This is a high clearance DIY weld-together winch bumper kit for the 1999-2005 Suzuki Vitara (2nd gen). It features a bolt-on design, protected winch mount, LED pod light mounts and one of the best approach angles of any bumper on the market. This bumper allows you to forget about approach angle and substantially improves the offroad capability of your Vitara. It offers excellent protection from rocks, trees and animal strikes and has been kept to a weight of 74lbs (steel version) through careful design work.
The profile of this bumper has been designed with maximum ground clearance and approach angles put first. The bumper sits as high and tight to the front of the Vitara as possible, while the angled lower faces will smoothly slide over obstacles and ensure you do not get hung up on the trail. The side wings of this bumper wrap around to the front wheel wells and tie directly into the main frame mounting plates for true offroad protection. These side wings will take a serious hit without flexing or deflecting into the vehicle body. We know that many Vitara owners want to run oversized tires along with long arm suspension kits that extend the wheelbase of the vehicle. This moves the front tires further forwards and often creates interference issues with the stock front bumper. We have thought ahead and specifically designed these bumper side wings to clear 33" tires with a long arm suspension kit.
The main section of this bumper is CNC-bent out of a single piece of 3/16" P&O Steel. This greatly reduces the amount of welding and grinding 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 finished this bumper off with integrated light buckets for surface mount LED pod lights (custom light cut outs available by request), an integrated winch mount to accept all standard 8-12k lb winches, and heavy duty 9/16" recovery points that are placed directly in line with the Vitara 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 Vitara 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 Vitara's frame and are essentially indestructible! What could make this bumper even better? The low profile design has resulted in very reasonable weights of 74lbs for the steel bumper and 36lbs for the aluminum version. Considering that this bumper replaces your factory bumper cover and steel inner-bumper bar, the resulting weight increase to your Suzuki is minimal. This minimizes added stress on your vehicle, maintains precious payload capacity, and allows you to keep your factory suspension if desired.
