Affordable tire carrier search.
01-26-2013, 09:47 AM
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Friend of mine had the knock off ebay rear and carrier, had it installed in October, he went to open it last week, whole fckn thing broke and nearly took his leg off. As soon as he opened the latch the welded swivel part snapped. Imagine if that happened on a freeway doing 65. Save a few more dollars and get an Ace bumper and carrier, I got mine for around 760 shipped.
01-26-2013, 10:58 AM
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Friend of mine had the knock off ebay rear and carrier, had it installed in October, he went to open it last week, whole fckn thing broke and nearly took his leg off. As soon as he opened the latch the welded swivel part snapped. Imagine if that happened on a freeway doing 65. Save a few more dollars and get an Ace bumper and carrier, I got mine for around 760 shipped.
01-26-2013, 01:02 PM
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Best Top rear bumper w/ carrier is $780. Single action on the carrier, no latches. Can hold a Hi-Lift and shovel, has D-ring mounts. Has this provision for a roller, so there's a tab thats below the bumper.: doesn't really affect clearance. Pretty sturdy holding my 35 for the last year.
01-30-2013, 06:11 PM
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My ebay rear bumper/tire carrier has been holding up fine. I would bedline it/and replace the studs on the bracket with better ones. I had a welder do a small weld job on the spare tire bracket to reinforce it although it probably wasn't needed, other than that he said that its able to do what its meant to aside from the welds not being pretty. Im sure something can go wrong with it, but I think the majority of folks on the 115 page thread haven't had issues with it aside from poor customer service and rust.
Ive heard a lot people talk about how these things are smittybilt bumpers with a different name. The front stinger I have and the rear bumper/ tire carrier look nearly identical to smittybilt. I met up with someone that has a smittybilt stinger and we both had the same exact bumper, except his stinger had 3 holes and mine had 1. I know smittybilt isn't the first name that comes up when talking about quality, but im sure there are a lot of guys who run their bumpers without too many hang ups.
Ive heard a lot people talk about how these things are smittybilt bumpers with a different name. The front stinger I have and the rear bumper/ tire carrier look nearly identical to smittybilt. I met up with someone that has a smittybilt stinger and we both had the same exact bumper, except his stinger had 3 holes and mine had 1. I know smittybilt isn't the first name that comes up when talking about quality, but im sure there are a lot of guys who run their bumpers without too many hang ups.
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01-30-2013, 06:38 PM
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