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What happened to this bumper

jshowe
Mar 11, 2025

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Mar 11, 2025

I don't know how many of you watch Matt's Offroad Recovery videos, but they received a call from someone who had a bronco that was being towed out of the sand because of a broken axle. A Raptor, probably a bronco raptor because of the bronco event, was towing this vehicle and the front bumper broke totally off. I'm thinking this happened because of a lousy install of a non oem bumper. I certainly hope that the original oem bumpers tow rings would hold up to being towed out of the sand. What do you all think.

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Chief Ron, Kenneth

EDITH!

Mar 11, 2025

#1
Looks like the force required exceeded the tensile strength of the material.
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Chief Ron, TK1215

KCsBronco

Mar 11, 2025

#2
Yeah interesting - Sure looks like the bumper material failed. Difficult to really know from these pics, but the bumper's frame horns and bumper fasteners appear intact.

I've seen several of Matt's videos, but not this one. Give a link and will check it out

Cheers
Chief Ron

Rank 0

Mar 11, 2025

#3
Kenneth
Yeah interesting - Sure looks like the bumper material failed. Difficult to really know from these pics, but the bumper's frame horns and bumper fasteners appear intact.

I've seen several of Matt's videos, but not this one. Give a link and will check it out

Cheers

This part is at the last 3rd of the video.
Kenneth
Moderator

Life is a Highway

Mar 11, 2025

#4
As cited above, hard to tell from the pictures above. It appears to be an aftermarket bumper and I’m not sure how it mounted to the frame. I am curious as to whether there were any frame horn reinforcements? It doesn’t appear so. Also depending on how hard the pulling vehicle yanked, it just pulled harder than the bumper material could take.
Deano Bronc, Chief Ron

Trusted and Carefree

Mar 11, 2025

#5
There was a whole discussion about this on 6G. Couple things going on here. First, there was apparently a very kinetic pull on a static tow strap. Second, the front frame horns are part of the crumple zones on the truck and are designed to bend up and give in a collision. Thats the part that gave way here.

Many of the kits that put a winch in there (the ARB summit, the Ford Performance one, etc) use a reinforcing bracket on there to help stiffen this up. This is also why the Ford Performance Winch kit wants you to get your airbags recalibrated.

Here is the 6g thread https://www.bronco6g.com/forum/threads/bumper-pulled-off-bronco.110371/
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jshowe, 615_Bronco

Rank V

Mar 12, 2025

#6
That's just proof of something. I've always said you can tug on something too hard.
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