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I have been unable to find the Gross Vehicle Weight of the Bronco Sport anyplace. Ford isn’t telling…
This matters as each vehicle is specified for a maximum weight allowance for it to carry. That weight includes the vehicle itself and all options, tires, and any addons. It also includes people.
One of the full size specs has a max cargo load of 1160 pounds. That is NOT much.
Toss on a roof rack, tank of fuel, spare fuel and water, camping equipment, winch, fridge, power supply, solar, basket, food, clothing, recovery gear, big tires, a bumper? Etc and you can easily have a really cool truck which cannot carry people.
IF you are going to use your Bronco Sport as a low rent overland truck, remember this.
Suggestions are use Falken tires not KO2 as they weight 6lbs less each. That adds up if you are going to have a full size spare. Use aluminium addons, not steel. Put your rig - full fueled up with all your kit and all your people on a weigh scale and see how stuffed you are and then start tossing stuff.
If you modify your suspension, do so with an eye for increasing your vehicle capacity, not just getting a lift. Sadly, we have a unibody vehicle. I am not sure how easy it would be to increase through re-engineering the underside gross vehicle weight. People who know what they are doing can add bracing in the right spots for increasing GVW with a frame truck.
If you do load it up, consider braided brake cables, and much beefier brakes. Also, consider a transmission cooler (oil) and perhaps coolers for the clutch heading back to the rear in the drivetrain (non badlands models). Perhaps accept a longer setup and break down time and ground camp. Use back packing kitchen gear and leave the cast iron at home. Carry as little as possible. Titanium stuff is wonderful for being tough and very light.
Riding 1000s of km of rough roads and tracks will destroy an over weight vehicle (and over weight is quite likely illegal anyways).
This matters as each vehicle is specified for a maximum weight allowance for it to carry. That weight includes the vehicle itself and all options, tires, and any addons. It also includes people.
One of the full size specs has a max cargo load of 1160 pounds. That is NOT much.
Toss on a roof rack, tank of fuel, spare fuel and water, camping equipment, winch, fridge, power supply, solar, basket, food, clothing, recovery gear, big tires, a bumper? Etc and you can easily have a really cool truck which cannot carry people.
IF you are going to use your Bronco Sport as a low rent overland truck, remember this.
Suggestions are use Falken tires not KO2 as they weight 6lbs less each. That adds up if you are going to have a full size spare. Use aluminium addons, not steel. Put your rig - full fueled up with all your kit and all your people on a weigh scale and see how stuffed you are and then start tossing stuff.
If you modify your suspension, do so with an eye for increasing your vehicle capacity, not just getting a lift. Sadly, we have a unibody vehicle. I am not sure how easy it would be to increase through re-engineering the underside gross vehicle weight. People who know what they are doing can add bracing in the right spots for increasing GVW with a frame truck.
If you do load it up, consider braided brake cables, and much beefier brakes. Also, consider a transmission cooler (oil) and perhaps coolers for the clutch heading back to the rear in the drivetrain (non badlands models). Perhaps accept a longer setup and break down time and ground camp. Use back packing kitchen gear and leave the cast iron at home. Carry as little as possible. Titanium stuff is wonderful for being tough and very light.
Riding 1000s of km of rough roads and tracks will destroy an over weight vehicle (and over weight is quite likely illegal anyways).
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