Complete Third Gen Tacoma Front Bumper Thread

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What's maddening is the insane price difference between a Tacoma winch bumper and a Jeep Wrangler winch bumper. I'm going to pull the trigger on either a new Taco TRD or a new Jeep Gladiator in a couple of weeks and the thousands of dollars in cheaper mods for the Jeep is a serious consideration.

I want to run 35's with decent approach and departure angles front and rear. With the Jeep, that's $1000 for two bumpers and no suspension mods. For the Taco, it's $4000 in mods.

I love Toyotas, but man do they make it hard to make them more capable.

 

Umm, your forgetting the fact that the Jeep Gladiator is a lot more than a few thousand dollars.... Like tens of thousands more.

Good luck

 

Yes!! This bumper style is the best looking for sure

 

The jeep Gladiator Willys Edition I was looking at is $44k brand new. The Taco I'm buying is $43k.

 

love the look of the hybrid bumpers

 

Anyone running the Ironman Raid bumper?? My top pick so far as I can probably reuse my Cali Raised 32" dual row lightbar.

 

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OP, great post, thanks! Ive been looking at bumpers recently, so this is a great summary.

Related to the ARB bumpers, i saw a video where the creator talked quite a bit about the importance of a bumper being airbag compatible. I have never heard of or considered this. Is that something that other bumper makers do and advertise? I have not noticed it up until now.

 

My guess is no.
Many that make rear high clearance rear bumpers that incorporate a hitch don’t even rate the hitch capacity…..too much $$$$$ for testing.

 

Anyone with a Demello and low hoop, have you tried to remove your grille?

I tried to remove mine to make it easier to install the Warn wireless module when they finally made it available and there wasn’t enough space to pull it forward/off.

I guess if I really have to I might cut the tabs and see if that’ll work…..if the time comes.

just a bonus bummer with this one.

 

Was in South Africa and heard a story from a reliable source about a Hilux with an ARB front bumper that struck a donkey in the bush at high speed. Other than blood and what-not, there was no appreciable damage. Thinking of going that route on my Gen 3 due to the deer where I live. Any input?

 

It’s really personal preference, many people buy cheap poorly made bumpers, sliders, etc and love them.


I know ARB makes good products but I don’t like the way they look on tacomas. They look slightly too big like it’s made for an f150.

 

Not sure if it's been discussed in the thread here, but I did buy and finally finish up and install my kalilfab lander54 bumper.

Thread here: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ne-here-have-a-kalil-fab-front-bumper.817520/

 

I was in Texas 2 weeks ago and damn, everyone had those. If I do end up moving out of North East which Ive come to hate, i am def getting bigger tires and bumper.

 

Please advise and excuse me if this is not appropriate use of this thread. I have an idea I am kicking around. I want a front bumper with a winch, and a better approach angle. I want to be able to return my vehicle to stock, should I need to sell it. And I think it just looks good stock, more or less.

I want to get one of those bumpers that basically replaces the lower-middle part of the front bumper cover and gains you a winch. The same style as a CBI Covert, for example:
https://cbioffroadfab.com/product/3rd-generation-tacoma-covert-series-front-bumper/

What I am kicking around is this - Since some amount of cutting is involved for so many of the bumper style I am considering, I may buy a ~$200 replacement bumper cover, cut that up and reinforce it a little bit.
https://www.toyotapartsdeal.com/oem...bmodel=&extra1=&extra2=&filter=()&location=pd:,

My question is - anyone have any tips on ways to reinforce the bumper? I could see it flopping around a lot if its cut up.
I was thinking of scouring parts of the inside really rough, and using some epoxy and scrap plastic or something. Or maybe some fabric sheets and resin - IDK if that necessarily means fiberglass or not.....

This is something similar to what I have in mind: