Save your money on the pickup. They don't need a pickup replacement IMO. I had mine as my third or fourth rung bass for a few years. Great little bass for, key words: FOR THE MONEY! In other words, once you start adding to how much dough you have into it, it stops becoming such a great little bass. I gigged with it dozens of times bone stock before I sold it simply due to redundancy in my collection (I have a vintage Musicmaster Bass, the model on which the Bronco is based). It always sounded outstanding, even with the lousy quality rubber-band-like stock strings. A good amp and a good quality extra-heavy set of strings (and a nut job to match) come LONG before I would ever consider changing the pickup out. By the time you buy one of these basses and spend a year gradually upgrading everything that you'd think needs upgrading because it's cheap (tuners, hardware, pickup, electronics, etc.), realize that you will move to a better bass some day, factor in depreciation, and the fact they they will never in a million years gain value, you will realize that you should have just bought a vintage Musicmaster Bass instead. It costs more initially, but it is a much better quality bass that needs no upgrading whatsoever, and will do nothing but increase in value...so you actually gain value instead of losing it. These cheapos are fine instruments, and I would have absolutely no qualms about playing any gig with one of them. But upgrading them makes no sense IMO. They are perfectly serviceable as they come, and the entire point is that they're cheap stepping stone instruments.
