Ford Bronco Soft Top Lets in a Ton of Snow

[Trigganometry]

Parked right next to this one.

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[mtbikernate]

I actually looked up the location the article references. pretty much guarantee that the winters up there will be gnarlier than anything any of us ever see.

 

[OregonRangerTremor]

Word on the Bronco Page is that the Owner left one side of the top open. I drove a 4 door soft top last week. It is well sealed up, very little road/wind noise. There is no way this could happen other than operator error or a radical collapse of the entire top.

 

[RANGER_MARC]

Even though this particular story is not to be believed, I still hope that Ford will begin to offer Broncos with the option of "solid-state" roofs, meaning hardtops permanently attached, like on other trucks. Some guys like to take the roofs off or fold them back, I get that, but I would rather have the stability, protection, and quietness of a fixed entity up there.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

I'm a glutton for punishment and still have mine. ?

Just wait until you get your Fiat, I mean Stellantis, I mean Jeep

Its legit.
We had to tape gaps on the equipment as the blowing snow always found its way in.
Venturi effects, high pressure /low pressure allows the snow to find its way in through a hole the size of your finger or less.
A blizzard in the arctic isn't anything you've experienced down south.
If you've never experienced one...how do you qualify your experience?

I saw one on youtube and the guy who posted had 30 likes so it had to have been legit.

That said, I've been in Minnesota in January with -40F and a wind chill. No blizzard but flat out miserably cold. I've never experienced a blizzard and have zero desire to do so.

When it hurts your lungs to breathe, I'm outta there.

I don't like very cold weather so if I ever decide to become homeless, I'm moving to Arizona and hanging out in @AzScorpion neighborhood.

 

[wanted33]

I'm a glutton for punishment and still have mine. ?

Me too Dave. I've been to my Doctor, and we've found there's no cure for this type of brain abnormality.

 

[AzScorpion]

Me too Dave. I've been to my Doctor, and we've found there's no cure for this type of brain abnormality.

Jim, at least you have a brain. My Dr found this.

 

[AdamHarris]

Its legit.
We had to tape gaps on the equipment as the blowing snow always found its way in.
Venturi effects, high pressure /low pressure allows the snow to find its way in through a hole the size of your finger or less.
A blizzard in the arctic isn't anything you've experienced down south.
If you've never experienced one...how do you qualify your experience?

Well I stayed at a Holliday Inn Express once...and watched Ice Road Truckers while there so basically I'm an expert.

 

[AzScorpion]

Just wait until you get your Fiat, I mean Stellantis, I mean Jeep

I saw one on youtube and the guy who posted had 30 likes so it had to have been legit.

That said, I've been in Minnesota in January with -40F and a wind chill. No blizzard but flat out miserably cold. I've never experienced a blizzard and have zero desire to do so.

When it hurts your lungs to breathe, I'm outta there.

I don't like very cold weather so if I ever decide to become homeless, I'm moving to Arizona and hanging out in @AzScorpion neighborhood.

I've been reading up on the JL forum and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous with the amount of weird problems I see on there. But like anything built today you're rolling the dice and I just have to pray mine's not a lemon.


Living back east I've experienced that kind of cold. You take a breath and it burns your lungs and it's even tougher having asthma. I remember skiing one day up in Lake Placid, NY it was -14 all week. The wind was whipping and I was freezing while sitting on the chair lift so I closed my eyes and they just about froze shut. No thanks I'll take the 100+ heat any day especially over your high humidity. Come on out Dennis it's not that bad, it's a dry heat.

 

[AzScorpion]

Some of you need to see a real blizzard (Canadian arctic)and then you'll understand what wind and snow can do.

So when you have a blizzard the wind doesn't pile up snow higher on the corners up there? Must be some kind of special blizzard that dumps it nice and flat?

We use to get severe N'easters back in MA so I'm well aware of what they can do. No way this is real because it's to perfectly piled up like the top was left open. If it were a leak, there would be higher snow drifts in the corners not even across the whole interior.

This picture of the back seat tells the whole story. Perfectly flat snow pile and not one area is drifted to either corner. A total BS post from someone looking for clicks.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

I've been reading up on the JL forum and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous with the amount of weird problems I see on there. But like anything built today you're rolling the dice and I just have to pray mine's not a lemon.


Living back east I've experienced that kind of cold. You take a breath and it burns your lungs and it's even tougher having asthma. I remember skiing one day up in Lake Placid, NY it was -14 all week. The wind was whipping and I was freezing while sitting on the chair lift so I closed my eyes and they just about froze shut. No thanks I'll take the 100+ heat any day especially over your high humidity. Come on out Dennis it's not that bad, it's a dry heat.

I've been in 46 of the 50 states and 9 foreign countries.

Out of everywhere I've been, my favorite places are here in GA, St George Utah, and Germany.

One year I was in Hamburg Germany during February. The river downtown was frozen solid.

It didn't feel as cold there for some reason.

I guess that's why the Germans thought the Russian winter would be no big deal ?

 

[JACKSMYDOG]

Tuktoyuktuk only has about 4 months/year which the average daily high is above freezing (June, July, Aug & Sep the average is 11C (51F)).

The yearly average daily high is -6C (20.5F).

I was planning a trip there for 2021 but had to cancel. Trying again in 2022.

 

[Langwilliams]

I wouldn't own a soft top vehicle without a garage to store it in. I've heard too many accounts of people cutting the tops open to get in or just to be a d!ck. A guy in my building had his wrangler stolen, I assume the soft top made entry easy.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

I cant force anyone to know or understand what I know about canadian arctic storms, versus your snow flurries down here. Its a different environment few have experienced.
but I've spent close to 12 years of my career plodding around the canadian arctic year round, so my experience speaks for itself.
just some pics to show the harshness you'll encounter

I sure hope that dump truck has remote start...

 

[AzScorpion]

I sure hope that dump truck has remote start...

The damper won't be worth a $#!% in that frozen mess! ??

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