Brush Guard sensors

Can front bumper sensors be permanently disabled or deleted in order to install a brush guard been shut out by custom truck vendors because of this issue

 

welcome

 

brush guards are a joke, get a real plate bumper if you want protection.

 

^^^
This

Please buy good looking and functional bumpers like above post.


Please don't buy stupid looking things like below.

 

couldnt agree with you more!

 

i so echo what people are saying. Those cheap "brush guards" give a false level of security. Save your money and invest in whats pictured above @TrailSpecial22

 

@RQLS1
Looks, function, safety, need aside

brush guards will/can cause more harm then not

“I see tons of people with them though”

Side note:
Tons of people are stupid

 

yep thats why they call them damge multipliers

 

tough love but good advice in here

friends don't let friends buy brush guards

 

the ultimate “brush guard”

 

This is acceptable!

 

I myself would not go there but it is at least legitimate protection.

 

If you’re talking about the radar/collision sensor, you can’t remove or disable it (or block it) without having permanent error lights on the instrument panel. And you lose all the collision avoidance safety features and radar cruise.

If you mean parking proximity sensors on the higher trim levels, I’m not sure.

 

As a side note, is that these types of bumpers do remove some impact protection from the front edges in front of the wheels.

The aluminum crash bumper that is removed to install “slimline” or low profile which-mount bumpers also have a pretty stout piece of square steel tube on each side at a rearward angle. It’s debatable how strong it is by itself, but I think the steel tube is more to cause deflection so that crash damage is shunted outward to the corners of the vehicle where the tire/wheel and main body mounts can participate in taking crash forces.

Without these tubes, there are some potential vulnerabilities where damage can reach the cabin nearly unimpeded. For example, in a crash, a sturdy concrete pole could potentially make to the cabin hardly slowed down by anything. On one side of the frame rail, maybe an engine mount is in the way, and the other side of the rail, the control arms are in the way. For that reason, I’d prefer to have a full width steel plate bumper over the one I have now.