Sasquatch - Will you upgrade the brakes?

[kodiakisland]

Oh, I did. But I asked what YOU were going to do.
Edit - And, yes. Think about it for a minute. The engineers and bean counters took those brakes, said, "Okay, we'll put them on 960,000 vehicles per year. We'll make them good enough that 95% of people won't complain and preferably no one dies." They give you "good enough."
But performance brakes are expensive, and we won't get them stock. I like good brakes, and not just "good enough." So I'll think hard about switching.

Fair enough. I have no plans. I’ll drive it first. I have no reason to think as of now that an upgrade is needed to run the wheels/tires it was designed for.

This is not my Tacoma, which still comes new with rear drums and is designed for 31in tires. I am expecting much better in the Bronco. I guess time will tell.

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[BigMeatsBronco]

Love how simple the pads are to change on my Brembos. Would definitely go with them if it were an option. But it wouldn't be my first upgrade to the Bronco unless the factory brakes were just horribly soft. The Rubicon does get bigger brakes on the Wranglers IIRC.

These are available soon

 

[BigMeatsBronco]

Without different brakes. Sasquatch bronco's will take more feet to brake from 60-0 or 70-0 than a bronco with smaller tires

Will it be drastic? Probably not but it will certainly be real and measurable

This statement is unclear....

Under what conditions? I could argue that under some conditions the extra traction available from the larger tire would actually stop faster and shorter than the weaker lesser 33” version. Or that the brake modulation in the AbS works better with a bigger diameter tire....in fact the bigger the tire the more accurate the ABS actually is.

 

[Bronco21fan]

My stock brakes been fine so far have had no issues stoping with 325 miles on her

 

[Bronco21fan]

These are available soon

How much you think

 

[ohvrider]

I was looking at Alcon brakes for my Raptor so I might look at it for Bronco too once I test them some:

https://alconusa.com/

 

[BigMeatsBronco]

How much you think

Lethal Performance has them up on the site for the new Ranger Raptor and when I called them today they said Brembo is testing the fit on the Bronco as well and they will both be available very soon....the price is near 5K.

 

[710-oil-614]

Maybe if I keep it for 40k miles and they wear out - I'll definitely upgrade then.

 

[Jolt]

I have 3000 miles on mine with no complaints. I am actually surprised how good they are. I have not towed anything with it yet so I have no input there.

 

[Bronco21fan]

Lethal Performance has them up on the site for the new Ranger Raptor and when I called them today they said Brembo is testing the fit on the Bronco as well and they will both be available very soon....the price is near 5K.

They can keep them for 5 k fuck that

 

[Tricky Dick]

Not only will I not upgrade the brakes, I'm probably downgrading when the stockers are worn out and putting on the cheapest Chinese pads and rotors.

 

[Raptor911]

Brembos on the Raptor requires 20" wheels. Most likely the same here.

They can keep them for 5 k fuck that

 

[Bronco21fan]

Brembos on the Raptor requires 20" wheels. Most likely the same here.

20 inch wheels on the bronco are ghetto trash

 

[the poacher]

Nothing that new set of drilled and slotted rotors up front with better pads will not fix. Quick and easy...

 

[Johnny Mo]

So, every trim level can come with 35s and you don’t think the engineers factored that in when doing the brakes? Well, maybe.

These are the same guys that came up with the camera placement on a vehicle with a modular bumper capable of adding a winch...that would be used on trails - all while touting the virtues of having a trail camera - so I don't think it's that outlandish a question. That being said - I will wait and see.

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