Hey guys I picked this up yesterday and installed it this morning! looks great, super solid, definitely improved my approach angle and replaced my damage multiplier (which is nice)
I also bedlined the ugly silver radiator skid black so it fits in. while I was at it I bedlined the grille too!
the only two issues with installing were:
Main bumper mount holes 1/2" too far apart. This I fixed my putting a tie down strap in between the two lower members and tightening it to pull them in. worked great.
the brackets that bolt the lowest part of the skid plate to the sway bar mount were a bit too long to install with the stock swaybar, an angle grinder fixed that. There would be no grinder necessary if you have a swaybar removed.
Took me about 1 and a half hours start to finish, having never removed the front bumper before.
it's as tough as tube steel can be.... Wouldn't want to go smashing rocks off it all day, but I don't have skids either so.... you know. Going with the prerunner concept here instead of rock crawler. really makes me want to go jump it haha.
yeah it is cracked. that's thanks to my damage multiplier (bull bar/brush guard) that I had on there before and found a drainage ditch at like 30 or 40. there's also two dents in the hood and front fender and a displaced passenger side light from that dumb hunk of metal.
haha thanks man, yeah she made it! I think it took more damage from the parking garages over the winter than that trail, I just took it off to save me from overheight charges on the ferry. they rape you enough without havng an 8 and a half foot tall truck haha
That looks great! Are they making the hoop bigger on the Xterra? I feel like it's bigger than the frontier version. Looks better with the big hoop, maybe they are the same size and I'm imagining things lol.
yep you could still run factory tow hooks, You could definitely run a winch, there's no flimsyness in this bumper, and there's room for one, you'd just have to fab up a plate for it to sit on. could be neat. I'm fairly certain it (the hoop) is the same size on both models. last but not least, i'm planning on making some side plates to cover the holes. I couldnt justify the extra cost seeingas it would cost me about 10 dollars to make them.