s, manufactures started switching to the unibody platforms on their cars, but the trucks largely remained body-on-frame due to their added strength and rigidity.

It is still largely the same today. Trucks are body-on-frame, cars are unibody. For most of its life, the Bronco was based on the F-100/F-150 pickup truck, which obviously had a body-on-frame platform. The new Bronco is based on the T6 platform, which is also a body-on-frame platform used in the modern Ford Ranger. Therefore, the Bronco is a truck, because it is based on a truck platform and has a body-on-frame design.

Admittedly things get really messy when you deal with crossovers and SUVs. Generally speaking most SUVs are body-on-frame, and most crossovers are unibody but that isn't a universal truth. The Jeep Wrangler XJ is considered by many to be the best SUV of the 1990s, but it is a unibody platform. The brand new Ford Maverick is also a unibody platform, and considered by many to be a "fake" truck, despite having a pickup bed like most trucks.

(Hopefully that wasn't too incredibly confusing.)

Exactly, and I wouldn't call the Subaru Baja a truck. its more about its utility and not the bed. is it for hauling or carrying something.

 

[MNBigfoot]

When the original Bronco (suv) came out there were still plenty of body on frame cars. I don't ever recall anyone referring to all those Crown Vic squad cars ten years ago, as trucks. I'm calling BS on the orgins myth.

 

[Toffen]

Few random questions maybe you guys can help me out with, sorry if they're covered elsewhere.
1) Does anyone know of a source for the factory 4 door Wildtrak body graphics? We ordered without and would like to add them now to break up the paint a little.
2) Has anyone rigged something up to remove the hardtop? I have an electric hoist & 10' ceilings in the garage looking for some different ideas for a rigging system.
3) Anyone making front splash guards to fit the sasquatch with side steps yet or an update as to when?
4) Why do some people refer to Broncos as trucks haha, is it a regional thing or nationwide? Around here trucks have beds was just curious.

The ones with a bed are called
Pickup Trucks…

 

[Scott R Nelson]

4) Why do some people refer to Broncos as trucks haha, is it a regional thing or nationwide? Around here trucks have beds was just curious.

Can't answer that one, but both my title and my insurance company says "Ford Truck Escape" for my 2014 Escape, which doesn't contain any truck parts like the 2012 and older Escape did. Some things just can't be explained.

 

[North7]

The ones with a bed are called
Pickup Trucks…

Here's a pickup truck then...

 

[Toffen]

Here's a pickup truck then...

That is Definitely a Pickup Truck!!!

 

[TX-Hans]

Here's a pickup truck then...

How do we stop the rocks from slinging up from that thing?

 

[MikeyFrog]

For me, calling a "rig" sounds a bit odd, I always think of a 18 wheeler as a rig. And it's based off the ranger truck platform.

 

[604Bronco]

How do we stop the rocks from slinging up from that thing?

Gatorbacks

 

[wrbix]

My wife constantly refers to her LR4 as her “truck”, to which I respond the F250 in the driveway is our only truck.

 

[getpower1]

A Kenworth Concrete mixer is a truck. Yet it has no bed. I don’t have any stake in the argument going on. But IMO it definitely doesn’t have to have a bed to be a truck.

Dont have sources for graphics or mudflaps. But since I’ve been into the bronco thing and on this forum I keep getting advertisements thrown at me on social media about a thing called a topper lift or something to that effect. Looks cool and like I’d use it. But very expensive for what it is. I’m sure Google can be your friend here.

 

[JJ Bronco]

Few random questions maybe you guys can help me out with, sorry if they're covered elsewhere.
1) Does anyone know of a source for the factory 4 door Wildtrak body graphics? We ordered without and would like to add them now to break up the paint a little.
2) Has anyone rigged something up to remove the hardtop? I have an electric hoist & 10' ceilings in the garage looking for some different ideas for a rigging system.
3) Anyone making front splash guards to fit the sasquatch with side steps yet or an update as to when?
4) Why do some people refer to Broncos as trucks haha, is it a regional thing or nationwide? Around here trucks have beds was just curious.

1) I did a quick search and this place has tons of graphics, some in the same spot as the Wildtrak graphics but I didn't see an exact match.
https://www.vortexsigns.com/bronco-accessories

4) I agree with @RagnarKon and in the last decades or so anything body on frame is a "Truck."

 

[MaverickMan]

Well maybe we should call cars saloons, and anything bigger a lorry. Whatcha think govner?

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