Brush Guard Recommendations for 2009 Tacoma

if you want real protection get an ARB

 

C'mon, give up the goods; who makes that? PLEASE!... I'm referring to the wrap around sculpted brush guard of Dgalleon.

Does that sound desperate?

 

its probably for a hilux. so try searching for hilux parts and see if you find it

 

http://www.worldstyling.com/web/product_detail.php?id=3293&pid=155&vid=142

 

get a replacement bumper like cbi offroad, arb, shrockworks, etc.

 

I went with the Hunter for my Taco because of the stainless steel construction. It shook like crazy at first so I re-constructed the upper mounts back to the frame using plate steel and it's solid now. Also replaced the supplied hardware with stainless steel nuts, bolts and washers. Mine's more of a bumper guard though since no one here knows how to parallel park but held up fine in lighter brush.

 

Redraider did you have to make any modifications to fit the Aries brush gaurd on with that oem skid plate?

 

I asked this same question on a Texas outdoors forum and Ranch Hand seemed to be the most popular.

 

...word!

 

I love it

Sorry , they dont make it any more. I dont know why

 

here is my cbi bumper

 

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Best place to order an ARB?

 

replacement bumper like ARB CBI etc. or a Ranch Hand Brush Guard...the RH's r used for that kind of shit like protectin the front from cows...if it can withstand that u should be able to plow thorugh a deer like it was nothin!!!

 

ya they also crush your front bumper and lower valance when you hit anything bigger than shrub.

 

Actually sir, this thread is about "Brush Guard Recommendations"; and I do not recommend the avid. It is more for looks than anything, it protects only a very small portion of the truck. (which is really what a brush guard is for) .The avid is nothing but bent tube steel that looks cool.

My 2006 tacoma had the avid on it. I was driving home late at night in January here in New Hampshire. I hit some ice, pulled a 180 and slowly rolled to a stop into a plastic mail box post at about 10-15mph. Completely destroyed my lower valance, and caved in the center of my bumper.

If I did not have this bar on I would have had much less damage.

I agree however, the avid is more sturdy than most other bull bars.

This thread however ever is about brush guards, not bitch bars.

 

HI: IM NEW HERE, MY NAME IS FERNANDO, I JUST GOT A 2011 TACOMA IN MEXICO, AND I WANT TO GET A BRUSH GUARD FOR IT, I SAW A PIC THAT I LIKED ALOT, AND I WOULD LIKE TO FIND MORE INFO ON IT, IT IS THE FOLLOWING, COULD SOMEBODY HELP.
THANKS
FERNANDO

 

COULD YOU TELL ME WHERE I CAN FIND ONE LIKE IT, IT LOOKS GREAT ON THE TRUCK.
THANKS

FERNANDO

 

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Don't get a Westin Sportsman brush guard if you're looking for protection from deer crossing the road.

 

or, if you want real protection that doesn't look like crap, give relentlesstaco a shout and pick up one of his bumpers, i just cant get over the looks of the ARB bumpers, they make the front of these trucks look like a box truck IMO