we have really strict bumper laws here specially the rear bumper..

look like I'm gunna have to try and mold in a rear bumper as much as I really don't want too..

suggestions or pics of some molded rear bumpers may help if you have some..

 

depending if you can find this law, depending on the year truck, the law (federal) did not require some of these trucks to come equipped with a rear bumper from the factory as it was an option.

if you can find proof of this option and you get a ticket, you can fight it given it is granfathered into the law since regulations were passed after the truck was made and required to have a rear bumper.

otherwise its just part of the "cost" of being custom....... just pay the fine unless its a correctional violation....... then i would just have a spare bumper and drop down brackets for it so you can do a quick pass on a fix it ticket.

 

ya I hear ya, I do have a bumper but as we all know they look like crap..

I've been running with it off and it will stay off, if I have to remount it so be it..

 

same here........ been running without one for a long time...... actually..... i think i removed it the day i got the truck.

 

dude so te laws won;t get ya, maybe you should fab up some custom mounting bkts so you can quick take on and off, kno what im saying?

 

Thats one reason why I like it here. I took my bumper off the day I got it and have not been pulled over, asked about it or anything.

I agree with SD YOTA, check into the laws. If it came from the factory that way, they can't make you put it on. Its like factory tint, they make you take it off (even though its in the glass ).

 

mine didn't come with one, it's got an aftermarket tube bumper..

 

The three times I've been pulled over they never said anything about it. Not even chp

 

lo profile rear bumper

or one of those slider rear bumpers the hardcore 4wd yota guys run... that'd be so sick. Beefed Taco has something like that

 

Well, you could run an 89-95 rear bumper. They look better. Especially better than a tube bumper. I have been pulled over about 10-12 times in my 78, in 3 or 4 different states. And the only time they mentioned it was some rookie a while back. I told him they were optional, and he said he will give me a warning. And that he would double check his books. They don't like when you have a printout from the states site with the exact codes.

 

Cops actually mess with you over not having rear bumpers? I have built and driven minitrucks in CA, NV and now WI over a 25 year period and never had a rear bumper or been harassed about it.

 

Utah's the same way. I like the quick release idea for passing then yank it back off. If they ask, tell them its getting rechromed and it will be back on shortly.

For custom ideas, I've always liked the 4Runner wrap around bumpers. The Pathfinder or any bumper where the license plate is below the bumper I thought would look pretty cool too. (You can tell I've given thought to this in the past.)

 

Or you can do bumperettes like on some older cars/trucks

 

Beefed Taco's rear tube slider bumpers




bwuahahaha

 

dont sweat the bumper thing..the only thing ive been hastled for was license plate height, but that was on my old bodydropped yota...and i had dragged half my plate off

 

i saw a 2" wrap around tube bumper on a 4x4 that i liked. it followed the bottom of the body exactly and only stuck out about a half inch if any. just a single tube too. i cant remember exactly, but i think the guy had a roll pan. i dont know if there are regulations on how the bumper is supposed to look, but if i was forced to run one, that would be it

 

really? i live in utah, when i had my s10 i had a rollpan and never got a ticket or hasseled about it. of course i still had texas license plates dont know if that made a difference, either that or cops just didnt realize/nor care