quality of aftermarket bumper chrome?

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Nate Nagel - 18 Jul 2009 03:50 GMT

need... well, want... a replacement front bumper for my '93 F-150. Not
only did the PO dent it in for me, but the chrome has not aged well.
Any opinions on the chrome on aftermarket replacement bumpers? I see
that LMC sells two different "levels" of chrome, is it worth paying more
for the "premium?" Any vendors with better pricing? this is just a
truck I use to haul stuff but I buffed and waxed it last weekend and now
the bumper looks even shabbier against the rest of the truck.

thanks

nate

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Jeff Strickland - 18 Jul 2009 03:59 GMT

Have you thought of a visit to the junk yard. You can find a truck that was
creamed from the back, and the front is still good. You might even find a
bumper from, oh, say an Eddie Bauer Bronco, that fits and has openings for
fog lights.

I don't know that the Eddit Bauer Bronco had fogs, but my point is there are
different bumpers that fit your truck that might have features that your
bumper does not have and that you could leverage for cool stuff that isn't
otherwise avbailable, and the junk yard has far better prices on factory
stuff than you will ever find outside of the junk yard.

> need... well, want... a replacement front bumper for my '93 F-150. Not
> only did the PO dent it in for me, but the chrome has not aged well. Any
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Nate Nagel - 18 Jul 2009 04:06 GMT

Junk yard? What junk yard? I remember living somewhere where land
values were low enough that junk yards still existed... that was a long
time ago.

nate

> Have you thought of a visit to the junk yard. You can find a truck that was
> creamed from the back, and the front is still good. You might even find a
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Jeff Strickland - 18 Jul 2009 04:42 GMT

I have to go 30+ miles to find the junk yard, but the trip is generally
worth it.

I recently bought a $125 Power Steering Pump Pulley -- JUST THE F---ING
PULLEY! -- and the alternator bracket that adjust the belt tension for $10.
I had to go 30 miles -- 60, round trip -- to save more than $150 on these
two parts.

I see no reason you can't score a bumper for a short drive. I would not buy
a bumper from LMC or JCWhitney. I bought some Jeep parts from Steel Horse,
and they SUCKED. They were priced half of the dealer price, but they had
less than half the steel and it was soft. Ask yourself, why is this stuff so
cheap? Then jump in your truck and find a junk yard, or just live with a
dent in the 16 (almost 17)-year old bumper.

> Junk yard? What junk yard? I remember living somewhere where land values
> were low enough that junk yards still existed... that was a long time ago.
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Kevin - 20 Jul 2009 15:49 GMT

> I have to go 30+ miles to find the junk yard, but the trip is
> generally worth it.
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CALL the yard and then you will know if they have anything before you
bother to drive that far. KB

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david - 18 Jul 2009 04:02 GMT

>is it worth paying more for
> the "premium?"

For a 17 year old truck? Probably not.

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Pete C. - 18 Jul 2009 14:12 GMT

> need... well, want... a replacement front bumper for my '93 F-150. Not
> only did the PO dent it in for me, but the chrome has not aged well.
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Perhaps look for a non-chrome bumper? I'm not real big on chrome anyway,
and conveniently enough my new truck has relatively little.

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