Stock Painted Bumpers vs Stock (real) Chrome Bumpers

I got my Pre new in November and just noticed today that a couple of bugs had splattered against my bumper and their sucide where they hit took the freaking paint off my front bumper, DAMMIT!! WTF?! This really pisses me off - does touch up paint work or does it just make it look "touched up?"

If you had your rathers and had a choice of either a painted stock bumper or a stock (real) chrome bumper (not chrome-look over plastic), or a flat black ABS-type front bumper which would you rather have?

 

do they even make a chrome front bumper for our trucks?

I voted black, its what I have and cleans easily, but if I use a "wet" cleaner like amor all it attracts dust very badly

 

Confused by the chrome option also........do you drive in reverse?

 

probably real crome depending on how it was styled. but not if it's anything like the rear chrome bumper on 2nd gens. really thin metal can not actually "bump" anything without denting/crumpling. what happend to the days when bumpers were for bumping stuff?

 

It IF you had a choice - Toyota puts together option packages. I personally would rather have had the choice of a real chrome bumper not painted. Chrome can be cleaned and doesn't "chip" or "flake" like when a bug hits it.

 

ditto

 

Obviously he means the grill surround peeps. I mean really

Anyway I ditched my stock chrome grill for a color matched BSP one. I did the same with the rear bumper to. Never looked pack, I hate chrome.

 

Chrome front bumper would look so f-n ghetto, you wouldn't be allowed to post on this site anymore.

 

Chrome grille surround I think he means...I ditched mine for color matched when I grillecraft'd.

 

I was thinking the same thingThat must be one of those "special" Dealer options for the front bumper

 

What happened when trucks use to be "trucks". Now vehicles are like a computer on wheels...

 

Umm...maybe Im missing something? Who doesnt drive in reverse?........

 

not necessarily. lots of guys have chipped their chrome grills spraying off bugs at the car wash, they dont make chrome like they used to.

 

you can always get some chrome tape from wal mart to fix it

 

My truck only has park, fast, and faster as an option. I paid extra for the option.