The 09 SKINZ bumper upper mount tabs bolts to the very thin brackets that support the 09 style sway bar so the 09 plastics wouldn't be a factor. The lower bumper mount tabs bolt to the lower brackets that come off a-arm tabs. With all due respect, it's because of this mounting design that I don't feel that the SKINZ bumper will ever match the strength that the treedog bumper provides on 05-08 IQ"s. Treedog's bumper bolts DIRECTLY to the a-arm bolts. Now if Toby would just make a real bumper for an 09!
The SKINZ bumper on the 09's is clean, but due to the mounting design using the stock very thin brackets, it doesn't provide NEAR the strength that it could. I watched a treedog bumper SAVE a poo 900 from extinction last season after many endo flips off the rocks. Besides bending the bumper, cracking the hood, beding the pipe and bars, the sled was perfect.
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