Aluminum bumper options for 2nd gen

Love mine. Company had a bad rap now (for obvious reasons) but I picked mine up second hand over 2 years ago and added the full hoops:

 

Negative... please let me know if you come up with anything.


I'm pretty sure I'm just going to go with a steel one... @At The Helm makes some amazing looking bumpers and said he could add a front receiver.

 

^^^That is a great looking bumper.

I'm always concerned about affecting the ride of the truck. My first gen has an Elite Off-Road bumper that looks amazing (and has saved my front end in small collisions a couple of times) but, with an 8K pound winch, weighs half a Volks Wagen and has really affected the ride/handling of the truck. I know the 2nd gens are bigger/heavier and would likely take the weight better, but I always swore I was gonna get better at welding aluminum and replicate the Elite.

Long and short of it, ATH should produce that bumper out of aluminum. And if they could do it for $1100-1200ish, I would be all in.

 

I'd love to see some front bumpers with an integrated hitch. My recovery bar from Mobtown is super functional but bumpers add alot more protection and look bad ass!

 

Exactly.... I use my front hitch literally every time I go out on a trip... The internally mounted winch on my last truck not so much. Honestly kind of surprised more vendors don't make it an option instead of the winch mount. Alot of us daily our trucks and don't need to be carrying a winch 24/7. It takes less than 1 minute to mount the winch cradle if Im heading out into some snow/mud/sand situations.

Not likely to happen, a few of us have tried to suggest it and it sounds like he is plenty busy with his current offerings.

 

I'm thinking about going with the Mobtown hitch receiver ($399) in the short-term and wondering if a Pronghorn could be added later... best of both worlds... front receiver hitch and winch on a tray now and Pronghorn down the road when more funds are available...

Possible?

 

Price for the ATH with receiver?

 

What winch do you use with that recovery bar?

 

So, no longer available...

 

Didn't get a quote from him. Its one of those things where I have been trying to add as little weight as possible, but am in the realization stage that steel seems to be the only reasonable option. Im sure Ill be ordering within a couple weeks.

 

@JDEMELLO Can you do one with an integrated hitch mount...I don't want to carry a winch around f/t on our DD...

 

Price wise, Aluminess looks hard to beat.

$1295 for full brush guards + $100 for shackles + $100 for hitch mount...~70lbs...$1495 and done.

 

@Aluminess Do you charge for powder coating your bumpers? I don't see it listed on your page.

https://www.aluminess.com/toyota/toyota-tacoma-2005-2011/front-bumper/

Do you have any pics of the bumper with the hitch mount?

 

Not a winch...yet, but it's for my surf rack.

 

Sounds good. Be interested to know what kind of quote you get...

 

That's noice!!!

Off topic, but do you surf cast with those conventional reels?

I've got an Avet MXL raptor with magic cast that I haven't used yet, but was thinking of using it to double as a surf fishing reel. I don't see a lot of people do it (mostly spinning gear), that's why I ask...

 

I only throw conventionals, the spinners you see are my buddies. I like fighting fish on a conventional, and with a little practice and reel tuning you can throw conventional alot further than spinners. I have a sl0sh20, and the rest are Abu ambassador s with most of the braking system removed.

 

That's a nice looking bumper. Looks like only '12-'15 offered. $1035 full hoops / bare steel.

https://athfab.com/product/2012-2015-toyota-tacoma-front-bumper/

@At The Helm Price to add hitch receiver? Weight of bumper? Any chance of offering that for '05-'11 2nd gens? TIA.

 

Thank you!
I can add a receiver for $75.
Base bumper is 120 lbs.
I plan on offering a 05-11 version and hoping to have them available by New Years.