First day with my Bronco, 1000 mile road trip and slept in back on air mattress

‘21OBX said:

I just mentioned this to my wife. Good to know the full size will work. She thinks I’m nuts but for a night here and there I think it’s be fine.

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SpiritAnimal said:

Just a couple of tips for Cargo area sleeping that became concerns when I actually tried to do it. I was super worried that if someone walked up to the Bronco and grabbed the handle, the car might unlock/open since the keys were inside of it with the engine off (touching the outside handle with the keys in proximity normally unlocks the car). This ended up not being an issue as long as you press the lock button on the inside of the car with all of the doors closed. I experimented with it by rolling down the window and pulling on the outside handle to see what would happen.

The other thing that was problematic, was the screen in the center of the dash was on for a long time and I couldn't figure out how to turn it off. I poked at it for a while and was scouring through the manual, because if you push the actual screen off button with the car's engine off, it will immediately turn back on. It ended up not being a problem though, because when I stopped touching it and moved to doing searches on my phone for a way to turn it off, it turned itself off after about 10 minutes.

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SpiritAnimal said:

Hi all,
I just picked up a beautiful Area51 Badlands Sas Bronco that one of the Forum members here was selling. Flew out to come pick it up on Friday and then made the 1000 mile trek back to the Chicago area. I think it was a 15 or 16 hour drive.

I brought along an air matress for the trip and was pleased to discover that a "Full" sized one fills the back area with the back seats folded almost perfectly. I rolled into a truck stop at about 2:30am, blew up the matress and slept extremely comfortably. The matress completely eliminated any issues with the hump between the seats and the cargo space (There is a slight incline, but nothing uncomfortable).

Anyhow, I just got home today and my kids have been going crazy with excitement about our new toy. Figured you guys would like to know that sleeping in the bronco can work well without having to build any platforms or other contraptions. Pics of the sleep setup and bronco for posterity.

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SpiritAnimal said:

Hi all,
I just picked up a beautiful Area51 Badlands Sas Bronco that one of the Forum members here was selling. Flew out to come pick it up on Friday and then made the 1000 mile trek back to the Chicago area. I think it was a 15 or 16 hour drive.

I brought along an air matress for the trip and was pleased to discover that a "Full" sized one fills the back area with the back seats folded almost perfectly. I rolled into a truck stop at about 2:30am, blew up the matress and slept extremely comfortably. The matress completely eliminated any issues with the hump between the seats and the cargo space (There is a slight incline, but nothing uncomfortable).

Anyhow, I just got home today and my kids have been going crazy with excitement about our new toy. Figured you guys would like to know that sleeping in the bronco can work well without having to build any platforms or other contraptions. Pics of the sleep setup and bronco for posterity.

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SpiritAnimal said:

Hi all,
I just picked up a beautiful Area51 Badlands Sas Bronco that one of the Forum members here was selling. Flew out to come pick it up on Friday and then made the 1000 mile trek back to the Chicago area. I think it was a 15 or 16 hour drive.

I brought along an air matress for the trip and was pleased to discover that a "Full" sized one fills the back area with the back seats folded almost perfectly. I rolled into a truck stop at about 2:30am, blew up the matress and slept extremely comfortably. The matress completely eliminated any issues with the hump between the seats and the cargo space (There is a slight incline, but nothing uncomfortable).

Anyhow, I just got home today and my kids have been going crazy with excitement about our new toy. Figured you guys would like to know that sleeping in the bronco can work well without having to build any platforms or other contraptions. Pics of the sleep setup and bronco for posterity.

.

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SpiritAnimal said:

Hi all,
I just picked up a beautiful Area51 Badlands Sas Bronco that one of the Forum members here was selling. Flew out to come pick it up on Friday and then made the 1000 mile trek back to the Chicago area. I think it was a 15 or 16 hour drive.

I brought along an air matress for the trip and was pleased to discover that a "Full" sized one fills the back area with the back seats folded almost perfectly. I rolled into a truck stop at about 2:30am, blew up the matress and slept extremely comfortably. The matress completely eliminated any issues with the hump between the seats and the cargo space (There is a slight incline, but nothing uncomfortable).

Anyhow, I just got home today and my kids have been going crazy with excitement about our new toy. Figured you guys would like to know that sleeping in the bronco can work well without having to build any platforms or other contraptions. Pics of the sleep setup and bronco for posterity.

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