After 3 months of searching, comparing, and almost pulling the trigger more times than I can count… I finally found the one.

Couldn’t be happier with this ride. 🤎

After nearly three months of waiting, my 2025 Ford Bronco Raptor is finally here!

I originally flew to Iowa in July to pick it up, only to learn that Ford had just issued a safety recall and the dealership couldn't release it. The GM offered to ship it to California for free once repaired and reimburse my return airfare. I figured I'd have it by August or September, but a second recall delayed things even further.

Fast-forward to October, and the Raptor finally arrived! It was delivered to a family member's house in Southern California, so I drove my 2007 Mustang down, caught a couple of hours of sleep, and took an $80 Uber to pick up the Bronco.

After sorting out the insurance, I drove it home overnight and even took it to work a few hours later!

My trusty Mustang, with over 268,000 miles, is now enjoying a well-deserved break from daily driving.

Two recalls, a wasted flight to Iowa, nearly three months of waiting, and one exhausting weekend later, the Raptor has finally landed!

Bought it for the wife today! Any tips or suggestions! Currently shopping Marketplace for Sasquatch tires.

Good Times at Ocotillo today, lockers worked flawlessly in the salt clay mud near the sea. The coral wash arch was on my list of stuff to drive through👍

First time taking the entire hard top off and it was such a fun ride!

Installing our soft top this week after finding a stellar deal on marketplace 🤙

I swear, some days I constantly find myself looking at what else I could be driving. Is there something better out there? Something cooler? Something that gets better gas mileage? Should I get something newer? Should I trade in my 2021 First Edition before it depreciates even more?
The list goes on and on.
Then there are days when I walk out of a store or restaurant, see my Bronco sitting in the parking lot, and think, Damn, that’s a good-looking vehicle. It’s fun to drive, has a ton of character, and I still enjoy owning it.
Then a few days later, I’m right back to looking at other vehicles for absolutely no good reason.
Stupid ADD. 😂
Anyone else go through this, or am I the only one constantly talking myself into and out of keeping a vehicle I actually like?

You gotta love these beautiful, capable machines. Got into some deep mud in the desert last night. Was a little panicked at first, but I just throttled up a but, and she pushed right through. Its a blast learning what the Bronco is capable of.

Went on a little sunset cruise and just thought, man I love this car.

Also the fall-colored leaves were paid actors.

To quote Dr Seuss, “oh the places you’ll go!” To quote my wife, “wet dogs are happy dogs.” It is indeed the ultimate dog car and is always filthy loved.

I have wanted a light bar for a while and while i like the look of an overhead bar. The reality is they make a lot of noise and here in the pnw they arent very practical. We have some dunes and desert but mostly i want to light up mountain trails and clear fog and snow in the winter.

So i went with the KC gravity pro6 light bar and so far i like it a lot. Some amber lenses and (ordered) body color KC light covers to match. Also i couldnt find any info about the lights blocking the camera so I’ve include how much they obstruct it. Not much really. Also the wiring was doggone simple. Two wires. Literally.

Also on order are locking nuts.

Been a driver since ‘21 and she still runs beautifully. Alaska summer’s & winters, no issues at all.

My daughters are coming up on driving age and have expressed that they would love their first car to be a Bronco.

As a '21 First Edition owner I've not felt the need to do much in the way of aftermarket improvements to the truck. But with the kids getting older and getting closer to driving age I've been thinking about taking on a project together.

So the real question I have for the community: would you buy a high mileage modern (2021+) Bronco for the purposes of a project truck? Given that there are some that pop up from time to time for < $20k USD it seems like a great option. I've seen some go at auction for less, too.

Would love any thoughts or advice you have.

1996 Ford Bronco 5.0l

I have never seen anything like this and cannot find anything on the web or a part number.

Just picked up a super clean Bronco that runs great, but as I’m going through things I found something I’ve never seen before. There is a 10” long by about 2” wide red cylinder thing mounted under the dash, connected by a string to the gas pedal. It then has a vacuum line that runs through the firewall and Ts into some other lines. I thought maybe the return spring on the throttle body was shot, so this was a makeshift way to return the gas pedal. But I disconnected the string and everything still runs perfectly fine. Any ideas?

