I sprayed the steel bumper core with
a good quality undercoating, it's tough
and is easy to touch up should some
rocks or some bushes happen to get in the
way. As far as the sides, at first they
look ugly, but that's the paint color, shoot
it with some black undercoating or some
truck bed liner and it starts to look like
it belongs there, if the holes really bother
you, you could take out the tail lights and
put a patch of metal glued down with some
silicone over the hole and bondo the outside,
then paint or spray with black, now it looks
more finished.
The bumpers will never cover the sides again,
ditch the cover, the only option is to cut the
flap where the screws went thu into the body,
off, do a nice straight line, now get some nice
looking head screws, drill thru the cover into
the bumper and install the screws, cover attached
but the sides will still be bare
The mud flaps on the cover will get cought on
everything, and hold lots of mud too, but if you
have over zealous police, you might need to put
the cover back on in place of mud flaps.
Wild