better rear bumper needed!
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better rear bumper needed!
Hi guys. I have a 1991 f-150 that a park on the street in boston. I hate to say it but the rear bumper is pretty bent from only little foreign cars hitting it when parking. What kind of rear bumper can I get that will stand up better? Thanks...
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Originally Posted by mgdemarco
Hi guys. I have a 1991 f-150 that a park on the street in boston. I hate to say it but the rear bumper is pretty bent from only little foreign cars hitting it when parking. What kind of rear bumper can I get that will stand up better? Thanks...
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Ssidney, I do not hit cars when I'm parking. Instead, when the truck is parked I get bumped pretty good a few times a month...
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I have a receiver hitch that sticks out about 8" and is right at bumper/hood height (shin buster 
). Where I park at work, they try to cram three cars in a row built for two full size trucks. Since I get there early, I always have a front spot. Every month or so, I notice a different color paint on my hitch ball. Keeps the rust clean I guess. Point is, my rear bumper never gets a scratch. 
). Where I park at work, they try to cram three cars in a row built for two full size trucks. Since I get there early, I always have a front spot. Every month or so, I notice a different color paint on my hitch ball. Keeps the rust clean I guess. Point is, my rear bumper never gets a scratch.
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This is a pic of the stock bumper after it was hit by the girl down the street when she was doing 40mph on the way to school. It was about 15 degrees and the hot water that her dad poured on the winsheild froze over and she ran into it when it was parked on the side of the street. She thought she had hit a trash can haha. It moved my truck several feet forward. It totaled her little volvo station wagon.
This was a fairly new escalade that rear ended me when eveyone used there brakes but she decided to used my truck to stop. It wasnt that hard of a hit but my hitch went through her trans cooler and may have bent the ends of the frame where the tow hooks are connected. But i didnt look that closely
This is the pic of the new bumper that we put on after the 1st girl hit it. the pic was taken after the second lady in the escalade hit me. The only problem is that the mounts we used wernt strong enough and the bent a little on the second hit. But were gonna fix that.
So far this bumper has been awesome. There was even another little wreck were another person down the street ran into my truck. again it didnt do anything and we didnt even know it happend till a witness said something.
The bumper is built out of 1/2 in. square tubing. It is stout. it love it.
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That reminds me of the accident I had with my Bronco a few years back. I was going up this road in Farmington (Rt. 4) past a golf course and the lady in front of me decided to stop for a golf cart. No stop sign, just no brains. Typical four wheeler. 
I relized this a little too late and just tagged her as I slammed on my brakes and slid past her onto the grass. I got a dent the size of a quarter on my front bumper and totaled her Toyota. The good news for me her car was a lease and the registration had lapsed and she couldn't provide proof of insurance so the cops let me go. 
I relized this a little too late and just tagged her as I slammed on my brakes and slid past her onto the grass. I got a dent the size of a quarter on my front bumper and totaled her Toyota. The good news for me her car was a lease and the registration had lapsed and she couldn't provide proof of insurance so the cops let me go.
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An old friend of mine was messing around in her little escort behind me one day. She was going to fast, swerved, bounced off a car in the center lane, and right into the side of my bumper. Wasn't that hard of a hit, barely clipped me, but it sure did a number to my rear bumper. That was my '94 F150
I got nailed by a guy doing 30-35mph in his mid '90s F150. I stopped at a red light and all the sudden hear tires squealing, look in the rear-view mirror, tense up then BAM!!! It was in my old '89 Chevy 1500 I had. Just put a minor dent in my bumper about half the size of a fist. Totaled the guys truck, puking oil and coolant all over. Oh yeah, no head rest, so head bounced off of rear window, and it flexed the frame enough to dent the back of the cab with the bed.
Now, the bumper on that truck was like 3/16" thick, with 3/8" thick bracing in the center between the frame rails. The '94 F150 wasn't even 1/8" thick with about 1/4 to 5/16" thick brace in the middle between the rails. Newer bumpers are even thinner.
They just don't put the heavier bumpers on like they used to on the older ones(damn 5mph bumpers). Now you gotta buy or build a heavier bumper.
I got nailed by a guy doing 30-35mph in his mid '90s F150. I stopped at a red light and all the sudden hear tires squealing, look in the rear-view mirror, tense up then BAM!!! It was in my old '89 Chevy 1500 I had. Just put a minor dent in my bumper about half the size of a fist. Totaled the guys truck, puking oil and coolant all over. Oh yeah, no head rest, so head bounced off of rear window, and it flexed the frame enough to dent the back of the cab with the bed.
Now, the bumper on that truck was like 3/16" thick, with 3/8" thick bracing in the center between the frame rails. The '94 F150 wasn't even 1/8" thick with about 1/4 to 5/16" thick brace in the middle between the rails. Newer bumpers are even thinner.
They just don't put the heavier bumpers on like they used to on the older ones(damn 5mph bumpers). Now you gotta buy or build a heavier bumper.
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My cabover '97 GMC T6500 semi had this 12" bumper on the front. The only thing wrong with it was it was plastic. Decoration only. A car backed into it in a parking lot (I was in eating at the time). Didn't hurt the car a bit. Did over $1600.00 damage to my semi. What is the world coming to?