Date:         Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:17:57 -0600
Reply-To:     Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: who sells good german chrome new  bumpers???
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OEveedub has a great variety-the OEM ones at $719 are sold out, but I
did get the $390 Denmark version that has been rechromed in the US, &
I am satisfied w/ it.

http://www.oeveedub.com/vw/vanagon-bumpers/95-57-95-2.html

YMMV,

Mr. BZ


On Mar 16, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Ken Wilford wrote:

> Chris, chrome bumpers for the Vanagon are one of those parts that has
> always been a pain for everyone involved.  The customer has the pain
> of
> every time someone brushes up against it or looks at it funny, it
> bends
> or dings.  The vendors have the pain of only being able to get
> reproductions from Denmark that are decent but not the best quality.
> Then they get dented in shipping or they have dings on them when you
> get
> them from your parts supplier.  Then they are oversized so they are a
> pain and expensive to ship.  Then the customer gets it and is unhappy
> with either a minor ding or a quality problem.  Or UPS trashes it and
> doesn't want to pay the insurance.  Or the customer wants you to pay
> to
> have it shipped back and send him another one.
> When you could get the "awesome" triple chrome VW OE bumpers they
> weren't that great either.  Yes the chrome would last longer but they
> were still just as easy to dent and trash out.  Then you have the
> price.  The last time you could get an OE rear bumper they were
> close to
> $500!  I offered them to people and even after I told them about the
> quality problems with the aftermarket bumpers they always went with
> the
> aftermarket ones.  Now, Chris, let's be honest, there is no way on
> earth
> you would pay $500 for an OE German rear chrome bumper.
>
> Please don't look down on the vendors for selling the rear chrome
> bumpers they are selling.  They are really only doing it to help
> customers out.  What little we make on them is lost with these other
> issues.  When all of the vendors get fed up with them and don't sell
> them any more then you are going to post about where have all the
> "awesome" aftermarket chrome bumpers gone :-)
>
>
>
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
>
>
> JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
>> just wondering if any vendor out there sells good german chrome
>> bumpers
>> for the  '80-'87 vanagon..   i know there is alot of JUNK being
>> sold out there
>> by vendors.. i have seen some new bumpers sold by some vendors that
>> dont
>> last more than a year and they start to rust thru the cheap thin
>> chrome..   i
>> have a parts van here that has a 2 year old bumper on it that the
>> PO bought
>> new from one of the online vendors and it looks like it was sitting
>> at the
>> bottom of the ocean for 50 years.. thin steel, sh*tty chrome job..
>> holes for
>> the trim strip dont even line up with the strip itself..    an all
>> around
>> sorry excuse for a bumper...
>>
>> so...is there any vendors out there who sell good german triple
>> chrome
>> bumpers for the vanagon???
>>
>>