2003 SR5/Sport Edition Problem. Please help....

[Wai]

Hi all,
has anyone encountered the same problem when they tried to replace the bumper covers on their grey plastic cladded (03 and 04) SR5 and Sport Edition?

Please take a look here for a description of what happened:
http://toyota-4runner.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13372

 

[Jim_Chow]

I can't say this for Toyota, but I know for honda (having had a new bumper installed this year after some idiot turned out of a side-street and t-boned me in the rear quarter), if you buy any body panels including bumpers, they only come in black. It's expected that a body shop will paint them w/ matching paint accoding to your color code. Otherwise, the automaker would have to stock every body panel in every color made in every year...that's a lot of color combinations! The 2003 wheel well panels have dimples on them while the painted wheel well panels for the later 4Runners seem to be smooth.