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BUCKSTOP or Trailready in my opinion. I like the standard brush guard from BUCKSTOP and the pre runner from Trailready. If I had my choice I'd take a Trailready bumper with the BUCKSTOP bolt on brush guard! Trailready is smoother and more radious, looks better fitting than any aftermarket bumper on the market, but the BUCKSTOP brush guard is the perfect amount of strength/looks without being a gaudy over killed 2" pipe welded on
IF you like them other than that, might be worth sending them out to have the welds ground and a decent powder coat job done instead of replacing them.
Or just paint them. Then you can always touch them up when needed.
For the price he paid I'd be mad as HEL$ also! And after eight months I wouldn't be spending another four or five hundred to have them sandblasted and re-powder coated again. Ranch hand should fix this with a set of new bumpers PERIOD
For the price he paid I'd be mad as HEL$ also! And after eight months I wouldn't be spending another four or five hundred to have them sandblasted and re-powder coated again. Ranch hand should fix this with a set of new bumpers PERIOD
I contacted ranch hand and their warranty is one year, I was told I had to pay freight shipping BOTH WAYS at a total cost of 553.97.
Basically I was told to pay up or nothing, I will pull them, sell and look into something different.
That sucks I wouldn't be happy about that either. If I was going to spend any money on them I'd have them sprayed with line-x maybe with the uv protectant it wouldn't fade to bad. I've never had good luck with anything that was powercoated my an aftermarket manufacture.
I have the Ranch Hand Legend front replacement. Mine has some spot rust and the weld's aren't beautiful, but eh, who really cares about a little rust on something that already looks like an industrial monstrosity? Shot a little black Rustoleum on the spots, moved on with life. The mounts are something around 3/8" tp 1/2" of steel, they aren't rusting through any time soon, and the point is it's beefy, not pretty.
I just about tore the back half off an Altima who stopped in the middle of a right of way, I didn't even bother using a brillo pad to scrub his paint off the powdercoating on the upright, just left it because there was no other damage to my truck. I've beat it up some pushing gates open with it and using to to hang stuff on, stand on, work on, etc, so even if it was rhinolined or something it would still be scratched and gouged up.
It's big, it's black, it's heavy, and it works. Plus I really don't like the Road Armor style with the angular plate steel and the ridiculous bull-nose huge grille guard piping. One pipe, two uprights, simple and solid.
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