photos of bumpers without cover

[offroadsubie]

anyone have or know where to find pics of a forester's bumpers with the plastic covers off? I'm having a jeep driver/fabricator make me a set of offroad bumpers for my '03 forester. because of airbags law, I'll have to work the front one while keeping the stock bumper. I crawled under my car to see whats behind the cover and saw the rectangular bumpers under the cover and thinking of taking the cover off to see but looks like a pain in the...to take off so before I do, wanna see some pics. as for the new bumpers, I'll go with tubular on the rear, maybe a spare tire mount if not too expensive. up front, if the guy can do it, I'd like a ARB-style bumper. gonna start with the front one and if I have enough loose cash, I'll have the rear one done also otherwise wait.

 

[offroadsubie]

rear bumper would look this:

front one:

of course the front one will not have the incorporated lights and whistles like this one but you get the idea. if too expensive or complicated, I'll go for a tubular one up front also. stupid ARB, they make bumpers for kia's and hyundai's but nothing for subies!! ah if I had the money, I'd have one of the australian subie bumpers shipped here.