Who wants their Bronco body Etc aluminum?

I'd prefer more aluminum. I've read that at the very least all the moving parts will be aluminum - doors, hood, swing gate (I hope they pull a fast one and do a tail gate after all ...). That won't help much with the frame and underside, though. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I want an aluminum tub. Moving body panels are much easier to replace if they get rusty. Rusted tub panels need cutting, welding and multi step repainting to look good again.

I would really like to see a complete panel body, where every piece of exterior body can be unbolted and removed/replaced. Would be nice to have some beater panels to swap on for trail use, and good condition painted ones for around town/between trips.

Please God no aluminum bodies

84Mudhorse

Please God no aluminum bodies

eh, it's a given already. I haven't seen any real vlaid complaints on the 150 bodies, and those have been out for many years now. Why do you not like it?

Not as strong as steel, not as easy to weld on, not magnetic for mag mounts, under right conditions will still corrode and become brittle, speaking of brittle it will not flex like steel under stress but crack....softer....those are enough for me...but hey your rig is lighter.... not sure if that’s a good thing at times either.....

Had a 2017 F150 and had a rock fly up from a landscaping crew and chipped and dented rhe door. After finding out how much that little dent would cost ti fix I say no aluminum.

84Mudhorse

Not as strong as steel, not as easy to weld on, not magnetic for mag mounts, under right conditions will still corrode and become brittle, speaking of brittle it will not flex like steel under stress but crack....softer....those are enough for me...but hey your rig is lighter.... not sure if that’s a good thing at times either.....

If you were talking about a load-bearing part say the frame maybe sure. But we're talking about rust wrecking your car before you're even done paying for it. You know that that orange paint for the Bronco cost $800 a gallon of which you'll need three gallons before you even got into labor? You'll be buying that way before your body succumbs to fatigue and all the other panels can just swap out. You are right though there's a lot of things to like about steel...rust just isn't one of them. As a side note if I buy a new Bronco I plan on keeping it.

Hopefully the doors are aluminum. Jeep moved to that on the JL and it so much easier to remove and move around.

At minimum it definitely will have aluminum moving parts (doors hood gate etc)

question is the tub. I say yes. Just for the lighter material. And your talking about a very small percentage of body left if the doors gate and hood are aluminum. so small quarters left and tub.

Reduced weight is the key. I believe it will have far more than just doors and hood. When FCA (Jeep) were developing the JL it was to have been all aluminum. It was to be the development vehicle to get FCA back on track working in all aluminum. Over the years they lost most if not all their tribal knowledge and felt it was needed again. Things didn't work out and it ended just being bolt on parts.

"The doors, hinges, hood, fenders and windshield frame are made from high-strength aluminum, while the rear swing gate is made from magnesium; the frame itself is high-strength-steel. Weight was also cut by using hollow track and stabilizer bars and aluminum steering gear and outer front axle knuckles. "

I do, the aluminum alcoa does is lighter and stronger than steel plus better resistance to denting.

Will1234

I do, the aluminum alcoa does is lighter and stronger than steel plus better resistance to denting.

That's really only true (strength-wise) when you're comparing high strength aluminum alloys to fully annealed steels of certain alloys ...

Aluminum doesn't rust, but will corrode. I've seen Land Rovers corroded through.Get a paint chip like a steel body and it starts corroding.

Bronco5.0

Aluminum doesn't rust, but will corrode. I've seen Land Rovers corroded through.Get a paint chip like a steel body and it starts corroding.

the real question is would you prefer a rusty bucket over a corroded bucket?

Seriously though I'm more worried about the rust under the wheel wells under the door sills or the gate where it wasn't a chip but from something I couldn't see till too late

Thats always a problem.Periodic inspection should be done no matter what material they use, I know you can't see every where.

Bronco5.0

Thats always a problem.Periodic inspection should be done no matter what material they use, I know you can't see every where.

So for whatever reason I always notice the people that are driving the same car I drive and I noticed a lot of people with rust in those areas I mentioned and my car didn't but it was starting to begin a little bit but I always dried off those under edges of the doors Gates wheel Wells etc with a rag after a car wash.

Edit* doing more research on corrosion hmm salt is just a hater.

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So for whatever reason I always notice the people that are driving the same car I drive and I noticed a lot of people with rust in those areas I mentioned and my car didn't but it was starting to begin a little bit but I always dried off those under edges of the doors Gates wheel Wells etc with a rag after a car wash.

Edit* doing more research on corrosion hmm salt is just a hater.

When in the Navy, we were always doing corrosion control on the jets, which are aluminum.

I live in hawaii, by far a worse environment than the "rust belt". I see cars of all makes between 5 and 10 years old with roofs and hoods full of rust. Dont even look at the underbody its all scale. Aluminum takes atleast twice as long to corrode as steel does to rust. The salt is in the air hear blowing in the wind everyday.

If it was my choice there wouldnt be 500lbs of steel in the whole vehicle.