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Retrofitting Big Bend grille and signature lighting to Base later?

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I’d like to order the Base + Sasquatch for the value as it has the interior scheme I like and I don’t need a lot of other features. But, I love the BB grille and the signature lights. Anyone willing to offer an educated guess on feasibility and cost to add as parts later?
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Grill will be 5-800 lights and harness are going to run you 2-3k.
 

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Grille feasibility 100%. They even mentioned swapping out grilles in the SEMA video.

Lights really should be a straight swap (there is a pic with one of each on a Bronco), but we don’t 100% yet that the wiring or programming doesn’t require more to do the swap. They are both LED, so that should help. Big Bend is not that much more than a Base. If you are needing to price in this swap, it’s even less.
 

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Grille feasibility 100%. They even mentioned swapping out grilles in the SEMA video.

Lights really should be a straight swap (there is a pic with one of each on a Bronco), but we don’t 100% yet that the wiring or programming doesn’t require more to do the swap. They are both LED, so that should help. Big Bend is not that much more than a Base. If you are needing to price in this swap, it’s even less.
I think we heard this week the harnesses are different between signature and standard lights. Based on someone who works for the company that is making the headlights.
 

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Grille feasibility 100%. They even mentioned swapping out grilles in the SEMA video.

Lights really should be a straight swap (there is a pic with one of each on a Bronco), but we don’t 100% yet that the wiring or programming doesn’t require more to do the swap. They are both LED, so that should help. Big Bend is not that much more than a Base. If you are needing to price in this swap, it’s even less.
There will be conversion harness, if not I bet they can be fabricated easy enough.
 

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Grill no problem. Lights will be expensive and hard to find for 1-2 years. Let someone else try it first. Easy enough eventually.
 

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agreed they should make sig lights as an option for every trim

I suspect aftermarket will have a few options, but not true signature lights at a decent price
don't think a straight up swap to sig lights is going to be that easy

if that important to you, yeah you may want to think about BB
 

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No! If you want a $150 BB grille, just pay the extra 5 grand like the rest of us! jk ;)
 
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agreed they should make sig lights as an option for every trim

I suspect aftermarket will have a few options, but not true signature lights at a decent price
don't think a straight up swap to sig lights is going to be that easy

if that important to you, yeah you may want to think about BB
Good advice. Thank you.
 

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I think we heard this week the harnesses are different between signature and standard lights. Based on someone who works for the company that is making the headlights.
Yes, Ashley's cousin works for the manufacturer of the lights and mentioned the different harness for the headlights. She was going to ask about the tails.
 

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I’d like to order the Base + Sasquatch for the value as it has the interior scheme I like and I don’t need a lot of other features. But, I love the BB grille and the signature lights. Anyone willing to offer an educated guess on feasibility and cost to add as parts later?
I've settled on Base Squatch 2.7, but want Sig lights and prefer BB grille. Can't wrap my head around paying an extra $5k for the light and grille. The Base will give me 100% of what I need, and I'll feel better about getting a good deal.
 

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Am I the only one who thinks the base has the best grille and standard lights > sig lights?
You are not! I originally reserved Black Diamond but I didn’t want swamp ass seats and a gear ratio that would put me at 2500rpm at 60mph. Toyed with OBX for about a minute but I hate almost everything about it except the heated steering wheel. So then I was set on a Big Bend for the mid package but after I discovered that I could get heated seats professionally installed for cheap, all the sudden I no longer wanted to pay $6k for a grill I hate. So I ordered a Base. If Ford hadn’t screwed this up so badly they could have gotten another $15k out of me. Stupid assholes, I hope they feel dumb.
 

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I'm just going to paint the letters on the base grill red to match. Should add an extra hp.
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