I want to purchase the front and rear bumpers from a rubicon hard rock and put them on my 2016 sport. Here's what I'm wondering, can the middle section that says "rubicon" be replaced with a blank? The dealer says the bumper comes with both but other dealers say it just comes with "rubicon" stamped in the middle. Does anyone know for sure?
It wouldn't be my first choice. Personally, if I were going go that route, I would probably slap a novelty plate on there and call it good. Of course, if you add a winch, you ditch that piece anyway, because the fairlead goes through there.
Okay, so i just went back out into the garage and took another look at whats in the bag and you are 100% correct. The license plate holder would just go on top of the Rubicon logo and screw into the plastic.
However, the plastic rubicon piece pops out and get tossed if you put a winch behind the bumper.
I am still pissed off at the idiot at the dealership that installed that plate holder. I did not special order this Jeep for them to put screw holes in it like that...... but that is another story.
Thanks everyone for the input. So basically it sounds like the dealer lied by saying there was a replacement "blank" for the "rubicon" piece. I guess they just really wanted to sell a bumper that bad.
Don't know where you are located, but there is an ad in the classified section of this forum with someone selling his Hard Rock bumper with skid plate and fog lights.
Ditto! Hope to have it this week so I can get the bumper installed. I have the factory hitch so it looks like I have to do some grinding in order to use the hitch with the HR bumper.
A friend of mine and I installed my 10A bumpers in about 2 hours. The toughest part was laying out and drilling the holes for the right rear tow hook. Something I ran into while mounting the rear bumper was that the original side brackets can be reused for the 10A bumper but they must be swapped from one side to the other.
Something I ran into while mounting the rear bumper was that the original side brackets can be reused for the 10A bumper but they must be swapped from one side to the other.
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