PeteH

Hi all,
New member looking for info on places to get a rear bumper for my 97 4Runner.
I saw a few ebay stores were carrying aftermarket reproductions for reasonable money and was wondering if anyone has used these places or could recommend a place to get a rear bumper other than the dealer?

Thanks

brian2sun

You could always get a custom rear tire carrier bumper from someone like Sonoransteel.com or Irbisoffroad.com. That's on my wish list. I hope Santa reads YT!

TheDurk

Yeah, I went the e-Bay route for all 3 pieces of my rear bumper about 3 years ago. They fit fine, but seemed to rust up the first winter. I tried a few things to clean it with no success and I was pretty unhappy. Then I tried the DietCoke and aluminum foil trick and the bumper looks great. If you live in the snowbelt, I recommend putting undercoat on the backside, the factory ones perforated through from behind.

BajaRunner

Yeah I bought the drivers side piece of the rear bumper from them. Super cheap, but seemed to fit fine. I didn't have $1000 to dish out...more like $100.

I got the black painted one (which really wasn't painted that well) I sanded, primed and painted with Krylon flat black and it hasn't rusted out yet. Its been a few years and I live 2 blocks from the beach.

Walton Lettinga

Well so far I have not bought any stuff from ebay stores but couple of months ago I bought rear bumper for my girlfriend’s car form autopartsfair.com
I am very glad that I got pretty alluring deals from them. I would suggest you to check them out for once as they have over 35 millions spares for nearly every car present on this world.

VictorShaw

Personally, I never bought bumper for my car but one of my friend bought for his car. Its almost an year and till now he did not faced any problem with the same.