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Originally posted by fabien:
I heard that the Calmini bumper did not do too well at GOX. I was really close to ordering one but if it's a pos, then I obviously want to keep looking (probably ARB or TJM). What happened exactly? How severe, etc...?
First hand comments would be great.


If you are interested in that bumper and i would call calmini and ask them if the skid plates they had on it that extended to the crossmembers are going to be part of it. it protected the front part quite well, and may be a worthwhile thing to wait for depending on what direction they go with their skid plate solution.

my only beef is it kinda pidgeon holes you into getting the rest of the calmini skid plates or stay with the stock ones. it didn't looks like you could mix the skid row plates with the calmini ones. which may or may not be a big deal to some. atleast that is the way the prototypes were. and the prototype skid plates protecting the underbelly of the truck have this strange V shape as it tapers away from the transfer case towards the rear diff. kinda defeats the point of skid plates if you desing huge gaps in there that disallow skidding all the way back. but again, these were prototypes!!! call steve kramer at calmini and talk to him if you have issues. i am sure he can address them. over all it looked pretty solid. i would go read the other threads where people have raised issues and thoughts about the calmini bumper and make sure you go to him with a barage of questions if you still have them.
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