Bad bumpers!
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Bad bumpers!
http://www.usedsuvparts.com/Jan_87runner_27.htm
The bumper caused more damage being pushed into the front end!!
Dont know what the owner was thinking with the rear being so skinny looking as well.
Anyone else wanna post some bad bumpers?
The bumper caused more damage being pushed into the front end!!
Dont know what the owner was thinking with the rear being so skinny looking as well.
Anyone else wanna post some bad bumpers?
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Mmm yea dude, Not gonna lie, Short of a TJM ARB or warn bumper, You aint gonna stop another 3,000 + LB vehicle coming at you like a bull...Umm, The smittybuilts arent built very smitty, but i think it took some of the hit...Only thing is if my radiator wasnt screwed, I could have driven that 100 miles home...
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That's exactly what happens if you have a really stout bumper. In a small accident it probably saves your trucks body and is great. In a bigger accident, in addition to helping save the body, it bends the heck out of the frame.
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im probably not alone when i ask if there are any crash test videos of off-road bumpers vs. stock? i mean i KNOW they are for off-road, but protection is protection in my mind on-road ,off-road or in space.
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Smittybuilt rocks
You want your bumper to give a little.If it was a solid frame mount you could bend your frame,not an easy fix.I have a smittybuilt bumper on my truck and it has taken lots of hard hits ,two of which sent the other persons car two the junkyard.resulting in a few small dings Smitty built bumpers(mounted correctly) are far from weak in my book,You can thank god you had that bumper cause you could have done a lot more damage.SMITTYBUILT ROCKS IN MY BOOK
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You want your bumper to give a little.If it was a solid frame mount you could bend your frame,not an easy fix.I have a smittybuilt bumper on my truck and it has taken lots of hard hits ,two of which sent the other persons car two the junkyard.resulting in a few small dings Smitty built bumpers(mounted correctly) are far from weak in my book,You can thank god you had that bumper cause you could have done a lot more damage.SMITTYBUILT ROCKS IN MY BOOK
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Rust 4 Dust
Not gonna happen,as soon as I got my toyota,i moved to the desert to trade rust for dust.My bumpers have caps that are airtight.You can weld steel caps on smittybuilts and fill them with several hundred lbs of air or whatever you desire,enough to fix a tire,Smittybuilts are OG just like 69 camaros.You take your 2" Hrew tubing and ill take my 4" smittybuilt.It would be like bringing a toothpick to a pencil fightLOL
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True. But DEFINITELY a necessity offroad. I smacked a tree going up a big hill pretty hard. It put a good dent in my TJM front bumper, and pushed in the core support just a bit. With a stock bumper it probably would have pushed the radiator into the fan.
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