Please look the picture in my profile, i discovere this sidekick while looking thur readers rides and i would really like to know how to get a rear bumper like that. The owner is Simon McDonald and if anyone can get me intouch with him would be greatly appreciated thanks

Or if you have any information on the make, model, year and where it was built or where to look to buy one would be greatly appreciated thanks again.

Here is a link to the picture:

http://www.zukiworld.com/month_090103/images/readersrides_september_03/small/action_P1010047.jpg

Sincerely,

Jared

Picture is a wee bit small.

Well go under READER RIDES and scroll down to 1/3 of the page or do search on Simon McDonald when you get the the page. Click on his pictures of the Rear Picture of the Sidekick and take a look at the rear bumper. I cant get a picture to load any bigger sorry. thanks sorry for any inconvencie

it looks like a "factory" bumper to me, i am sure someone will know where or how to get one.  if it is factory, that bumper was not available in the us i believe

that is a factory Vitara bumper i know they came on all Vitaras sold in the UK and have the required rear fog lights.  Ive always wanted one also and found one on ebay a while back from a boneyard in england but the shipping was astranomical to the us

do you know what year they are or where i could look thanks for all response!!!!!

i believe they were the same bumper or only had slight differences (all had the lights in it) all the way up to the 2000's

do you have any ideas on where i could look? i have been searching for 2 days and trying to contact the guy that had the bumpers. i am searched google uk and ebay uk thanks for the response

The bumper isn't different. It's just the lights that are in it. You can find them on every scrapyard here. If you want some I could order them here and sent them out to you  if you have the bumper like me:

Then they bolt right up 

could you please send me a price of a bumper and is it avabile to get the tail lights and wiring also thanks

I live in the US and its Sheridan, MI

That black Vit is an early model. They had the main light cluster in the bumper and the fog lights in the rear wing. The later ones like mine and Eds have the fogs in the bumper and the main cluster in the wing. The Vit pictured has been fitted with the later clusters in the wings, this is a common mod. The lights in the bumper are a PITA because the bumper scoops all the mud and water up and forces it into the clusters

Ever thought of learning to weld?  Here's a great opportunity to buy a cheap flux core wire welder, a 4 1/2" grinder (good combination of size and grinding wheel costs -- get one with 5/8" - 11 arbor) and some steel. 

Get some of those sealed oval tail lights (you can get round, as well as in several colors & in LED) that mount in rubber grommets and make a bumper with recesses for the lamps.  Include a 2" receiver tube (you'll have to call around for a chunk of seamless though).

For 'fancy' you can take the old bumper cover and cut off the top part.  Just size the new one so it will cover the top.  You'd be surprised at how easy it is.  Use the old bumper mount holes and a couple of holes in the tail section of the frame rails and you have a right rigid mount.  Might have $300 (don't forget a can of Krylon to match -- or contrast) in the whole thing.  And you would still have the tools when you are done.  I have never understood plastic bumpers on somethign that might actually get dirty!

can you be my a bumper that like the one in the replay #3 post please thanks

I also like how its recessed in there i dont want to have to take my bumper on and off every time a light burns out of loses connection thanks

Here is a link to the United Kingdom Ebay site. There are a few on there. Just type in "Vitara Bumper" and do a search.

http://motors.ebay.co.uk/