Recent content by dougpgreen

The lower valence on my 2024 got removed not by me but by a hard impact. I was worried not only about rigidity of the bumperr and wheel well, but also about keeping water out of the air intake which is located near the passenger wheel well. I just got a stiff piece of plastic and fabricated...

CBI Covert Front Bumper for my GX460 arrived a few days after the car was totaled so it was never installed. It was $1800 with a 12 week wait, $2300 with tax and shipping. I am selling it for $1700 brand new, in the box for local pickup near Raleigh, NC. Save the tax, shipping, the wait, and a...

I got enough to replace it with another of the same year and mileage. We decided to put more money in and replace the 2014 with 150K miles with a 2020 with 67K miles. It's a compromise. My wife likes new cars and feels this is big compromise. I feel like its a brand new car.

The possibility of getting something like this just made my decision interesting.

Ugh...mine was a bit more extensive, including frame damage. Estimate was over 14K without getting it onto a lift they expected to find more once they started working on it. Given a 2014 with 150K miles insuance decided to total it.

My wife calles me a boy scout because I always carry around stuff just in case...but I tend to focus on the most likely issues. So far a kinetic rope has been more than enough, and so far it has always been me helping someone else.

Nice. Looks like it provides water protection for the air intake that you lose when removing the air dam and cutting as well.

That is a great point, It would have sucked to have just installed the new bumper before my wreck. On the small chance I find some issue with this car in the first month, it's worth waiting a bit. Good advice.

Thanks. Everyone is OK despite being hit at 50mph. I wanted another GX, and based on how well the car protected us my wife wants another one too. The CBI covert without a winch does not add much weight as it removes a lot of parts. Net is about 30-40 pounds. The reason for it... I was...

New member here. Looking forward to participating. In 2020 I bought a 2014 GX 460 with 80K miles on it hoping I could get 10 years or more out of it. Unfortunately, About three week ago I was rear ended at a stop light Pic below saying goodbye to my GX. Sad. Today I bought a new to me 2020...