Mine has started the same thing at the bottom of the passenger side glass. Several hairline fractures. These tops are a P.O.S. My Bronco has 3k miles, garage kept, and the top never removed yet. Ridiculous.
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Maybe I’m crazy, but I can’t be asked with this—I just don’t think there’s a federal case to be had here.
Everything turns to dust eventually... I couldn’t be bothered with these supposed cracks, or I’d go nuts with any of the real issues that WILL eventually occur.
Not a knock on you, OP. You go forward with any proceedings you see fit—I just think people need to stop expecting perfection from projectiles that are literally moving through the physical world. Absolutely nothing is perfect.
Everything turns to dust eventually... I couldn’t be bothered with these supposed cracks, or I’d go nuts with any of the real issues that WILL eventually occur.
Not a knock on you, OP. You go forward with any proceedings you see fit—I just think people need to stop expecting perfection from projectiles that are literally moving through the physical world. Absolutely nothing is perfect.
No, nothing is perfect, but this top is crap. The top off my '69 and '70 Blazers were in better condition after 40+ years of hard use than these tops after a few months. For what we are paying, there should be at least a couple of years of decent use in this vehicle before it makes that eventual trip to dust, and that is not an unreasonable request.
Just wait things out.There will probably be a winnable class action lawsuit in the future.
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Mine cracked today and I was completely gentle with it, it cracked right across the rear most bolt hole and was still sitting on the Bronco (supported by the locating pins) and just snapped - a 4 inch long crack clean through. The top is, as someone else said, paper mache!
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Making me wonder if I shouldn't change to soft top for MY23 change and buy after market hardtop later on sometime. Course we could be looking at less than 1% actually having an issue.
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I just noticed cracks on mine this morning and logged on here to see if anyone else had the same issue. My cracks look exactly the same as OPs but it looks like mine has a bit more. My Bronco has 2700 miles and is garage kept.
I would get the hard top (which is by comparison cheap) and buy an aftermarket soft top should you want a soft top as backup, because the aftermarket soft tops are far less expensive than the hard tops.
FWIW, the crack is something that I expect that Ford will tell me is my fault (it's not) and I know that it's probably easily repaired with some JB Weld (which will likely be stronger than the top material anyway). Here is the crack...
As you can see, the unwaxed interior isn't looking all that hot either. Excuse the dirt, I was off-roading yesterday.
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I’ve had mine over 6 months, never wash/clean the top, and it sits in the sun all day, yet I don’t have these issues... And again, I couldn’t go crazy over hairline cracks—if those are indeed cracks—seems questionable at best from what i can see.
Someone mentioned the soft top as an option, but there seem to be more supposed issues with that than with the hard top.
Someone mentioned the soft top as an option, but there seem to be more supposed issues with that than with the hard top.
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Now THAT is a crack.I would get the hard top (which is by comparison cheap) and buy an aftermarket soft top should you want a soft top as backup, because the aftermarket soft tops are far less expensive than the hard tops.
FWIW, the crack is something that I expect that Ford will tell me is my fault (it's not) and I know that it's probably easily repaired with some JB Weld (which will likely be stronger than the top material anyway). Here is the crack...
As you can see, the unwaxed interior isn't looking all that hot either. Excuse the dirt, I was off-roading yesterday.
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