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What’s up y’all, sometimes the best mods are cheap, small and solve a small but annoying problem.
As many of y’all know, once you change out your factory wheels for a different offset, your spare tire “bumpers”, no longer brace your tire. This leads to your spare wiggling around more which can cause extra stress to your tailgate. Especially on jumps and high speed shenanigans.
Now I know a lot of y’all have stuffed tennis balls in the now empty space or made your own bumpers. But I’ve been asking companies to make them for awhile now. With no luck.
Well now that’s changed with the new offering from Barnes4WD! They now sell a pair of adjustable bumpers for $27.99 on their website! They are cut to fit, made of durable rubber and compress with your tire allowing proper tension on that spare. It removed all the wiggling on my Bronco after install.
It’s easy to cut to size and just swap over the OEM anchor from the old bumper and throw these bad boys on.
For my application with 0 Offset wheels and a 12.5” wide tire, I cut at the 5th groove from the bottom or about 1” longer then my stock bumpers. This gave 1/4” of extra rubber that compressed when I installed my spare.
https://barnes4wd.com/products/bronco-spare-tire-extended-bumper
Enjoy my ugly Christmas sweater
As many of y’all know, once you change out your factory wheels for a different offset, your spare tire “bumpers”, no longer brace your tire. This leads to your spare wiggling around more which can cause extra stress to your tailgate. Especially on jumps and high speed shenanigans.
Now I know a lot of y’all have stuffed tennis balls in the now empty space or made your own bumpers. But I’ve been asking companies to make them for awhile now. With no luck.
Well now that’s changed with the new offering from Barnes4WD! They now sell a pair of adjustable bumpers for $27.99 on their website! They are cut to fit, made of durable rubber and compress with your tire allowing proper tension on that spare. It removed all the wiggling on my Bronco after install.
It’s easy to cut to size and just swap over the OEM anchor from the old bumper and throw these bad boys on.
For my application with 0 Offset wheels and a 12.5” wide tire, I cut at the 5th groove from the bottom or about 1” longer then my stock bumpers. This gave 1/4” of extra rubber that compressed when I installed my spare.
https://barnes4wd.com/products/bronco-spare-tire-extended-bumper
Enjoy my ugly Christmas sweater
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