any ideas?

[MtnT4R]

I love the low profile bumper, but the odds and ends that the old plastic bumper shroud used to cover sort of bothers me. I thought I'd throw this out there to see what sort of hair brained ideas you all might come up with. Maybe zip tie in some industrial shrink wrap to clean it up a bit + protect a little more from the elements?

 

[CXS]

I hit that stuff with rattlecan black, looks much better.

 

[Red]

I'd have a bit more welded on to cover that up and make it look more complete. That would drive me nuts also, looks unfinished.

extend the bumper to the wheel well and match the contour of the fender, then have some sheet metal welded in to cover up some of the exposed frame underneath.

 

[sluggercz]

I'd have a bit more welded on to cover that up and make it look more complete. That would drive me nuts also, looks unfinished.

extend the bumper to the wheel well and match the contour of the fender, then have some sheet metal welded in to cover up some of the exposed frame underneath.

^What Red said. The guy that made the bumper is close to you isn't he MtnT4R, so I'd assume he'd have no problem welding on some small pieces of metal.

 

[CXS]

My bumper covers a lot of the area since it goes back to the wheel well. I also removed the plastic liner quite a bit so the black paint was all I needed to make it look good. But I suspect I care less than you about the cosmetics.

Edit: Added a quick photo to show mine. Soory it's so huge!

 

[MtnT4R]

I actually have painted that whole area black- I just refinished the bumper more recently after a few trips into the muddy stuff- it looks ok when its painted, but next to impossible to clean after it gets dirty, so the only real solution is to just paint it again. The bumper originally did run up to the fender just like yours, CXS, but we ran into so many little issues fitting the bumper with the sheet metal of the body that we just said fk it and chopped it off at 90, which is why it doesn't look like the cleanest cut in the world.

The cosmetics didnt used to bother me at all, but my job now requires a little more professionalism, so I need to find a balance between dirt machine and business machine. Up in the mountains, people dont mind the steel bumper and whatnot, but the exposed wires and crap looks slightly less than stellar.

I havent heard from Mtn.Runner in quite a while, but I know a few guys who could weld a fix. I'm thinking bring that steel back out to the fender like yours CXS, and weld in a thin piece underneath to hide the wiper fluid bottle + controls. thanks for the input!