to bumper or not to bumper

currently, have the stock bumper on my ‘07 t4r. . . i wanna replace the bumper eventually, soon hopefully. Im also considering just adding a grille guard for now. should i do the guard while i wait or just go full out w the bumper since im gonna do it at some point anyway??

 

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Bumper IMO.

 

Bumper. Which are you considering?

 

Bumper for sure! Worth the upgrade for a functional piece of armor!

 

I don’t think it’s worth spending money on something you never intended to keep. (in this case)

Note that if you go for a whole metal bumper you’ll likely need to upgrade the front suspension too.

 

Go for the bumper!!

 

It's my experience that adding anything more than 100 lbs on the front will require, at a minimum, higher load springs.

Go to a full width steel bumper where you're adding close to 200 lbs you'd better upgrade the springs...which also means shocks to dampen out that additional mass.