gen1 front bumper

[93rev2sev]

Does anyone have experience with replacing the front bumper on a gen1?

The bumper cover was ripped and I've repaired it, but the bumper (under the cover) fell to pieces when I removed it.

I'm looking at buying a gen1 taurus bumper new from shermanparts.com (445-87)



There is no hole in the bumper for the corner lights.

If anyone has used this type of bumper before, how was it? How did you install corner lights?

 

[jon93]

It should be a normal taurus part but I am not sure for the gen 1. Personally I would get it from a U Pull It.... it would be much cheaper and no one will ever know whether it's new or used!

 

[RStalveyARFF]

Have you tried Keystone?

 

[93rev2sev]

...this part was $65 BRAND NEW. No shipping. I picked it up at lunch.

Keystone was over $300 for the same NON-corner-light-hole bumper.

If you have experience with installing the corner lights into a bumper that has no provisions for corner lights, I'd love to hear about it.

 

[bubba]

hmm.....Tom how much does the non-sho bumper come up on the corner lights? I think you might need to do some trimming on the bumper to make it fit?

 

[93rev2sev]

Bubba, et al.,

I have answered my own question.

The Gen1 Taurus SHO uses a STANDARD taurus plastic bumper, covered by a rubber SHO bumper cover.

This is not the same as a gen2. The gen2 (all models) uses a Taurus hard plastic bumper "bar", covered by either a SHO (sable compatible) bumper cover, or a Taurus GL/LX, etc.. cover.

The gen1 replacement (non-sho) bumper that I just bought from www.shermanparts.com (A SE Michigan company) is 100% compatible* with the SHO Bumper Cover. It was extremely affordable. I highly recommend checking out their site. If you have a saggy or rattling front bumper, fenders (sable for gen2) and all kinds of crash parts, look em up. It sure beats TRYING to pull a 20 year old plasic bumper off a junk yard car, just to find it's cracked...which you will...Sorry, no deck lids, door skins, or 1/4 panels are available.

/plug


*You will have to trim the bottom edge of the Taurus plastic bumper in order to mount the fog lights. The bumper does not have a hole for the corner lights, but the tabs are there for attaching the corner lamp housings. It looks like I might have to drill holes in the bottom of the new bumper in order to attach it with x-mas tree fasteners.

 

[RStalveyARFF]

One thing those guys have is dog legs which is nice for us new england people.

 

[Banshee]

anybody know why my 94 atx has round fog lights? All I see on others are rectangle fogs

 

[K-Dawg]

Custom? Pics?

 

[kevinspann]

http://binghamton.craigslist.org/cto/4591733092.html

I wonder if it's this car I came across on CL today.

 

[SHOdded]

Any possibility of a Mustang/T-Bird bumper retrofit?

 

[Banshee]

im going to look for any seams from a retro