Sparks bumper end caps

I'm starting to get some ideas on what tundra I need to get but I really want the colormatched bumpers. I'm liking some of the limited and platinums, but it has the chrome endcaps. I was thinking that I could just order them at Sparks, but they don't have the cutouts for the parking sensors. Is there a way around this (or another place) that has those endcaps? Thanks for any help!

 

Ecoological.com is where I got mine from. No issues either. I have the bumper caps (front and rear) and I did the hood bulge and grille surround. They can do both w/ or w/o the parking sensors.

 

What do you think of the hood bulge and grill surround overlays? Is there a noticeable lip ?? Thinking of Matte or textured black.

 

I can't tell a lip on either. They both sit flush. I do however, have a hood deflector on the hood, but that meets perfectly with the hood bulge so if there was any lip it's flush with the hood deflector. The covers are super thin and I haven't seen any complaints about it on the 100+ pages on that thread that is on this forum. I would look at that thread to see pictures and read other comments on Ecoological's covers.

 

awesome thanks!!! Did you paint them yourself? I'm only seeing black and white

 

Nope, mine were color matched from Ecoological. If you go to their website on the far top right there is a link "MORE" click that and there is a link for color matched. I just checked and looks like only Silver, Gray, White and Black are available. However, they have a link for other color requests you can submit for. If you look at their thread on the forum the main guy from Ecoological posts about upcoming colors they will be offering for short times.

 

awesome thank ya sir!!

 

Thanks !

 

For what it's worth, my color matched grill surround and hood bulge from Sparks is not a good color match. The silver is darker than the rest of my truck. I also have a bunch of small rock chips all over it where the rest of my front end is fine. I can tell they sprayed the thinnest coat possible when painting it.

 

that makes me want to just get one with it already color matched. I can deal with replacing the door handles, and mirror caps. Thanks for that though, I was preparing on buying those end caps

 

I ordered steel rear bumper ends from carID. The front caps (unpainted), surround, and bulge were from Sparks. Didnt have any issues with paint matching from Sparks on the grill stuff. Had the bumpers painted by a local collision center for $100 per corner and came out awesome.
I live in the salt belt so slapping covers over the chrome was a hard pass for me. I also sold off the chrome crap for several hundge so it helped offset the price of color matching.

As far as sensor cutouts, no idea on that one.. my aftermarket rear bumpers fit up perfect though and had sensor options available.

 

Nice job FlyingWolfe that looks so much better.

 

Just a heads up, the ones from Ecoological.com are covers that go over your existing bumper ends and to me don't look quite right. The ones like FlyingWolfe got replace the chrome end caps and look way better. There are a few other parts you need to swap from chrome, there is a thread on here somewhere that goes into detail. You can also get them from toyota but will probably cost a bit more. Prices vary from dealership to dealership.

 

How hard was it to remove the rear bumper caps.

 

Worst part was taking the black plastic step pieces off. Lot of tabs underneath and requires a lot of patience and two people if possible.

 

Before and after on my 2018. I believe I got my color matched parts from Sparks and the colors match perfectly. The rear bumper was already color matched.


Replaced the wheels with these later on:

 

Funny. I'm still waiting on a hood bulge from sparks since Feb. 2023, says it will be in this December, we will see. But the parts I have received appear to be matched well. The grill and hood bulge apparently come from Toyota painted.

 

I was told they did as well. The bumper end caps are plastic and only primer painted. They (Sparks) have lined up a painter who perfectly color matches to order. These took a few weeks longer than the other two parts to arrive.

Dan

 

You're KIDDING! We'd have had this finished in 6 weeks.

 

Nope. I had ordered the stuff with Sparks and was unaware that the bumper caps were total bumper caps replacements until I had picked all the parts up one day. They advised that they stopped doing the overlay bumper caps because customers caps were flying off while driving. So they kept saying the MGM bulge was back ordered would be in soon but TOYOTA wouldn't give a date then. I'm still waiting. Was thinking of ordering one from you till the painted one came in and figured my luck while waiting for one from you my Toyota one would be in. And some paint shops are backed up as it is and wouldn't get to painting my bulge for at least 4-6 wks, as they are waiting for parts for other vehicles themselves. So still waiting. S*** better be worth it. LoL