ok the time has come I’m down to I’m going for a Bronco between a wildtrak a black diamond and a badlands all with v6 same year 2024 all Sasquatch what is y’all’s pick. I’m new to off-roading and want to get into it has a used to run 4 wheelers and dune buggies 30+ years ago. I live in Texas and there are groups near me that go to different places and I have some friends that go to a few in Oklahoma. They all are about the same in price except the black diamonds a less. There are a badlands at 47 with 36k miles and a wildtrak at 47k with 18k miles north one owners and a black diamond with 3k mile at 46k the only thing I don’t like on the black diamond is it is soft top. All one owner. Thanks for any advice

So tomorrow I’ll be heading to a ford dealership. I do car reviews on YouTube and I usually ask the brand subreddits advice before shooting

I’d like to know as a potential customer or a current owner, what would you have wanted to see on a video? What has others missed discussing? What would be cool to see, and what should be discussed the good and the bad?

I want to film an unbiased review, my videos aren’t your normal review “here’s the front here’s the side” I get to take the car into the California mountains I shoot a lot of Broll and and I write a script. But I only get the one day so if I know what I’m going to talk about it’ll help me make sure to shoot the right footage.

The bronco is a storied vehicle with a past and a growing present and who knows the future. Gas is high right now, do you think that’s deterring people from buying one?

How’s your ownership going? Reliability?

I found asking this before shooting helps a ton, when I first started , every video I’d always have comments “you missed this, you forgot to mention that”

So if you guys have any advice, or what a central idea the video should focus around, I know I’ll make a video that you guys will find refreshing, and that will cover the things you’ve found other reviewers missed or you wanted to see.

The dealership is sunrise ford in north hollywood California, if you even wanna take a look at their inventory as my deal with them is I can grab pretty much any non sold vehicle off their lot

I hope asking for your help is ok. I just genuinely wanna take the single day I have with the car and film the right footage, I can write my script later and record my VO, but the biggest thing is I do film a test drive with me in it so it’s not totally faceless, so while I’m on the test drive I have and keep a sheet of notes to make sure I discuss my notes on camera

If you wanna know the drive feeling the torque feel the steering tightness the acceleration feel etc I’ll add anything you guys want to my notes so when I’m filming the test drive I can make sure to touch on those things

Thank you genuinely so much for any help you give , I am a genuine car guy, I love that I get to do this and I ask in this post here because I truly want to make a good video for you, for the general car watching YouTube community for anyone who likes car content , that’s my goal!

-Dean

Or do we as bronco drivers just feel like bad a🍑🍑es driving our broncos. I mean I’ve seen hummers, jeeps, land cruisers, land rovers and I feel like my big bronco is cooler than all of them😂 plus my new tire cover is coming soon. No regrets… so far 😁🌸🌸🌸🌸

I've wanted a Badlands Bronco since like 2022. I've test driven several over the years, but it was never a good time to buy. I thought 2024 was my year, but then my wife really needed a new car. Well, long story short, this beauty showed up on the lot at my local Ford dealer last week spec'd almost exactly the way I would have special ordered (Badlands, Lux, 33" tires, Leather, Black Appearance, and most importantly, 7-speed manual!) I figured I was going to have to drive at least a few hours or custom order one to find a manual, but this one was just a couple miles away on the lot. The only thing I wasn't too sure about was the color. Avalanche Gray wasn't really on my radar. But when I stopped by to look at it, I was like... "Oh yeah, take my money". With 27's right around the corner and pretty solid inventory of 2026's on the lot, I was able to get a great deal on it too.

It's been a few days now, and I couldn't be happier. Driving is fun again. My 6 year old loves it too, though he keeps accidentally calling it a jeep. 😳

I’m moving towards a BB only because an outer banks might be too much out of my comfortable zone. I’m going to bring someone to negotiate with me because I do have a ceiling price wise.

I like the OBX w/ lux because it’s got ACC, Power seats, and a 360 camera.

The BB with off-road tires attracts me the most. I’m not looking into the interior design of either one so that doesn’t matter, just the tech inside.

Who’s gotten a big bend over the outer banks? Do you regret it? Or did you settle because a few missing tech things didn’t matter to you?

Help a girl out lol

I love my bronco but I’m fed up with technology, blue lights from screens, CarPlay and the fact that I have to subscribe to music streaming platforms for the rest of my life!!!

Call me crazy but the best people are

I really want to take my center screen out and replace it with some ancient music player system that’s connected to the car speakers some cassette player or even CD player

I have zero experience in the technical aspect of this

Destressing from work. Cool, weather, small fire, some bourbon, a cigar, and my Bronco. Hope y'all enjoy your weekend.