Jim that looks great..Wish I had an 05'.

Maybe I can convince my sister to buy one.

will the bare steel look like bumper in the earlier posts (with weld marks and everything), or will it be cleaner looking?

Bare steel means you will need to paint it unless you like rust color.

It will need nothing more than clean/wipe off, prime and paint.

Jim,

I'm not sure where I am in the pre-order line. But if you can post a picture of the gray bumper before you send mine in for powdercoating, I would appreciate it. I'll probably stick with the black, but I'd like to see what the gray looks like.

Thanks,

Adrian

i'm also confused about the gray powdercoat. The 02-04 frontier bumper looks like it has 1 version that is a very dark gray, which i like, and the old version has a light gray that matches the trim. The picture of the gray powdercoat on the website shows the "light gray" color i'm talking about and it looks pretty bad IMO. I'm not sure if its the lighting or not in the picture, but the silver fronty w/out tubes on top looks to have a very dark gray powdercoat.

None of the current 2005 orders are Gray. Here is a 1st gen gray one.

It's all the same, it's just the lighting and angle. It plays havoc with the color. It is a very close match to the factory plastic on the gen 1 Xterras.

I havent actually held it up to an 05+ X to see if they have the same color gray yet.

Well Jim,

Maybe you can tell me what you think. I have a White X. Do you think the gray or black would look better? I don't know if I want to be the first to try it out, but I will consider it if I can be relatively sure it will look good on my X.

Thanks for your input,

Adrian

Here is a wheeling shot of the same bumper.

The black is high gloss while the grey is a matte finish. In my opinion the grey looks more factory and the black looks more like an add-on. There really is no right or wrong, they both look great. I love the grey bumper, I am very glad I got it instead of black.

Gray sample piece on a stock 05 "Plastic Fantastic Bumper"

It's close. If you look at the stock bumper you can see that the color APPEARS to vary wildly across the bumper but it's just the light/glare in the pic.

Keep the pics coming Jim!

No, he can stop with the pics, it's making me impatient.

Was the Nissan towing point removed? If so, was it just bolted on or was cuting involved?

Thanks! Oh and nice work!

Edit: Nevermind, I believe I see it hidden under in the shadow...

The factory tow hook just bolts on. And from the pictures it's been removed.

Is it me or is that a different bumper than the other pics and without the Winch hole?

Photoshop majic. It had the liscense plate on the front and I thought it was distracting.

Ah, ok, confused me for a second.

Could ya post a side view too?

THAT'S what Nissan should be using as the STANDARD bumper.

Jim,

You're just teasing us now. I'm salivating just looking at those photos.

So, what is the tentative date at this point?

For what? The first production batch for early pre-orders orders will be out of here in about 3 weeks. Recent and new orders about four weeks.

Jim

I can't wait. First I ordered my sliders and then 3 days later I order the bumper. I can't explain it I think I got bit buy the "bug".