New 2024 Bronco Sport owner...

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Okay, so last week I picked up a plug for the trailer hitch. Today I picked up the rear seat back rubber liners. I have my aftermarket wheels on order and I’ll pick up the tires to go with them when the wheels arrive.

Awhile back before Christmas I swapped in a K&N air filter. I still have to install my Redline hood struts.

While I was at the dealership we got to chatting about exhaust systems when they asked me if I had any other upgrades in mind. I mentioned my interest in making my Bronco Dport a little more “growlly“ in sound. They made a few suggestions and assured me installing a cat-back or axle-back system would not void my warranty, but that an axle-back would be simpler to achieve the same effect.

So I will be looking into that.

But so far what I’m seeing I like Borla or Magnaflow best.

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My new wheels were delivered today! I have already ordered my tires and made an appointment to have them installed as well as unmounting my winters.

 

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Looking at these wheels I'm reminded that different manufacturers have varying ideas of what something is. I'm referring to the colour of the spokes here that Vors calls Hyper Black. But other manufacturers have quite a different notion of what Hyper Black is and it's not this. Other wheels I've seen in "Hyper Black" actually look like a darker tone of chrome that changes with the light. I had XXR wheels on my 2004 CrownVic that were Chromium Black, their version of Hyper Black., and they looked very much like chrome only a bit darker. In most online pictures my XXR wheels looked distinctly darker than they did in person. Indeed they looked much better in person than they did in most photos.

But here this doesn't look at all chrome like and is more simply a dark metallic grey. It still looks very nice, but it's not really what I was expecting. That said they do look better in person than they do in many online photos, which often seems to be the case with aftermarket wheels.

Nonetheless it should look pretty good with my Bronco's Hot Pepper Red.

They also have an interesting design in that the majority of wheel designs today are concave in varying degrees. But these wheels have a more convex design which is interestingly different. These are 18x8 w. 35 offset versus the 18x7 w. 37.5 offset wheels I presently have installed. So these new wheels poke out 5/8 in. more which is pretty negligible. But with the wider tires it'll look a bit meatier.

 

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Bummer. Last week I was all set to get my new wheels and tires mounted when I ran into a snag. Firstly the ordered tires didn't arrive when expected so that was one delay. That said they have since arrived. But the real snag was I completely forgot about TPS sensors for the new wheels, not realizing I couldn't use the existing sensors on my factory wheels. Arrgh!!!

Now we're waiting for the new sensors on order to come in. Hopefully this week everything will finally get done and I can post some pics with the new wheels and tires installed.

 

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Got a call this morning the TPS sensors on order are now in. I have an appointment Thursday to have the new wheels installed. I’m a bit excited to see them on my Bronco. I’ll post pucs.

On another good note I finally sold the winter tires from my CrownVic, so thats one more thing out of the garage.

 

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First pic with new wheels.

 

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Congrats!

 

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Different view.

 

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After a quick wash.

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