{"id":78,"date":"2011-03-23T04:02:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T04:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.22\/index.php\/2011\/03\/23\/chrome-front-bumper\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:25:20","slug":"chrome-front-bumper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Chrome Front Bumper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to give up on the up on the red bumpers (<a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.22\/index.php\/2010\/05\/24\/colored-bumpers\/\">here<\/a>) and go with getting my bumpers rechromed. I started with the front. Below are some before and after pictures. I got a non painted, mostly strait bumper off the net, as mine was slightly bent at the driver&#8217;s wrap around. I sent it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricityplating.com\/\">Tri-City Plating<\/a>. The cost was $300 and took 1 week.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some before and after pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Bumper Before<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/3AsFZ3xnn726wree8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/7GwMvnGHOAjYetq1itkC7tAo36UtyUIgiySkqqKQhQm2iX3tkQdDBJ6QDhVj5MlmA_HKMWKcyzEdUmk6sAPtLzgS2tTCcOe9ThhbJs1MGOjXaffWLQ2tPwNACX00tu-gwbOOwOeP-xbhRZrh37Co9POEb9teeYZfSwCY-QxY9jJV2UEa1-YWaMbcveWB2BEG2oxAV39YiQDOAZcWZb9HmrgyYgWZv6lwsiJHgaRBZpapp2CaKma7rHX5ywEXKUXdZl7nRlfmq3A29kAbStg62B3S1uVUjuPR24pv8ZPzV5GqRK5rt3O_dTlsovZrhNskSfZOikNLnr8SX_6sJWvMEVUTGdoalsC4SVaPdPunfiZvl28DYtpUVSqtmr19FmDmXHmphAxlXjtPN_NvplkDoDrbwq1H4hhqRH9QkU4zOSXDwqcPoh0ko9x9X2UjrQ_qwCo-F_LJ3izyvHqhq904mCGunxXbIFGo3zCuqFpq5d7Xh8AWfLUH5_yEcKdqFxNVLr7j-_iBY3Me7YIyw5y-lzWGdVEsk6zzDDCQO1B7E2n6LjhoBBesbj2b4LvQE-sYmIWq7BwrpHtFDlTaXhfl2VUfUxDdiW5u9wAjUXV62SSSm63xBhhwAGUyXZfIcBG7_ebQ9IExrCeHp_fUeJ4t2qApFv6kXvs=w550-h207-no\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"151\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/3AsFZ3xnn726wree8\">Click here for more pics<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p>After Bumper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/b2b6gUN3DoNQvCyr9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/C4mCucP5DadHjVS_z9w5KXjxlwEe0KKP0mcd0ZQrn4TOY7qZXq09RD6RsX4IuNYOf-m06o5WBrASr9ZZ61kBjSPhkVJEAscnYcR7vGcRpTv5FXmzq8_G022_or7pZTIjhZ77omg-910-AoDTVadTjmHRc_u38PQYUvANnql8MiVJKwGOIWzFn9RQpP0bRCYoLmXRJ_yz-ChcyYFNYUnvUjryzlZdkVR-de0t3-OxqWDM_o9JFuvm2xb1Yi50Jli21q3xLzX1C2GIiJwSrHzIQ1nJabfR_qWO36OVLYEHvxD9xw56hehPDz_HoBOMbTga8FvYtKf8EAbBAY4nyuPLPpwL5oPjf5pDuUKbcjPq-MHYPo99hpi6gjR5Jide_iMOSJKrzBRQb7kNQRsM8gch53vJVk5LkgcXu29C0_3u2Ev4i42xJUioK7b9zWOudkRSuSSrI_srzK-Wz8r6kY6p9A85JpOXZaa8IZ7724CDQsmX9kWcQYOI4GOOWdwOYy9mgRT7TN-h8iHEAEEHv3EUBKfHO6EyX7fCkMbnKuyfAYviP8pHHCWgqrfn6iuME8gMDZ0RNrNyA8euSSoH-ITnI9cQ7GUtwmoBKi4bcUIHU_I917RuAKXMTLf53C5BxsR8J7G_Z15ZsrGPfUSvFjGNefqepd8Ib8E=w550-h86-no\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"63\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/b2b6gUN3DoNQvCyr9\">Click here for more pics<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>I am EXTREMELY&nbsp;happy with my &#8220;new&#8221; front bumper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to give up on the up on the red bumpers (here) and go with getting my bumpers rechromed. I started with the front. Below are some before and after pictures. I got a non painted, mostly strait bumper off the net, as mine was slightly bent at the driver&#8217;s wrap around. I sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maverick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}