CA Tuned Off road LC250 Front Bumper - Plastic Cutting Photos/Reference

[lndcrusXCO]

Looks great!! Glad you were able to figure out everything!! Are your high clearance winglets sticking out? They may be upside-down if so, mine are pretty well tucked underneath the bumper cuts.


I don't think it's their intention not to be able to provide instructions to customers as they have instructions for their other products/platforms such as their Grenadier and Sprintervan bumpers. I think Max and the team at CATunedOffroad just forgot to make a video for their first prototype and relied on us ambassadors and our installs to do another install / video instruction for him this time around since we are his prototype vehicles now. I've since sent them my video and they now have it listed on their product page. We've also left feedback for them regarding having instructions or an install vehicle before product readiness .

I’m grateful and appreciative for the work that you all have put out into this!

 

[lndcrusXCO]

I’m grateful and appreciative for the work that you all have put out into this!

Looks great!! Glad you were able to figure out everything!! Are your high clearance winglets sticking out? They may be upside-down if so, mine are pretty well tucked underneath the bumper cuts.


I don't think it's their intention not to be able to provide instructions to customers as they have instructions for their other products/platforms such as their Grenadier and Sprintervan bumpers. I think Max and the team at CATunedOffroad just forgot to make a video for their first prototype and relied on us ambassadors and our installs to do another install / video instruction for him this time around since we are his prototype vehicles now. I've since sent them my video and they now have it listed on their product page. We've also left feedback for them regarding having instructions or an install vehicle before product readiness .

Also, shit I have no idea if they are on upside down lol, I’ll have to check.

 

[advnt4re]

Here is a photo for reference

 

[bukmar]

Where did you locate the winch control box?

 

[t3lcfe]

Agreed, of course I had no idea at the time of ordering that it would not come with any instructions. I did immediately check the product listing on their site, as a lot of manufacturers at least post installation videos, there were none available. I will say, the video created by @advnt4re was very helpful, I was able to deduce the rest to get it successfully installed. It looks great and I am really happy with the outcome.

Oh man…all looks great, but…the license plate location…

 

[sweet5ltr]

So, it's fantastic what you're doing here. My problem is we have several manufacturers now providing outright terrible installation insructions, or in this case, no installation instructions on bumpers that require a lot of work and cutting. This isn't 1985 where all you need is a 9/16" wrench to remove four bolts and you're done, this is an all day (or weekend) project.

The installation instructions for my Ironman bumper were 57-pages long, full of detailed color photos and tips. So, there's really no excuse.

 

[sweet5ltr]

not gonna lie, Toyota really over engineered these damn LC250 bumpers. way too much going on behind the scenes in all that plastic

Behind all that plastic is essentially nothing protecting the vitals of the LC. None of these components are even easily removed or replaced, which is odd, since the entire focus was on inexpensive replacement panels and user serviceability while off road. Ripping it off, it's just flimsy plastic that would get obliterated in the smallest minor fender bender.

 

[WeGo250]

They sent me one as well as long with some rock sliders and also will be doing a some video work. All looks to make sense so far from looking at and watching available videos, except I can’t tell easily where the two support brackets go. Not the wings though, that’s pretty obvious.

 

[Jack_]

not gonna lie, Toyota really over engineered these damn LC250 bumpers. way too much going on behind the scenes in all that plastic

That's no joke. It's enough to make me fall right out love with any mods that require removing it.

 

[Area 51]

No instructions for installing? Wow, sounds like a fly-by-night outfit.

It is. Very garage shop type operation.

 

[b407driver]

It is. Very garage shop type operation.

Oh yeah, now I remember, these were the jokers that wanted $400 for the ARB twin mounting bracket, yet refused to sell just the bracket without the compressor.

No thanks.

 

[RideWithYanu]

Oh yeah, now I remember, these were the jokers that wanted $400 for the ARB twin mounting bracket, yet refused to sell just the bracket without the compressor.

No thanks.

Yeah CATuned sucks. Poor quality and worse customer service.

 

[WeGo250]

That's unfortunate, not what I've experienced personally.