Fixed the bumper problem...

crash87 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:42 pm

basically thats exactly what i get, but i think im close to convincing them, Im slowly desencitising them to the idea thanks to this site, intill I convince them ill have to stick with small stuff like my cb, pa speaker, and hopefuly a roofrack and lights before too long.

TheChucklesStart · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:04 am

Do what I did, get pics of your jeep going something incredibly awesome, and then show them a scrape on the other side and say "I wouldn't have hit that if I had been an inch higher....."

http://www.thechucklesstart.com/car/9-6-04/

(or maybe you could bend the truth and say it is required for extra skid plates, but if your parent know what they are talking about that's a bad idea)

EDIT: sorry to hijack, that is awesome, but that is definately where my parents would remind me this is supposed to last me till I'm out a grad school

jpzkj · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:20 am

auggy wrote:

Why are you 02-04 guys messing up your beautiful bumpers? I really wish the 05 bumpers looked like that; the new plastic ones are stupid :cry:

The approach angle is poor with that plastic bumper... When you cut out the fog lights there is very little to drag on rocks. Most of the folks I run trials with have gouged that portion of the bumper MANY times...It just doesn't belong there !!!

The '05 bumper has less in the way ....maybe you like the way the others look but the newer ones work a little better than the old ones. After all...it's only plastic anyways

FreedomKJ · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:20 am

Man, I wish my parents would have bought me a $20k+ vehicle when I was in high school. I ended up with an '88 S15 pickup with that awesomely powerful (yeah, sure) 2.8L V6 and I even had to pay for it myself.

Anywho, looks good Matt. I wish I was brave enough to do something like that (and that the wife would let me.)

For those with '05 Renegades or Sports at one person on here cut off the bottom half (below the two "tubes") and it looks great now.

jpzkj · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:22 am

FreedomKJ wrote:

Man, I wish my parents would have bought me a $20k+ vehicle when I was in high school. I ended up with an '88 S15 pickup with that awesomely powerful (yeah, sure) 2.8L V6 and I even had to pay for it myself.

$ 500 Buick Opel Kadet here ....(aka "The Egg" )

Liberty Titan · **Joined:** Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:28 am **Posts:** 43

I think that looks wicked. At this point I lack the courage to start hacking away but if I ever get into a little fender bender I will definately experiment before replacing the bumper.

Nice work

Neatus · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:22 pm

jpzkj wrote:

FreedomKJ wrote:

Man, I wish my parents would have bought me a $20k+ vehicle when I was in high school. I ended up with an '88 S15 pickup with that awesomely powerful (yeah, sure) 2.8L V6 and I even had to pay for it myself.

$ 500 Buick Opel Kadet here ....(aka "The Egg" )

Lol, same here. I didn't think parents really got their kids nice vehicles. Thought that was just in the movies.

My first vehicle was free. My cousin had a 78 Toyota pickup that was broke down. He said if I could get it running that I could have it. I did and since it was totally mine (not my parents) I could cut anything off of it that I wanted and I did. I cut the roof off put a roll bar on it and slapped on a Jeep bikini top. Most fun vehicle I ever had.

chemguy · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:28 pm

[quote="FreedomKJ"]Man, I wish my parents would have bought me a $20k+ vehicle when I was in high school. I ended up with an '88 S15 pickup with that awesomely powerful (yeah, sure) 2.8L V6 and I even had to pay for it myself.
[quote]

$500 67 Mustang bought out of a cow pasture. My dad pointed to the shop and reminded me I knew where the tools were hahaha.

auggy · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:39 pm

FreedomKJ wrote:

Man, I wish my parents would have bought me a $20k+ vehicle when I was in high school. I ended up with an '88 S15 pickup with that awesomely powerful (yeah, sure) 2.8L V6 and I even had to pay for it myself.

Anywho, looks good Matt. I wish I was brave enough to do something like that (and that the wife would let me.)

For those with '05 Renegades or Sports at one person on here cut off the bottom half (below the two "tubes") and it looks great now.

I had a 98' Explorer (It was awesome, leather, factory mach sound system with 6 disc changer etc) that was my dad's, but he wrecked it right before it would have been mine :shock:

. The reason that they bought a 20+K KJ for me is that it will be passed down to my two younger brothers in the future and they wanted it to last that long. I guess I just lucked out being the oldest :lol:

. My brothers get all the stuff that I paid for on it though, so they don't exactly have it bad either.

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:11 pm

sounds like some spoiled kids on here. I had to walk up hill both ways in the snow.......... then my 1st vehicle was a dog sled w/ two old dogs.......

But back to the topic, The new, improved bumper looks great Matt.

crash87 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:42 pm

Ya.. i had a $100 dollar 86 S-10 Durango 4x4, it was rusted out andbarely ran, then i had a beat up 96 sunfire, but there were tranny problems, so my parents decided to get me a new vehicle to get me through college, They ended up with an 05 ranger Edge, but my dad wanted a truck more then me so now I got the KJ, which is alright by me

chefdab · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:45 pm

I've thought about doing that but I like my fog lights too much. Until I figure out a replacement for them, it'll have to stay stock. Looks good Matt.

lilmatty · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:19 pm

Fog lights are good; I'm 6 miles from the coast so they come in handy. Will remount some new ones but out of harm's way.

CaKJFreedom · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:24 pm

Great job Matt! Tempting....Just aim above the existing scrapes and go to town.

First car: $500 1971 Toyota Corona Deluxe. Not sure if it was the fancy am radio with the one speaker in the dash or the floor mats that made it deluxe.

lilmatty · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:29 pm

Thanks Nanette. If your not a Calico I'll at least be thinking of you. Sitting around, eatin' Turkey, watching ball games, all those adult things. :wink:

Neatus · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:11 pm

CaKJFreedom wrote:

First car: $500 1971 Toyota Corona Deluxe. Not sure if it was the fancy am radio with the one speaker in the dash or the floor mats that made it deluxe.

Lol, This girl back in high school had one of those. Every time she parked it we would move it to a different spot in the parking lot so she couldn't find it at the end of the day. I went to a big high school. Parking lot was huge and she was always P Oed to say the least. Ahhh, the good ol days.

Oh yeah, $500...wow you got ripped off. :wink:

Steakgoddess · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:12 pm

AdamIsAdam wrote:

That's the best hack job I've seen yet (no offense to prior hackers).

Well!!

I think my hack job is quite nice.

And by the way, my first car was a 1980 Camaro. (it was as old as I was~16)

lilmatty · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:17 pm

Actually, Sandie, I like the looks of yours better...

Steakgoddess · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:21 pm

lilmatty wrote:

Actually, Sandie, I like the looks of yours better...

Matt,

That's because it is a BLUE Jeep :twisted:

lilmatty · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:57 pm

Sandi, Blue's my next favorite color but I didn't like the metallic looking shade they offered in early 01.

Do you have close ups of your cuts? Did you relo the washer bottle. You can pm pics to matt_townsend@earthlink.net

Fixed the bumper problem...

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