Jan 13, 2025
Ordered a 2024 2 door for my daughter a while back and it came just in time for her 20th birthday. Out with the Wrangler (we loved our Wrangler and it was fun handing it down to her) and in with a 2024 Big Bend and a few upgrades. I'm not gonna lie, I might have teared up a bit when we got rid of the Jeep. That thing carried me all over Colorado for several years. But I'm much happier with her driving back and forth to school out of state in a new Bronco. The lady that bought the Jeep was super stoked, it was a retirement gift to herself and I hope it is as much fun for her as it was for us. For the new Bronco upgrades, I added the DV8 pinch weld covers, Red Rock slider/steps, Rough Country Shackle adapter kit, RC spare tire spacer and reinforcement kit, and Bronze Fifteen52 TurboMac HD's (to match our other Bronco) with a set of 33" Falken Wildpeak AT4W's. I pulled all of the beadlock bolts and painted them with Van Sickle implement paint since the factory bolts were polished and I've had bad luck with the bolts that Fifteen52 sells in their kit. There's a few other odds and ends in there, grab handles, stubby antenna, black Bronco emblem, cargo mat, ceramic coated, EXOShield windshield protector... but the big changes are on the outside. The Falken's might be the heaviest tire I've worked with for just a 33, and they do handle great in the snow and mud, but the extra weight they bring is transferred into the steering system and it's definitely something you feel over bumps etc. I think if I did it all over again, I would go with a lighter tire. I grew up wanting a Golden Eagle CJ that I could never afford as a kid, so there might be a common theme here between the Jeep and the Bronco.
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James77, TK1215