Offroad Bumpers

[Pissant22]

One of my friends has got an extra off-road bumper and we were discussing mounting options, and he says to just mount it to the stock bumper. I said I thought I'd rather remove the stock bumper because I would just think that it would look weird as hell with a bumper on top of it.

Any opinions, pictures or info that you could share would be great, thanks alot.

 

[Jason_25]

You will definitely want to remove the stock bumper before trying to mount the aftermarket one.

What kind of a truck does your friend have? If it's a fullsize, obviously it's not going to fit without some modification.

 

[Pissant22]

It was custom made and he just had it lying around and it appears to fit exactly on my Xplo, i think it could have been originally designed for a ranger. So you think go with no bumper? Any pics?

 

[Brian1]

Are you talking about a pre-runner bar or an actual full blown bumper? The pre-runner bar is designed to bolt to the stock bumper and is usually a single tube with other tubes connecting to it.

Here is a pre-runner bar:
mrboyle's front bumper

Here is an actual pre-runner bumper which has 2 main tubes:

Any of these look like what you have?

 

[Pissant22]

That is very similar, slightly different designs but the identical make up. Won't that look goofy with a stock bumper? Are there ways to paint my bumper black so it matches and looks good?

 

[Muskrat]

it's a whole bumper, replaces the stock one