My GF’s LR3
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soflorovers
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1) I'm impressed that you picked it up so cheap. 2) This is the first time I've seen someone retrofit a Wrangler front bumper on an LR3. Not exactly sure how I feel about that...
protohyp
Adventurer
Yeah. We figured most wouldn’t like it but we are notoriously cheap. More that there’s so few bumpers for the LR3 that it’s either a complete custom one off which I’m not against but she also didn’t want to have the same bumper everyone else has. We searched offer up and got 2500.00 worth of bumpers for 500.00.
BTW the rear bumper is also a Hansen Built Wrangler bumper. We figured the widths are about the same so we went for it and just fab’d custom mounts.
It was a total half impulse buy half necessity. She builds cabinets with me and her Avalon could only load tools which wasn’t enough. Once she took it on a camping trip she realized quickly she had more fun as explorer rather than passenger and now she’s caught the bug. The impulse part of it was that my friend had been trying to sell it to me for a year and he almost traded it in for a Defender so we figured what the hell.
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cannonball55
Adventurer
This thing is ************! Great deal!
protohyp
Adventurer
Absolutely agree. We tend to haul our cabinets flat packed because we do larger developments so instead of bringing one kitchen at a time we can bring 5 now with her rig.
She absolutely loves it but more so just loves behind able to drive when we are out wheeling. I usually put her in the lead now so she can choose where we explore.
Now she has to rebuild her compressor and valve blocks to preemptively strike anyt potential suspension faults as well as tee into the struts to bypass the factory system completely
Either way she has a lot of work to do.
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karlmagnum
Observer
The Wrangler bumper doesn't look bad at all. The Tundra wheels look good also.
protohyp
Adventurer
Thanks. For 150.00 on the bumper I knew I had to try it. Fitament was fairly easy but there are obviously open spaces that need to be filled like under the grill. There is barely enough room for the winch so we have to make some adjustments before it gets mounted.
The XD rims just fell into our lap with the KM3’s. For 1000.00 with almost new tread we couldn’t pass it up. Wasn’t going to use the rims because the Rockstars ii’s have a little too much ‘bling’ on them but we took those off and I agree the look really good.
I have the KM3’s on my avalanche and love them for the type of wheeling we do.
Here’s our family life.
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Victory_Overland
Explorer
In Oceanside; gotta link up with you peeps
protohyp
Adventurer
soflorovers
Well-known member
Upgraded Magpul furniture on that stapler? Sweet lolWhen you have a gf that shoots guns and wants RC toys do you kick her to the curb?
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