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Recovery of flipped over Bronco Sport (and it started and drove home)

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Most of saw the pics of this flipped over Bronco Sport in New Mexico. Well, here’s the recovery and just amazing that once recovered it started on first try and drove home after this. Wow.

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I wonder if he took the 205 home.
 

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Glad everyone was ok. Including the Bronco! I seriously hope that this is the first Bronco Sport to become a dedicated trail rig. Cut up the fenders, lift it, squeeze on 32s or 33s and go wild. That or swap everything that works onto a transit connect! Sweet 4x4 minivan. Stick a kayak on top of that call it extreme!
 

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Only problem with that video is the kid with the horrible facial hair. You can't grow a proper beard. Time to shave that shit and I should know cause when I try to grow one it looks like that. Other than that I can't believe it started up
 

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Good recovery. Nice that they had footage to share.

My longest recovery was 7.5 hrs for two submerged vehicles. Waist deep water for the whole time pulling on dead vehicles that at least rolled.
 

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I'm pretty impressed with it all.
And seeing the terrain/trail width/orientation of everything really put a new perspective on it.
From the overhead Google EArth view it looked like a wider, more pronounced dirt road that came to a curve.
Assumption was maybe they were baja-ing, came in too hot on that curve, got the outer wheels in the loose stuff at the edge, and rolled it down a bit of a hill.
Seeing this definitely shows a different scenario, and also illustrates the point that you can't judge trails by an overhead view alone.
I've found this to be true personally on both trail scoping and river scoping prior to trips on both.
Glad everything worked out as well as it did.
 

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Only problem with that video is the kid with the horrible facial hair. You can't grow a proper beard. Time to shave that shit and I should know cause when I try to grow one it looks like that. Other than that I can't believe it started up
You mean to tell me you are so ingrained with white trash DNA your facial hair grows in all naturally white trashy like that?
 

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“It’s not a Hummer. Maurey would be very upset if you called it a Hummer”.

Amen!

What’s the plan for the sport now? I’m so impressed it fired right up. The smoke that billowed out of the rig was hilarious. Glad everyone was ok.
 

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Very nice job, when they were pulling the sport up to the trail, it looked to be at a 70-80% angle
That really showed how steep it was.
The way the recovery lines slid and dig into the sand, showed how easily the surface breaks away.
Pretty awesome that the vehicle started right up.
It would have been nice to see them crank it with the spark plugs pulled to clear the oil.
Been there done that. It shoots it like 20' into the air. 🤣
I'd be curious if it is actually totaled. With the engine and electronics working, and them driving it out of there. Body damage + Airbags might not get to the % needed total it. But if so, It's
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Get some lockers and bigger tires on that rig. It's already got street cred!!
 

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