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Customize your Ford F-150 with this rustproof, stainless steel bumper insert. The bar design and mirror finish offer a custom look. Includes heater plug opening. Insert fits over your existing bumper grille.
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Speaker 1: Today, we'll be having a look at the Putco Bar Style Bumper Insert, part number P86182, also available with a heater plug opening as part number P86182-FP.Here's what our grill insert looks like installed. As you see, it closes off the opening in our lower grill giving our truck a much more finished and clean look. By closing off the lower grill opening, we offer more protection from road debris for our inner cooler for EcoBoost engine. Even though it closes off our grill opening to help protect our inner cooler, the horizontal slats provided by our bar construction still allows adequate air flow to pass through for our inner cooler to function properly.The grill is constructed of a stainless steel material, which will resist rust over the lifetime of the vehicle. We have a mirror-like finish on it, which complements the factory grill on our Platinum Edition. Now, what sets this grill insert apart from other options on the market is that it fits very well at a very affordable price.
Now that we've gone over some features, we'll show you how to get it installed.To begin our install, we'll open up our hood. Now, we'll take our new grill insert. Shiny side faces out. The brushed aluminum side faces towards your inner cooler. These tabs here go on the bottom, and they'll go into these two slots in your bumper fascia.
I'll push it back like that.Next, we'll be on the other side of the top section of our grill insert. This section here and here are the two tabs that we need to attach to our vehicle's fascia. We'll have a button-head screw, which will go up through the grill insert and ten through the fascia. It'll get topped off with a flat washer and then our nylon lock nut. Okay.
Once we get it started, we'll get the other one started the same way. Now, we'll use a 7/16 wrench and we'll hold the nut still on the top and then use a 5/32 Allen key to tighten the button-head screw.Here's what our hardware looks like once it's tightened down. That completes our look at the Putco Bar Style Bumper Insert, part number P86182.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (30 Customer Reviews)
Customize your vehicle with this rustproof, stainless steel bumper insert. The bar design and mirror finish offer a custom look. Includes heater plug opening. Insert fits over your existing bumper grille.Perfect fit. Great shipping.
Instructions on how to install made it easier to install. Look good and fits good on my Chevrolet 3500 High Country
Arrived quickly and took about 20 minutes to install. Fits like it’s OEM. Every hole matched up to the mounting point on the truck. Looks much better than the gap tooth smile that was there.
Fits perfect and looks great. Installation however took about 45 minutes. Did not remove the front grill. I was able to get hand barely through to tighten top bolts and long extension and swivel socket for the lower 2 from bottom.
Product arrived well packaged. Watched the installation video. Installation went as demonstrated. One exception, I had to crawl under the 2019 truck to reinstall the bottom two bolts. I think it looks good and should help with blocking some of the road debris from hitting the transmission cooler. Still need to tow with the grille installed to see if there's any significant changes in transmission temperature. I like the looks.
Installation was not hard, nor complex. A little fiddly lining up the two bottom bolts. Patience! Looks good and will add some protection for the trans cooler.
The grille fit in exactly like it should. I drive a lot of highway miles and I’m happy to have the radiator protected and not exposed. It was more difficult than I anticipated but the instructions from Etrailer were great!
No directions with package, but figured it out. Installation process described on here isn't close to the way to install product. Box was taped up, but everything was in the box. Grille itself is nice, but isn't shaped to match original, it says that it will form, how I have no clue.
Works good at protecting lower radiator fins . I wish they maid them to match the different factory grills and for the two bottom air holes in the bumper.The fit is good and easy to install.
little hard to install had to remove grill but wasn't too bad just had to be careful
Good product, after one year look like new !
This product really makes the front of the truck look great and prevents birds, etc. form hitting the radiator coils.
Nice grill. However the installation on my 2014 Sierra was a pain. Would not recommend this product, extremely unsatisfactory.
great service when ordering. the grill i ordered is very nice had to fight it a little bit to fit and now it looks fine thank you. ozzie
Great look...easy installation
get product great service great people
perfect fit, quick delivery, easy insta llation
Just what I wanted and needed. Arrived in great shape. Again thanks etrailer.
So happy to have this on my 2017 Sierra HD. It’s simple to install so long as you keep some outward tension on the clips after you engage them. No other tools really needed. Looks great!
Great product! Feet’s and looks very nice! Will be back for next purchase!
NICE LOOKING GRILLE FOR MY OLD F 150 BUT WHAT'S BETTER IS THE SERVICE WHEN CALLING IN THE ORDER JEAN WAS VERY HELPFUL IN NOT ONLY TAKING THE ORDER BUT CHECKED ON OTHER ITEMS I WANTED WHILE TAKING THE ORDER. GREAT EMPLOYEE TO HAVE THANKS JEAN................OZZIE
Very happy with my order.
Product arrived slightly damaged. Holes in grill are somewhat larger than I expected but it should provide some protection for the exposed cooler.
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