What did you do TO your Bronco Sport today?

[Txsurfer13]

I added the Bronco wording, black on black. To both sides of course

I've not seen those placed on the c- column before. Looks really sharp.

 

[missOutsyder]

I've not seen those placed on the c- column before. Looks really sharp.

Thanks. I haven't either but I wasn't sure how well they'd stick on the paintwork ceramic coating and I also kinda thought, maybe less is more (black on black). I experimented and temporarily placed them, stood back and took a look and liked them so went ahead.

 

[missOutsyder]

I also:

-reapplied my bronze decal overlays after some damage was recently repaired

-added some badges to my interior

-added a matching bronze bronco decal to what I like to think is an matching, Area 51 coloured Yeti bottle

 

[Mrmike]

Nice warm day in Syracuse, so I got my door sill protectors installed.

 

[67L48]

[...] I want this engine to last between 150000 thousand to 200000 hundred thousand [...] I will change it every 5000 thousand with full synthetic. [...]

You want an engine to last between 150 million and 20 billion miles? I don't think that's ever going to happen, regardless of anything you might do.

And, please change your oil more frequently than every 5 million miles.

 

[lordwally]

My neighborhood Le Schwab installed my lift kit today

 

[davidg4781]

Nice warm day in Syracuse, so I got my door sill protectors installed.

Do you have any pics? How do you like them?

 

[Mrmike]

Do you have any pics? How do you like them?

I bought a 2" x 12' roll of Black Resilient Rubberized Anti Non-Slip Safety Tape on Amazon ($21.00). You just cut it to any length you want and install. I think it looks good and it seems to adhere really well.

Here are 2 pictures

 

[coopny]

I put in a Spigen dash mount that holds a first party Apple Magsafe puck.

Pros:

• 15W charge speed. The car mounts that will wirelessly charge an iPhone at 15 watts are certified Magsafe accessories. For car mounts, the only fully out of the box option is this one vent mount from Belkin for $100. The alternative is to get a mount like this that has adhesive and you add an Apple Magsafe puck to it. (Non-certified magsafe devices, iPhone will only charge at 7.5W wirelessly - any Amazon listing saying "Magsafe compatible 15W" on other products is misleading you. It'll offer 15W Qi charging to devices that want that rate, but the iPhone won't take more than 7.5W unless it's Magsafe certified, and that's barely better than the 5W of the charging mat that is factory installed in certain BS trims/packages)
• Having the secondary screen next to Carplay is useful for certain non-distracting apps - for example, when Waze is open in Carplay, if Waze is on the phone, you can see more than just the next turn, or the list of traffic/hazards/police/etc., or if you have a bluetooth app for a radar detector (YaV1, Escort Live, etc.) again useful.
• Having the phone up high and close to the start/stop ignition button means I'm less likely to forget it than the built in wireless charger (which again is much slower - the one built into the BS is 5W, this does 15W), or with wired Carplay. Easier to stick on for charging than fishing for the cable too.

Cons:

• Apple doesn't make the Magsafe puck in anything except white, so the white cable sticks out. I'm OK with this tradeoff, although if the back of the screen (or dash behind it) had a USB-C, that would have been nice. (Sync 3 does not like the puck being plugged into the USB-C port below the radio either - for max charge rate, you need a 12V USB-C PD adapter capable of charge rates at or above 9V/2.56A... not hard to find these days, but you'd want to pick an adapter of that profile).
• It's slower than the theoretical max charge rate wired on newer iPhones; however, research suggests that it's still faster than the USB-C port below the radio. I haven't measured it myself, but for the Big Bronco 6G, people tested the port and the USB-C port seems to max out at 5V * 1.79A = 8.95W, even for phones capable of drawing more. If you were to plug into a 12V DC adapter with a USB-C PD rating of sufficient spec, iPhone 13/14 Pro Max models max charge rate is 27W, and non-max 13/14 Pro models max out at 20W.

 

[davidg4781]

I put in a Spigen dash mount that holds a first party Apple Magsafe puck.

Pros:

• 15W charge speed. The car mounts that will wirelessly charge an iPhone at 15 watts are certified Magsafe accessories. For car mounts, the only fully out of the box option is this one vent mount from Belkin for $100. The alternative is to get a mount like this that has adhesive and you add an Apple Magsafe puck to it. (Non-certified magsafe devices, iPhone will only charge at 7.5W wirelessly - any Amazon listing saying "Magsafe compatible 15W" on other products is misleading you. It'll offer 15W Qi charging to devices that want that rate, but the iPhone won't take more than 7.5W unless it's Magsafe certified, and that's barely better than the 5W of the charging mat that is factory installed in certain BS trims/packages)
• Having the secondary screen next to Carplay is useful for certain non-distracting apps - for example, when Waze is open in Carplay, if Waze is on the phone, you can see more than just the next turn, or the list of traffic/hazards/police/etc., or if you have a bluetooth app for a radar detector (YaV1, Escort Live, etc.) again useful.
• Having the phone up high and close to the start/stop ignition button means I'm less likely to forget it than the built in wireless charger (which again is much slower - the one built into the BS is 5W, this does 15W), or with wired Carplay. Easier to stick on for charging than fishing for the cable too.

Cons:

• Apple doesn't make the Magsafe puck in anything except white, so the white cable sticks out. I'm OK with this tradeoff, although if the back of the screen (or dash behind it) had a USB-C, that would have been nice. (Sync 3 does not like the puck being plugged into the USB-C port below the radio either - for max charge rate, you need a 12V USB-C PD adapter capable of charge rates at or above 9V/2.56A... not hard to find these days, but you'd want to pick an adapter of that profile).
• It's slower than the theoretical max charge rate wired on newer iPhones; however, research suggests that it's still faster than the USB-C port below the radio. I haven't measured it myself, but for the Big Bronco 6G, people tested the port and the USB-C port seems to max out at 5V * 1.79A = 8.95W, even for phones capable of drawing more. If you were to plug into a 12V DC adapter with a USB-C PD rating of sufficient spec, iPhone 13/14 Pro Max models max charge rate is 27W, and non-max 13/14 Pro models max out at 20W.

Looks good but how do you connect CarPlay? I'm assuming it doesn't work through MagSafe?

 

[coopny]

Looks good but how do you connect CarPlay? I'm assuming it doesn't work through MagSafe?

Ottocast U2-air wireless carplay adapter. I had a carlinkit 3.0 in my prior car (2015 Ford Fusion, I had upgraded the radio from MyFord Touch to Sync 3) for wireless carplay.

I would have bought the Carlinkit again but I got a better price on the Ottocast on sale.

 

[Glamdring70]

Put carpeted inserts into the spaces at the side of the cargo areas.
More detailed here.

 

[Robins21]

Got the upper part of the front windshield tinted.

 

[BillC]

Added a factory "hood scoop". This used up the last of our Ford Accessories credit from when we bought our BS OBX

 

[davidg4781]

This happened a could have days ago but I finally hit the 1,000 break in mark. And today's her 1 month birthday. That feels like a lot of miles to put on it.

I also did a 450 ish mile road trip. I drove up to the selling dealer to pick up my very expensive Appearance Car Kit and had them reapply the ceramic coating ?. I didn't really NEED to do all that but I really wanted to just go for a drive.

I then drove over to San Antonio to run an errand, drove around up there, then went back home. It was a pretty comfortable ride overall. Sometimes I need to get out and stretch or walk around but I was good.

I did get bugs all over the windshield. I might be picking up that hood wind deflector next. I just wish it mounted instead of glued on.

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