welcome back to steve rob reviews today well as you can see in the thumbnail
i built myself a little tiny bumper protector for the back of my pickup truck to protect people
from pulling into a parking spot and hitting the back of my truck because you know what just a
tiny little top today well can cause quite a bit of damage cost you quite a bit of money too
so i'm just going to show you the supplies that i used here first and then i'm going to take you out
to the truck i'm going to show you what it looks like on the back of the truck then i'll bring it
in here and i'll show you how it was put together and it's something i think any of you that have
a bit of welding skill could do cutting some basic material or have a friend that can help
you out and for me it cost me probably next to nothing because it was all scrap stuff that i had
and uh the materials i already had now if you try and go and buy one of these they're either made of
plastic or you can get some real nice fancy ones and they're gonna cost you say fifty dollars to
a hundred fifty dollars depending where you are in the world but this one here yeah you can make
this for even if you have to buy the materials under twenty dollars so let's take a look at the
uh little bit of the materials that i used and uh some ideas that you may get from this video let's
take a look okay like i said i just had some scrap metal around so this is just a piece of
1x2 tubing and i had already a piece of 2x2 tubing depending on the hitch that you have
on the back of your vehicle you have to make it match had some paper towel add just some
rubber membrane just peel and stick stuff and here's that 3m reflective tape i recommend you
get 3m because the other stuff well it's peel and stick as well but it peels and sticks and
falls off so i say go with the 3m you just got to measure you know whatever you're doing
and of course i make sure that i put some undercoating or rust preventative inside
before i apply the bumper protector because when you put that in there and you leave it there for
a couple years you're never going to get it out because they will rust right in there something
fierce so what i used was construction adhesive i'll show you that in a minute
or you can just use some silicone caulking and of course with the color you've seen i
just spray painted the whole thing black so let's go out and let's take a look at that
that bumper protector on the truck and then we'll come back in and i'll show you how it was built
okay here we are at the back of the truck and uh you can see the little bumper i've made there and
the top is some 3m reflective tape and at night time the backup camera is lit up with a light
there so there's a light there and a backup camera and it shines down there perfectly with that nice
fluorescent strip okay so here it is right here and all you have to do is just cut the length that
you want and i had a lot of these small pieces so i just put one in weld it all the way around
i got some of this sharp towel i stuffed it in the end and as you can see here it's kind of bulged
out a little bit but i stuffed it in the end and then i put the caulking inside there wait until it
dried and then spray painted it and put a little bit of foam on the top here and that's pretty well
it right there so what do you think no matter what kind of vehicle you drive if you have a
trailer hitch mounted on your vehicle already one of these well i think it's a well worth investment
just to make your own yes you can go out there and buy it you know one of these yourself if you like
if you don't want to make one but you know what this cost me next to nothing and i think it'll
cost you next to nothing even if you have a friend with a shop like mine that has a bunch of little
scrap pieces around just weld it together throw some paint on it bob's your uncle right so i think
it's a worthwhile thing to do for your vehicle keep people off your bumper because i've seen far
too many times in parking spots where people will creep up and creep up and creep up and boom oops
and you know oops in the parking lot well you know you're pretty much on your own so you know for me
for a little bit that it cost me a little bit of spray paint material i think it's something that
most people should actually have on their vehicle i think that the manufacturers would do well by
having it as an optional a piece of equipment but they don't and i don't know why it seems logical
to me that you know if you got a silverado or if you got any vehicle yourself that should be one
of the options that you could put on as one of these bumper protectors because as you can see
on the back of my truck well there's no chrome there's no nothing you hit that and it will show
and it will cost you a lot of money to get fixed because you got to take the whole back end right
off the fix so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel before you're
welcome to subscribe come back again for some unique things that maybe you never thought about
maybe you never thought about you could build but you know what i think we all could just put your
mind to it get yourself a couple of friends make a little bit of an afternoon out of it have some fun
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