Description
When we set out to design this bumper, we wanted to create something that packed as much functionality as possible while still looking great and complementing the lines of the 2015-2023 Chevrolet Colorado / GMC Canyon bed. The high clearance design saves weight, looks great, and will take your Colorado / Canyon’s offroad performance to new levels. The aggressively sloped corners and included recessed hitch receiver further increase ground clearance and provide a smooth surface to slide over obstacles. These features make a very noticeable difference during deep ditch crossing and steep obstacle climbs where other aftermarket bumpers with bulky rear profiles will hang up and impede progress on the trail. Simply put, this bumper allows you to forget about departure angle and substantially improves the offroad capability of your Colorado or Canyon.
The main section of this bumper is formed from a single piece of 3/16″ wall rectangular tubing that is cut on a state of the art CNC-tube cutter. Unlike a typical laser cutting table that only cuts flat sheets of steel, this CNC machine can make precise cuts in all sides of a piece of square, rectangular or round tubing. What this means is that you will receive the center section of this bumper pre-cut with holes and slots for the hitch receiver, parking sensors, recovery points, and all surrounding plates that make up the bumper. This makes for foolproof fitment of each part as they will only fit together in one possible way. This greatly reduces the amount of welding and grinding time required by you and makes for a cleaner finished product. If you are paying to have the bumper assembled by a welding shop, this significantly lowers the cost! We are so excited about this new technology and the possibilities that it has opened up for our DIY bumper kits!
To maintain the full towing capacity of the vehicle, we designed this bumper to be fully compatible with the factory hitch receiver. Alternatively, if you prefer to ditch the factory hitch receiver, this bumper comes standard with an integrated hitch receiver that provides even more ground clearance gains. This hitch receiver is incredibly strong and well integrated into the bumper, but just keep in mind that due to the DIY welding aspect of this bumper, we can only recommend it be used for hitch mounted accessories such as bike racks; Or, as a recovery point while offroad.
Unlike many aftermarket bumpers that are more or less empty shells with minimal reinforcement, this bumper contains extensive internal ribbing and massive CNC-cut mounting brackets that bolt to your Colorado / Canyon’s frame using up to 12 mounting points. While this is certainly overkill, it ensures that impact and pulling forces are evenly distributed into your Colorado / Canyon’s frame. With this bumper, you’ll be able to tackle challenging trails with a new level of confidence knowing that the rear end of your Colorado / Canyon’s is now nearly invincible!
The low-profile design of this bumper keeps the weight extremely reasonable at 96lbs while maintaining excellent strength. This is especially noteworthy when you consider the fact that the factory hitch receiver, rear bumper and lower bedside corners get removed before installing the Coastal Offroad bumper. We went ahead and weighed all of these factory parts that we removed and found that they weigh a total of 76lbs! This means that you the total weight increase to your vehicle is only 20lbs – negligible at best. This minimizes added stress on your vehicle, maintains precious payload capacity, and allows you to keep your factory suspension if desired.
We finished this bumper off with a license plate mount, spare tire access hole, and heavy duty 9/16″ recovery points that are placed directly in line with the vehicle frame to eliminate any leveraging effects. These recovery points are formed by laser cut steel plates that pass through the bumper shell and bolt directly to the Colorado / Canyon’s ‘s frame as part of the bumper’s main mounting brackets. The recovery points then get welded to the in and outside of the bumper shell. These factors all combine to form recovery points that minimize stress on your Colorado / Canyon’s frame and provide reliable recoveries of heavily loaded vehicles in the worst of offroad situations.
The optional swing out tire carrier comes in either a single or dual sided configuration and is built to accept a tire up to 40″ in diameter! Both carriers include mounting brackets for a hilift jack and other recovery items. The dual swing out includes the hilift mount as well as a lockable jerry can holder designed to fit two 20L NATO style jerry cans. These carriers feature heavy duty chromoly heim joint hinges, 2000lb toggle latches, T-handle spring pins, and a replaceable UHMW catch pad that provides secure, rattle free operation. The heim joints in conjunction with the toggle latch provide tons of adjustability, allowing for easy assembly and guaranteed alignment of the carrier latch. The single swing out add-on weighs 34lbs and the dual swing out add-on with gas can holder weighs 77lbs.
•DIY Weld-together kit – This bumper arrives as precision CNC-laser cut and bent pieces that you then weld together (detailed assembly instructions included)
•Compatible with Factory Hitch Receiver to maintain full towing capacity
• Included 2″ hitch receiver is recessed for a clean look and further clearance gains (While the hitch is very well reinforced, we cannot rate it for on-road towing due to the DIY welding nature of this kit)
•Fully Compatible with Factory Spare Tire Location
•Wrap-around side wings maximize protection and ground clearance (Cutting of factory bedsides required)
•Hybrid design uses a single piece of slotted and tabbed rectangular tubing for the center span. The production of this piece is only possible on our 5-axis CNC tube cutter. This piece greatly reduces amount of welding and grinding required by you and makes for a cleaner and stronger finished product without any additional weight!
•Slim profile is engineered to provide maximum ground clearance and complement the factory body lines – provides approximately 8″ of extra ground clearance over the factory bumper and hitch receiver!
•Heavy duty 3/16″ plate steel construction for maximum offroad strength and durability
•Bolts directly to frame using up to 12 mounting points for unbeatable strength – no frame drilling required
•Reinforced 9/16″ thick clevis mounts allow the use of 3/4″ D-Rings and pull directly off of the frame for confident recoveries of heavily loaded vehicles
•Includes pre-cut license plate mounting location
•All kits ship as clean, bare metal that is ready to weld out of the box – the Nitrogen laser cutting technology means no cutting edge oxidation and thus easier and stronger welds
•Optional Single and Dual Swing out carriers with spare tire mount, hilift jack mount and locking dual NATO can holder (dual swing out only)
•Optional LED lights include adjustable mounting tabs to mount the lights either on the swing outs or on top of the bumper
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